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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 5h

The twelfth-century masonry keep of Clitheroe Castle is currently being unsheathed from its scaffold wrap after restoration work began in December last year, in case you are wondering about the current status of Clitheroe Castle's twelfth-century masonry keep

View west up Castle Street towards the keep

zoom view showing the lime mortar repointing

SW view from bailey, with hoardings sign for the conservation contractors, Halestone

View from NW approach to bailey, showing winch on the scaffolding

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 24/09/2026

Been thinking about this since I was at Burghley House last month. N front (1587), featuring the Bow Room on 1st floor (decorated 1698) above the ground entrance hall (latter not open to public). The ceiling inside, right, it's so high that it means the 3rd storey windows aren't open to rooms?

Burghley House, nr. Stamford (Lincolnshire), as built under William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-98), north front, dated on the parapet 1587

Bow Room, looking NE towards the bay, on 1st floor over N porch in centre of N wing, painted by Louis Laguerre in 1697 for John, 5th Earl Exeter (1648-1700)
(sorry the windows blew out this photo a bit. it is the N side so it's very dark here compared to the outside. imagine how cold it got for dinner parties)

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 03/09/2026

listened to this since it's all there. it's exactly what you'd expect for a Radio 4 drama. yes "the old ways" are a bit of a plot point ("don't you remember the cakes for Eostre? the winter sacrifice?"), but it tells an imagined story in 45 minutes about the making of Bayeux Tapestry. it's fine.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 31/08/2026

Took a detour to Bourne Abbey on the way home the other week just to get a south aspect picture for my Pinchbeck fen map project. Of course the E arm is gone, and the site of the crossing replaced by a post-Dissolution banged-together chancel.

Detail of Bourne Abbey from the c.1430 Pinchbeck fen map. the building has a pair of western towers with steeples, an aisled nave, a projecting transept that looks like it has E and W aisles with a crossing lantern or flèche and then a fully aisled east arm with a apparently flat termination.

Bourne Abbey from S. The gabled feature at the end of the nave aisle is probably a chapel on the W side of the transept (which has been demolished and replaced by the chancel)

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 28/08/2026

Genuine gargoyle giving good gargle-gargling, true to its name. Yesterday at Bymhill, Staffordshire It's part of the old church's major (and really rather fancy) Victorian rebuilding under G.E. Street 1856-9, financed in great part by George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl Bradford, whose son was rector here.

Panther-like sculpture protruding from parapet below the space between nave and aisle room, with water flowing from the valley gutter through its mouth. To the left is a large plate-tracery window with sculpture of the Three Magi.

View from below showing open space in the sculpture's head.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 25/08/2026

Big surprise at the little church of St Mary, Great Eversden, just SW of Cambridge, which has a laconic entry in the 2014 Buildings of England. A Christ in Judgement, only uncovered in 2017!

Wall painting of the Doom (Christ in Judgement) under the triangular shape of the nave principal roof truss. The space below the purlins has been destroyed. Christ is seen with a red robe, largely just the units of red ochre, with His hand raised to His right and the side wound pouring blood. To angels can be clearly seen to the left (the elect). There is a yellow mass to the right which early descriptions described as featuring a caldron and demons, but these may be below the purlin and have been destroyed.

Entry for Great Eversden from The Buildings of England Cambridgeshire, Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner, Yale UP 2014, p.554.

The text for the church reads:
ST MARY. Rebuilt after a lightning strike in 1466. W tower with diagonal buttresses, battlements and a spike. The stair-turret has a pretty quatrefoil opening in a circle. This and the bell-openings seem to be C14, reused. The rest all Perp. No aisles. N porch humble and cottagey, dated 1636. - STALLS. Two, with misericords: leaves, and a shield (Beauchamp). - PULPIT. Jacobean.

Also entries for 1845 congregational chapel, a late medieval aisled barn and jettied house at Church Farm, and Manor Farm, a 17thc H-plan house.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 17/08/2026

rough joggled masonry fireplace lintel in the Old Kitchen of the former collegiate premises of what is now the Cathedral church of Manchester. Always enjoy a joggle.

centre of the fireplace lintel made of masonry units that have a projection on one side and a notch on the other to prevent them slipping down.

