Becky Wallower
@bwallower.bsky.social
archaeology, history, environment, quirky stuff -- love London, arts, travel -- writer, organiser, modest activist/stirrer 🏺
#StainedGlassSunday #AdventAngels
One of earliest windows among medieval wonders in St Neot, Cornwall is the Creation, c.1480, w 95% original glass. Tracery lights feature degrees of angelic powers.
Bribery, plus 'liming' of the medieval windows, preserved them from 1650s Parliamentarian extremists.
One of earliest windows among medieval wonders in St Neot, Cornwall is the Creation, c.1480, w 95% original glass. Tracery lights feature degrees of angelic powers.
Bribery, plus 'liming' of the medieval windows, preserved them from 1650s Parliamentarian extremists.
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#StainedGlassSunday #AdventAngels
One of earliest windows among medieval wonders in St Neot, Cornwall is the Creation, c.1480, w 95% original glass. Tracery lights feature degrees of angelic powers.
Bribery, plus 'liming' of the medieval windows, preserved them from 1650s Parliamentarian extremists.
One of earliest windows among medieval wonders in St Neot, Cornwall is the Creation, c.1480, w 95% original glass. Tracery lights feature degrees of angelic powers.
Bribery, plus 'liming' of the medieval windows, preserved them from 1650s Parliamentarian extremists.
#CastleSaturday
View of Bamburgh Castle from beach is classic, but pretty impressive from land side too, perched on volcanic dolerite. C5 Celtic Britonic fort>Anglo-Saxon fort>Norman castle>property of monarch>various nobles post Civil War>Armstrong family w much restoration.
+ cricket ground below.
View of Bamburgh Castle from beach is classic, but pretty impressive from land side too, perched on volcanic dolerite. C5 Celtic Britonic fort>Anglo-Saxon fort>Norman castle>property of monarch>various nobles post Civil War>Armstrong family w much restoration.
+ cricket ground below.
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
#CastleSaturday
View of Bamburgh Castle from beach is classic, but pretty impressive from land side too, perched on volcanic dolerite. C5 Celtic Britonic fort>Anglo-Saxon fort>Norman castle>property of monarch>various nobles post Civil War>Armstrong family w much restoration.
+ cricket ground below.
View of Bamburgh Castle from beach is classic, but pretty impressive from land side too, perched on volcanic dolerite. C5 Celtic Britonic fort>Anglo-Saxon fort>Norman castle>property of monarch>various nobles post Civil War>Armstrong family w much restoration.
+ cricket ground below.
Always a fascination about historic archaeo-pix.
Despite centuries of robbing/destruction in Egnazia, Puglia, w remains from Bronze Age onwards, systematic excavations in 1960s were productive, and continue.
Attis found in area of #Roman Sacellum of Oriental Gods investigated in 1964 as seen here:
Despite centuries of robbing/destruction in Egnazia, Puglia, w remains from Bronze Age onwards, systematic excavations in 1960s were productive, and continue.
Attis found in area of #Roman Sacellum of Oriental Gods investigated in 1964 as seen here:
December 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Always a fascination about historic archaeo-pix.
Despite centuries of robbing/destruction in Egnazia, Puglia, w remains from Bronze Age onwards, systematic excavations in 1960s were productive, and continue.
Attis found in area of #Roman Sacellum of Oriental Gods investigated in 1964 as seen here:
Despite centuries of robbing/destruction in Egnazia, Puglia, w remains from Bronze Age onwards, systematic excavations in 1960s were productive, and continue.
Attis found in area of #Roman Sacellum of Oriental Gods investigated in 1964 as seen here:
#FindsFriday
Very fine C2 AD marble head of beautiful shepherd boy Attis, subject of many a myth. Infidelity to his lover Mother of the Gods Cybele precipitated a cascade of tragedy.
In Nat Arch Museum Egnazia, Puglia. #Archaeology 🏺
Discovery/site shots from 1960s excavations in /2
Very fine C2 AD marble head of beautiful shepherd boy Attis, subject of many a myth. Infidelity to his lover Mother of the Gods Cybele precipitated a cascade of tragedy.
