Su Westerman 📷
@suwesterman.bsky.social
Amateur photographer of historic architecture - portfolio at www.flickr.com/photos/suwesterman. Studied Architectural History @ContedOxford. Currently, Historic Graffiti Researcher & General Guide @cburycathedral.bsky.social.
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Inside the Pisa Baptistery, late 12th century Corinthian-style capitals with masks in the abacus.
The last one with large carved out eyes and mouth looks like an ancient theatrical mask.
Small technical detail: you can spot some rows of unconnected drill holes on each.
#Sculpture #MedievalArt
The last one with large carved out eyes and mouth looks like an ancient theatrical mask.
Small technical detail: you can spot some rows of unconnected drill holes on each.
#Sculpture #MedievalArt
January 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Inside the Pisa Baptistery, late 12th century Corinthian-style capitals with masks in the abacus.
The last one with large carved out eyes and mouth looks like an ancient theatrical mask.
Small technical detail: you can spot some rows of unconnected drill holes on each.
#Sculpture #MedievalArt
The last one with large carved out eyes and mouth looks like an ancient theatrical mask.
Small technical detail: you can spot some rows of unconnected drill holes on each.
#Sculpture #MedievalArt
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'This year, one of the aims of the conservation charity will be to make people feel more at ease in its grand houses and, where practical, allow them to sit on historic chairs and use libraries and reading rooms rather than simply peer into them.' Excellent initiative.
‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:47 AM
'This year, one of the aims of the conservation charity will be to make people feel more at ease in its grand houses and, where practical, allow them to sit on historic chairs and use libraries and reading rooms rather than simply peer into them.' Excellent initiative.
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Weer even kijken bij de besneeuwde Dageraad in Amsterdam. Architecten De Klerk en Kramer, 1923.
Another look at the snowy Dageraad in Amsterdam. Architects De Klerk and Kramer, 1923.
#amsterdamseschool #dageraad
#sneeuw #snow #micheldeklerk #pietkramer
Another look at the snowy Dageraad in Amsterdam. Architects De Klerk and Kramer, 1923.
#amsterdamseschool #dageraad
#sneeuw #snow #micheldeklerk #pietkramer
January 9, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Weer even kijken bij de besneeuwde Dageraad in Amsterdam. Architecten De Klerk en Kramer, 1923.
Another look at the snowy Dageraad in Amsterdam. Architects De Klerk and Kramer, 1923.
#amsterdamseschool #dageraad
#sneeuw #snow #micheldeklerk #pietkramer
Another look at the snowy Dageraad in Amsterdam. Architects De Klerk and Kramer, 1923.
#amsterdamseschool #dageraad
#sneeuw #snow #micheldeklerk #pietkramer
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The tiny church of St Mary at Ampney St Mary in Gloucestershire is a gem. However, one curiosity are the crossed rakes graffiti. Might they have been left by farm workers praying for a good harvest? Of perhaps they were giving thanks for a successful year. Whatever, they were a delightful find.
January 3, 2026 at 7:33 PM
The tiny church of St Mary at Ampney St Mary in Gloucestershire is a gem. However, one curiosity are the crossed rakes graffiti. Might they have been left by farm workers praying for a good harvest? Of perhaps they were giving thanks for a successful year. Whatever, they were a delightful find.
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January 3, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Visible for miles across the plains, Loarre is a marvellous castle to visit.
December 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Visible for miles across the plains, Loarre is a marvellous castle to visit.
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Iglesia de San Pedro de la Nave, El Campillo, Zamora (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸
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15 de septiembre de 2024
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15 de septiembre de 2024
December 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Iglesia de San Pedro de la Nave, El Campillo, Zamora (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸
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15 de septiembre de 2024
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15 de septiembre de 2024
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Pas fâchée d’être arrivée au bout, mais c’était marrant à faire. #passionbriques 🧱 #enaventlesbriques
Bonnes fêtes !
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Bonnes fêtes !
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December 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Pas fâchée d’être arrivée au bout, mais c’était marrant à faire. #passionbriques 🧱 #enaventlesbriques
Bonnes fêtes !
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Bonnes fêtes !
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Mediaeval tile pieces relaid together to form a fragment pavement, at #WenlockPriory. It has several areas like this. #TilesOnTuesday #Shropshire #Medieval
📷 my own.
📷 my own.
December 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Mediaeval tile pieces relaid together to form a fragment pavement, at #WenlockPriory. It has several areas like this. #TilesOnTuesday #Shropshire #Medieval
📷 my own.
📷 my own.
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Grevenstraat, Leiden, the Netherlands: late 1930s social housing, now owned and managed by the non-profit Portaal housing corporation. Fully renovated in 2020.
December 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Grevenstraat, Leiden, the Netherlands: late 1930s social housing, now owned and managed by the non-profit Portaal housing corporation. Fully renovated in 2020.
