Simon Knott
@simonknott.bsky.social
'dust in the air suspended, marks the place where a story ended' Find me at http://www.simonknott.co.uk Also available on X/Twitter. All photos mine unless otherwise stated.
St Andrew's Hall, Norwich. The nave of the early 15th Century Dominican Priory church which was bought by the City Corporation at the Dissolution. The chancel was converted to a protestant chapel, but the nave became a public hall and meeting place, which it remains today as a concert venue.
Today's the feast of St Oswald, 7th Century Northumbrian king. Here on the right with St Aidan in glass of 1907 by Caroline Townshend in Newcastle Anglican Cathedral.
My parents got married 70 years ago today, on the 4th August 1956 at St George's church, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire.
Today's the feast of St John Vianney, 19th Century Curé d'Ars and patron saint of parish priests. Here he is in reflective mood at the pretty church of St Patrick, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Bishop Elphinstone's memorial by Harry Wilson outside Kings College Chapel, Aberdeen. His 16th Century effigy inside the chapel was destroyed at the Reformation. Harry Wilson's splendid 1926 replacement was also installed in the chapel but after years of edging round it they put him outside in 1946.
John McCafferty@jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2d ago3 Aug 1481: Sixtus IV provides William Elphinstone, future founder of #Aberdeen university, to the bishopric of Ross #otd on James III's lobbying. He was never consecrated for Ross and was given Aberdeen on 19 Mar 1483.
'To die! That would be an awfully big adventure!' 🧵The grave of five year old Margaret Emma Henley, the precocious daughter of the writer W E Henley, at Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire. Her father's close friend J M Barrie originally told his Peter Pan to her as a bedtime story. 1/4
The Disciples watch Christ walk across the stormy water towards them. 1920s memorial glass to a naval officer by Powell & Sons at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, a scene from today's Gospel. Cley: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm
The Trinity Market bell tower from the chancel roof of Holy Trinity, Hull... 1/2
Simon Knott@simonknott.bsky.social · 4d agoHoly Trinity, Hull for #YorkshireDay, recently rebadged as Hull Minster. It vies with St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth to the claim of the largest non-collegiate parish church in England. There's a grand tower for #SteepleSaturday just out of sight, and the bell tower of the neighbouring Trinity Market.
'There is a lad here which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes' Glass by Mary Lowndes, 1914 at Ufford, Cambridgeshire, a detail of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, today's Gospel. The church is in the care of @visitchurches.bsky.social. 1/3 #StainedGlassSunday
Today's the feast of St Peter in Chains, depicted by Lorraine Lamond, 2013, as part of a major scheme of glass at St Simon, Partick in Glasgow, which I photographed in 2015. The church and all its glass were destroyed in an arson attack in 2020.
Holy Trinity, Hull for #YorkshireDay, recently rebadged as Hull Minster. It vies with St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth to the claim of the largest non-collegiate parish church in England. There's a grand tower for #SteepleSaturday just out of sight, and the bell tower of the neighbouring Trinity Market.
'Salome with the head of John the Baptist'. Benjamin West, 1763 in the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. 'But when Herod's birthday was kept The daughter of Herodias danced before them, And pleased Herod. And she, being before instructed of her mother, Said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.'
'Bring me the head of John the Baptist...' The Baptist's head presented to Salome in St-Séverin, Paris, from a large scheme installed to replace medieval glass destroyed during the 1871 Paris Commune, paid for by parishioners whose real faces appear in the glass. A scene from today's Gospel.
It's the 1st of August, and on the 12th Century Labours of the Months font at Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk the panel for August (first from the left) shows a man cutting and binding a sheaf of corn. 1/3 Burnham Deepdale: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burnhamdeepd...
The sensational Rolling Stones, one night only. Seen in the Tullie Museum, Carlisle a few months back. Seven bands in two hours! Tours of multiple bands were a regular feature of the 1960s. Unit Four+2 were presumably main support, 'Concrete and Clay' having been number one a few months earlier.
Today's the feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits and author of the Spiritual Exercises. Glass of the 1880s by Nathaniel Westlake in St Mary's Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The Sir Bobby Robson Bridge, Ipswich. Sir Bobby died #OTD 31 July 2009.
80s90sFootball@80s90sfootball.bsky.social · 6d agoRemembering Sir Bobby Robson, who sadly passed away 17 years ago today A legend of the game & an absolute gentleman Sorely missed, but never forgotten 🙏
The 1st edition of 101 Dalmatians, 1956. Within five years Disney had made it into what would be one of their highest-grossing films of the 20th Century.
Simon Knott@simonknott.bsky.social · last wk.'While they were drinking at the fountain, church clocks began to strike midnight' A water trough in Sudbury, Suffolk in memory of the writer Dodie Smith, whose popular children's novel '101 Dalmatians' is partly set in and around the town. That's St Peter's church behind.
'The blaze on Dunwich Heath, which began shortly before 5.30pm on Wednesday, is spreading south-west in the direction of Sizewell B nuclear power station, about 2.5 miles away' 👀 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/48dc4f5...
Major incident declared after large wildfire in Suffolk
Dozens of firefighters tackle blaze near Sizewell B power station at Dunwich Heath
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The main Broad Street entrance to Marischal College, Aberdeen, home of Aberdeen City Council and Police Scotland, for #ADoorableThursday.
Tucked away amongg the shops at the rougher end of the high street in Elgin is what must have been once a grand entrance to a building that was, back then, the Elgin Mechanics Institute. 1/2 #ADoorableThursday
'While they were drinking at the fountain, church clocks began to strike midnight' A water trough in Sudbury, Suffolk in memory of the writer Dodie Smith, whose popular children's novel '101 Dalmatians' is partly set in and around the town. That's St Peter's church behind.
Today's also the feast of St Olaf or Olave, 11th Century King of Norway who was a popular saint on the eastern side of England. Here he is on the early 16th Century south aisle screen at Barton Turf, Norfolk holding a loaf, a pun on his name. Barton Turf: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bartonturf/b...
Today's the feast of St Martha, St Mary and St Lazarus, the Bethany siblings. A roundel by William Wailes, 1857 at Stanground, Peterborough shows them with Christ. Although it's less than a mile from Peterborough Cathedral, Stanground is on the south bank of the Nene so it's in the Diocese of Ely.
The Town House of Old Aberdeen by George Jaffrey, 1789, in use until the 1891 incorporation of the town into the city, seen from the High Street. You may recognise it from the cover of the Yale Pevsner guide. Like many buildings in this historic area, it's now in use by the University of Aberdeen.
A 14th Century vaulting boss head on display at Elgin Cathedral, Moray. It's one of the many fragments picked out of the rubble by the Elgin shoemaker John Shanks in the 1820s and 1830s when he almost single-handedly cleared the site. 1/3
Gerard Manley Hopkins was born #OTD 28 July 1844. 'What would the world be, Once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, Wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.' from 'Inversnaid'. Canongate Wall, Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh.