In Nat Arch Museum Egnazia, Puglia. #Archaeology 🏺
Discovery/site shots from 1960s excavations in /2
December 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
#FindsFriday
Very fine C2 AD marble head of beautiful shepherd boy Attis, subject of many a myth. Infidelity to his lover Mother of the Gods Cybele precipitated a cascade of tragedy.
In Nat Arch Museum Egnazia, Puglia. #Archaeology 🏺
Discovery/site shots from 1960s excavations in /2
Very fine C2 AD marble head of beautiful shepherd boy Attis, subject of many a myth. Infidelity to his lover Mother of the Gods Cybele precipitated a cascade of tragedy.
In Nat Arch Museum Egnazia, Puglia. #Archaeology 🏺
Discovery/site shots from 1960s excavations in /2
#AdoorableThursday
Uniquely named St Mary de Crypt in Gloucester. 12th C door renewed w Agnus Dei #tympanum in 19th C. Nice fish scaly lintel. And some fitting #IronworkThursday too.
Uniquely named St Mary de Crypt in Gloucester. 12th C door renewed w Agnus Dei #tympanum in 19th C. Nice fish scaly lintel. And some fitting #IronworkThursday too.
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#AdoorableThursday
Uniquely named St Mary de Crypt in Gloucester. 12th C door renewed w Agnus Dei #tympanum in 19th C. Nice fish scaly lintel. And some fitting #IronworkThursday too.
Uniquely named St Mary de Crypt in Gloucester. 12th C door renewed w Agnus Dei #tympanum in 19th C. Nice fish scaly lintel. And some fitting #IronworkThursday too.
#Woodensday
Boat from #Herculaneum excavated 1982.
Found with building debris carried to beach in 1st volcanic eruption, overturned by force of violent seas, smashed and buried by pyroclastic flows.
>9m long x 2.2m. Here rudder attachments + planking visible at stern. #Roman #Archaeology 🏺
Boat from #Herculaneum excavated 1982.
Found with building debris carried to beach in 1st volcanic eruption, overturned by force of violent seas, smashed and buried by pyroclastic flows.
>9m long x 2.2m. Here rudder attachments + planking visible at stern. #Roman #Archaeology 🏺
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
#Woodensday
Boat from #Herculaneum excavated 1982.
Found with building debris carried to beach in 1st volcanic eruption, overturned by force of violent seas, smashed and buried by pyroclastic flows.
>9m long x 2.2m. Here rudder attachments + planking visible at stern. #Roman #Archaeology 🏺
Boat from #Herculaneum excavated 1982.
Found with building debris carried to beach in 1st volcanic eruption, overturned by force of violent seas, smashed and buried by pyroclastic flows.
>9m long x 2.2m. Here rudder attachments + planking visible at stern. #Roman #Archaeology 🏺
Going through Provencal photos for something else, and found this at the end!
From June 2023. Compare and contrast...
From June 2023. Compare and contrast...
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Going through Provencal photos for something else, and found this at the end!
From June 2023. Compare and contrast...
From June 2023. Compare and contrast...
#TraceryTuesday To me there's something very joyful in the dotty #Windows of the south aisle @gloucestercathedral.org.uk, rebuilt in Decorated style 1319-29.
The 'dots' are ball-flowers - little balls are carved into the cups of flower petals. #medieval
The 'dots' are ball-flowers - little balls are carved into the cups of flower petals. #medieval
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#TraceryTuesday To me there's something very joyful in the dotty #Windows of the south aisle @gloucestercathedral.org.uk, rebuilt in Decorated style 1319-29.
The 'dots' are ball-flowers - little balls are carved into the cups of flower petals. #medieval
The 'dots' are ball-flowers - little balls are carved into the cups of flower petals. #medieval
Photo is the external door knocker.
I'd be v surprised if apartments had any at all, as no one will have access to knock on doors inside the building. I think they've used same photo of front door (w different paint from mine) in the mix.
Here Google map screenshot shows ++++ buzzers by the door.
I'd be v surprised if apartments had any at all, as no one will have access to knock on doors inside the building. I think they've used same photo of front door (w different paint from mine) in the mix.
Here Google map screenshot shows ++++ buzzers by the door.
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Photo is the external door knocker.
I'd be v surprised if apartments had any at all, as no one will have access to knock on doors inside the building. I think they've used same photo of front door (w different paint from mine) in the mix.
Here Google map screenshot shows ++++ buzzers by the door.
I'd be v surprised if apartments had any at all, as no one will have access to knock on doors inside the building. I think they've used same photo of front door (w different paint from mine) in the mix.
Here Google map screenshot shows ++++ buzzers by the door.
#AllMetalMonday
Large doorknocker at house opposite St Giles in the Fields on edge of Covent Garden.
But why grinning rattle snakes, curious plants + globe w Africa?
Probably not medical, as building is punk style luxury, where Rolling Stones recorded!
see www.chateaudenmark.com/rooms-and-ap...
Large doorknocker at house opposite St Giles in the Fields on edge of Covent Garden.
But why grinning rattle snakes, curious plants + globe w Africa?
Probably not medical, as building is punk style luxury, where Rolling Stones recorded!
see www.chateaudenmark.com/rooms-and-ap...
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#AllMetalMonday
Large doorknocker at house opposite St Giles in the Fields on edge of Covent Garden.
But why grinning rattle snakes, curious plants + globe w Africa?
Probably not medical, as building is punk style luxury, where Rolling Stones recorded!
see www.chateaudenmark.com/rooms-and-ap...
Large doorknocker at house opposite St Giles in the Fields on edge of Covent Garden.
But why grinning rattle snakes, curious plants + globe w Africa?
Probably not medical, as building is punk style luxury, where Rolling Stones recorded!
see www.chateaudenmark.com/rooms-and-ap...
#SteepleSunday
On his feast day, here's St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in City.
In C13 was St Andrew juxta Baynard Castle as Med fortress was opposite. Name changed 1361 when royal stores moved nearby from Tower.
1666 Gt Fire destroyed Church+Wardrobe; church rebuilt by Wren.
Gutted in WWII, restored.
On his feast day, here's St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in City.
In C13 was St Andrew juxta Baynard Castle as Med fortress was opposite. Name changed 1361 when royal stores moved nearby from Tower.
1666 Gt Fire destroyed Church+Wardrobe; church rebuilt by Wren.
Gutted in WWII, restored.
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#SteepleSunday
On his feast day, here's St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in City.
In C13 was St Andrew juxta Baynard Castle as Med fortress was opposite. Name changed 1361 when royal stores moved nearby from Tower.
1666 Gt Fire destroyed Church+Wardrobe; church rebuilt by Wren.
Gutted in WWII, restored.
On his feast day, here's St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in City.
In C13 was St Andrew juxta Baynard Castle as Med fortress was opposite. Name changed 1361 when royal stores moved nearby from Tower.
1666 Gt Fire destroyed Church+Wardrobe; church rebuilt by Wren.
Gutted in WWII, restored.
Reminds me of #FindsFriday artefact now in London Museum's mudlarking exhibition:
1550-1650 elephant ivory pocket sundial of a ship's captain; possibly made in Germany, also had compass in recess.
Found in same area of Thames foreshore in 2 parts, by 2 different mudlarks, 8 years apart.
1550-1650 elephant ivory pocket sundial of a ship's captain; possibly made in Germany, also had compass in recess.
Found in same area of Thames foreshore in 2 parts, by 2 different mudlarks, 8 years apart.
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Reminds me of #FindsFriday artefact now in London Museum's mudlarking exhibition:
1550-1650 elephant ivory pocket sundial of a ship's captain; possibly made in Germany, also had compass in recess.
Found in same area of Thames foreshore in 2 parts, by 2 different mudlarks, 8 years apart.
1550-1650 elephant ivory pocket sundial of a ship's captain; possibly made in Germany, also had compass in recess.
Found in same area of Thames foreshore in 2 parts, by 2 different mudlarks, 8 years apart.
#AdoorableThursday
Exuberantly decorated doors in Wren's St Martin Ludgate, the City church least damaged by WWII bombing.
One of four impressive sets of 17th C carved doorways in a fairly small church, but this one comes with complementary fire extinguishers.
Exuberantly decorated doors in Wren's St Martin Ludgate, the City church least damaged by WWII bombing.
One of four impressive sets of 17th C carved doorways in a fairly small church, but this one comes with complementary fire extinguishers.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
#AdoorableThursday
Exuberantly decorated doors in Wren's St Martin Ludgate, the City church least damaged by WWII bombing.
One of four impressive sets of 17th C carved doorways in a fairly small church, but this one comes with complementary fire extinguishers.
Exuberantly decorated doors in Wren's St Martin Ludgate, the City church least damaged by WWII bombing.
One of four impressive sets of 17th C carved doorways in a fairly small church, but this one comes with complementary fire extinguishers.
#Woodensday #ReliefWednesday
No 25 Queen Anne's gate SW1.
Nr St James' Park Westminster - originally built as Queen Square in 1700-04.
One of two doorways that retain (or have been returned to) original wood, rather than being painted white - much more interesting, I think, revealing more detail.
No 25 Queen Anne's gate SW1.
Nr St James' Park Westminster - originally built as Queen Square in 1700-04.
One of two doorways that retain (or have been returned to) original wood, rather than being painted white - much more interesting, I think, revealing more detail.
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#Woodensday #ReliefWednesday
No 25 Queen Anne's gate SW1.
Nr St James' Park Westminster - originally built as Queen Square in 1700-04.
One of two doorways that retain (or have been returned to) original wood, rather than being painted white - much more interesting, I think, revealing more detail.
No 25 Queen Anne's gate SW1.
Nr St James' Park Westminster - originally built as Queen Square in 1700-04.
One of two doorways that retain (or have been returned to) original wood, rather than being painted white - much more interesting, I think, revealing more detail.
#ReliefWednesday
1st C #Roman tombstone set up by 'Demetrius to Heraclia his wife at expense of her own estate', missing her head.
In All Hallows by the Tower.
From foreshore where spolia from 19th C building of Tower Hill station (nr church) was dumped - and not far from future Chinese embassy...
1st C #Roman tombstone set up by 'Demetrius to Heraclia his wife at expense of her own estate', missing her head.
In All Hallows by the Tower.
From foreshore where spolia from 19th C building of Tower Hill station (nr church) was dumped - and not far from future Chinese embassy...
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#ReliefWednesday
1st C #Roman tombstone set up by 'Demetrius to Heraclia his wife at expense of her own estate', missing her head.
In All Hallows by the Tower.
From foreshore where spolia from 19th C building of Tower Hill station (nr church) was dumped - and not far from future Chinese embassy...
1st C #Roman tombstone set up by 'Demetrius to Heraclia his wife at expense of her own estate', missing her head.
In All Hallows by the Tower.
From foreshore where spolia from 19th C building of Tower Hill station (nr church) was dumped - and not far from future Chinese embassy...
#TerracottaTuesday
Striking C4 BC rhyton/drinking vessel w Actaeon metamorphosing into a stag.
In common version of myth, it's his penalty for having seen Artemis/Diana bathing naked: he's fated to be torn apart by dogs.
From Timmari Hill tombs; in archaeology museum, Matera Basilicata.
Striking C4 BC rhyton/drinking vessel w Actaeon metamorphosing into a stag.
In common version of myth, it's his penalty for having seen Artemis/Diana bathing naked: he's fated to be torn apart by dogs.
From Timmari Hill tombs; in archaeology museum, Matera Basilicata.
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#TerracottaTuesday
Striking C4 BC rhyton/drinking vessel w Actaeon metamorphosing into a stag.
In common version of myth, it's his penalty for having seen Artemis/Diana bathing naked: he's fated to be torn apart by dogs.
From Timmari Hill tombs; in archaeology museum, Matera Basilicata.
Striking C4 BC rhyton/drinking vessel w Actaeon metamorphosing into a stag.
In common version of myth, it's his penalty for having seen Artemis/Diana bathing naked: he's fated to be torn apart by dogs.
From Timmari Hill tombs; in archaeology museum, Matera Basilicata.
