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Dominic John

@domjohn.bsky.social
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Lapsed academic, idler, some time medievalist. "Phlegmatic" apparently.

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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Sir Oliver Ingham, d.1344, Seneschal of Gascony, defender of Bordeaux, conqueror of (part of) the Agenais at the beginning of the 100 Years' War, lies uncomfortably on his bed of pebbles in the chancel of Holy Trinity, Ingham, Norfolk, in dappled light.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Three Quantocks Towers: Bishops Lydeard; Combe Florey; Crowcombe
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Actor David Hemmings as Louis Nolan pointing up a valley in the film "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Pavement in front of Becket's shrine in the extended, post-fire east end of Canterbury Cathedral. Astrological/monthly labour roundels clearly reordered and incomplete after being moved post fire. But the Opus Sectile? Cosmati as recently suggested? Hmm. Doesn't look right. Must read Warwick Rodwell
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Moon and Venus, just now on my phone, Norwich
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It's the Feast of St Nicholas tomorrow, an important holiday in many parts of Europe. Here is St Nicholas in late 11thC frescoes in the great Carolingian monastery at Novalesa, high in the Cottian Alps near the Mont Cenis pass above Susa, calming the waters and with St Eldradus, an early Abbot.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Ayshford Chapel, a private chapel built in the 15thC next to the manor house, Ayshford Court, in mid-Devon, near Tiverton. @friendlesschurches.bsky.social
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In beautiful Ayshford Chapel, Devon.
A vase with dead hydrangeas and a bunch of dead roses on a church table in front of a salmon-pink wall.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Egg and dart, dentils, in the cloister at San Lorenzo fuori le mura, Rome
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Light and shade in Norwich Cathedral cloister
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Norwich Cathedral cloister east walk, looking north towards the Prior's Door
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Walpole St Peter, Norfolk
Looking west down the arcaded nave of a large late-medieval parish church with sunlight streaming through the south aisle windows.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Musical angels in the east window at Shelton, Norfolk
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Annunciation in the East Window at Shelton, Norfolk. Early 16thC. #NorfolkChurches #StainedGlassSunday
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
St Margaret's, Paston. The Pastons lived next door, but lavished more patronage on Bromholm Priory, a mile down the road, than on St Margaret's. It's quite a modest, aisle-less building, mostly C14, though the nave is wide (recalling Elsing, also early C14) covered by a mesmeric scissor-braced roof
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Pensive at Paston church this morning
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
A freezing, misty morning on the sea wall at Walcott, Norfolk, sea merging with sky, shades of grey.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
A scruffy Turnstone on the sea wall at Walcott, Norfolk, this morning
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
A tiny sliver of temperate rainforest along Danes Brook at Slade Bridge on Exmoor #TemperateRainforest #Exmoor
Two tree trunks with prominent roots on a steep slope covered in moss and lichensA twisted tree trunk leans out over a fast-flowing moorland stream
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Church house, Crowcombe, Somerset. Early 16th century
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Raddington, Somerset. One of the more remote churches I've visited. In the Brendon Hills near Exmoor. Unusually for the area, the tower had been recently rendered.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Tash Rabat, Kyrgyzstan. Conventionally held to be a 15th century caravanserai. Located above 3000 metres in the Tian Shan mountains near the Torugart Pass leading down to the Tarim Basin and Kashgar on one of the routes of the Silk Road.
Tash Rabat,a stone rubble built building with a large entrance arch and a low dome, in a snowy mountain landscape.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Listening to Coltrane. Impressions. Transcendental.
Portrait photo of John Coltrane
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