Ian Ebbage @ianebbage1
History addict (originally Classics, but trying to broaden my repertoire); monsters, mosaics and myths. (Also birds, butterflies etc.) Haddingtonshire Joined October 2017-
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Fascinating and lovely wall-paintings, illustrating an episode from the Crusades, from a Templar Chapel in the west of France between Bordeaux & Angouleme.
Fascinating and lovely wall-paintings, illustrating an episode from the Crusades, from a Templar Chapel in the west of France between Bordeaux & Angouleme.
Beautifully intricate wood-carving in the 16c Spourne Parclose in Ss Peter & Paul in #Lavenham, Suffolk #Woodensday
The keep of #Warkworth Castle in #Northumberland, stronghold of the Percy family. This keep was added to the castle in 14c by Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (who features in Shakespeare's History Plays!). #WindowsOnWednesday
#LowTideTuesday at the mouth of the River Coquet in Amble Harbour #Northumberland
One of the "Cedars of God" at Bsharri in Lebanon, one of the few remaining areas of the ancient forests of 'Cedrus libani' and important for their conservation. #ThinkTrunkTuesday
A detail of the "Rams' Heads Mosaic" from a villa in Daphne (Antioch on the Orontes) (late 5/early 6 c). The ram's head was a symbol of royalty in Sasanian culture, which suggests Persian influence in this work. #MosaicMonday (Now in Worcester Art Museum, Ma.)
Church of Santa Maria dell'Anima🌹 #CeilingsOnSunday
Another good book find this week #CeilingsOnSunday (& #WallpaintingWednesday)
Justice depicted in the 16c Muses' Ceiling in #CrathesCastle @N_T_S "Justice is a virtue, qukilk ane doth frame All things in this lyff with ane Just ballance Holding a sworde to execute the same That no wrang bot right may have affiance." #CeilingsOnSunday
The grant of a charter by Henry VI in 1464 to develop #Alnwick's commercial facilities, enabled the townspeople to rebuild St Michael's, which is now regarded as one of the finest Perpendicular churches in the North #Northumberland #SteepleSaturday
Edinburgh's wonderful network of routes for walkers and cyclists. This sign is near the top of the Innocent Railway Tunnel. #FingerpostFriday @FingerpostFri (Spot the graffito!)
Early-Gothic fresco (c1200) in the choir of the impressive late-Romanesque St Michael's Basilica in the Bavarian village of Altenstadt #FrescoFriday
The skylight in the Hall in #WintonCastle giving a view of the chimneys, "the outstanding feature of Winton ... alternately wrought in convolutions & in flutes, the latter enriched with a Renaissance rendering of the Gothic crocket." (Canmore) #WindowsOnWednesday #EastLothian
A sad tale at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome #1 Rosa Bathurst drowned in 1824 aged 16 when her horse startled on the banks of the swollen river Tiber Her father Benjamin mysteriously disappeared “on a special mission to Vienna” in 1809 🕵🏻♂️ Sculpture by Richard Westmacott III
A visit to the Gosford Pleasure Grounds #EastLothian for #ThinkTrunkTuesday this week
#TidesOutTuesday on the beach in the charming fishing port of #Eyemouth looking towards Hairy Ness #Berwickshire
"Misfortune soothed by Wisdom" in the tombstone for the #Edinburgh Advocate Andrew Skene (1784?-1835), who became Solicitor General for Scotland: impressive sculpture by Patric Park 1835-36: New Calton Burial Ground #MementoMoriMonday #MonumentMonday
From #pharosFriday to #mosaicMonday ... the lighthouse in #AncientAlexandria as imagined by the craftsman who made the 16c mosaics in #SanMarcoVenice telling the story of the travels of St Mark & his arrival in that city.
From #pharosFriday to #mosaicMonday ... the lighthouse in #AncientAlexandria as imagined by the craftsman who made the 16c mosaics in #SanMarcoVenice telling the story of the travels of St Mark & his arrival in that city. https://t.co/mDdZlkXBqQ
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Mouse doesn't know this castle but this C14 keep has distinctly late C15 onwards windows. Mouse wonders if these were updated later on TTM🐭 #WindowsOnWednesday
The keep of #Warkworth Castle in #Northumberland, stronghold of the Percy family. This keep was added to the castle in 14c by Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (who features in Shakespeare's History Plays!). #WindowsOnWednesday
@ianebbage1 The king is almost wounded to the death; And, in the fortune of my lord your son, Prince Harry slain outright.
Today is May Day, the 1st of May, International Workers Day and the feast of St Joseph the Worker. Here he is in glass of 1955 by Joseph Nuttgens at Balsham, Cambridgeshire.
St Michael & All Angels Church, Knights Enham, Andover #WindowsOnWednesday
For #wallsonwednesday a troubling sight as I left the beer festival at Little Bentley church - looks a bit of a botched job to me 🧱🙄
The great west window of the refectory at Dunfermline Abbey. @welovehistory image & reconstruction mock-up. #DunfermlineAbbey #ScottishChurches #HistoryRebuilt
#Beltane Just a few hundred yards up the road from here, on what is now the golf course, is the site of a strange Beltane ritual. There was some surprise that ‘staunch Presbyterians’ participated. @BNArchive
May is the time for some jousting.... #MedievalCalendar BnF MS Latin 1173; Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Heures de Charles d'Angoulême); 15th century; f.3r @GallicaBnF
May is the for the king to go hawking. #medievalcalendar Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 939; Astrological and ecclesiastical calendar in six pieces; 14th century; England; section 2ar @BDLSS
#Woodensday in the church of St Peter & St Paul, Kings Sutton. Pews 1841-2 with carved poppy heads. (The architect responsible for re-pewing was D G Squirhill of Leamington, as recorded on a wooden tablet in the south aisle). Bonus minimalist lectern.
From Saffron Walden #WindowsOnWednesday
@TheHistoryMouse Then you’ve not been paying attention🤣 x.com/PosyHill1/stat…
#SteepleSaturday Seen some splendid steeples this year, the c1500 timber-framed stunner at St Mary’s, Upleadon, Glosc. has to be one of my favourites.
Vertical nogging. How cool is that. Mouse has never seen the like TTM🐭
✨St Mary's Church, Upleadon✨ The distinctive timbered tower at St Mary’s church dates back to Tudor times. In a rare example of this type of tower, the wooden uprights rise up from the foundations and are inlaid with red brick. #SpotlightChurch
Bede writing in the margin BnF MS Latin 4935; 1. Anonymi chronicon à mundi creatione ad annum 1220, 2.° Anonymi chronicon summorum Pontificum à sancto Petro ad Innocentium IV, 3.° Provinciale Romanae Ecclesiae; 14th century; f.50v @GallicaBnF
You can watch May Morning live on the Choir's Facebook channel or on YouTube at youtube.com/live/OtPALBxRu… tomorrow morning from just before 6am, and available afterwards for those who'll still be asleep as we are at the top of the tower!
The cherry trees bend over and are shedding On the old road where all that passed are dead, Their petals, strewing the grass as for a wedding This early May morn when there is none to wed. The Cherry Trees Cherry tree planted in All Saints' Steep by the Edward Thomas Fellowship
#WindowsOnWednesday In the final church in our ramble following the Wallop Brook, @todbooklady and I met this 1938 lamb carried by St Cuthbert. It seemed to me that designer Miss V M Barnewall had presented us with a lamb with a rather saucy glance! St Andrew's, Nether Wallop.