damnatio memoriae

The iconic Kilpeck “Hound and Hare” corbel, a Romanesque marvel that seems to have been created yesterday, but is almost 900 years old 🐶🐰

A mood from last autumn 🍂 Southampton, St Mary’s Extra Cemetery

Winchester Cathedral, the Chapel of St John the Evangelist & the Fisherman Apostles Also (coincidentally?) contains the grave of Isaac Walton, author of The Compleat Angler (1653) a semi-political treatise on enjoying simple pleasures in turbulent times - equally important today

The beautiful porch ceiling at St Peter’s, Tiverton, created in the last gasps of Gothic style, 1517 We can see benefactors John & Joan Greenway kneeling between the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Greenway was an incredibly wealthy textiles merchant with a fleet of ships

Bristol Cathedral high altar, with a perpendicular reredos from 1899 and a Cosmati style floor

I’ll never get tired of All Saints, Margaret Street, London’s Anglo-Catholic jewel

Frescoed vault showing the massacre of the innocents, seated Virgin & child and the 4 evangelists, portico of the Basilica of St Gregory the Great, Spoleto

The incredibly charming corbels at All Saints, Harston, from around 1445 Is it just me, or do the crouching ones have scatalogical connotations? Knowing the humour of medieval stonemasons, it seems possible 😄

Details from the outstanding tomb chest of Dean Fotherby, d.1619, Canterbury Cathedral The memorial is described as 'a bone-encrusted tomb-chest … a fine example of that obsessive early seventeenth-century morbidity which repelled later, more squeamish observers' I love it!

Wonderful details from the facade of the Church of San Pietro, Spoleto In pic 1 we see Christ washing St Peter’s feet above, Christ calling St Peter & St Andrew below In pic 2, we see the weighing of the souls of the dead, with the Devil trying to tip the balance of the scales!

“Wine glass” pulpit with rather splendid decoration, Church of St Peter, Tiverton, Devon

Memorial for Girolamo Raimondi by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome Zoom in for a close look at a fantastic Last Judgement scene with some skeletons looking very grumpy at being woken from their eternal slumber 💀🎺😠

The fabulous font at Hereford Cathedral is from the 12th century, and features the twelve apostles It’s an example of the renowned Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture

The mausolea of Highgate Cemetery, accessed via famous Egyptian Avenue, are London’s most desirable residences for the departed