1 of 8 fabulous Medieval #TilesOnTuesday found in Tring Herts curiosity shop: all but one show naughty/playful child Jesus in imaginary tales.
Here, bully destroys pool Jesus made along the Jordan and falls dead. Virgin intervenes, and bully returns to life at touch of Jesus's foot.
In BM. More ALT.
Here, bully destroys pool Jesus made along the Jordan and falls dead. Virgin intervenes, and bully returns to life at touch of Jesus's foot.
In BM. More ALT.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
1 of 8 fabulous Medieval #TilesOnTuesday found in Tring Herts curiosity shop: all but one show naughty/playful child Jesus in imaginary tales.
Here, bully destroys pool Jesus made along the Jordan and falls dead. Virgin intervenes, and bully returns to life at touch of Jesus's foot.
In BM. More ALT.
Here, bully destroys pool Jesus made along the Jordan and falls dead. Virgin intervenes, and bully returns to life at touch of Jesus's foot.
In BM. More ALT.
#MosaicMonday
Semi-elliptical mosaic pavement from an apse: a hunt in marshlands where groups of men hunt from boats, using a large drag-net.
A v weird way to trap such exotic creatures as ostrich, stag, boar, birds??
Nathan Davis, BM's missionary in N Africa excavated 1850s in Utica, Tunisia.
🏺
Semi-elliptical mosaic pavement from an apse: a hunt in marshlands where groups of men hunt from boats, using a large drag-net.
A v weird way to trap such exotic creatures as ostrich, stag, boar, birds??
Nathan Davis, BM's missionary in N Africa excavated 1850s in Utica, Tunisia.
🏺
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
#MosaicMonday
Semi-elliptical mosaic pavement from an apse: a hunt in marshlands where groups of men hunt from boats, using a large drag-net.
A v weird way to trap such exotic creatures as ostrich, stag, boar, birds??
Nathan Davis, BM's missionary in N Africa excavated 1850s in Utica, Tunisia.
🏺
Semi-elliptical mosaic pavement from an apse: a hunt in marshlands where groups of men hunt from boats, using a large drag-net.
A v weird way to trap such exotic creatures as ostrich, stag, boar, birds??
Nathan Davis, BM's missionary in N Africa excavated 1850s in Utica, Tunisia.
🏺
The Angels are Coming!
Lux Muralis has been bringing spectacular sound and light creations to cathedrals around Britain.
Now at Southwark from tomorrow, with an angelic theme to herald in Advent in every corner.
cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/the...
This from St Paul's in Feb 👇
Lux Muralis has been bringing spectacular sound and light creations to cathedrals around Britain.
Now at Southwark from tomorrow, with an angelic theme to herald in Advent in every corner.
cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/the...
This from St Paul's in Feb 👇
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Angels are Coming!
Lux Muralis has been bringing spectacular sound and light creations to cathedrals around Britain.
Now at Southwark from tomorrow, with an angelic theme to herald in Advent in every corner.
cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/the...
This from St Paul's in Feb 👇
Lux Muralis has been bringing spectacular sound and light creations to cathedrals around Britain.
Now at Southwark from tomorrow, with an angelic theme to herald in Advent in every corner.
cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/the...
This from St Paul's in Feb 👇
Love Barbara Hepworth sculptures, though somewhat mystified how Art Newspaper's '10 essential works in UK. includes the one at UN in New York....
Here's one of my local favourites instead: a smaller version of the UN one called Single Form (Memorial), in Battersea Park.
Here's one of my local favourites instead: a smaller version of the UN one called Single Form (Memorial), in Battersea Park.
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Love Barbara Hepworth sculptures, though somewhat mystified how Art Newspaper's '10 essential works in UK. includes the one at UN in New York....
Here's one of my local favourites instead: a smaller version of the UN one called Single Form (Memorial), in Battersea Park.
Here's one of my local favourites instead: a smaller version of the UN one called Single Form (Memorial), in Battersea Park.
#StaircaseSaturday
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#StaircaseSaturday
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
Back to Secrets of the Thames exhibition at Lon Museum to write update for next @londonarchaeo.bsky.social.
