Malcolm Stoneman

👀 #Peterborough Cathedral The tower, completed in late 12th C, was originally to be one of a pair. It once had a spire until 1812. Today, along with the West Front (1238), there are instead many smaller spires & pinnacles. #SteepleSafurday

Church of St Peter & The Holy Apostles, Wyndham Square, #Plymouth #Devon The Virgin & Child (detail) #JamesPatterson #StainedGlassSunday

St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, #Edinburgh #Architect - #GeorgeGilbertScott Central spire at 83.8 metre (275 foot) was to be the only one The 63.7 metre (209 foot) high western spires are named after Cathedral's patrons, Barbara (south) & Mary (north) Walker #SteepleSaturday

The Highland Tolbooth Kirk, #Edinburgh Designed as a meeting hall for General Assembly of the Church of #Scotland. Used by various congregations 1929 - 1979 Architects - J Gillespie Graham & Augustus Pugin. Built 1842 - 45 Now The Hub - entertainment space. #SteepleSaturday

👀 St Peter & St Paul, #WestNewton #Norfolk @YalePevsner suggests a date of early 14th C, because of Y-tracery in bell-openings. Of note is the ogee-headed niche in the west wall The church was extensively restored 1881 by #ArthurBlomfield for Prince of Wales #SteepleSafurday

“Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find” - Walt Whitman An appropriate message as we “voyage” into 2025. Wishing everyone a Happy New Year. Detail from a #HelenWhittaker window - #Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford, #Suffolk

👀 Church of St Mary, #Brancaster #Norfolk A 15th Century tower with flushwork battlements. #SteepleSaturday

A tender #ArtsandCrafts #Nativity for #ChristmasEve2024 from Karl Parsons at Hindhead, #Surrey, 1912 to send Christmas greetings to all my friends and followers on here - thank you for all the chat and the churches and the folklore over the year, and may there be much more!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all. The Angel Gabriel - The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck c 1435 Now National Gallery of Art, Washington DC #AdventAngels

This wonderful #StainedGlassSunday, just right as we pass the #WinterSolstice and head into the light, is by John Piper, 1981, in @WiltshireMuseum. Piper loved the museum, visiting it many times for more than 50 years. The cartoon is now @MuseumandArt, in our UnCommon People exh.

👀 #Honington #Suffolk The low winter sun 🌞 was casting some beautiful shadows this week. Decorated west tower, with a brick stair-turret. Perpendicular porch with nice flint flushwork. Ready for glass to be inserted in 1487. #SteepleSaturday

👀 St Michael’s Church, #Highgate #London Brand new #HelenWhittaker window, dedicated 1st December 2024. The Hope Window is in memory of all our departed loved ones. The central cross represents faith, the anchor - hope & 3 interlocking circles - Trinity. #StainedGlassSunday

👀 St Leonard & St Dilph, #Landulph #Cornwall Built in a “Lann” or enclosure Tower base maybe Norman & the rest perhaps rebuilt in the 15th C. Landulph is one of many #medieval ports on the River Tamar. From here pilgrims departed for Santiago de Compostela? #SteepleSaturday

🚶‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️ #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Plenty of publicity on town notice boards (if a little damp 😉) for evening talk at Heritage Centre. Also, for course in #KingsLynn advertised in Words & Wonder Bookshop. @johnevigar talking about Norfolk Churches.

St Mary’s Church, #BurnhamDeepdale #Norfolk A censing angel. David King (Stories in Glass 📕) dates to c1435 - c1445. It is unclear where the glass came from, but it was probably inserted in the tower by Frederick Preedy in 1875/6 restoration #StainedGlassSunday #AdventAngel

👀 St Mary’s Church, #BurnhamDeepdale #Norfolk A late #Saxon round tower of 1050 - 1100. The church was restored by #FrederickPreedy 1875-6. #SteepleSafurday

#StainedGlass #AdventAngels ~ a fine example at Holy Trinity Sloane Square #London cartooned by #JWBrown for James Powell & Sons #Whitefriars @StroudStory @todbooklady @emeraldthiele @StargazingAleta @NellytheWillow @EllenLuxnova1 @mutley7781 @TamsintheShed

👀 The #Shakespeare Centre, #Stratford-upon-Avon #Warwickshire A detail of one of the figures engraved in the glass door by #JohnHutton. Commissioned in 1964. #StainedGlassSunday