Untreated, maybe. But doubtless blessed...
Dr Anne E Bailey@AnneEBailey1
St Aldhelm's Well, Doulting, Somerset. 📸2021
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Tim Palmer
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Tim Palmer
@TimPalmerEO
Ex Learned Society charity administrator. Stone and stone buildings. Fonts.
West Wales Katılım Mart 2013
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@Hillofwad I call it rock-dressed rubble but others use the term 'bull-nosed', I know. And looks likely to be Bath stone (though i'd need to see it close-up to be sure)... TP.
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@TimPalmerEO Pick your brains if I may 😆Peniel Chapel Aberaeron just been sold
" Bull nosed rubble with bathstone dressings" is that the correct description ?
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@TCNetwork Oswald Mosley wasn’t ’the opposition party’ you howling moron. He was the leader of the British Union of Fascists, a party which never had any MPs, and which wanted Hitler to win.
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This kind of stuff happens during war. We should be on guard.
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@BygoneBritain @VinnieSull1van @Britains___Pubs Dad's favourite film. Why? Because the rector got to drive the train.
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@NinianMod Hang in there Lloyd. Few edifices are built in a day...
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Just out of curiosity, Lloyd, why did you stand against Plaid Cymru?
Lloyd Warburton🏴🇺🇦@LloydCymru
I don't normally do graphics for community council elections but considering this is the first time I've ever stood in a real election, I figured it was worthy. Not the result I hoped for but I'm grateful for the contest, and to the 52 who gave their vote to me. Congratulations to Felix and commiserations to Tomass and Alec!
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Portland Stone abounds in Dorchester’s 15th century perpendicular church St Peter’s. A nice church but it doesn’t tweak my heart…
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@SteveCaple4 Imaginative play wasn't encouraged at Spratton Hall School. Great line in British Bulldog though...
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Did anyone else make flocks of birds from Lime Tree blossom as a child?.......Just me then 🤔😀
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@GarethWild @tomaszrykala May that day soon arrive. In 1956 a Mars Bar cost 4d. That's 60 for a pound. Bigger, and with thicker chocolate as well. I made sure to tell this to the Nisa lady who sold me one for 90P last week. She sympathised and told me that a lot of things have been going up recently.
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@tomaszrykala I've been tracking the cost of Toblerones but that is for another day,
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In 2021, after 6 years of shopping at my local Sainsbury’s and tracking where I parked each time on a spreadsheet, I completed all 211 parking spots the store had to offer. In 2024 I moved to a new town - and guess what I’ve been busy doing since :) A thread 🧵
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@Portaspeciosa Found this lurking unsent in my drafts. But I thought the stone was from a bed that I'd looked at rather closely in 1973 at Shilton (between Burford & Carterton, c. 1 mile down the road from Jeremy Clarkson's 'Farmer's Dog' pub), in the Great Oolite 'White Limestone' Formation.😄
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@TimPalmerEO Where do you think that the stone originated,Tim? I assume that it’s local.
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The superb font at the aptly named The Holy Rood, Shilton, Oxon for #FontsOnFriday C14 with scenes of the passion and crucifixion.
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@UnrulySonne @jpwarchaeology apparently 1365 of them were produced
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@TimPalmerEO @jpwarchaeology OH thrilled to see what he thinks was a Citroën DS 21 Décapotable. Look it up!
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I'm rewatching Travels With Pevsner from 1997, and feeling nostalgic for a time when: a) the BBC still commissioned quality six-part documentaries on architecture; and b) Dan Cruikshank was allowed to quote John Vanbrugh verbatim on primetime telly...
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@armstronghelen1 @jpwarchaeology Oh is it? A douze chevaux perhaps...
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@Oldpanks Many thanks for the tip-off, Panks. Been waiting for some decades for these to be shown again...
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Wonderful surprise this evening on BBC 4 - a reminder of the halcyon days when the BBC made programmes to feed the intellect. Travels with Pevsner - Norfolk with Dan Cruickshank. A series of 6 on iPlayer now.
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Engaged in a deeply manly conversation with a bloke at Screwfix whilst buying 200 woodscrews. Failed to mention that I need them to rebuild our poetry bookcase.
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...and one of the easiest stones to recognise in pictures at this scale. Sutton stone is liassic (Lower Jurassic) in age, but contains fragments of the Carboniferous surface on which it was deposited. Some of these have characteristically weathered out to leave the holes.
National Churches Trust@NatChurchTrust
You'll find this 12th-century tub font at Holy Trinity in Llandow, Vale of Glamorgan. It's made of Sutton stone - a type of stone only found in South Wales. 📸 © John Salmon (CC BY-SA 2.0) #FontsOnFriday
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@SarahBlick3 That is why we like your work, and that is what most of your Twit companions over here are also trying to do, standing on the summits of faraway hills, waving our semaphore flags and try to locate other people like us... Keep writing😃
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@TimPalmerEO I agree. Of course, my way of approaching art history is kind of based in naive wonder at the incredible achievements and beauty created, rather than the more modern approach.
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Can't think why the hands-on-hips look of the top-right ampulla reminds me so much of the hotdog advert in Grease. Yes it's a bit niche, I know...
Sarah Blick@SarahBlick3
Small #FontCover discovery. Llanfair, Kilgeddin, Gwent, St. Mary, Wales has a scallop shell, a symbol of a pilgrim’s journey towards salvation, was also linked w rebirth & resurrection. The scallop shell is often seen on pilgrim souvenirs many which carried holy water = baptism
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