2/2 The wooden vaulting of the nave roof at Chester Cathedral, also for #Woodensday. Perhaps not the most exciting of England's medieval cathedrals, but pleasant and interesting enough.

Excellent, well done!

It was unfortunately published just before the Ely Society voted itself out of existence. I do wonder if there's a box of residual stock somewhere. I see there's a copy on ebay for £23.95 plus postage. I think it was about £20 when it came out, so not much more.

Quite! It DOES, however, appear in the carvings of the Ely Lady Chapel, albeit fragmentary, where the south range is based on the narrative of Pseudo-Matthew. I don't have a photograph of it myself, but here it is in Jonathan Rogers' book about the carvings, with the text.

Odd, isn't it. The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, which was a popular source in the medieval Church, quotes the Prophet Habbakuk, 'between two animals you are made manifest' and in Chapters 18 and 19 describes the infant Christ's relationship with various animals, including dragons, lions and panthers!

2/2 Here's the whole window. Birkin Haward thought it 'Heaton, Butler & Bayne at their dullest commercial', which is perhaps a little unfair. The workshop was past its best by 1900, but there is far worse by them, including some in this church!

Dereham: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/derehamnicho...

2/2 And here's the 50% off Pevsners sale at Yale University Press, in case you missed it: yalebooks.co.uk/pevsner-arch...

3/3 St Catherine's wheel and the cross of St Andrew, by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens, 1958, in St Catherine's chapel at the church of St Andrew, Plymouth. Today's the feast of St Catherine.

2/3 St Catherine with her wheel and a martyr's palm in the lovely little church at Corringham, Essex, by Faith Craft, 1958. Likely to be to the design of Francis Stephens or Laurence King.

3/3 St Catherine holds a sword and a broken wheel on the Battle Hall Retable, made for Dartford Priory c1410 and now in Leeds Castle, Kent. Her legend was probably conflated with other early virgin martyrs, but she was one of the fourteen medieval Holy Helpers invoked against diseases.

2/3 St Catherine holds her wheel and a sword in an early 16th Century Flemish devotional statue now in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. She's recorded as a martyr in Alexandria during the Maxentius Persecution c305, aged about 17. She's the patron saint of single women.

Yes, appropriately they're on the steps to the song school.

Some unusual souvenir hunter, perhaps! Or maybe high winds...

3/3 Daniel and St John the Baptist in 1850s tiling by William Butterfield at his All Saints, Margaret Street, London. John the Baptist points to the Lamb of God, the beginning of Advent now only a few days away.

2/3 Samuel and Daniel, two figures from a good collection of 15th Century Norwich glass at Bale, Norfolk. Most of it was installed here in 1938, and probably came from elsewhere originally.

Bale: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bale/bale.htm

3/3 The intervention of angels. The lions are warded off from the kneeling Daniel in glass by Hardman & Co, 1872 in St Michael, Trinity Street, Cambridge, redundant since the 1980s and now the Michaelhouse café/restaurant, though a small chapel is also maintained.