Some fools think the Oxbridge is the rootstock of the English education system.
Of course they are wrong. The world's largest monastery is that place. St Paul's Jarrow is part of that monastery. Founded in 681 dedicated 4 years later. The tower and chancel are original. Inside that little circle, and diabolically photographed, is the oldest stained glass in Europe, made by craftsmen imported by Benedict Biscop, the funder of the church.

At dawn this morning, the beauty that is the single celled Norman church of St Andrew's, Winterborne Tomson. Never locked, the C15th windows allow morning light to crawl in across the pews.

Back to the Rings. Towards the Drovers

St Mary's Upavon, C12th-C13th. As blue as my chilled skin. St Mary's has a splendid late romanesque #FontsOnFriday with a beautiful annunciation, Gabriel, Mary and her lilly.

@TheMinster1 has its own treasures, in particular the chained library, now located in the old Treasury. Founded in 1686, it is one of four extant in the kingdom. It's got all sorts up their like this gorgeous encaustic #tile from the C13th/c14th.

A couple of Regency shop fronts deep in beige painted cloaks. #AdoorableThursday Chelsea. The Mall is utterly heaving, already 4/10 deep all the way down.

United Reformed Church, East Cliff, of 1879, by Kemp Welch and Pinder, in what can only be described as Romanesque-cum-Cinquecento style. #DorsetDay Railway fascism, Bournemouth Station #DorsetDay

Another wandering thread. Today being Palm Sunday, it started with a procession. But go North middle aged man. So to Walford. Next to the early C16th bridge over the River Allen is the old Walford Mill am 1800 rebuild of a C16th original.

Bit of a thread. Car had to go to the garage, but fear it's the last rites. So went for a bimble, it was supposed to be for an hour, that was at 9.30. So here's the illustrated, annotated version.
An unusual turnstile footpath gate, about 1850, by Charles Barry (pére). The Lady Wimborne railway bridge, by Sir Charles Barry of 1852, it used to carry the old Somerset an Dorset line, and Lady Wimborne wanted something impressive as it crossed the Canford estate, bought by her father-in-law, the Merthyr ironmaster Sir John Guest.