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The lecture will be held at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus (WC1X 9EW), Lecture Theatre 2. It will be followed by a drinks reception.

The CRSBI Annual Lecture for 2025, to be given by Dr Michele Luigi Vescovi, entitled "Romanesque Sculpture and Water: The Art of Carved Vessels", will be held on 30 April at 18:00. The lecture is free to attend, but booking ahead is essential: courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/roman…

The boar hunt relief at Clifton Hampden. Now online @crsbi on crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11…

Pevsner called it the most sumptuous font in #Shropshire. This is #Stottesdon, a work of the #Herefordshire School, @crsbi site report now online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=13…

Wishing you all a very happy Friday! Have you ever visited the church of St Peter and St Paul, Shernborne in #Norfolk to see the very impressive font? It’s a beauty! If you’d like to learn more, check out the site report online - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=46… #FontsonFriday

As promised, it’s another incredible font from #Norfolk! This font is found at the church of St Mary and All Saints, Sculthorpe, #Norfolk! Have a look at the online site report to learn more about the sculpture at this site - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=44… #FontsonFriday

Do you recognise this font? If so, you must have visited the fabulous site of St Martin, Fincham in #Norfolk! Check out the site report online - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=406 For the month of October we'll be highlighting some more wonderful Norfolk fonts! #FontsonFriday

Wishing you all a fantastic Friday! Here’s this week’s #FontsonFriday highlight for you, at the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton, #Wiltshire! See the online site report for all the info - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=92…

Wow! St. Michael giving the dragon a pretty hard time on the tympanum at St. Mary, Kingswinford, #Staffordshire is this week's #TympanumTuesday highlight! Check out the site report for all the details and more - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11…

#FontsonFriday Amazing, detailed sculpture covers every inch of the four faces of the font of St. Michael’s church, Bowness-on-Solway, #Cumberland - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=32…

Another fantastic tympanum for #TympanumTuesday! This highlight is from Cormac's Chapel, Cashel, #CountyTipperary! - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11…

It’s always exciting when we get to #FontsonFriday! There’s lovely foliage adorning this font at the church of St. Katherine and St. Peter, Winterbourne Bassett, #Wiltshire - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=91…

#TympanumTuesday is here! A gorgeous tympanum here from the church of Holy Rood, Rodbourne #Wiltshire! Check the site report for more - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=14…

The round bowled Norman font of St. Andrew’s Church at Little Snoring in Norfolk. #FontsOnFriday 📷 My own.

#fontsonFriday Michaelchurch: “Norman tub-shape font, its motifs characteristically undisciplined. The lowest tier of decoration, a knot frieze, suddenly becomes linked lozenges then ... changes to furrowed chevron” Pevsner

This week’s beautiful #FontsonFriday font is from the church of St. Nicholas, Newbald, East Riding of #Yorkshire! Opinions differ as to whether the bowl is of the same date as the stem, what do you think? - crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=12…

This week’s #TympanumTuesday is from St. John the Baptist, Preston #Gloucestershire crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=10…

Happy Monday all! If bay one of the N arcade of Selby Abbey can make it through 800+ years, you can make it through this week! You've got this! #MondayMotivation #MedievalMonday

This is #Llanyblodwel in #Shropshire, designed by the Vicar in 1847. Perhaps he envisaged a rocket to heaven, but claimed that it was based on Freiburg Minster. Its font is the subject of some disagreement #FontsonFriday @crsbi report online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=34…