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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also here is a Very Good Boy preaching to other Very Good Boys (Bodl. Libr., MS Douce 218, fol. 27r)

A dog on its hind legs standing at a lectern, seemingly preaching to other dogs. Surrounded by a letter Q in gold leaf

Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Walking back into Norman England. The C11 crypt at Worcester Cathedral. The largest remaining part of St Wulfstan’s original Romanesque church.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

St Philip and St James Church, Hallow, Worcestershire. Photograph from Christmas Day. Built by WJ Hopkins 1867-9. “His most interesting work” - Pevsner. #steeplesaturday

A photograph of the church at Hallow in full sun. A tall steeple on the right side with clock face & lawned modern cemetery.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Church of St Mary in Liberty, Tenby, Pembrokeshire. The largest medieval parish church in Wales. The tower dates from c1400. The spire is late C15. #steeplesaturday

Large towered church in golden limestone with a small spire. The tower has a clock at its highest point.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The tower of the Church of St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. Dates from 1040. #steeplesaturday

Stone Saxon tower of the oldest church in oxford. The tower was built in 1040.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The Lapidarium at Hereford Cathedral gathers stone survivors from its medieval past. #sundaystonework #stoneworksunday

Medieval Stone fragments collected together at Hereford Cathedral

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The little house on the hill. The Cartway, Bridgnorth, Shropshire.

Very small cottage painted in peach on a hill in Bridgnorth.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Another perspective. The long view of Worcester Cathedral’s nave in August. #medievalmonday

A long view photograph of the empty nave of Worcester cathedral

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Little Malvern Priory, Worcestershire. The beautiful calm. #windowsonwednesday

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The west door to St Michael’s Church, Ledbury, Herefordshire. “Extremely late Norman” - Pevsner. #adoorablethursday

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Lavender in the orangery. Witley Court, Worcestershire. The orangery was one of the largest in England. It originally had a curved glass roof & dates from the 1850s. July in England.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Part of 43-49 St John’s Worcester. Part of the building dates back to c1475-1525 with later alterations. Was a whisker away from demolition in the 70s. Saved by the work of the St John in Bedwardine Action Group and FWB Charles. #windowsonwednesday

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Walking into a Monet painting. Today at Croome, Worcestershire. @NTCroome #Landscapes

Landscape in summer at shot of Croome Park.

River landscape shot at Croome Park, Worcestershire

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

@themerl.bsky.social I thought you might appreciate a picture of this absolute unit from the Three Counties Show at the weekend. #respectdue #tryme

A Herefordshire bull being led into a show ground

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Church House, Ledbury, Herefordshire. C1600. #windowsonwednesday

Photo of Church House, Ledbury- one of Herefordshire’s beautiful black & white timber framed buildings.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Parish Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton, Devon. Mainly C15 with some C12 features. Once the site of a Saxon monastery and early cathedral before this was moved to Exeter. One of my navy chaplain ancestors was Rector here in the C18. #steeplesaturday

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Definitely a little something of Gondor about the Malvern Hills. Tolkien was of course a regular visitor to the hills along with pals CS Lewis & George Storey.

View of the Malvern Hills towards the peak ‘British Camp’

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The oak in the lane today, brandishing the most beautiful new leaves for Spring.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Messages in stone - Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire. Happy Easter. #sundaystonework #easter #sculpture

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A holloway in Mid-Devon near Crediton. After recently reading WG Hoskins’ book ‘The Making of the English Landscape’, it was wonderful to be out in these remote, ancient lanes at the weekend. #Landscapes #theoldways

A Holloway in mid Devon. An ancient deep border marker in the landscape sone of which date back to Saxon times.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Spring arrives at St Peter’s Church, Kinver, Staffordshire for #steeplesaturday

A photo of St Peter’s Church, Kinver in the spring sunshine.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Random things spotted in churches. Always expect the unexpected. St Peter’s, Kinver, Staffordshire.

A life size sheep puppet facing away from the camera.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The C17 gate to a house in Cathedral Close, Exeter. #adoorablethursday

Oak gateway to a house in Cathedral Close, Exeter known previously as the Archdeacon’s house.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Snowdrops coming up at the cathedral. Worcester, February ‘25.

Snowdrops just beginning to show above the grass at Worcester Cathedral.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Looking up at the absolute splendour that is Exeter Cathedral’s gothic nave. #lookup #architecture #cathedrals

The nave vaulting of Exeter Cathedral, Devon, England.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

For the love of the library. Some of the books kept at Hereford Cathedral's library, the largest surviving chained library in the world. Dating back to 1611, it includes the Hereford Gospels written in the C8 or C9 centuries. #booktreasure

A photo of books chained to the shelves at Hereford cathedral's library.

