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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 23h

👀 St George’s Church, Goodrington, Paignton, Devon Beautiful stained glass by Charles Norris of Buckfast Abbey. c1951? (Attributed to Charles Norris in the profile of the Goodrington Mission Community by Oscar Carpenter) #StainedGlassSunday

Bright chunks of white, red, blue, yellow & orange glass.
Abstract figures seem to represent a kneeling Virgin, Archangel, dove & rays of light of the Annunciation.

Bright chunks of white, red, blue, yellow & orange glass.
Rays of light or rain fall from a blue sky onto dark earth?
A dive, cross & hand are represented.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Postsparkasse, Wien Imperial and Royal Postal Savings Bank Office in Vienna, Austria Architect - Otto Wagner Date - 1904 - 1906 #architecture #reflections

The roof & main hall are reflected in a mirror table.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Downham Market, Norfolk. Rose - 📷 05.10.2026 #elevensestime

A red & pink rose. The outer red petals are already starting to open, the inner pick ones are still tight.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Middle Drove, Middle Levels, The Fens, Norfolk EIIR postbox in need of a lick of paint. Behind is the trackbed of the former Magdalen Road to Wisbech railway line. One form of communication has gone, how long will the other, in the form of this postbox, last? 🤷‍♂️ #PostboxSaturday

An Queen Elizabeth II red postbox, in front of a metal fence with concrete uprights. Behind is rough ground and a hedge marking the route of an old railway line.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Church of St Peter, Firle, Sussex A 14th Century west tower, with enormous buttresses, battlements & small pyramidal steeple. #SteepleSaturday

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Dahlia (Ryecroft Bella) - 📷 24.09.2026 #elevensestime #FlowersOnFriday

Yellow dahlia - outer petals wide open, inner ones tight.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

St John’s Fen End, The Fens, Norfolk • the houses on the edge of the fen (flat marsh) of Terrington St John • the houses on the old Turnpike Road - St John’s Highway • the houses on the edge of the fen of Tilney St Lawrence • the houses of Marshland St James & Emneth • 🚲 route 1 #FingerpostFriday

Various signposts

• the houses on the edge of the fen (flat marsh) of Terrington St John
• the houses on the old Turnpike Road - St John’s Highway
• the houses on the edge of the fen of Tilney St Lawrence
• the houses of Marshland St James & Emneth
• 🚲 route 1

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

👀 Wetheringsett, Suffolk A date of 1660-65 is suggested for the font by Pevsner ( @yalepress.bsky.social ), but I like the font cover made in the early 1960s. #FontsOnFriday

Plain 17th Century font with blank shield, diamond & square around the bowl.
It stands on short column legs & has a wooden pyramidal font cover.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Downham Market, Norfolk. Cyclamen - 📷 04.10.2026 #elevensestime

White cyclamen - tall stems with several upright white petals.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Then there is Pace’s other work in Llandaff Cathedral.

A double wishbone concrete arch surmounted by a hollow drum to house the “positive” division of the organ. - cathedral guide.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, Wales 12th century external Norman south door. According to the cathedral guidebook -“Bishop William Saltmarsh either extended or rebuilt the church, using masons from St Augustine’s Abbey, Bristol” #Architecture #Romanesque #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday

Five orders of round arches with zig-zag, diamond & rectangle designs. Wooden doorway with metal cross hatching attached.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Downham Market, Norfolk. Pink rose - 📷 04.10.2026 #RoseWednesday #elevensestime

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A medieval Saint George Processional Staff - 15th century Polychrome linden wood From - Church of Saint-Agnan, Ahuy, Dijon, France #Woodensday #WoodCarvingWednesday

A carving in wood of St George, on his horse riding over a dragon.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Downham Market, Norfolk. Geranium - 📷 06.10.2026 #elevensestime

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fring, Norfolk I love the wave like roof line on this shed. It has happened with age, rather than being designed. #TilesOnTuesday

An open sided shed with wooden columns & glint & brick walls. The pantile roof undulates like a wave.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Downham Market, Norfolk. Fuchsia - 📷 04.10.2026 #elevensestime

Pink & mauve fuchsias against a white wall. Big petals hanging down with long stamens.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

👀 Basilica di San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna, Italy Remains of 13th Century mosaic said to show a scene from the Fourth Crusade. #MosaicMonday

A mosaic showing a scene from the Fourth Crusade. A tall tower of perhaps 5 floors with windows on each level. Conical roof.

