Former picture framer who loves churches, art, history and cheese...
Fiona Chartres
Becoming one with the foliage in the choir at Southwell Minster.
#Woodensday
15thC bench end at St Nicholas, Oddington.
A simple design but incredibly pleasing.
#TraceryTuesday
There's so many holes you can pick in this... even the serpent looks shocked.
An unfortunate spelling mistake at St Wilfrid's, Screveton.
#MonumentsMonday
#MementoMoriMonday
The 15thC font at St Andrew's, Naunton is a rather nice example of its type and well attended by a fire extinguisher and bottled water in case of combustible infants, better safe than sorry.
#FontsOnFriday
The sturdy 15thC tower at St Peter and St Paul, Upton, Nottinghamshire is topped with pinnacles, the larger central one clearly has aspirations to be a miniature spire one day.
#SteepleSaturday
A tiny medieval angel valiantly supporting something long vanished and looking really rather glum about it at St Giles, Holme, Newark.
#StainedGlassSunday
The 12thC south door at St John the Baptist, Beckford certainly has a bit of everything!
Zig zag, chevron, delicately decorated corbels and carved heads.
Then the tympanum.. two very strange horned beasts, a cross, a bird and a roundel..it's all rather fun and jolly!
#AdoorableThursday
Peacocks and roses by Godwins at Tewkesbury Abbey.
#TilesOnTuesday
Tiny, delicate fictive tracery on the Beauchamp Chantry Chapel at Tewkesbury Abbey.
#TraceryTuesday
'Did you by any chance notice my derrière?'.... An exhibitionist showing off on a 15thC misericord at Tewkesbury Abbey.
#Woodensday