Some of the manuscripts held at Hereford Cathedral's chained library.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Detail from the C17 pulpit at Holy Trinity Church, Belbroughton, Worcestershire. #woodensday

Close up photograph of the carving on the pulpit showing two dragons & a figure.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The oak in fog. The old Worcestershire/Staffordshire border. Walking in January. #thicktrunktuesday

An oak tree in fog in winter beside a country lane

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

St Mary’s Church, Oldswinford, & its yews. The church’s tower is C14 and unfortunately lost its spire to deterioration in the 70s. St Mary’s is the parish church of Stourbridge, the medieval Worcestershire town that was once the centre of UK glassmaking. #steeplesaturday

St Mary’s Church Oldswinford on a frosty January day

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Frosty graveyard walk. Oldswinford, Stourbridge, Jan ‘24. #sunset

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Wychbury Ring, Hagley, Worcestershire. ‘Small multivallate hillfort .. of an irregular almost heart-shaped enclosure’- HE. Early Iron Age. Excavated in 1884. Now on the Heritage at Risk register and deteriorating according to HE. #HillfortsWednesday

Wychbury Ring Iron Age hillfort near Hagley, West Midlands

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"West of the Severn, the loveliest part of England.” I share a love for Worcestershire with Jonathan Meades. A link below to a post written following a rewatch of the '98 'Travels with Pevsner' TV programme by Meades, exploring the county from the perspective of Pevsner's guide. #worcestershire

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‘As through the wild green hills of Wyre’- for the love of Worcestershire with Jonathan Meades

By Lisa R Marshall Wychbury Hill, Worcestershire- looking west to Shropshire Back in 1998, the BBC broadcast a documentary series , ‘Travels with Pevsner.’ This series followed a number of di…

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Curious creatures abound at the Church of St Gregory the Great, Morville, Shropshire. The church was built in 1118 & enlarged in 1168. #stoneworksunday

Detail from a twelfth century animal stonework carving at st Gregory the great church at Morville Shropshire

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The ceiling of the Basilica di Santa Maria Minerva in Rome. #lookup

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The C15 font at Holy Trinity Church, Belbroughton, Worcestershire. Removed during the C17 and eventually found in a village garden. It was brought back to the church in 1847. #fontsonfriday

The fifteenth century font at Holy Trinity church Belbroughton Worcestershire. - restored to its rightful spot in the nineteenth century.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

My first visit to Holy Trinity, Belbroughton, Worcestershire. Locals were preparing the church for Christmas services and I had a warm welcome as I snooped around, some wonderful quirky details & more to follow. #adoorablethursday #churchcrawling

The door way to Holy Trinity Church, Belbroughton, Worcestershire at twilight.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The river ravaged wall. The remains of the wall of the former infirmary chapel/reredorter of St Mary’s Priory, Worcester. #wallsonwednesday

Remains of St Mary’s Priory, Worcester. The walls of the infirmary chapel and reredorter.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Silbury Hill from the Air - David Inshaw (2019) #landscape

A painting by the artist David Inshaw called 'Silbury Hill from the Air (2019)

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

St Gregory, Morville, Shropshire. “before the Benedictine monks of Shrewsbury built the stone church..the Anglo-Saxons had built a minster church here..mother church of a huge parish which ran north-east/southwest across the Severn.” - The Morville Hours by Katherine Swift. #steeplesaturday

St Gregory the Great, Morville, Shropshire. Mostly Norman & dates from c 1118.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

‘Fairy folks are in old oaks.’ I love this old Worcestershire oak, captured on a walk in the snow of last month. In some shadows, it appears to have a doorway at its base. For #adoorablethursday & a very late #thicktrunktuesday

An oak tree that appears to have the shape of a doorway at its base.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The Chapter House at Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire. Severn side home of the Cistercians. #medievalmonday

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Jim Leary @jimleary.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A holloway so thick with atmosphere that I had to slice my way through. #HollowayWednesday

An atmospheric photo of a dark sunken path filled with mist and with a sunburst shining through.

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Shrewsbury Abbey, Shropshire. Pevsner dated the nave to no later than 1100. #lookup #stainedglasssunday

The Norman nave of Shrewsbury Abbey, Shropshire

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Lisa @halfshiretales.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

St Dubricius Church, St Devereux, Herefordshire. The C14 west tower with “upper stages markedly offset” - Historic England. #steeplesaturday

The C14 west tower at St Dubricius parish church in Herefordshire.

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