Heidi The History Mouse

The end of the road for the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast. Four legs, 22 churches, four very different winners. All special, all beautiful, but which takes the crown? #StPaulKewstoke #StMaryEastBrent #StMartinFiddington #StGeorgeDunster...

The gift that just keeps on giving.... From east of ambulatory through chancel, crossing and nave to west window #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol

There was bound to be one lurking around somewhere to spoil Mouse's day and this one look seriously cross. Probably because this particular #PeckyMouseBotherer has been burdened by a sound system (speak up Vicar) #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #AllMetalMonday

Chancel from east to crossing #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #StonemasonryMonday The church is illuminated by a clerestory of vast Perpendicular pointed windows. The ribs of the vault seemingly erupting from the thinnest shafts between the windows

Nave from west to crossing #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #StonemasonryMonday A vault like this has an eternal beauty from every angle you view it. It makes you want to photograph it from everywhere in the church. Which Mouse did

A particularly perky #FootBeast watches over this couple's peaceful sleep #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #MemorialMonday

Beautifully carved canopied tomb decorated with finialed #Ogee separated by crocketed pinnacles. Probably one of the most common motifs in medieval church carving. Eternal light for eternal life North aisle, eastern end #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #MemorialMonday

One of Mouse's many ongoing gripes is that beautiful church interiors are more often than not ruined by glaring and poorly directed lighting. Not so at #StMaryRedcliffe which is consistently very artfully lit even down to the memorials and tombs #MemorialMonday. Take a bow....

@CathyRLowe So has Mouse sadly. Then Mouse suddenly remembered the only other church she been with that colour... #StPeterAndStPaulRingwood (they have a proper Victorian #UberGothic #HeftyFont there). It was when the CofE tried forcing Vicars to buy cars the same colour as their churches🐭

@TheHistoryMouse I've seen carpet and upholstered chairs in that shade of blue in C of E churches - I wish they had toned it down a bit!

Mouse really enjoyed her little sojourn in Bristol and has much more to share, but for now the #MouseFavouritePhoto for the week is from #StJamesBristol and this curiously orderly garden

@CathyRLowe Proves you quite simple cannot have enough cusping🐭

@TheHistoryMouse Cusping to die for, on the left!

Not all churches are created equal perhaps, but at #StMaryRedcliffe Mouse got a choice, north (left) or south. Both apparently date to early C14 and they are High Gothic indeed. Mouse going to go north porch for her initial pop in for a poke

@JHCPAL Oh no! Mouse missed it. Have to go back now🐭

@TheHistoryMouse Waiting to see if mouse scampered past the old Pro Cathedral in Park Place. I used to live round there & was fascinated by it.

Is Mouse in Rome? All imperial and would be imperial powers resort to classical architecture to vicariously invoke the strength of ancient Greece and Rome. This is the 'Victoria Rooms' building in Bristol. Mid-C19 #TheHistoryMouseInBristol

@GAYNORPRICEJON1 @ghackler Eggs-actly🐭

@TheHistoryMouse @ghackler It needs a pointy bit.

The #WillsMemorialBuilding, Bristol. Early C20 Perpendicular-Style. Mouse doesn't find this #UberGothic style of building to her taste but then taste is by its very nature a personal thing. It looks unfinished to Mouse, like there should be another stage (it's the corner turrets)

@HistoryMalc @ghackler Mouse might have to photoshop a giant dippy soldier in for good measure🐭

@TheHistoryMouse @ghackler What a wonderful image. I shall never see it the same now when I come up Park Street.

@SarahBlick3 Mouse's favourite creator🐭

@Portaspeciosa Thank you. Mouse run hither🐭

@TheHistoryMouse I recommend Jon Cannon on the subject. stmaryredcliffe.co.uk/the-north-porch

@HistoryMalc Now there is a thing! It never occured to Mouse that they ever got changed... like duvet covers🐭

@TheHistoryMouse Different altar frontal 2 weeks ago.

Sanctuary.... The high altar #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol, backgrounded by the vaulting of the eastern ambulatory and Lady Chapel

@churchartnature It it! It jolly well is!🐭

@TheHistoryMouse Superb Harry Stammers glass

The beginning and the end.... The Lady Chapel #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #StainedGlassSunday

The very epitome of a splitting headache from @chartres_Fiona TTM🐭

Amid the Gothic splendour an overcarved #UberGothic C19 pulpit. It does at least give the opportunity to use the term 'nodding ogee' for that is the form of the niches housing the apostles. Finialed crocketed nodding #ogee to be precise #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol #SundaySermons

The lierne vault of the north porch #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol #SundayCeilings #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

Mouse tend to visit quite small rural churches looking for curiosities, so she not used to being in a church so splendid that you can spend a day just in the porch. The hexagonal Perpendicular north porch of #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol