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#tracerytuesday

St Stephen Redditch

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Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria, Droitwich.

Designed by Frank Barry Peacock 1921.

#tympanumtuesday

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#31daysofgraves

Day 14: Inside

Holy Trinity Wordsley

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 2d

St Leonard, Priors Marston

Lavers and Barraud 1886

#owlishmonday #stainedglass

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2d

Sulphur Tufts fluorescing under UV light, seen in Sutton Park #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends

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#mushroommonday

Uffmore Woods

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Day 13: Skeleton

17thc Brigginshaw memorial at St John Brewardine.

#mementomorimonday

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Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 3d

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @lazarustheatre.bsky.social - FORGIVENESS & REVENGE!

two women are sitting next to each other with apology accepted written on the screen

ALT: two women are sitting next to each other with apology accepted written on the screen

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 3d

Celestial as thou art, O, pardon, love, this wrong,
That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.

Love's Labor's Lost Act 4, Scene 2

Stained glass at St Mary Oldswinford by Clayton and Bell.

#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 3d

Her brother, John Hardman, founded Hardman & Co, the metal and stained glass works in Birmingham.

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Day 12: Notable Woman

Mother Mary Juliana Hardman 1813-1884 with Catherine McAuley at St Mary's Convent, Handsworth by Philip Jackson.

Juliana was the first Mother Superior at St Mary’s, she built almonry's for the poor and several schools in Birmingham.

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 4d

Lion at St Michael and All Angels Penkridge by J. A. Chatwin of Birmingham, 1880's.

#caturday

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 4d

St Anne, Moseley by Frederick Preedy 1874

#steeplesaturday

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 4d

Vertue’s embracer, Vice’s opposite,
Time’s chiefest ornament, true Valour’s Knight.
The all-just Heaven, regarding high desarts,
Bereav’d the earth of his diviner parts;
Leaving here nought of him but slimy dross,
And a continual grief for such a loss.

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Day 11: Military

Sir Richard Leveson 1570-1605 at St Peter Wolverhampton.
By Hubert Le Sueur.

Here lyeth the bodye of Perfection’s glorie;
Fame’s owne worlde wonder, and the ocean’s story;
The right protector, rightful scourge of wrong,
In peace a dove, in war a lyon strong; 1/2

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 4d

#fontsonfriday

12thc font and 15thc copy at St Anne Wyre Piddle.

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

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William Shenstone 1714-1763

Day 10: Urn

St John, Halesowen.

Ah me, my Friend! it will not, will not last,
This fairy scene, that cheats our youthful eyes;
The charm dissolves; th’ aerial music’s past;
The banquet ceases, and the vision flies..

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

St Thomas, Crown East.

Carved wooden door with iron dragon door knocker in the chancel. 1880's.

#AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday
#nocontextdoors

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

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Day 9: Hand

Richard Bayley Marsh of Lloyd House, Penn. Died in 1820 aged 36.
The memorial shows his grieving widow Sarah next to his portrait..

Sculpture by Francis Leggatt Chantrey at St Benedict Biscop church in Wombourne.

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Day 8: Glass

By T. W. Camm, The Studio Smethwick at Christ Church Coseley.

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Day 7: Angel

St James the Great, Shirley.

Arthur Hill died 1927 aged 27
Charles William Clifford Hill died 1936 aged 28
Valentine George Hill died 1959 aged 52

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

St Mary the Virgin Hurst Hill.

Glass by Albert Edward Lemmon born in Ladywood Birmingham. Trained at the Birmingham School of Art and worked at the Bromsgrove Guild before establishing his own studio.

#owlishmonday

#bilston #sedgley #theblackcountry
#stainedglass

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

Memorial to Lady Victoria Susan Talbot (1831-1856) by Ernesto Cali of Naples

#31daysofgraves

Day 6: Gender

#monumentsmonday

Beautiful carved recumbent figure, with loose long wavy hair. Wearing a long dress with wonderfully carved sleeves. She is holding a bunch of lilies.

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

St James, Norton Juxta Kempsey

Bath stone pulpit by the Bromsgrove Guild, 1929

#sundaysermons

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