For today's #fontsonfriday is the lovely mid-12 century font in St Peter's Church, Cambridge. It's decorated with four mermen, each grasping one end of their divided tails in each hand. A 3d digital model of the font can be found here. skfb.ly/o8v9r
A similar font can be found in Anstey, Herts.

After WWII there were shortages of all sorts of materials including wood. In Britain, to counter this (alongside a need to encourage #bees), there were attempts to make concrete beehives.
This one is of a few prototypes that survive. You can see it in
Horsham Museum , W. Sussex. (Not) #woodensday

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AMAZING work? If so, please let me know & I can include your abstract in the next Castle Studies Group Bulletin. The bulletin is read by all sorts of castle bods.
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Pip 'n' Jay's Church, Bristol (St Philip & St Jacob's) has a lovely square Norman font with a scalloped basin, however its cover steals its thunder. The font cover, dating to 1623, has two rows of open arches the whole topped off with a finial.
#Fontsonfriday

Hanging on the gatehouse of Carisbrooke Castle (Isle of Wight) are a pair of 14th-century gates. They are made of oak with vertical boards on the outer face & braced on the inner with wooden bars set at right angles to each other forming a lattice of squares. #adoorablethursday #medievalsky

The nave of St David's Cathedral, (Pembrokeshire) houses an important and stunning 'pendant ceiling': so named due to how parts of it hang down. Each one 1.5m long and 1m wide. Samples of the Welsh oak have been tested and provided dates of the mid C15 to the mid C16. #Woodnesday #History #Wales

Outside St Andrew's Church, Penrith, Cumbria, there is what is locally called 'The Giant's Grave'.
At either end of the 10th-century monument is the remains of a cross shaft. In between, there are 4 'hogbacks' stones (so called to their resemblance of the animal's back). #tombtuesday #history 1/3🧵

King Arthur’s Round Table (Cumbria) is a Neolithic earthwork henge c2000BCIt’s a relatively typical design: a circular platform surrounded by a wide ditch & bank. Originally there were 2 entrances to the central area but one was destroyed when a road was constructed. #skystorians #englisheritage 1/2

In the centre of the late Neolithic Mayburgh Henge (Cumbria) there is a standing stone (2.79m tall). In mid C17, it was recorded that there were 7 other similar stones, but these have since been removed.
#StandingStoneSunday #EnglishHeritage #Skystorians 🧵1/2

Yesterday’s thread was about Bowes Castle (Co. Durham), today we will move onto the adjacent St Giles Church. The nave was built in the mid C12. The church saw several later churches over its long life, incl the C13 chancel, C14 the N & S transepts, & a major C19 renovation. #churchcrawling 🧵1/6

My first thread on Bluesky is looking at Bowes Castle (Co. Durham). A timber castle may have been built c.1136. When the site became crown property in 1171, Henry II had the site strengthened due to threat of attacks from Scottish, spending £100 & a further £324 in 1173-4 #Skystorians #Castle 🧵1/6

Just returned from a castle conference (Colloque Château Gaillard 32). Fantastic mixing pot of ideas from delegates invited from across Europe & America.
There were excursions to castles in Cumbria & beyond incl. (Private) Yanwath Hall.
In future posts I'll share some of the highlights. #Castles