So many intriguing #FindsFriday from the foreshore.
Here badges 1300-1500 for #PhallusFriday: 1 popping out of purse, several dancing on comb, plus cockerel worn to crow about virility.
ALT
So many intriguing #FindsFriday from the foreshore.
Here badges 1300-1500 for #PhallusFriday: 1 popping out of purse, several dancing on comb, plus cockerel worn to crow about virility.
ALT
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Back to Secrets of the Thames exhibition at Lon Museum to write update for next @londonarchaeo.bsky.social.
So many intriguing #FindsFriday from the foreshore.
Here badges 1300-1500 for #PhallusFriday: 1 popping out of purse, several dancing on comb, plus cockerel worn to crow about virility.
ALT
So many intriguing #FindsFriday from the foreshore.
Here badges 1300-1500 for #PhallusFriday: 1 popping out of purse, several dancing on comb, plus cockerel worn to crow about virility.
ALT
All a bit manic just now, so turning to a joyous medieval flying hooved doggo/dragon for #TilesOnTuesday.
And he's a very good boy.
Among riches of MOLA's 2021 Blossom St site north of Spitalfields - Iron Age horse remains, Roman burials, medieval walls, Tudor ovens + more.
And he's a very good boy.
Among riches of MOLA's 2021 Blossom St site north of Spitalfields - Iron Age horse remains, Roman burials, medieval walls, Tudor ovens + more.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
All a bit manic just now, so turning to a joyous medieval flying hooved doggo/dragon for #TilesOnTuesday.
And he's a very good boy.
Among riches of MOLA's 2021 Blossom St site north of Spitalfields - Iron Age horse remains, Roman burials, medieval walls, Tudor ovens + more.
And he's a very good boy.
Among riches of MOLA's 2021 Blossom St site north of Spitalfields - Iron Age horse remains, Roman burials, medieval walls, Tudor ovens + more.
#StainedGlassSunday
This window is one of 3 memorials in St Aidan's Bamburgh to heroine Grace Darling, pictured w her pink oar.
At 22, the lighthouse keeper's daughter rowed out w her father to rescue survivors of SS Forfarshire, shipwrecked in fierce storms off the Farne Islands in 1838.
This window is one of 3 memorials in St Aidan's Bamburgh to heroine Grace Darling, pictured w her pink oar.
At 22, the lighthouse keeper's daughter rowed out w her father to rescue survivors of SS Forfarshire, shipwrecked in fierce storms off the Farne Islands in 1838.
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
#StainedGlassSunday
This window is one of 3 memorials in St Aidan's Bamburgh to heroine Grace Darling, pictured w her pink oar.
At 22, the lighthouse keeper's daughter rowed out w her father to rescue survivors of SS Forfarshire, shipwrecked in fierce storms off the Farne Islands in 1838.
This window is one of 3 memorials in St Aidan's Bamburgh to heroine Grace Darling, pictured w her pink oar.
At 22, the lighthouse keeper's daughter rowed out w her father to rescue survivors of SS Forfarshire, shipwrecked in fierce storms off the Farne Islands in 1838.
#SteepleSaturday
From Papal Palace of Avignon, the steeple of Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon.
Built 12th C, tower collapsed and reconstructed in 15th. Gilded Virgin Mary added on top in 19th.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social posted her lovely painting on other side, but I can't find it! Pls repost.
From Papal Palace of Avignon, the steeple of Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon.
Built 12th C, tower collapsed and reconstructed in 15th. Gilded Virgin Mary added on top in 19th.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social posted her lovely painting on other side, but I can't find it! Pls repost.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#SteepleSaturday
From Papal Palace of Avignon, the steeple of Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon.
Built 12th C, tower collapsed and reconstructed in 15th. Gilded Virgin Mary added on top in 19th.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social posted her lovely painting on other side, but I can't find it! Pls repost.
From Papal Palace of Avignon, the steeple of Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon.
Built 12th C, tower collapsed and reconstructed in 15th. Gilded Virgin Mary added on top in 19th.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social posted her lovely painting on other side, but I can't find it! Pls repost.