The Black Country Dying Museum
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Enjoying church art and architecture in the West Midlands and beyond. All photos by TBCDM.
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#sundayceilings
St Marie Rugby, 1846-7 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Nave and chancel 1864-7 by Edward Welby Pugin
St Marie Rugby, 1846-7 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Nave and chancel 1864-7 by Edward Welby Pugin
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 AM
#sundayceilings
St Marie Rugby, 1846-7 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Nave and chancel 1864-7 by Edward Welby Pugin
St Marie Rugby, 1846-7 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Nave and chancel 1864-7 by Edward Welby Pugin
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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: CREATURES great and small!
January 15, 2026 at 6:18 PM
This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: CREATURES great and small!
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
As You Like It - Act 2, scene 7.
Glass at the Swan Theatre Stratford Upon Avon. Unknown artist.
#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
As You Like It - Act 2, scene 7.
Glass at the Swan Theatre Stratford Upon Avon. Unknown artist.
#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
January 18, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
As You Like It - Act 2, scene 7.
Glass at the Swan Theatre Stratford Upon Avon. Unknown artist.
#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
As You Like It - Act 2, scene 7.
Glass at the Swan Theatre Stratford Upon Avon. Unknown artist.
#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
St Anthony the Great for his feast day by Margaret Edith Rope 1947 at All Saints Hereford.
#stanthony #saintsday #stainedglasssunday
#stanthony #saintsday #stainedglasssunday
January 17, 2026 at 7:37 PM
St Anthony the Great for his feast day by Margaret Edith Rope 1947 at All Saints Hereford.
#stanthony #saintsday #stainedglasssunday
#stanthony #saintsday #stainedglasssunday
January 17, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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January 15, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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Scenes from the life of St Patrick at St Patrick Earlswood by Birmingham artist Bernard Sleigh 1913. Bernard trained at the Birmingham School of Art and was a member of the Bromsgrove Guild.
#wallsonwednesday #wallpaintingwednesday
#wallsonwednesday #wallpaintingwednesday
January 14, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Scenes from the life of St Patrick at St Patrick Earlswood by Birmingham artist Bernard Sleigh 1913. Bernard trained at the Birmingham School of Art and was a member of the Bromsgrove Guild.
#wallsonwednesday #wallpaintingwednesday
#wallsonwednesday #wallpaintingwednesday
January 14, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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Stained Glass, 1903 by Arthur Joseph Dix (1861-1917) at St Michael Penkridge.
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
January 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Stained Glass, 1903 by Arthur Joseph Dix (1861-1917) at St Michael Penkridge.
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
January 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: CHAOS & ORDER
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a parliament holding a microphone and shouting .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a parliament holding a microphone and shouting .
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January 11, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: CHAOS & ORDER
I hear their drums. Let’s set our men in order,
And issue forth and bid them battle straight..
WWI window by Richard Stubington, stained glass teacher at the Birmingham School of Art.
St Mary Lapworth
Henry VI, P 3 - A 1, S 2
#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
And issue forth and bid them battle straight..
WWI window by Richard Stubington, stained glass teacher at the Birmingham School of Art.
St Mary Lapworth
Henry VI, P 3 - A 1, S 2
#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
January 11, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I hear their drums. Let’s set our men in order,
And issue forth and bid them battle straight..
WWI window by Richard Stubington, stained glass teacher at the Birmingham School of Art.
St Mary Lapworth
Henry VI, P 3 - A 1, S 2
#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
And issue forth and bid them battle straight..
WWI window by Richard Stubington, stained glass teacher at the Birmingham School of Art.
St Mary Lapworth
Henry VI, P 3 - A 1, S 2
#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
January 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum.
All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).
The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).
The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
January 9, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum.
All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).
The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).
The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
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Robert Dudley's initials and heraldic symbols of the ragged staff on a very impressive Elizabethan fireplace in the gatehouse at Kenilworth Castle.
Not originally in this building it probably came from the state apartments designed for the Queen in the Castle.
#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
Not originally in this building it probably came from the state apartments designed for the Queen in the Castle.
#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
January 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Robert Dudley's initials and heraldic symbols of the ragged staff on a very impressive Elizabethan fireplace in the gatehouse at Kenilworth Castle.
Not originally in this building it probably came from the state apartments designed for the Queen in the Castle.
#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
Not originally in this building it probably came from the state apartments designed for the Queen in the Castle.
#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
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January 8, 2026 at 7:58 PM
January 9, 2026 at 11:01 AM