The wooden lintel underneath is carved with "quod tuum tene" (hold what is yours), the motto of Humphrey Chetham, whose executors acquired the former collegiate premises to become a Bluecoat School in 1654-8.

Wider view of north wall of former kitchen with fireplace over are benefaction and endowment boards formerly in the great hall, and timber rack, again with the Chetham motto, with rods for spit roasting. Behind these is a shallow reliving segmental arch in the masonry.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 27/07/2026

something that surprises me here is that the cuts are approved by the Astronomer Royal, Michele Dougherty, as Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, a council of UKRI. I remember Michele from way back on The Sky At Night (like, 20 years ago) being a great communicator.

Prof Michele Dougherty, executive chair of the science and technology
branch of UKRI, told the BBC: "After listening to our community we have protected core discovery research. However, the situation does require some tough, but necessary, decisions. These are never easy choices, but we have made what we feel are the right decisions to bring... a sustainable financial position by 2029/30."

quote from https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/jodrell-bank-observatory-facing-closure-34359164

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 27/07/2026

Two new areas /marked/ as 3D coverage have appeared on G Earth today, one very large reaching west of Norwich (encompassing Great Yarmouth that's already in) and between existing Worcester and Hereford. HOWEVER: zoom in and there's nothing new. But presumably soon?

G-Earth coverage for Norfolk showing c.50x40 KM of area with Norwich just NW of centre

Area around Worcester and Hereford that would encompass very interesting monastic sites of Tewkesbury, Evesham Pershore and the Malverns

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 26/07/2026

St Peter, Barton-Upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. The surviving tower and baptistery block of rendered rubble with sandstone dressing which pre-date (... obviously) the Early Norman belfry of coursed limestone. Likely built as a cemetery chapel inside the manorial enclosure c. 1010-5.

Barton-Upon-Humber, St Peter, from SW. The bapistery is gabled with two circular windows - the trace of an arch is a doorway that was knocked through in 1858 and blocked again in 1869-70. The tower has a doorway with a semi-circular arch resting on imposts, and a double opening of similar form on the first storey. The stories are articulated by sandstone dressings, pilaster strips articulating first storey with round arches and second with triangular. The original belfry windows are also double triangular openings. The Early Norman Romanesque belfry has coursed limestone and the W bell opening has been replaced with simple Decorated style tracery.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 23/07/2026

bit weird isn't it when do the generic search engine thing for Robert Hooke, at top you get an AI slop image of him with a clearly 19thc or later compound microscope, entirely unlike that which he pioneered. Oh yeah also a desk lamp as well as a candle. Great stuff. Internet's doing very well

top of Google Results for Robert Hooke, with AI slop image as top result

full AI slop image of "Robert Hooke" with a developed compound microscope and desk lamp with bulb

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 23/07/2026

Ahead of a great volume measurement ranking of the English cathedrals, I've been giving my surrogate of Old St Paul's a jolly good clean: rebaking the textures, fixing holes and glitches, and getting it down from 387k verts to about 66k. And tiny things like having John of Gaunt's chapel on N side.

London Cathedral (Old St Paul's), based on a wood and card model made by John B. Thorpe c.1908 and held by the Museum of London, photogrammetry by artfletch 2019. Viewed from the SE

Old St Paul's, from the NE. This side of the building is not in the Thorpe model so I made it a few years ago by mirroring the other side. I've added the tiny detail of a chapel in the 4th bay from the W after the transept aisle (8th bay from the E) which was the site of John of Gaunt's chantry chapel (not to be confused with his monument with Blanche of Lancaster, in arcade bay 6 from E N of the high altar)

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

V happy this is now out in the world. TLDR: there’s a new big bit of Chester Castle which still survives! Inner Gatehouse was thought entirely demolished, but a pier for the drawbridge remains, deep in the foundations of a later building. www.chester.ac.uk/about/news/a... New gatehouse recon ⬇️

