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6 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Hmm can't get much content out of this
what an odd thing
the hall is interesting though. there's loads of these these grand timber-framed mansions round south Lancashire for some reason (odd considering there's loads of decent building stone)
e.g. look at this ridiculous thing (Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, bit further down the A34, 1504-1610)

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5 Feb
what's that? the potato thing? oh yes I needed a change and all my handles come from one recitative/song from Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. for no particular reason
Did hear once the idea that "Am I alone and unobserved" is a spoof of "It is enough" from Mendelssohn's Elijah; an Oratorio - being in English - that was massively popular in Victorian choral societies in industrial cities.

I mean yeah same vibes but musically hmm not really
to add. all the G&S references in The Simpsons season 5 for some reason. no we generally didn't get them over here as kids either.

I guess it all comes from getting Kelsey Grammer to do a genteel British musical number. man they made a hash of the union jack though didn't they
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5 Feb
first full pics of the restoration of the third quarter 14th-century St Amphibalus shrine base at St Albans Abbey just dropped ImageImageImage
after looking like this for nearly 150 years after being pulled out of the dividing wall between the church and lady chapel by G.G. Scott's workmen, but never got round to doing anything proper with it. Could've been worse, Edmund Beckett could've done something. ImageImageImageImage
Basically it's been taken apart, cleaned, rearranged after the analyses of art historians, new bits made to the medieval design to replace the bricks, and polished limestone shafts put in.

As much of Scott's rebuild of the St Alban shrine base (1302-8) won't be "medieval" either ImageImageImage
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4 Feb
interesting there's a solicitor in Retford who's come out of nowhere to write bits about parish church finances for two high-profile, long-running newspapers in the past week. that's all I'm saying. possibly no one knows what I'm talking about. but it's very weird imo
genuinely, it isn't. the CofE is sadly run by a lot of bullshit execs (the diocese of London thing over the Captain Tom cult is disgraceful) but there isn't some nefarious covid plan to dismantle a system near the scale of the the 1530s and it's silly to imply such Image
Reckon if I proposed a piece to The Spectator how most historic parish churches should be taken into state custodianship for the public good like most medieval monastic and military ruins they wouldn't give me a response. maybe I could give it a go though, eh listeners?
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29 Jan
Unfinished business. And it's not really many more houses than most English counties. A brief reboot of MonasteryQuest™!

To be honest I only started the first to help me put Abbey Dore and Kilpeck Priory in context for a video I never made. Maybe this will take me full circle! Image
For now I've done Cardiff Blackfriars

... and Cardiff Greyfriars. and yeesh. yes I will do the mendicants in the Principality. there's not many.

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11 Sep 20
Scanning these to scale took me all afternoon and making this took me all evening but BATTLEFLEET ENGLISH GOTHIC IS LAUNCHED!!!

(all English and Welsh medieval cathedrals from Harvey Cathedrals 1974, with Coventry, Old St Paul's London and Beverley added)
those in lower case were not medieval diocesan churches but were upgraded and are in Harvey and I scanned them so there they are. Carlisle and Oxford lost their naves so are much shorter than they were built, and the naves of Bristol and Southwark were only replaced in the 19thc
and Winchester had a west block until the 14thc that made it that bit longer and deserving of the commanding vessel of the English fleet
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4 Sep 20
The jubé (choir screen) of Rheims Cathedral, built 1417, demolished 1744. It survived longer than most cathedral screens in Catholic countries because it contained a throne platform for the coronation rite of the French monarch.
Yes! It was in the 2nd bay of the nave! The high altar was kept in the same position as the Carolingian church. What we think of as the architectural choir was a second choir that was largely used for episcopal councils under the archbishop of Rheims, with his throne in the apse
Coronations at Rheims continued to be a "bit of a do" into the Early Modern period (Louis XIV, 1654; Louis XV, 1722). The medieval jubé is under there somewhere
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