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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Norman doorway with Epiphany chalking and dog bowl, St. Michael and All Angels, Great Tew #AdoorableThursday
A decorated Norman doorway at Great Tew church. The door stand slightly ajar.
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Branch line
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rather crisp McDowall Steven And Co GR postbox for #PostboxSaturday
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ash dash
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Extraordinary building, towering over its neighbours. Here’s the inside.
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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today’s new post: Bury St Edmunds – 1952 and 2026, including this wonderful 1930s direction sign at alondoninheritance.com
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The old Dean keeping an eye on the place #JohnDonne #StPaulsCathedral #London
The shrouded effigy of John Donne in St Paul’s Cathedral in London 
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
St Benedict Biscop makes six journeys to Rome. Glass by Tom Denny, 2005 in the Bede Chapel of Sunderland Minster. #StainedGlassSunday #SundayStainedGlass
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Glass by Henry Haig in Clifton Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul #StainedGlassSunday
Glass shapes from Britain, Germany and France set in epoxy resin in Clifton’s Roman Catholic cathedral. Glass shapes from Britain, Germany and France set in epoxy resin in Clifton’s Roman Catholic cathedral.
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All Saints, Clifton #StainedGlassSunday #ActuallyPaintedFiberglass
John Piper windows at All Saints church, Clifton
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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Long Street Methodist church in Middleton. #Manchester Open for Heritage Open Days. Designed by Edgar Wood who pioneered art nouveau in the 1880s, Arts and Crafts in the 1890s and art deco in the early 1900s. In the care of Greater Manchester Building Preservation Trust #Architecture
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tympanum, 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 📷 ]
Cecilia, is crowned by an angel descending from the clouds. Her husband Valerianus and his brother Tiburtius, who were martyred with her, express their devotion. Formerly with polychromy inscription: 'VOS QUI SPECTATIS HEC PREMIA VRIGINITATIS/ EXPECTATE PARI PARITER VIRVTE BEARI'.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tympanum, 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 📷 ]
Cecilia, is crowned by an angel descending from the clouds. Her husband Valerianus and his brother Tiburtius, who were martyred with her, express their devotion. Formerly with polychromy inscription: 'VOS QUI SPECTATIS HEC PREMIA VRIGINITATIS/ EXPECTATE PARI PARITER VIRVTE BEARI'.
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Clever saucers for the cups to catch spillages
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They seem younger and younger
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Brixton for #SteepleSunday
The former Railway Hotel in Brixton and a bronze commuter sculpture by Kevin Atherton.
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
‘Practically’
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
City Museum of Art in Matsumoto, birthplace of Yayoi Kusama 

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Wonderful book. Little happens but everything changes
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Up
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Caught trying to use an Off Peak Dominican indulgence during Lent
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
They were wonderful. And the startled and delighted shrieks of children sprayed by the elephant..
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ah - labelled and hidden by Bsky as ‘Suggestive’ : (
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
‘Thus passes worldly glory’ Two boys blowing bubbles. Cologne c1530. #StainedGlassSunday #MuseumSchnütgen ( my 📷 )
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And what a catalogue he has
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Font in the Long Gallery at Parham House, Sussex #FontsOnFriday
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Namur blue limestone font (c. 1200) from the Meuse region #FontsOnFriday (details in Alt)
Excavated in 1837 near St Kolumba, Cologne, and now in the Cäcilienkirche. Plinth isn't original, and it would have had a column under each of its corner heads.
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
So slow worm babies are rather cute
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
No more will HSBC denizens be able to mock Barclays next door as ‘the bungalow’
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chelsea : In Bloom #AdoorableThursday
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#AdoorableThursday #Brighton
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
No more will HSBC denizens be able to mock Barclays next door as ‘the bungalow’
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Load not to exceed 10 cwts #bicycle
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A 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.
A wild man carved in oak in the collection of the Museum Schnütgen. Late C14. Circle of the Parler workshop.
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Open to swallows too
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Ha! (that cover image is 2 Temple Place?)
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
So slow worm babies are rather cute
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Of course it is : ) and stuff that did happen to them generously embroidered. But the typewriter tale at least made it through the filters of biographies such as McCrum’s.
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The first?
Still from Georges Méliès’s Le Voyage dans la Lune
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A glimpse of P G Wodehouse using a continuous paper roll in his typewriter 30 years before Kerouac
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Tortoise for #YorkshireDay (Jake Thackray b Leeds 1938) youtu.be/syMhxz3xzSc
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YouTube video by Jake Thackray Unseen
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Mid-C14 lead font, St Peter, Parham, Sussex. Its thin circular bowl is decorated by lettering, with the inscription ‘IHS Nazar’ repeated vertically and horizontally, enclosing the arms of Andrew Peverel, knight of the shire in 1351, who presumably gave it. “Very rare”: Nairn/Pevsner #FontsOnFriday
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Dorstone cheese
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Spy who came in from the Cold Frame
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The cat just has to learn to say ‘Please dispense my food’ in Chinese
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Font 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?
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