Carving of a mythical beast , choir stalls from the 1860 restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
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@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialCarving of a mythical beast , choir stalls from the 1860 restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
@malcolmstoneman.bsky.socialThe Death of the Virgin, 1490 - 1500 CE
Part of the wing of a medieval altarpiece, perhaps produced in Lócse (today Levoca, Slovakia).
There has been some light carving & a little restoration of the polychrome.
Now Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialTime for something from Devon, and what could be better than the wonderful pulpit with biblical scenes and lots of animals carved in 1891 by the Pinwill sisters for St Peter’s Church, Stoke Fleming.
📷 2025
@malcolmstoneman.bsky.socialA medieval Saint George
Processional Staff - 15th century
Polychrome linden wood
From - Church of Saint-Agnan,
Ahuy, Dijon, France
@malcolmstoneman.bsky.socialSt Andrew’s Church, Isleham, Cambridgeshire.
A #medieval angel roof “with a carved date of 1495, with the name of its donor, Christopher Peyton” - Pevsner guidebook @yalepress.bsky.social
@malcolmstoneman.bsky.socialChurch of St Peter and St Paul and - St Thomas of Canterbury, Bovey Tracey, Devon
A carved #medieval roof boss of a Green Man on the ribbed ceiling of the 15th Century porch.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialA rather fine lion stands guard in the choir stalls at Exeter Cathedral.
The present choir stalls, installed in the 1870’s , were designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
📷 from a visit in 2022
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialAnother of the extraordinary misericords at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon. I think this one’s a dromedary?
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialHere be dragons — and other strange creatures.
Benches at St John the Baptist Church, Stamford , Lincolnshire created by Edward Browning in 1856 .
📷 from my summer travels.
@malcolmstoneman.bsky.socialChurch of St Neot,
St Neot, Cornwall
Christ as the Light of the World.
A wood carving on the tower screen of the late nineteenth / early twentieth century.
Unfortunately, I can not find out anymore about it. 🤷♂️
