Christopher LONG
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Journalist, Editor & Foreign Correspondent | Lives in Normandy | Vernacular, church and hall-house architecture | Volunteer archaeologist | Timber & clay hall builder | Historian of C19th Chiot & Phanariot diaspora | Farmer. <ChristopherLong.co.uk> 🦋2023
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The Norman tower at St Kyneburgha, Castor is stunning, every inch decorated. Built in the 12thC with the spire added in the 14thC it's an incredibly impressive sight as you approach the church.
Pevsner wasn't wrong when he said 'The glory of the church is its tower'
#SteepleSaturday
Pevsner wasn't wrong when he said 'The glory of the church is its tower'
#SteepleSaturday
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The Norman tower at St Kyneburgha, Castor is stunning, every inch decorated. Built in the 12thC with the spire added in the 14thC it's an incredibly impressive sight as you approach the church.
Pevsner wasn't wrong when he said 'The glory of the church is its tower'
#SteepleSaturday
Pevsner wasn't wrong when he said 'The glory of the church is its tower'
#SteepleSaturday
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The remarkable 12th century south doorway of the Church of St. Mary and St. David at Kilpeck in Herefordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Kilpeck #Herefordshire
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The remarkable 12th century south doorway of the Church of St. Mary and St. David at Kilpeck in Herefordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Kilpeck #Herefordshire
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There's something so exciting about stepping through the door of a church you've never visited before and wondering what you might find.
Feeling the tingle at All Saints, Woolstone.
#Adoorableday
#AdoorableThursday
Feeling the tingle at All Saints, Woolstone.
#Adoorableday
#AdoorableThursday
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
There's something so exciting about stepping through the door of a church you've never visited before and wondering what you might find.
Feeling the tingle at All Saints, Woolstone.
#Adoorableday
#AdoorableThursday
Feeling the tingle at All Saints, Woolstone.
#Adoorableday
#AdoorableThursday
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British Camp, Malvern Hills; when standing on top looking acrosd the ramparts towards Pinnacle Hill you can clearly see where Elgar got his influence from. #hillfort
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
British Camp, Malvern Hills; when standing on top looking acrosd the ramparts towards Pinnacle Hill you can clearly see where Elgar got his influence from. #hillfort
Look like London ‘stock’ bricks to me and perhaps the location is not far from Sangley Road where the shop will reopen in August.
Does anyone know where this is? It looks like London to me...
And the good news is it is not completely a 'monde oublié' ('lost world')- I have just been in to my local herbalist, the marvellous Baldwins on Walworth Road!
And the good news is it is not completely a 'monde oublié' ('lost world')- I have just been in to my local herbalist, the marvellous Baldwins on Walworth Road!
Le petit monde oublié de…
Peter Mitchell
Peter Mitchell
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Look like London ‘stock’ bricks to me and perhaps the location is not far from Sangley Road where the shop will reopen in August.
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'Outside Charing Cross Station, July 1916: Casualties from the Battle of the Somme Arriving in London' (1918) by John Hodgson Lobley
(Imperial War Museums)
(Imperial War Museums)
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
'Outside Charing Cross Station, July 1916: Casualties from the Battle of the Somme Arriving in London' (1918) by John Hodgson Lobley
(Imperial War Museums)
(Imperial War Museums)
My great-uncle Captain Basil Andrew Long died on The Somme and his dress sword, his bronze ‘penny’ and other belongings live on with us here every day. He is buried at Heilly, not far from Albert. He is not forgotten - and especially remembered at 11:00 am today.
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
My great-uncle Captain Basil Andrew Long died on The Somme and his dress sword, his bronze ‘penny’ and other belongings live on with us here every day. He is buried at Heilly, not far from Albert. He is not forgotten - and especially remembered at 11:00 am today.
My parents were married here in 1946! So good to see a church full of life and colour and being useful. I know there’s often a problem with conserving pews in many churches, but in this case it works brilliantly…
Former church of St Mark, North Audley Street, London. Now the MM Foodhall. Spectacular conversion which has saved the building the interior is mainly Arthur Blomfield 1878
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
My parents were married here in 1946! So good to see a church full of life and colour and being useful. I know there’s often a problem with conserving pews in many churches, but in this case it works brilliantly…
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Wonderful!
Last week, in the hush of the Romanesque crypt at St Mary’s, Lastingham, I 📸 a 10th-century cross-shaft — Viking interlace entwined with Saxon geometry — a visual and decorative bridge between cultures and continuity.
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Wonderful!
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Pentre Ifan Dolmen, Pembrokeshire is a collection of seven stones. The largest is the huge capstone, estimated to weigh 16 tonnes which rests on the tips of three other stones, some 2.5 m off the ground.
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Pentre Ifan Dolmen, Pembrokeshire is a collection of seven stones. The largest is the huge capstone, estimated to weigh 16 tonnes which rests on the tips of three other stones, some 2.5 m off the ground.
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
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The Featherstone War Horse officially titled A Place of Peace to be Together stands in Mill Pond Meadow as a powerful tribute to the 353 local men who died in the First World War. Inspired by the research of local historian Tony Lumb, the memorial grew from a community project that saw 353 trees
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The Featherstone War Horse officially titled A Place of Peace to be Together stands in Mill Pond Meadow as a powerful tribute to the 353 local men who died in the First World War. Inspired by the research of local historian Tony Lumb, the memorial grew from a community project that saw 353 trees
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🌅📸 I took this at sunrise this week – the Rudston Monolith in Yorkshire, England’s largest standing stone.