Reconstruction of the Inner Ward at Chester Castle by me and Martin Moss of Dextra Visual. The large gatehouse on the left was demolished in the 19th century, but a pier of its drawbridge has recently been identified.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 15/07/2026

Anyway, one of the best things about the feast of the translation of St Swithun in 971 was it made BlueSky feel like 2014 twitter. Everyone watching the same thing, having a funny take, genuinely good stuff

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 15/07/2026

Monument to archaeologist Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, within excavation of the Old Minster at Winchester she worked on from 1964. It is just S of site of the shrine of St Swithun in the E arm of 992/4, demolished under Bishop Wakelin 1093-4. Note her birthday was his feast: 15 July (pics taken last Sept)

Black polished stone with inset marble disc and cross at head, laid flat on grass, surrounded by modern brick marking out robbed foundations of Winchester Old Minster.

Text: "Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle
15th July 1941
16 January 210
Archaeologist
Excavator of Old Minster
Wife of
Martin Biddle

Parents of Signe & Solvej"

Flowers have been placed on the grave

View of Winchester Cathedral from the NW, with the Romanesque transepts built in the 1080s and the nave as remodelled toward the end of the 14th century.

The square set out centre in the centre is the platform for the site of St Swithun's shrine, from when the new E arm of the Old Minster was dedicated 992x4 to 15 July 1093 when his body was removed to the new Cathedral. Birthe's monument is just visible below and right of the fourth nave buttress from the east.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 12/07/2026

losing my mind here. this is from a planning application of 2023. The officer thinks "MDCCCC" means that this bank building dates from 1800

Site description text. The parts I have highlighted are

"as a structure dating from the very early C19th (decorative stonework plaque upon the front elevation indicates 1800 precisely"

and

"large, sculpted stone blazon with 'ANNO DOMINI MDCCCC'"

full elevation of 8 Sheep Market, via @theoldbuilding on instagram, showing the MDCCCC in the gable.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 08/07/2026

In a continuing novel experiment of "writing things and putting them on a webpage", last week I visited the exciting town of Spalding, Lincolnshire and have brought together all my thoughts on one of my favourite missing pages of English architecture. stainedglassattitudes.com/2026/07/08/i...

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In search of Spalding Priory

An investigation into the site of the 38th richest monastery in England, which is almost entirely forgotten

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 30/06/2026

if anyone is just learning about Jonathan Jones here's his review of the V&A's Opus Anglicanum where he criticised the exhibition for being "boring" because it had the vestments in glass cases rather than on bishops in a cathedral. Also the title was in Latin. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Opus Anglicanum review – beautiful medieval embroidery loses its thread

The medieval craftspeople of England were in demand all over Europe for their fabulous embroidery, which dressed up popes and princes. But this exhibition conspires to turn their achievements into a b...

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 30/06/2026

Finally got hold of a model of the one English cathedral I was missing in the photogrammetry collection I've been building for the last six years! Along with working out a seemingly robust volume-measuring method, I should now be able to present a ranking of them in size order. don't wait up tho

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 28/06/2026

saw a Sonic the Hedgehog plush toy on the hard shoulder of the southbound M6 between Forton Services and J32 today. Makes you think. about hedgehogs.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 28/06/2026

The titular saint of St Mary Magdalene, Newark, high up in the gable of the 1487-1500 rebuild of the superstructure of the chancel and its aisles

Mary Magdalene stone sculpture, identifiable by long flowing hair and ointment jar (from conflation with gospel accounts of women drying and annointing Jesus' feet with their hair). She is is in a vaulted niche that stands over the high gable of the E window, fronted by two cusped arches with four cusped panels above, and crockets around the base of the niche's "roof".

