Michel Wurtz

"Don't look back, somebody is following us !" (St Mary of Charity, Faversham, #Kent)

#MedievalMonday The gorgious doom at St Peter and Paul, Chaldon, Surrey (partial view : more on the blog : church-travellers.eu/chaldon-st-pet…

After a (looooong) absence, here is a nice guy from Elgin cathedral cemetery, Moray #MementoMoriMonday

Capel-y-ffin, Powys. Photo yesterday.

A windy evening at Luskentyre yesterday. Could barely stand up! It’s a miracle anything I took was in focus. Apple Watch warned me I was in too loud an environment. Last time it did that I was watching Taylor Swift 😅

“ OHHH! PACK IT IN BACK THERE OR I SWEAR, I’LL TURN THIS THING AROUND AND WE’LL GO STRAIGHT BACK HOME! ” - 1350’s, Pontifical de Guillaume, Paris. Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 143, f. 174r

Medieval scribes used a number of different methods to correct mistakes and omissions. This one used the figure of a man pulling the omitted portion of the text towards the place it belonged - 1st half of the 15th century, Brit. Lib, Arundel 38, f. 65r

Abbey of St Mary (aka St Dogmaels Abbey) in #Pembrokeshire, our latest blog's entry : church-travellers.eu/st-dogmaels-ab…

#SundayStonework A very damaged effigy of a knight, with crossed legs and shield, probably Hugh FitzHenry (or his son) who died in 1304. Cistercian Abbey of Jervaulx, #NorthYorkshire

#FacesOnFriday An example of this magnificent woodwork in this church, St Martin, Thompson, #Norfolk

#AdoorableThursday South norman doorway, tympanum with "green and white stone alternating", like a piece of a chessboard. One of my favorite doorway, St Andrew, Great Durnford, #Wiltshire

#WallpaintingWednesday - The angel Gabriel and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary holds her hand to her heart as she receives the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. (Annonciation painting on two walls separated by the east window of All Saints, Little Melton, #Norfolk)

@begynnynge I don't know : We visited this church just before returning to France and haven't checked that...

@Wuzmi Beautiful, love the wooden top! I read there are 6 bells in there: are they still rung? Happy #TowerTuesday ! x.com/begynnynge/sta…

#TowerTuesday The nice wooden top of St James the Great, Elmsted, #Kent

#TowerTuesday Near the river Adur, St Botolph, Botolphs, #WestSussex with its 13th c massive tower

The crazyness of Christmas markets in Alsace has started... But it's so beautiful and Heartswarming that you can't resist, especialy when you are living here...

#MementoMoriMonday - Lewis Gunter died the 4 may 1683 (St Meugan, Llanfeugan, #Powys). Note the curly serpents at the sides of the monument.

#DecemberAngels May be the ancestor of paragliding, St Peter and St Paul, Mottistone, #WightIsland

#MementoMoriMonday - Mourning parents (James Ramsay and Margaret Peter) holding a flower for their two sons died 5th and 3th years of their age - Panbride, Angus, #Scotland

#MementoMoriMonday 1736, grave slab of Jacobus Barker Archidiaconus, St Catherine of Siena, Cocking, #WestSussex