How can we let things like this happen?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Canterbury building 'needs £100k' to avoid slipping into river
Eastbridge Hospital, built in Canterbury in 1180, is
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December 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
How can we let things like this happen?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain
December 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain
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Wonderful ancient Egyptian lion, from the Middle Kingdom, painted on the walls of a tomb in the Valley of the Nobles. #egyptiananimals - and they clearly knew exactly what a lion looked like. I saw him this morning. Wonderful!
December 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Wonderful ancient Egyptian lion, from the Middle Kingdom, painted on the walls of a tomb in the Valley of the Nobles. #egyptiananimals - and they clearly knew exactly what a lion looked like. I saw him this morning. Wonderful!
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Staircase of Hôtel Tassel, Brussels, 1893-94, first Art Nouveau building, designed by Victor Horta, influential Belgian architect, born 1861.
UNESCO World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage
December 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Staircase of Hôtel Tassel, Brussels, 1893-94, first Art Nouveau building, designed by Victor Horta, influential Belgian architect, born 1861.
UNESCO World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage
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#AdventAngels from the south doorway of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire. C12th carving by the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculptors possibly of the Angel Uriel.
December 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#AdventAngels from the south doorway of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire. C12th carving by the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculptors possibly of the Angel Uriel.
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Monasterio de San Pedro de las Dueñas, León (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸
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13 de septiembre de 2024
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13 de septiembre de 2024
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Monasterio de San Pedro de las Dueñas, León (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸
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13 de septiembre de 2024
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13 de septiembre de 2024
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Prague Castle, Vladislav Hall (1493-1502), when mad fictive coffers were still painted onto a crazily beautiful rib vault that soars and writhes and clutches and, in places, snaps.
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Prague Castle, Vladislav Hall (1493-1502), when mad fictive coffers were still painted onto a crazily beautiful rib vault that soars and writhes and clutches and, in places, snaps.
Having partaken of a walking tour with @thegentleauthor.bsky.social around Spitalfields, I certainly second this recommendation!
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Having partaken of a walking tour with @thegentleauthor.bsky.social around Spitalfields, I certainly second this recommendation!
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Fossil moquette for London Underground. Jack Thompson and Richard Eatough. c.1954.
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Fossil moquette for London Underground. Jack Thompson and Richard Eatough. c.1954.
A wonderful view by @fotofacade.bsky.social of a wonderful place.
✨From the archives: St Mary’s, Breamore in Hampshire, is one of the most complete late Anglo-Saxon churches we have — a building that’s held its ground for over a millennium. Here I photographed it with the Elizabethan Breamore House behind it, two eras folded into one view.
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A wonderful view by @fotofacade.bsky.social of a wonderful place.
Stumbled upon this myself by chance recently.
Silver End a model village near Braintree in Essex built by Francis Henry Crittall of Crittall windows who built a factory & housing for his employees in the 1920’s.
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Stumbled upon this myself by chance recently.
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How I wish this London Transport wonder at Manor House from 1933 had survived! As well as the signpost it masks a tram/trolleybus overhead pole with a remarkable "UD" Underground finail. Sigh.
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
How I wish this London Transport wonder at Manor House from 1933 had survived! As well as the signpost it masks a tram/trolleybus overhead pole with a remarkable "UD" Underground finail. Sigh.
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Palimpsest is such a lovely word. Here's an example in the C11 chapel of St Martin at Wareham, Dorset. Layers of decoration and script overlay each other on the Chancel arch. Gorgeous.
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Palimpsest is such a lovely word. Here's an example in the C11 chapel of St Martin at Wareham, Dorset. Layers of decoration and script overlay each other on the Chancel arch. Gorgeous.
If you're visiting Amsterdam and love architecture a visit to the Het Schip museum is a must.
Michel de Klerk designed 'Het Schip' with orange-red Groningen bricks and used more than twenty different types of brickwork patterns.
He believed that workers' houses deserved to be beautiful.
While modern social housing uses prefab garbage.
He believed that workers' houses deserved to be beautiful.
While modern social housing uses prefab garbage.
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
If you're visiting Amsterdam and love architecture a visit to the Het Schip museum is a must.
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Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. De expressieve gevel naar ontwerp van architect Staal golft tegen de strakker gevel van een school.
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. The expressive facade designed by architect Staal undulates against the sleeker facade of a school.
#amsterdamseschool #brickalicious
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. The expressive facade designed by architect Staal undulates against the sleeker facade of a school.
#amsterdamseschool #brickalicious
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. De expressieve gevel naar ontwerp van architect Staal golft tegen de strakker gevel van een school.
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. The expressive facade designed by architect Staal undulates against the sleeker facade of a school.
#amsterdamseschool #brickalicious
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. The expressive facade designed by architect Staal undulates against the sleeker facade of a school.
#amsterdamseschool #brickalicious