Wide view of E front. The pair of buttresses flanking the E window, and with them, the plinth, date from the first half of the 14thc, but everything else is 1487-1500.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 28/06/2026

oh no, not again, they are my favourite feature of the building. I think that this should be repairable with epoxy adhesives (the hammerblow on the other in 2020 as I understand made so many fractures smaller than the engravings themselves, it was basically impossible to reassemble the lower half)

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 27/06/2026

Exciting stuff: the new toilet/café block at St Mary Magdalene, Newark, Nottinghamshire. Best bit is the little clerestory so you can see the stained glass from inside the cubicles.

Newark Church, unit at W end of S nave aisle. serving hatch to café right, doors to three toilets (two unisex, one accessible) on right. Arched-out metal light fittings over the the cubicles.

View of cubicle entrances and light fittings looking east

Inside accessible cubicle showing upper window to exterior space

From under the tower, looking SW to the main café serving window. The woodwork panelling has a cross patterning in the parapet.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 19/06/2026

Blindingly obvious Somerset location in the new He-Man movie, Masters of the Universe. Hopefully Amazon-MGM Studios gave the Cathedral plenty of money for this

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 10/06/2026

And today, on the centenary of Gaudí's death (10 June 1926), the central tower is to be inaugurated (it was actually topped out on 20 Feb)

La Sagrada Família from the NW (liturgical south, facing the Nativity Facade), topped out with the cross with arms in cardinal directions. The major tower crane remains, anchored to its structure, and one to the right)

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 06/06/2026

found this in old papers: pretty sure it was from 2009 (£15 was a lot of money in those days!) such a ridiculous policy to enforce till 2019. especially walking round the cathedral in a sash so you don't get yelled at thing

Durham Cathedral has the following policy on photography in the Cathedral and precincts
Cathedral
Visitors are not permitted to photograph in the Cathedral.
This includes use of still, digital and video cameras and mobile telephones. The Cathedral is primarily a place of worship and the Chapter believe that all who visit should be able to do so undisturbed by use of cameras.
However, the Chapter recognises that some educational research may require specific images of the Cathedral and artefacts associated with it. The, Monks' Dormitory (when open), and the Treasures of St Cuthbert Exhibition all sell colour-slides of artefacts and views. The Cathedral Library holds a large number of master microfilms, slides, and negatives. Copies can be ordered from the Library (open 9.00am ~ 1.00pm and 2.0pm ~ 5.00pm Monday to Friday except for Christmas, Easter and the first 2 weeks in July). Photography permits, for specific educational purposes only, may be purchased from The Chapter Office (Monday Friday 9.00am ~ 5.00pm) ог the Vergers' Vestry at the weekends. Proof of academic status may be required.
The following conditions apply.
A fee of £15.00 (including VAT) per day for each permit must be paid
Students will be charged £7.00 (including VAT) on production of a valid student ID Card
The permit is for a designated day only
No flash photography is permitted
Additional lighting can only be used by prior agreement
No children must be photographed
Photographers should make every effort not to include visitors or Chapter staff in their photographs unless their express permission has been sought and received
Photographers must ensure that their equipment does not impede visitor or staff access nor poses a threat to the health and safety of others in the Cathedra!
Photographers with a permit (currently a brightly coloured 'sash') should wear this at all times
Stewards, Bedesmen, Vergers are charged with ensuring that all visitors are aware of and adhere to the Chapter's policy

The Precincts
Visitors are allowed to photograph in the Cloisters
Photography is not permitted in the Monks' Dormitory, Treasures of St Cuthbert Exhibition, Cathedral Library, Building the Church or the Audio Visual Exhibition except
by special prior permission Photographers should respect the privacy of others in the precincts
Photographers must not include any children in their images without permission.
Commercial Photography and Filming
This is by prior permission only.
Images of the Cathedral, precincts and associated artefacts
These can be obtained from:
The Cathedral Bookshop
The Treasures of St Cuthbert
The Cathedral
Postcards and illustrated guide books Slides relating to the exhibits
When the Bookshop is closed, postcards and guide books are sold at the Information Desk.
CDs of the Cathedral, Stained Glass and the Precincts, each with 10 JPEG images, are on sale for £5.00.
The Cathedral Library
A large collection of master slides and photographs of buildings, artefacts and other specialist items, from which copies may be ordered. Some of the images are not held in stock and may require ordering.
Contact Details
Permits may be bought in advance and requests for all photography and filming should be made to:
Post
The Chapter Steward, The Chapter Office, The College, Durham, DH1 3EH
Tele. No.
0191 386 4266
Fax No.
0191 386 4267
email
enquiries@durhamcathedral.co.uk
The Chapter Library may be contacted on 0191 386 2489.
The Chapter of Durham Cathedral reserves the right to deny or withdraw a photography permit at any time.
General permission to photograph in the precincts may also be withdrawn at any time.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 29/05/2026

