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Gawain Towler
@Towler
"A renowned Westminster comms pro", "Expertly tailored and magnificently eccentric" "simultaneously energetic and somewhat freewheeling" - Guardian
Dec 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
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. ImageImageImage 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. ImageImage
Dec 12, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
At dawn this morning, the beauty that is the single celled Norman church of St Andrew's, Winterborne Tomson. Image Never locked, the C15th windows allow morning light to crawl in across the pews. Image
Dec 11, 2022 • 49 tweets • 23 min read
Back to the Rings. Towards the Drovers
Dec 10, 2022 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
St Mary's Upavon, C12th-C13th. As blue as my chilled skin. Image St Mary's has a splendid late romanesque #FontsOnFriday with a beautiful annunciation, Gabriel, Mary and her lilly. ImageImageImage
Jun 3, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@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.
Jun 2, 2022 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
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.
Jun 1, 2022 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
United Reformed Church, East Cliff, of 1879, by Kemp Welch and Pinder, in what can only be described as Romanesque-cum-Cinquecento style. #DorsetDay Image Railway fascism, Bournemouth Station #DorsetDay Image
Apr 10, 2022 • 51 tweets • 23 min read
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.
Apr 9, 2022 • 52 tweets • 15 min read
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). Image 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. ImageImage