ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rather crisp McDowall Steven And Co GR postbox for #PostboxSaturday 091
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Extraordinary building, towering over its neighbours. Here’s the inside. 0163
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The old Dean keeping an eye on the place #JohnDonne #StPaulsCathedral #London 031
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Glass by Henry Haig in Clifton Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul #StainedGlassSunday 0104
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026All Saints, Clifton #StainedGlassSunday #ActuallyPaintedFiberglass 170
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Tympanum, St Cecilia, Cologne. Late C12, in limestone reused from an antique Roman building. Now inside the church; a cast is in its place above the north door. #TympanumTuesday More in Alt [ my 📷 ] 043
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026‘Thus passes worldly glory’ Two boys blowing bubbles. Cologne c1530. #StainedGlassSunday #MuseumSchnütgen ( my 📷 ) 110
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Font in the Long Gallery at Parham House, Sussex #FontsOnFriday 041
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Namur blue limestone font (c. 1200) from the Meuse region #FontsOnFriday (details in Alt) 071
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026No more will HSBC denizens be able to mock Barclays next door as ‘the bungalow’ 011
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026A Wild Man for #WoodensDay See that his leg is gripped by a fierce claw. The rest of his attacker was lost when he was removed from a choir stall, as were his hands. No wonder he’s wild. Late C14. 041
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A glimpse of P G Wodehouse using a continuous paper roll in his typewriter 30 years before Kerouac 56722
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The cat just has to learn to say ‘Please dispense my food’ in Chinese 070
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Font at St Etheldreda’s church, in Ely Place, London. What date would you say the basin is? There’s a later font in the upper chapel itself. Perhaps this at the chapel door has been used as a stoup? 021
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Ah, where is that? I've seen a similar one at St Peter's Harborne, in memory of Freda Strawbridge, seventeen-year-old pillion rider on a motorcycle killed with two others in a collision on the Wolverhampton Road in 1936. 121
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The temptation of Christ, with an alarmingly devilish Devil, and further tests and temptations in the background, for #StainedGlassSunday Cologne C16, Schnütgen Museum my 📷 071
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Yes, that’s an incarnation of the Thatched Barn in the background 010
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026St Vitus being boiled in cauldron of oil - for today’s #London feeling (Swabia, Late C15, Museum Schnütgen) #WoodensDay 052
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Very sensible, no doubt, not to plant a new “Hardy” tree amidst the gravestones in St Pancras Old Churchyard when the original fell in 2022 (rather in better growing conditions nearby). But also rather prosaic not to. 1114
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026St Mary Abchurch, for #FontsOnFriday with stacking plastic chairs. Font by William Kempster, brother of Christopher, mason for the church’s rebuilding by Wren. You can’t have too many Christophers. Font cover with the gospel writers by William Emmett. Its counterweight in the vestry. #London 161
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Inside the modest front door of Shaw’s Corner - George Bernard Shaw’s house in Hertfordshire - with a Morris and Company ‘Peacock and Dragon’ woolen curtain to keep out draughts. #AdoorableThursday 082
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 14/03/2026In contrast, the Romanesque font at St Aposteln, Cologne, is not going to be floating aloft any time soon. #FontsNotOnFriday #FontsOnFriday 0112
ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The extraordinary Johannes XXIII church in Cologne (1968) designed by sculptor Josef Rikus with architect Heinz Buchmann. #brutalism #concrete 094
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