Rosemary Griggs
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For #TextileTuesday a Catherine wheel in silk with metal thread embroidery and applied decoration.
It’s part of a beautiful 450 year old altar cloth on display a new exhibition at Exeter Cathedral, I highly recommend a visit.
#embroidery #tudortuesday
It’s part of a beautiful 450 year old altar cloth on display a new exhibition at Exeter Cathedral, I highly recommend a visit.
#embroidery #tudortuesday
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
For #TextileTuesday a Catherine wheel in silk with metal thread embroidery and applied decoration.
It’s part of a beautiful 450 year old altar cloth on display a new exhibition at Exeter Cathedral, I highly recommend a visit.
#embroidery #tudortuesday
It’s part of a beautiful 450 year old altar cloth on display a new exhibition at Exeter Cathedral, I highly recommend a visit.
#embroidery #tudortuesday
I’ll be joining lots of authors in Totnes, 22 November
@whatsondevon
#totnes #bookfestival
#bookevent
@whatsondevon
#totnes #bookfestival
#bookevent
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I’ll be joining lots of authors in Totnes, 22 November
@whatsondevon
#totnes #bookfestival
#bookevent
@whatsondevon
#totnes #bookfestival
#bookevent
For about ten days each year this acer in my Devon garden justifies its place as the leaves turn furry red. But the rest of the year it’s rather boring. Should it go or should it stay?
#Autumn #autumncolour #garden
#Autumn #autumncolour #garden
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
For about ten days each year this acer in my Devon garden justifies its place as the leaves turn furry red. But the rest of the year it’s rather boring. Should it go or should it stay?
#Autumn #autumncolour #garden
#Autumn #autumncolour #garden
The beautiful Bohun swans at the feet of Margaret, wife of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303–1377), south transept, Exeter Cathedral. His feet rest on a lion.
#MonumentsMonday #exetercathedral
#MonumentsMonday #exetercathedral
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The beautiful Bohun swans at the feet of Margaret, wife of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303–1377), south transept, Exeter Cathedral. His feet rest on a lion.
#MonumentsMonday #exetercathedral
#MonumentsMonday #exetercathedral
Yesterday at 8 Cathedral Close, Exeter
Wonderful to take a peep 👀 inside …
#exeterhistory #oldbuildings
Wonderful to take a peep 👀 inside …
#exeterhistory #oldbuildings
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Yesterday at 8 Cathedral Close, Exeter
Wonderful to take a peep 👀 inside …
#exeterhistory #oldbuildings
Wonderful to take a peep 👀 inside …
#exeterhistory #oldbuildings
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The great East Window, Exeter Cathedral. Removed and preserved during Workd War 2, it includes coats of arms of bishops, royalty and prominent families, some dating from 1391.
#stainedglasssunday #medieval #stainedglass
#stainedglasssunday #medieval #stainedglass
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The great East Window, Exeter Cathedral. Removed and preserved during Workd War 2, it includes coats of arms of bishops, royalty and prominent families, some dating from 1391.
#stainedglasssunday #medieval #stainedglass
#stainedglasssunday #medieval #stainedglass
Thank you Devon Buildings Group and @ExeterCathedral for yesterday’s opportunity to explore a part of the cathedral I hadn’t seen before.
In a room above the chapel the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine — a pig and piglets in stone.
#SundayStonework
In a room above the chapel the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine — a pig and piglets in stone.
#SundayStonework
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Thank you Devon Buildings Group and @ExeterCathedral for yesterday’s opportunity to explore a part of the cathedral I hadn’t seen before.
In a room above the chapel the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine — a pig and piglets in stone.
#SundayStonework
In a room above the chapel the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine — a pig and piglets in stone.
#SundayStonework
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’m heading for Exeter today for the Devon Buildings Group meeting, so here’s a wintry picture of the Cathedral from January 2023.
#SteepleSaturday #exetercathedral
#SteepleSaturday #exetercathedral
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I’m heading for Exeter today for the Devon Buildings Group meeting, so here’s a wintry picture of the Cathedral from January 2023.
#SteepleSaturday #exetercathedral
#SteepleSaturday #exetercathedral
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Two fonts at St Andrew’s Buckland Monachorum, Devon. The second, a Saxon or Norman, tub font, was found during repairs in 1857, and used in two other local churches before returning to Buckland in 1936.
#fontsonfriday
#fontsonfriday
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Two fonts at St Andrew’s Buckland Monachorum, Devon. The second, a Saxon or Norman, tub font, was found during repairs in 1857, and used in two other local churches before returning to Buckland in 1936.
#fontsonfriday
#fontsonfriday
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Come on in — the door is open . The chapel at Buckland Abbey. The former chancel of the Abbey church was remodelled as a chapel in the 1920s.