At the heart of a 4,000-year-old ritual landscape of four cursus monuments, it’s a sacred site that influenced the siting of the medieval All Saints Church. #thread
At the heart of a 4,000-year-old ritual landscape of four cursus monuments, it’s a sacred site that influenced the siting of the medieval All Saints Church. #thread
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🌅📸 I took this at sunrise this week – the Rudston Monolith in Yorkshire, England’s largest standing stone.
At the heart of a 4,000-year-old ritual landscape of four cursus monuments, it’s a sacred site that influenced the siting of the medieval All Saints Church. #thread
At the heart of a 4,000-year-old ritual landscape of four cursus monuments, it’s a sacred site that influenced the siting of the medieval All Saints Church. #thread
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You never quite know what you will find when renovating buildings. Sometime it is bad and costly news but in this case it was interesting. While restoring the 19th-century University of Huddersfield's Ramsden building Henry Boot Construction uncovered some hand-painted Victorian wallpaper hidden
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
You never quite know what you will find when renovating buildings. Sometime it is bad and costly news but in this case it was interesting. While restoring the 19th-century University of Huddersfield's Ramsden building Henry Boot Construction uncovered some hand-painted Victorian wallpaper hidden
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manor house. Short stretches of battlemented wall still adjoin the gateway, hinting at the manor’s former grandeur. In time, Steeton passed by marriage to the Foljambe family, who held it for some 300 years. Though the manor house itself has long disappeared, traces of its
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
manor house. Short stretches of battlemented wall still adjoin the gateway, hinting at the manor’s former grandeur. In time, Steeton passed by marriage to the Foljambe family, who held it for some 300 years. Though the manor house itself has long disappeared, traces of its
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Sad news, the Chartreuse du Mont-Dieu in the Ardennes, France, suffered a disastrous fire on Sunday. The Carthusian priory was founded in 1132, largely rebuilt during the 17th century, and dissolved during the French Revolution. It is a protected historic monument. #RuinedPrioryFriday
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Sad news, the Chartreuse du Mont-Dieu in the Ardennes, France, suffered a disastrous fire on Sunday. The Carthusian priory was founded in 1132, largely rebuilt during the 17th century, and dissolved during the French Revolution. It is a protected historic monument. #RuinedPrioryFriday
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From Gutenburg to Morris. A detail of the facade of Everard's printing works, Broad Street, Bristol for #TilesOnTuesday. It was by William James Neatby, chief designer for Doulton & Co, 1901.
November 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
From Gutenburg to Morris. A detail of the facade of Everard's printing works, Broad Street, Bristol for #TilesOnTuesday. It was by William James Neatby, chief designer for Doulton & Co, 1901.
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A column swallower at St Andrew's, Eastleach Turville looking furious at being relegated to the column store.
#SundayStonework
#SundayStonework
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A column swallower at St Andrew's, Eastleach Turville looking furious at being relegated to the column store.
#SundayStonework
#SundayStonework
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As we approach All Souls Day when in many countries, people remember their loved ones who have died, the lovely story of a small Yorkshire community who many years ago came together to ensure that everyone could be buried with dignity. The story of the Farndale Hearse. Please enlarge the image.
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
As we approach All Souls Day when in many countries, people remember their loved ones who have died, the lovely story of a small Yorkshire community who many years ago came together to ensure that everyone could be buried with dignity. The story of the Farndale Hearse. Please enlarge the image.
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The thread on Ballidon sent me looking for the tiles. I found four on Flickr. Amongst them was an old friend. The entombment comes from Dürer.
November 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The thread on Ballidon sent me looking for the tiles. I found four on Flickr. Amongst them was an old friend. The entombment comes from Dürer.
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This is when I enjoy my job the most. Revelling at the most exposed features, which would normally be well hidden. The former owner supposedly went to bed with an umbrella ☂️…
#buildingsarchaeology #thatch #historicbuildings
#buildingsarchaeology #thatch #historicbuildings
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This is when I enjoy my job the most. Revelling at the most exposed features, which would normally be well hidden. The former owner supposedly went to bed with an umbrella ☂️…
#buildingsarchaeology #thatch #historicbuildings
#buildingsarchaeology #thatch #historicbuildings
This looks to me like one of the most realistic representations of a Saxon (pre-Conquest) settlement in England… huddled, not prettily grouped and full of smoke!
Oscytel, archbishop of York from 956, died #OTD in 971. He had also been bishop of Dorchecestre (Dorchester-on-Thames). Edwald succeeded him at York. 📸York Archaeological Trust #medievalsky
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This looks to me like one of the most realistic representations of a Saxon (pre-Conquest) settlement in England… huddled, not prettily grouped and full of smoke!
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'British soldiers of the 137th (Staffordshire) Brigade resting on and around the Riqueval Bridge over the St. Quentin Canal in northern France on September 29, 1918'
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
'British soldiers of the 137th (Staffordshire) Brigade resting on and around the Riqueval Bridge over the St. Quentin Canal in northern France on September 29, 1918'
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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One of the original 15th century west doors of St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #StAlbansCathedral
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
One of the original 15th century west doors of St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #StAlbansCathedral