Philip CharlesWeaver @Weaverp293

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Philip CharlesWeaver @Weaverp293

9 years ago

@PosyHill1 @LedburyParish superb!

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9 years ago

@PosyHill1 @LedburyParish Great! That's why I got in close!. The details of their clothing and how it's fixed is fascinating. Best sculpture of a hat I know!

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9 years ago

Small wooden sculpture of Dan, Dr George Sinclair's bulldog, is on the right bank of the Wye opposite A @HFDCathedral Sinclair was organist at Hereford and a friend of Elgar's who wrote variation XI of the Enigma Variations about him. (In it Dan's bark can be heard!)

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9 years ago

The five daughters of Edward and Elizabeth Skinner, @LedburyParish Church, He was a wool merchant, financier and philanthropist of Ledbury.

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9 years ago

@TideLineArt I can see adiuto - could be part of the legend POSUI DEUM ADIUTOREM MEUM (I can with God's help) a common one from Med times through 17thC. I'm sure others can do better!

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9 years ago

@TideLineArt tourmaline?

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9 years ago

Thomas Traherne liked - "The sweetness of Repose, the Delightfull vicissitudes of Night and Day, the Early Sweetness and Spring of the Morning, the Perfume and Beauty in the cool of the Evening." (Centuries 2.9.) Glass in @HFDCathedral Traherne website - thomastraherneassociation.org

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9 years ago

Snow Drops on Dog Hill, Ledbury.

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9 years ago

@theowlthehare @frieze_magazine Oh merz! This is terrible. Let's have a whip-round

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9 years ago

@LedburyParish The post communion prayer for Epiphany is particularly lovely - "Lord God, the bright splendour whom the nations seek, may we, who with the wise men, have been drawn by your light, discern the glory of your presence in your son, the word made flesh, Jesus Christ our lord. Amen."

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Philip CharlesWeaver @Weaverp293

9 years ago

Thomas Bevan blacksmith of the Woodseves, Eardisley, Herefordshire is buried below this rhyme and commendation. There's a slightly different version at Ledbury, and elsewhere. Early 19th centiry

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9 years ago

@JWNairn wonderful! And the birds on the candle brackets are fun too, although obviously not but the Hfds Sculptors

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9 years ago

@SarahLaseke What a great drawing.

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9 years ago

@bwthornton can you see what the texts say?

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Philip CharlesWeaver @Weaverp293

9 years ago

Catch a falling star: the Geminid meteor shower os due tonight. And it is St Lucy's Day - patron of light.

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9 years ago

Lovely stained glass of the Annunciation by William Morris in little Pixley Church near Ledbury, 1861.

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9 years ago

@ReggieUnthank he and the kangaroo are trying to get into a skep - a beehive (see the bees crawling over it)

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Philip CharlesWeaver @Weaverp293

9 years ago

@Baxter47Ron there are more and more semi conversions like this in Herefordshire too, All Saints, Hereford one of the first. Sellack is a recent one.

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Philip CharlesWeaver @Weaverp293

9 years ago

@cbnewham @Salcathguide @SallyBadham @ChurchMonuments @EngChurchPics @johnevigar ... and the one on the left might be his brother St James, because of the staff (pilgrims) and hat - traveller. The book would be his NT writings. Only guesses! Good luck

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9 years ago

@cbnewham @Salcathguide @SallyBadham @ChurchMonuments @EngChurchPics @johnevigar the one on our right could be St John the Evangelist (the beloved disciple) as he's beardless and carries what could be a chalice and host