The font dates from 1855
#AdoorableThursday
A day early for #FontsonFriday
The font dates from 1855
#AdoorableThursday
A day early for #FontsonFriday
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Come on in — the door is open . The chapel at Buckland Abbey. The former chancel of the Abbey church was remodelled as a chapel in the 1920s.
The font dates from 1855
#AdoorableThursday
A day early for #FontsonFriday
The font dates from 1855
#AdoorableThursday
A day early for #FontsonFriday
A spider’s web, part of the intricate carving of the pulpit at St Peter’s, Stoke Fleming . The pulpit was designed by Edmund H Sedding and created by one of the Pinwill sisters and installed in 1890/91.
#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday #spiders
#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday #spiders
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A spider’s web, part of the intricate carving of the pulpit at St Peter’s, Stoke Fleming . The pulpit was designed by Edmund H Sedding and created by one of the Pinwill sisters and installed in 1890/91.
#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday #spiders
#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday #spiders
Medieval floor tiles on display at Buckland Abbey. Central tile could be arms of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall and Poitou, or Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, and husband of Amicia de Clare the founder of the Abbey.
#tilesontuesday #medieval
#tilesontuesday #medieval
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Medieval floor tiles on display at Buckland Abbey. Central tile could be arms of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall and Poitou, or Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, and husband of Amicia de Clare the founder of the Abbey.
#tilesontuesday #medieval
#tilesontuesday #medieval
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Another for my costume collection. monument to Catherine, Lady St John of Bletso (d.1615) in St Michael's Chapel, Westminster Abbey.
📷 from my visit in June
#MonumentsMonday #historicalcostume
📷 from my visit in June
#MonumentsMonday #historicalcostume
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Another for my costume collection. monument to Catherine, Lady St John of Bletso (d.1615) in St Michael's Chapel, Westminster Abbey.
📷 from my visit in June
#MonumentsMonday #historicalcostume
📷 from my visit in June
#MonumentsMonday #historicalcostume
The peasant David couldn’t resist singing for souls cakes with the Tudor cooks at Buckland Abbey today.
#soulcakes #tudor
#soulcakes #tudor
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The peasant David couldn’t resist singing for souls cakes with the Tudor cooks at Buckland Abbey today.
#soulcakes #tudor
#soulcakes #tudor
Westminster Abbey. Henry V in one of a series of eight stained glass windows designed in the early 20th century by Sir J. Ninian Comper showing kings associated with the Abbey with an abbot of Westminster from the same era.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
November 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Westminster Abbey. Henry V in one of a series of eight stained glass windows designed in the early 20th century by Sir J. Ninian Comper showing kings associated with the Abbey with an abbot of Westminster from the same era.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
Forget Halloween — it’s already Christmas at my local garden centre.
📷taken yesterday
Believe it or not, our first Tudor Christmas performance is next week!
Happy 1 November!
#Christmas #november
📷taken yesterday
Believe it or not, our first Tudor Christmas performance is next week!
Happy 1 November!
#Christmas #november
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Forget Halloween — it’s already Christmas at my local garden centre.
📷taken yesterday
Believe it or not, our first Tudor Christmas performance is next week!
Happy 1 November!
#Christmas #november
📷taken yesterday
Believe it or not, our first Tudor Christmas performance is next week!
Happy 1 November!
#Christmas #november
All Hallows Church, Broadwoodkelly, Devon.
13th century, rebuilt 15th and early 16th, restored 1867-8.
Katherine Champernowne’s first husband, Otho Gilbert, was born at Broadwoodkelly in 1513.
#SteepleSaturday
13th century, rebuilt 15th and early 16th, restored 1867-8.
Katherine Champernowne’s first husband, Otho Gilbert, was born at Broadwoodkelly in 1513.
#SteepleSaturday
November 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
All Hallows Church, Broadwoodkelly, Devon.
13th century, rebuilt 15th and early 16th, restored 1867-8.
Katherine Champernowne’s first husband, Otho Gilbert, was born at Broadwoodkelly in 1513.
#SteepleSaturday
13th century, rebuilt 15th and early 16th, restored 1867-8.
Katherine Champernowne’s first husband, Otho Gilbert, was born at Broadwoodkelly in 1513.
#SteepleSaturday
Tub font at St Mary’s, Deerhurst Gloucestershire with carved spiral decoration. It’s one of the oldest in England, dated to the 9th century.
#FontsonFriday #saxon
#FontsonFriday #saxon
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Tub font at St Mary’s, Deerhurst Gloucestershire with carved spiral decoration. It’s one of the oldest in England, dated to the 9th century.
#FontsonFriday #saxon
#FontsonFriday #saxon
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM