Mouse having a break (Mouse thinks it's well earned) for a couple of weeks so no brand new material. But she'll be RTing and commenting and will be back. Forget her not!🐭 Nave through chancel arch #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

North porticus, north east corner #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire Stone basin with moulded corners. Badly worn. Stem square section and is grooved with graffiti cross. No base or plinth. Basin and shaft weren't born together one pre-conquest the other Norman #FontsOnFriday

You can see more if it's broken... Here you can see the stone courses corresponding to base and capital and the vertical and horizontal lines where the pilaster and string course have been hacked away #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire #StLaurenceDecoration

Heidi The History Mouse@thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How are these arches made? Time to zoom in. A narrow course of masonry corresponds to the capital and base from which they were cut. The pilaster is inserted into a vertical channel. The arch is cut in relief from the stones above #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire #StLaurenceDecoration

How are these arches made? Time to zoom in. A narrow course of masonry corresponds to the capital and base from which they were cut. The pilaster is inserted into a vertical channel. The arch is cut in relief from the stones above #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire #StLaurenceDecoration

Each elevation of the nave and chancel of the church of #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire is decorated with a blind arcade. There are two styles; solid arch (shown left) and circular strip of masonry (shown right). These in themselves vary slightly #StLaurenceDecoration

Chancel to nave #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday Simple Saxon arch illuminated by two lights inserted C19 #StLaurenceDoorways (5/5)

The #ViewFromTheChurchDoor #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday #AdoorableThursday A view three hundred years into the future. The decorated period window to the north of the chancel, church of the #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon

North porticus to nave #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday Two orders of arch. Left side preserves some of the original detail including a reeded respond. The marks are just visible to the right where this detail was hacked away #StLaurenceDoorways (4/5)

Nave to north porticus #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday Two orders of arch, probably with a common abcus. Hacked flush to allow wall to be lined and plastered when the building was a dwelling #StLaurenceDoorways (3/5)

North porticus #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday Repairs to the right (facing) show two orders of arch, the outer projecting slightly from the inner. The vertical marks to the left show supports and abcus hacked flush to the wall #StLaurenceDoorways (2/5)

South of nave #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday Jambs capped by projecting abacus stone with arch. Typically Saxon opening; tall and thin, abacus is single stone running through the entire depth of the wall, circular stilted arch #StLaurenceDoorways (1/5)

Nave #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire Victorian, of course, but very impressive. A 3-bay common rafter roof with curved trusses, purlins and curved wind braces #Woodensday

Nave, south elevation #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire A Saxon double splay single light contemporaneous with the original building? Mouse actually think not #WindowsOnWednesday

Chancel, south elevation #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire Single light with circular head and deep splay. An external splay would tend to suggest a Saxon opening. Saxon lights were double splayed, internal and external and would be unglazed #WindowsOnWednesday

Chancel, south elevation #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire From top; four bay blind arcade on piers with bases and capitals, string course, pilaster strip. circular headed single light with deep splay east of pilaster strip #PilasterStrip #WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday

Time for a #NerdyMouseAlert. Look away now if you don't like minute technical detail. A pilaster strip sits in a channel in the wall. It may be laid with each stone course or cut in later #PilasterStrip #StLaurenceDecoration #WallsOnWednesday #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

Heidi The History Mouse@thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The vertical, very slight projection from this wall's surface is a pilaster strip or lesene (different from a pilaster which has a base and capital) #PilasterStrip. It is a feature of both Saxon and Norman architecture #WallsOnWednesday #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

The vertical, very slight projection from this wall's surface is a pilaster strip or lesene (different from a pilaster which has a base and capital) #PilasterStrip. It is a feature of both Saxon and Norman architecture #WallsOnWednesday #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

A quick walk around #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire (Part IV of IV): From north east the #MouseEyeView. Showing upper sections of chancel and nave, with blind arcade and upper section of porticus

A quick walk around #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire (Part III of IV): From south east. Showing the continuation of the blind arcade cross south and east elevations and carved reeded shaft motif to nave gable end

A quick walk around #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire (Part II of IV): From north west. The north porticus, the top third of which has more likely than not been rebuilt as the north elevation is dotted with #Spolia. Also fragment of blind arcade to nave. Note its form

A quick walk around #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire (Part I of IV): From south west. The west elevation which was rebuilt C19 reinstating the blind arcade and inserting two windows in the centre. The arcade continues cross the south elevation. Creasing left by lost porticus

The chancel #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire The walls are testament to myriad changes over centuries that forgot this was once a Saxon church, and removal of windows and doors of the Victorian 'return to the original' Stand here alone no matter how long you have to wait

From nave through chancel arch #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire Standing on this spot, you're about to enter the most atmospheric space Mouse ever been in. You're staring back over 1000 years. Only west Kennet Long Barrow comes even close

What remains of the church of #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire are the nave and chancel (shown photograph left) and a single porticus to the north of the nave. The building's origin and purpose were seemingly lost until C19 having been incorporated into a school and dwelling

Welcome to the church of St. Laurence , Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. The only church Mouse has visited more than once and with good reason. Said to be almost entirely Saxon, although Mouse had her doubts. Mouse wonder if she'll change her mind #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

Curiously although the church of the #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire is really quite beautiful in totality, few single photos seem to stand out. This though caught Mouse's eye it's the #MouseFavouritePhoto

Heidi The History Mouse@thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Stuff Mouse #ShouldHavePostedOnWednesday: A really nice pointed 3x2 panel window with late Perpendicular tracery, emerging from shrubbery (Ni... niche) that runs the gamut of greens #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #WindowsOnWednesday

And as Mouse move on, what of the church of the #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire? If you wanted a church where you could see the key features of a medieval church from Romanesque to Gothic choose here. The lighting though is awful. Mouse award 4/5 #MusVisit🐭🐭🐭🐭

A full day late but time for Mouse to yell #FontsMeanFarewell (with just a trace of Saturday's Prosecco still racing through her veins). Good job she only has to cross the road to visit the next church on Mouse's #ScamperUpTheSomersetAvon. One of THE most photographed and debated

Heidi The History Mouse@thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

North aisle #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #FontsOnFriday Font dating to C15 but maybe later recut. Octagonal. Bowl with carved faces; quatrefoil, escutcheons etc. Unusual stem; deep square-set, pointed cusped niches with small hollow spandrels holding items various

REPOST DUE TO HEAD LOSS Memorial niche south of chancel #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #FridaysFacesInStone Medieval carved heads, two from the gable hood mould, two from the pinnacles on the #Ogee canopy. From C13 on head stops evolved in sophistication. These are wonderfully expressive

North aisle #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #FontsOnFriday Font dating to C15 but maybe later recut. Octagonal. Bowl with carved faces; quatrefoil, escutcheons etc. Unusual stem; deep square-set, pointed cusped niches with small hollow spandrels holding items various