Alan Gardner
@agaconservation
Historic buildings, sites & traditional materials
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Lucky to have Wells Cathedral to ourselves & time to sit & enjoy the mighty Strainer arches which were added 1338-48 to support the tower crossing. Built by William Joy who succumbed to the ⬛️💀
Portable altar found at Newent, Gloucestershire, dated to 11C. @MuseumOfGlos #SundayStonework
For #TilesOnTuesday, hard to beat the brilliant Minton floor of St George's Hall in Liverpool! victorianweb.org/art/design/cer… (photos: Patrick Carson)
Yes - 26 dedicated seats there for bishops. The only other country in the world where religious clerics have guaranteed seats in government is Iran.
BREAKING NEWS // Nottingham's Art Deco former Police and Fire Station (R.M. Finch, 1938-40) has just been Grade II listed, saving the building from planned demolition.
A football mad Geordie brick maker left his mark in the wet clay of this brick before it was fired & then built into the wall of a Seaton Delaval flat built in 1905. Newcastle beat Everton 1-0 on 16th January 1904. Posted in my local history group by G Luther.
The bang new #stainedglass by Tom Denny at Down Ampney, #Gloucestershire, just installed in Dec, is, even in low light levels of a winter's afternoon, a thing of glowing wonder. Based on the Pilgrim's Progress, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vaughan Williams.
Why do I like lichens? For the stories they tell! This run-of-the-mill branch has some ordinary lichens doing fascinating things. A little lunchtime thread:
The Catacombs of Ancient Alexandria In the backstreets of Alexandria a low-roofed roundhouse gives onto a circular flight of stairs. The shaft corkscrews downwards for turn after turn, until it leads quite suddenly into a honeycomb of underground chambers...
One of the brick framed openings from the 16th century south porch of St. Andrew’s Church at Colney on the western outskirts of Norwich in Norfolk. #StoneworkSunday
Peterborough Cathedral an hour ago - photo inspired by …
Wandering around Peterborough Cathedral grounds. #photo #Peterborough #cathedral #noir #blackandwhite
1. A thread on heritage crafts and the problems of outsourcing. This lovely chap is making spars. Short lengths of coppiced hazel are split and pointed at both ends. Every time a roof is thatched it requires many hundreds of spars.
My top 5 twitter photos in 2022 - [drumroll🥁} in at number 1: a few yrs back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a day and photographed the impact of light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light.
Happy New Year 🎉 It's a double celebration as, on this day in 1895, our Library opened to the public for the first time. The old girl is 128 today! Still looking good, if we do say so ourselves. 📸: Bishopsgate Institute Archive
A friendly little face adorned with foliage, peeking out from under its new protective hood. At Hardwick Old Hall 🥰
This is really for yesterday's #Museum30 theme - for #Bookshelves read #Brickshelves because you can never have enough bricks😅
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