Jonathan Foyle
@jonathanfoyle.bsky.social
Lecturer at the University of Bath. Researcher of historic buildings, uses, design solutions: https://soloist.ai/jonathanfoyle Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages.
A noted specialist in good order and discipline.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A noted specialist in good order and discipline.
Both paintings are currently emerging through English auction houses, one purporting to be by Edward Seago as signed, the other Ivan Taylor. Both bear closely similar misunderstandings of the architecture of Lincoln Cathedral.
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Both paintings are currently emerging through English auction houses, one purporting to be by Edward Seago as signed, the other Ivan Taylor. Both bear closely similar misunderstandings of the architecture of Lincoln Cathedral.
Mermaid Street, Rye
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Mermaid Street, Rye
Crepuscularity, Somerset
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Crepuscularity, Somerset
Food for thought: from Jane Jacobs’ ‘The Death and Life of American Cities’, 1961
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Food for thought: from Jane Jacobs’ ‘The Death and Life of American Cities’, 1961
Lea Castle, Worcestershire: the Picture Room. Lea Castle was built in the 1760s and demolished in 1945. It was a potty work of architecture and I'm sorry not to have seen it.
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Lea Castle, Worcestershire: the Picture Room. Lea Castle was built in the 1760s and demolished in 1945. It was a potty work of architecture and I'm sorry not to have seen it.
Embossed title of a book cover, 1850. So precise, apt, subtle.
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Embossed title of a book cover, 1850. So precise, apt, subtle.
... a modest but effective version of the excavated facades of the talented Bryan Browning at Bourne, Lincs. (The Old Town Hall, completed 1821).
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
... a modest but effective version of the excavated facades of the talented Bryan Browning at Bourne, Lincs. (The Old Town Hall, completed 1821).
Small mid C19 house in Bradford on Avon, Wilts that achieves marvellous ordered complexity with a 3- arch ground floor: left leads into a passage to the rear; the right two offer a sheltered entrance porch and barrier to the street. Just a great leap of logic.
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Small mid C19 house in Bradford on Avon, Wilts that achieves marvellous ordered complexity with a 3- arch ground floor: left leads into a passage to the rear; the right two offer a sheltered entrance porch and barrier to the street. Just a great leap of logic.
There aren’t many architectural history jokes.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
There aren’t many architectural history jokes.
A Somerset render-ready architrave, @limefinishes.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A Somerset render-ready architrave, @limefinishes.bsky.social
As is so much already. But they don't care.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
As is so much already. But they don't care.
One of the prettiest late medieval monuments IMO: Robert Sherborne (d. 1536), at Chichester Cathedral. Got the post of Bishop of St Davids (1505-8) by forging a papal bull to promote himself. Cheeky.
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
One of the prettiest late medieval monuments IMO: Robert Sherborne (d. 1536), at Chichester Cathedral. Got the post of Bishop of St Davids (1505-8) by forging a papal bull to promote himself. Cheeky.
Notably cheerful lion, Exeter Cathedral.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Notably cheerful lion, Exeter Cathedral.
The things that lurk... No. 13,407 www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The things that lurk... No. 13,407 www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
Carlisle Cathedral's jazz nocturne of a vault.
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Carlisle Cathedral's jazz nocturne of a vault.
Salisbury Cathedral: jazzy
November 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Salisbury Cathedral: jazzy
Things found in the medieval drains of Salisbury, in 1854. (Salisbury Museum)
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Things found in the medieval drains of Salisbury, in 1854. (Salisbury Museum)
Gratifying. Pressure's on...
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Gratifying. Pressure's on...