Very impressed with the Picton Garden (Colwall), its collection of Michaelmas daisies on top form at the moment

Garden scene

Glorious weather for our annual bluebell walk

Delicious magnolias at Batsford

Above Chastleton this afternoon

A bijou Philip Webb property on the market for c.£500,000 - 2 bed central section with clocktower of “Goldenfields” built for Mrs Mary Anne Robb in Liphook, near Haslemere, Surrey (d.1890-1; e.1891-2)
www.henryadams.co.uk/property/chi...

Ah, likewise generations of Billings at Wye including my gg-grandfather who was Head of Wye College/Vicar of Wye and famously died in Canterbury Cathedral “on rising from prayer”! Revd Holy kindly officiated when we interred the ashes of my aunt Eve earlier this year (also taught at Wye College)

Guy Dawber’s Coldicote near Moreton-in-Marsh glowing on our afternoon circuit www.archiseek.com/1905-coldico...

Sadly now long-closed (and converted into apartments), a Hook Norton pub the Wellington Inn stood on the corner of our road (Evenlode Rd)

Back to St Barnabas, Oxford last night for our performance of Stanford’s Requiem (unjustly now largely forgotten)

To St Barnabas for a day of rehearsing Stanford’s Requiem

Interior of St Mary the Virgin, Holmbury St Mary (G.E.Street, completed 1879)

To Holmbury St Mary with @thevicsoc.bsky.social to see G.E.Street’s lovely stone church (completed 1879) set on the hillside between the Hurtwood Forest and Pasture Woods

Enjoyable brickwork from the Oxford office window yesterday #JamFactory

Research challenges #1

Webb was rarely satisfied with his own work. It is nice to think that there was at least one project that he was happy with. Of Forthampton Court he wrote to Mrs J.R. Yorke in 1891: “It is THE house, of all I have had to deal with professionally, which it is a pleasure to me to think of.”