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Divine prospect: one of my favourite views of Wells Cathedral from the moat of the Bishop's Palace.
A fantastic poster by museum team member Simon Dickie for the Night Hag event tomorrow. 🎟 Tickets are FREE – but we’d love to fill the room with readers, history lovers and anyone who enjoys a deliciously dark tale. Tickets available on Eventbrite 🔗 LINK in the comments ⤵️
The facade of Alexander "Greek" Thomson's Egyptian Halls has finally started emerging from behind the scaffolding after nearly 20 years. Follower Robert Leckie shared this cracking image, taken from the ScotRail bothy across the street. 📷 Robert Leckie #Glasgow
Hadrian's Wall Day 3: Chollerford to Once Brewed (Part 1) The wall; Limestone Corner the most northerly corner of the Roman empire (until the Antonine Wall); Mithraic altars at Brocolitia; more wall views back to Sewingshields Farm (great honesty snack shed)
Today is the feast of St Columba, the 6thC Irish missionary who founded Iona Abbey and was responsible for bringing Christianity to much of western Scotland. One of the best known depictions of the saint is this stained glass window by Douglas Strachan in St Margaret's Chapel in Edinburgh Castle.
In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trip to County Louth to visit the finest high crosses in Ireland! Each edition of our spam-free, weekly newsletter features one of our favourite monuments to visit, along with updates about our work and more. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
The Cathedral That Swallowed the Sun Medieval stained glass was never a secondary embellishment added after architecture had completed its real work. In the Gothic cathedral, glass became one of architecture’s most powerful theological instruments.
The Cathedral That Swallowed the Sun
Medieval Art and Architecture
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Suffragette figures/game pieces used in the 1909 'Pank-a-Squith' board game. Depending on what square your suffragette figure falls on, you follow instructions such as: ‘Dodges the police, move ahead two squares' #womensart
A bit of headstone hunting on a Perthshire sculptor's story I'm currently researching; St Serfs in Dunning and Greyfriars Perth
There is a museum in Dunblane, With much from the past, in the main, It's free to get in, Has a gift shop within, So get here by car, bus or train! With apologies to Edward Lear, born #OnThisDay 1812, who did much to popularise limericks
Walking home tonight - a chill back in the air - I met my first fox of the season, and my first thought was of David Attenborough, and then this...
This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.
Salisbury Cathedral restores stained-glass treasure by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris
Salisbury Cathedral restores stained-glass treasure by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris
Project to refurbish ‘Angels’ hailed huge success as dean says it will ‘lift spirits and rekindle hope’ Sam Kelly admitted there had been some nights of broken sleep as he led a two-year project to restore one of Salisbury Cathedral’s treasures, a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. “It would be wrong to say I didn’t lie awake sometimes,” said the head glazier. “You are working on something that is very precious and if it fell on the floor, it would be very bad.” Continue reading...
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We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.
Sarah Bays,contemporary artist, printmaker, living in Norfolk, UK, producing prints inspired by local nature. #WomensArt
Packed full of glorious detail, Carlo Crivelli's Annunciation w/ Saint Emidius, 1486. I could look at this all day, but especially on Carlo Crivelli's day.
Sunny evening folks, if you're about the Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral have two graveyard tours on offer via the Echoes app, Cathedral Connections and Dunblane Women! Instructions are at the site, on the notice board. #graveyard #31daysofgraves #cathedral
In today's edition of our Monument Monday newsletter, we take a trip to the stunning coast of West Cork to visit one of Ireland's most famous prehistoric monuments – Drombeg Stone Circle. #Ireland #DiscoverIreland #WestCork #WildAtlanticWay #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm
Church of St. John the Evangelist, Gilford County Down Detail from “Our Lady of Lourdes” window by Harry Clarke. Particularly striking are the jewel like images in the upper part of the window. #StainedGlassSunday #HarryClarke
Allan Morgan (b.1952) Watching the Wildflowers Blossom. Oil on board.
06:40 - Sunday, 05-Apr. 6.0°C. The tide is currently high and is rising with a high tide of 5.2m due at 06:45. #robinhoodsbay #seascape #yorkshirecoast #northyorkshire
New IG Post: The Thistle Chapel in St Giles Cathedral, stunning ❤️ ⛪️ #thistlechapelstgiles #stgilescathedral #edinburgh #scotland www.instagram.com/p/DWZdiNQANS...
A group of our wonderful volunteers visited Greenside Parish Church in Sept 2023 to document these items in their original context before this inevitably happened. We'll be seeing lots more auction lots like this in the coming months, this is why the work of church recorders is so important. (1/2)
In today's edition of our Monument Monday newsletter, we explore an ancient routeway, preserved deep in a Longford bog. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #DiscoverIreland #Archaeology 🏺