Lovely surprise to see St Walburge Preston has just got rid of its Vatican II altar platform that current custodians Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest have been ignoring since 2014.

The site of the altar platform today (29 May). Concrete substrate with trace of a sleeper wall. Some holes freshly filled in with concrete. Masonry from original altar rail, some reused in the Vatican II altar, some stored in the tower and undercroft rooms, in distance.

The altar platform from the opposite direction (liturgical south) in 2014

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 04/05/2026

Lytham Hall's main staircase plaster ceiling, attributed to Swiss-Italian stuccoist Giuseppe Cortese (house designed by Yorkshire architect John Carr and built 1757-64) has been repainted over the last few months and unveiled in the past week. Can't say I'm disappointed: I think it looks spectacular

Coved ceiling with illusionistic coffering leading up to a square enclosing a circle with Zeus/Jupiter above the clouds with an eagle, wielding His thunderbolts. The rosettes in the coffering are painted in gold-effect metallic paint, as are the swirling vine-like leaves around the roundel that intersect with a cusped encircling garland of flowers.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 24/04/2026

A different angle to the usual view of Cologne Cathedral before the 19thc completion. Made 1670-5, looking from the NW. The S tower, completed up to clerestory height with its famous medieval crane is to the right, but to the L you can see the interior of the E wall of the N tower.

Cologne Cathedral from the NW, with a range of single-story buildings in front of it, and a few other stone and timber-frame buildings. The choir with the E walls of the transepts, completed 1322, looms over them. The famous S tower with medieval crane on the roof is on the L, the N tower is just the interior of its east wall (you can see the springing of the jambs of the E-W windows)
Ink and wash on paper, by Lambert Doomer (1624–1700),
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, inv. no. 1958/2.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Final thought - if this is how they treat the best-performing REF unit of assessment at the university, nobody is safe.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 20/04/2026

never fails to amaze me how 1987 cover art for thrash band Toxik (by the stalwart Ed Repka, who painted a multitude of classic thrash covers and endures to this day) while being a bit on the nose for "ooh big business bastards waging war and murdering mother Earth", still somehow remains relevant

The cover art of "World Circus" by New York State thrash band Toxik, released Dec 1987.
A man with a quiff hair-do and a suite and tie, wearing clown-makeup, holds a detonation button and gestures towards a big top with belching cooling towers over it. In the middle ground there is a wire fence with angled parapet such as you would see around a prison camp, and a melee between armed soldiers and cavalry. jet fighters fly overhead. It is signed bottom right corner "©'87 E.REPKA"

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 19/04/2026

Wanted a model of the parish church of St Mary, Long Sutton (Lincs) so was able to find two drone passes of it that I could render. Problem is one was taken in snow so I had to change the roof colouring as well as the overall colour temp. But I think it turned alright, as an illustrative massing.

First pass, left. From a video taken at a misty dawn by Simon Everrett in April 2022.
Second pass, right. From a video taken after snow fall by Lee Wright, February 2018.

Combined model with colours of textures for the snowy pass corrected to match

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“Looking forward to what the "ai sucks ackshoeally" crowd has to say about this one.” (Replies and quotes disabled)

Bluesky dev:

Looking forward to what the "ai sucks ackshoeally" crowd has to say about this one.

