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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Office for the day (delayed by 8 hours cos phone signal and I was busy with cobwebs and bat leavings

Picture of an idyllic stone church and yew trees up a path.

Stone crosses carved into a stone door jamb

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 30/08/2026

If you’d like to buy a book on why it actually matters that these buildings are listed and why the restrictions are necessary and good, and why you can still put a heat pump and double glazing in a GII listed cottage even though it’s listed, Great because I’m writing it.

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Did a day's stone carving class at the lakeside in Nottingham- based the design on an Anglo Celtic design in the museum next door. Lots of fun, even through the frustration of important bits pinging off. A difficult thing to master! Requiring huge amounts of skill and practice! Who'd have thought!

View of a museum display of a mounted figure. An informative label reads "romano - Celtic sculpture - image of a warrior god"

A freshly carved stone with a mounted figure on it - based on the museum piece in the other image. The loss of material in key areas (on the spear and horse's face) indicates hard lessons learnt in mallet/chisel management.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

If you need some chill, slow viewing to remind you of the good in people right now, then here you go. Master restorer Julian Baumgartner using his magic to save a painting of Frances Hodgson Burnett for her granddaughter, after it was almost destroyed in the Texas floods. And doing it pro-bono.

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The Secret Garden Reborn

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Had a go at Kintsugi. Look, I'm better at building repairs...

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

More photos from Leicester cathedral proper

View through a pointed gothic arch of the northern side chapel in Leicester cathedral

View of the west window of Leicester cathedral from under the crossing tower. Exposed roof timbers are painted in variety of colours, light timber choir stalls in the foreground

View of the underside of Leicester cathedrals chancel roof. Blue painted timber boards with golden stars at intervals from the underside with dark roof joists under this. The primary beams are mainly dark painted with details picked out in bright colours

View of Richard IIIs floor mounted stone monument in Leicester cathedral. A pale stone rectangular form with an inscribed cross. On the base the dates "1452 - 1485" are inscribed.

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Assorted photos from the Leicester DACs training day/visit to Leicester cathedral's new visitor centre

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Belated AABC 2025 conference photos from Bradford Cathedral. The varying tooling patterns between different faces of the stones in the 20th century extension probably distracted/upset me more than it should.

Photograph showing a close up of stones with alternating tooling patterns between their faces. Like some kind of maniac was in charge.

West front of Bradford cathedral. A tower with corner buttresses separated into four stages by string courses with a parapet with corner pinnacles. Stone wings to either side.

View looking up at the chancel roof of Bradford cathedral. Vault with blue inset panels

View of the ceiling of the crossing tower in Bradford cathedral.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12/10/2025

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand Sir Gilbert Scott restoration.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/06/2025

Okay I have like... twenty minutes but a lot of y'all noted the church on yesterday's house so, let's talk about deconsecration! I will end the thread with some fun church conversions currently for sale, as little a treat

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Tomorrow Leicester Cathedral open their new Heritage and Learning Centre. The culmination of years of work and renovations. On Sunday, my newsletter Church Climbing will come out with stories of my many visits to the Cathedral over the years of closure and construction. jayhulme.com/church-climb...

the clerestory windows, seen from scaffolding inside the building.

A view of a window from outside the cathedral, high on the scaffolding.

A chapel covered in protective plastic sheeting, the altar boxed in with plywood.

Leicester Cathedral with a digger inside, tearing up the floor.

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Assorted pictures from the SPABs Repairs of Old Buildings course from last week. A mix of lectures and site visits to live sites. Lectures on materials by masons, specialist brickwork contractors and timber conservation specialists of particular value. Now to decode some of my handwritten notes.

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Well this has been a few years in the making/achieving. I am simultaneously relieved and pleased and very tired

A certificate for an architect accredited in building conservation

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

An update from our Director, Rachel Morley, about the upcoming repair projects. As we look forward to completing repairs at Gumfreston, Llangua, Llanddoged, and Bodwrog, we’re also excited to announce six new repair projects for the 2025–26 financial year.

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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

90% of Japanese plastic model-making kits hail from Shizuoka, so the city looks like this:

A 1-1 metal sculpture of a model kit with kanji and a human-sized figurine

a green train ticket machine that looks like a model kit

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Searching for castle site visit photographs with cats for Serious Professional Stuff

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

1/ Aneurin Bevan, born on this day in 1897. As Labour's Minister of Health and Housing, 1945-51, he built 805,000 council houses whilst insisting on high standards: homes were one-third bigger than the pre-war average, a three-bed home had two inside toilets.

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Bromley House attics study day

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Southwell minster looking handsome in the sunshine today. Never noticed the sort of wave form dentils (?) on the parapets. I'm assuming they're the same age as a lot of the quite fruity earlier norman/Romanesque relief patterns but could easily be wrong. I could also look it up, but.

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

"Welcome to the style wars, kid: here’s your helmet. Now, let me set you straight on the facts. First, it’s got nothing to do with style. And second, it definitely doesn’t have anything to do with beauty." I wrote this about Trump and MAGAtecture the first time around. www.frieze.com/article/trum...

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What Trump’s Desire to ‘Make Architecture Beautiful Again’ Really Means

The plan to codify a ‘classical architectural style’ for US federal buildings has become the latest front in the American culture wars

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Erin Roseberry 🔜 SPX B5 @roseberrycomix.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

The Met Museum, Painter's Palette Inscribed with the Name of Amenhotep III: someone over 3,000 years and oceans away from me used the same tools as me. We would be recognizable to each other as artists across space and time. My heart!

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

New book in the post. Recommendee is credited in the acknowledgements I see. Not that they mentioned it at the time

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

Visiting Bromley House Library and some repairs I was involved with a few years ago

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

The government has deliberately timed these disgusting roundups to coincide with the local elections, because they think you want this. Show them you don’t. By all means intervene or protest if you are able. And whatever else you do, turn up to vote against these absolute bastards.

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Important meeting the neighbours news That is all

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

"Sharon, I have to level with you, I'm actually a renaissance peasant and an angry owl in a trenchcoat..." A delivery of Andrew May sculpts of Bosch illustrations greatly enhancing Monday

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Seeing a lot of discourse RE: younger millennials bemoaning that they're Old and Cringe now and I just want to reach out and reassure today's youth that the best strategy for remaining relevant in a fast-paced world is to simply NEVER be even faintly cool or on-trend, at all, ever

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Work today was almost opposite Southwell Minster - so have a picture of it looking handsome

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Jamie Mayers @jnmayers.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Starting off my bluesky posting with #proofofcat /animal. Not mine, mind. I met this cat in a church yard while doing a survey. Now I think it's my familiar. Or maybe vice versa. Hope this will suit.

Black cat face booping the camera. The image is blurry due to the speed of the cats movement. What a scamp.

Handsome black cat sits on a clipboard balanced on a stone wall, the cat is looking at the camera

Handsome black cat sits on a clipboard balanced on a stone wall, the cat is looking off to its right

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