James Nairn

🚧 Sadly we were too late to save the former Body Shop headquarters in Littlehampton, West Sussex. Designed in a Japanese pagoda style by architects Michael Cook Associates (1990), it contained wildly themed interiors, was built from sustainably sourced timber, and was reputedly the first office in Britain to have a purpose-built creche. A perfect candidate for reuse, demolition is already under way to create a retail village. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@SimoninSuffolk @churchartnature @todbooklady a window of a comparable date here: cornishstainedglass.org.uk/mgsdb/window.x…

@SimoninSuffolk @churchartnature @todbooklady that monogram is for John Hall & sons I believe

Today is Divine Mercy Sunday. Glass by Tom Denny, 2018, at St Felix, Felixstowe, Suffolk, depicts Christ the Divine Mercy. 1/2 #StainedGlassSunday

@Portaspeciosa @lukejsherlock @SallyBadham @JaneEAppleton @CathyRLowe @SimoninSuffolk Yes - did the same. V odd. Imagine they can’t think 38 was young, especially when they compare to Devon one (who died aged 8) to make their point. Does @ChurchMonuments know?

@JWNairn @lukejsherlock @SallyBadham @JaneEAppleton @CathyRLowe @SimoninSuffolk I read Pevsner too and cross referenced with a genealogy site, how reliable that was I cannot say.

Very niche question. Anyone have info on the claim some church monument effigies are small because they represent someone who died before their father (misogyny of this noted) - here, Youlgreave, Derbyshire:

@Portaspeciosa @lukejsherlock @SallyBadham @JaneEAppleton @CathyRLowe @SimoninSuffolk him looking much older not necessarily a blocker for example Thame here or figure of William of Hatfield on tomb of Edward III

@Portaspeciosa @lukejsherlock @SallyBadham @JaneEAppleton @CathyRLowe @SimoninSuffolk Other small effigies like this I know of commemorate the young (Haccombe, Devon good example, or more famously William of Windsor &Blanche at Westminster Abbey) Youlgreave with those dates a puzzle. Pevsner convinced it was because he was young,so do they think different Thomas?

@Grizzlegutweed1 think this poppyhead itself is c19 (but it is wonderful!)

Two dragons fighting or one dragon coiled on itself? Choir stalls Chester cathedral 14thc

@LoveOfGates many many fine examples in Oxford, as would be expected I love the delicate gates of a similar date at Trinity (by Thomas Robinson), but they are somewhat overshadowed by the enormous baroque gatepiers!

Oh wow @JWNairn - spectacular #lovegates

@LesleyCD Brilliant! I will definitely go when next in Cambridge. Thanks

On holiday in York & family miffed as to why I am so *fixated* on having lunch specifically at ASK Italian No real reason of course, but as an aside it happens to be in the Assembly Rooms designed by Lord Burlington - built 1730s (received the all knowing look from my wife…)

@zarahandley I’m always at it. In a listed pub as we speak!

@JWNairn Gorgeous place to dine, I would do the same

@BanditoCatticus Yes well worth a visit!

@JWNairn Wow what an amazing building

@choir_christ Yes bizarrely they have the whole thing. It is rather cavernous for a restaurant, but does mean it’s happily accessible everyday!

@JWNairn Wow. And now it is leased to an Italian Chain?

@nejafeja Amazing isn’t it? Well worth a visit

@JWNairn wow

@IncroyableLies Thornhill was still knocking about then wasn’t he? Missed opportunity!

@JWNairn Lord Burlington should have commissioned some art for that bland ceiling.

@CheshireRO Number two is Morris Bridge (no 76) on Macclesfield Canal I believe

Good morning! Do you recognise any of the bridges featured in today's #MysteryImageMonday collection? Let us know! 🌉

@KeithStalker2 Oh thanks for that - top tip. Will try it out!

@JWNairn We are blessed that the restaurant in the Assembly Rooms is affordable to everyone. May I add my own F&B recommendation ? The fourth floor cafe at Marks & Spencer. It has a stunning full side elevation view of the Minster. The best view in York IMO

@GriffithStephen I’ve been waiting ages to visit - didn’t disappoint!

@Bowermanland I think they saw right through me as soon as I entered - looking at ceiling instead of menu etc.

@JWNairn 'I don't want your food- I just want your big columns'

@KWCook57 Success! 124 & 149 here: york.gov.uk/downloads/file… (V interesting document too)

@KWCook57 surely must be! Back to google for me…

#StainedGlass in #York Minster