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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 13h

Heidi after looking in the dressing up box... courtesy of GROK (from the other place)🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 13h

Mouse with she could claim that was by design! 🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 14h

Looks like this got photobombed by some of those pesky #SomersetFayries. They must have followed Mouse from Otterhampton

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 14h

North transept. North elevation #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset for #TraceryTuesday

Nice to see some elegant reticulated tracery from the Decorated period in this seemingly Perpendicular county. A particularly good example although curious as the major period of development was C15

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 14h

Curious coincidences number 47: Mouse used the phrase 'curate's egg' earlier today. Good in parts🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 14h

Ninja mus🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 14h

North transept. North elevation #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset for #TraceryTuesday

Nice to see some elegant reticulated tracery from the Decorated period in this seemingly Perpendicular county. A particularly good example although curious as the major period of development was C15

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 14h

Probably the finest tiles Mouse has seen on her various scampers. They wouldn't look amiss in Mouse's wet room, steam and sauna complex back at Mouse towers

Sanctuary #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset for #TilesOnTuesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 14h

From north #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset for #TowerTuesday

Low 2-stage crossing tower. Louvred semicircular lights to bell stage. Stair turret just visible to right. Transepts and tower are possibly the last remains of the Priory Church. Recessed octagonal spire and parapet are later

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 19h

We would call it the choir these days, because it's where the choir sing. The whole of the choir, chancel and sanctuary was reserved for the clergy and the officials of the church. The plebs like Mouse were in the nave🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 19h

Stoche to Stoke to Stoke Courcy to Stogursey (the two being phonetically similar)... all derived from Saxon Stoc, which just means (rather disappointingly)... place🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 20h

Drawn by Mouse's own fair paws and therefore awful. Mouse failed Art at school. The label 'viewpoint' is the direction Mouse took the photograph (right). If you zoom in, you look through the arches of the crossing (it's cruciform so the tower is over the crossing) through quire and chancel to altar🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 21h

Although, as the Spanish claim, secondary to the Calvauno region🐭

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 23h

Property prices were a lot lower then🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

Great place to move to🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

Mouse do a sketch tomorrow🐭
(Mouse terrible at drawing so you'll have to forgive her scribbles)

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

They're very easily influenced though. They're like putti in your hands🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

Some exciting news about that wagon later in the week. It's a secret🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

The church of #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset is rich in memorials. Mouse bring you what she thinks are the best three. All from the south chapel. This is the third #MemorialMonday. If this pops up 'For you' and you want more, visit Mouse's profile. Like and follow

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

The church of #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset is rich in memorials. Mouse bring you what she thinks are the best three. All from the south chapel. This is the second #MemorialMonday. If this pops up 'For you' and you want more, visit Mouse's profile. Like and follow

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

The church of #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset is rich in memorials. Mouse bring you what she thinks are the best three. All from the south chapel. This is the first #MemorialMonday. If this pops up 'For you' and you want more, visit Mouse's profile. Like and follow

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

Top and tail....

This knight's face is a picture of repose. Head resting on his helm and feet guarded by a trusted #FootBeast. Sweet dreams in the afterlife my Lord #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset for #MemorialMonday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

From south chapel #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset for #MemorialMonday

Knight effigy on a pedestal bearing mourners under finialed and pinnacled canopies. Very finely carved particularly compared to his neighbour who was of the same family. Perhaps reflecting an upturn in fortunes

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

From quire to south chapel #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset for #MemorialMonday

A somewhat crudely carved effigy dating to c14. The garb is perhaps typical of a nobleman of that period although could equally be that of a monk or other clergy

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

North and south chapels #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset

A church that's a grand reminder of Norman Romanesque architecture but sadly blighted by general #ChurchClutter and shonky wiring. Sad. The place needs some love. The south chapel though is an exception and full of interest

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

Mouse see what she can do🐭

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