Replies and quotes are turned off.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 16/04/2026

Enjoying collecting a multitude of bluesky errors as the website spends a day shitting itself inside out

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 14/04/2026

this is just a story based around a YouTube account trying to grow its numbers. is this really what Reuters should be reporting

Four thumbnails from the YouTube account mentioned in the article, mostly using AI and the usual format of somebody making a face with an arrow.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 30/03/2026

anyone else perturbed by how often "grokipedia" comes up on google searches for stuff? seems the big-G's absolutely cooked (that's bad)

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 21/03/2026

important question. how would a cathedral wear trousers.

Ely Cathedral, possible ways of wearing trousers.

A. Trousers around entire aisle level above ground.
B. Trousers around east arm.
C. Trousers around west arm.
D. Trousers around just the lower parts of the transepts.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 20/03/2026

My name's Knave - and I'm Corbel! - welcome to: **~The Amazing Digital Cathedral!~** any legs in this, you reckon. i'd need to learn how to animate armatures.

Caine from The Amazing Digital Circus but he's just got one mouchette wheel as an eye, and he's accompanied by a Romanesque Corbel. They are floating in Lincoln nave.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 17/03/2026

Since the unfortunately totally demolished Early Gothic cathedral of Arras is related to the Super Universas project by being reassigned as suffragan of Reims to Cambrai, wanted to work out where this sketch of its stunning east end I've used before is from, and I did, eventually, sorta, work it out

The destroyed cathedral of Arras. It has a galleried ambulatory with gables over, and transepts six bays long. You can see the stumpy NW tower behind. The text top right I guess says "eglise episcopal d'Arras" or something similar

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 17/03/2026

I always used to say that in the whole course of my PhD and after, I never came across a single set of medieval "classic" sedilia in what is now France. Then last week I found out about the church of Tour-en-Bessin near Bayeux. The sedilia are LEAST astonishing thing about it tbh. It's CRAZY!

Interior of the chancel of Saint Pierre, Tour-de-Bessin, early 14thc. The walls are decorated with a dado arcade with a parapet above, which are articulated as genuine sedilia at the E end. The most astonishing flex is the vaulting, the eastern cell of which opens onto a series of sub-vaults in front of the windows of the shallow 3-sided apse.
Wikicommons - ChBougui. Taken December 2023.

S side of the chancel showing the clearly articulated sedilia.
Wikicommons - Pimprenel, taken August 2024.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 03/02/2026

So following the proportions of Aachen Dom, here's the massing of the long-lost Carolingian rotunda of the Burges Burg, destroyed 1184 and replaced with a standard Romanesque basilica. It is basically marked out on the pavement today (the successor church isn't) (trees off)

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 16/03/2026

Relaunching my Holy Roman Empire cathedrals video with a few edits (pls like and subscribe) with a look at the 14 churches made cathedrals in the Spanish Netherlands with the 1559 Super Universas bull. Ones that got demolished were the most fun to research! stainedglassattitudes.com/2026/03/16/s...

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Spacefleet Ecclesiastica: the Super Universas cathedrals of the Spanish Netherlands

The ecclesiastical provinces of the Spanish Netherlands were reformed by a bull of 1559 creating 14 new dioceses. This post looks at their newly-made cathedrals in their wider political and archite…

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 14/03/2026

has anyone else been having trouble with institutional sign-in to JStor via shibboleth the last week? JStor just doesn't seem to accept the login. (I can get the items via external catalogue searches but it's annoying direct links don't work)

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 11/03/2026

so I was planning on launching my 1559 Super Universas cathedrals overview today and the re-up of the Sacrum Imperium Romanum video... but I got an itch about Saint-Omer for the 1559 crew. Can you really not get a model of it? So I found some drone footage and crunched it then found more... and:

RealityCapture of Saint-Omer, Notre-Dame (Cathedral from 1559-1801)

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 11/03/2026

Getting-on-for-nine-years old doge mask fully succumbing to latex rot. Makes you think. I'd put it in the bin but seems a shame not to give it a proper send-off like stick it on top of a firework

Latex mask of an orange shiba inu with latex rot in the top of the head, under the snout, but chiefly around the bottom edges

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