Two large figures (not to scale) face a soldier. His image is damaged, but he wears chain mail & carries a shield. His arm is raised, maybe he has a weapon to attack the two figures?

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Burnham Overy sand dunes, Holkham Beach, Norfolk. Sea Rocket? #WildflowerHour

Four petal mauve flower with yellow stamens & spiky leaves.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Town Hall, Downham Market, Norfolk “The best of the lesser town halls of Norfolk” - Pevsner guidebook @yalepress.bsky.social 1887, by J. J. Johnson of London #LocalHistory

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Downham Market, Norfolk. Salvia Amistad - 📷 04.10.2026 (today) #elevensestime

Large purple petals with stamen spikes hanging down in a fan shape.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Church of St Peter & St Paul, Shropham, Norfolk Stained glass window of 1898 by Mary Lowndes. Unfortunately, the church was locked so we had to admire the window from outside. At least we could appreciate Mary Lowndes technique for the clothing, angel’s wings & faces. #StainedGlassSunday

A detail of the reverse side of the stained glass window showing angels.The folds of the garments, feathers of the wings & the faces can clearly be seen.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) 😀 River Great Ouse, King’s Lynn, Norfolk

Nets of the fishing vessel “Seagull” hanging in a smile shape.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Wymondham, Norfolk. Osteospermum - 📷 01.10.2026 #elevensestime

Osteospermum - an outer band of white petals, around a middle band of blue petals, with a dark blue core.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wells Next The Sea, Norfolk Wells still has a separate Post Office building, with letter box & even a surviving stamp machine. #PostboxSaturday

Posting box metal plate over opening, with red door below for collecting mail & changing collection date sign. All set into a brick & carstone wall.

Brick & carstone building with sign Wells Post Office.

Row of blank panels with one remaining stamp machine.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Church of St Peter & St Paul, Shropham, Norfolk A 15th Century Perpendicular west tower. Built with 3 stages of flint & ashlar dressings. It has diagonal buttresses with flint flush-work, a stair tower & battlements. #SteepleSaturday

A flint & ashlar tower of three stages, with battlements & stair tower. West door with 3 orders of wave mouldings below 3-light transomed window. Belfry windows 2-light but missing tracery

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Wymondham, Norfolk. Wisteria (still flowering) - 📷 01.10.2026 #elevensestime

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wells Next The Sea, Norfolk • Norfolk Coast Path sign • Wells RNLI lifeboat station, with information panel about the lifeboat - (the late) “Duke of Edinburgh”. • Detail of RNLI name, made up of some of the 12,109 people who helped fund the lifeboat in memory of their loved ones. #FingerpostFriday

Norfolk coast path finger post, with RNLI flag in background. Also, signs about donations for the new lifeboat & the water channel to Wells Harbour.

Wells lifeboat station building & information board. It gives details about lifeboat 13-46, the Duke of Edinburgh. Of how more than 12,000 donated in memory of a loved one.

Letters RNLI made up of a series of printed names

“As part of RNIL's Launch a Memory campaign, 12,109 supporters kindly donated to help save lives at sea in honour of someone they miss. And now, the names of these special loved ones are printed on the sides and wheelhouse of Wells' Shannon ass lifebout Duke of Edinburgh. Together, these names will always be remembered as the lifeboat powers out to sea to save lives for generations to come.”

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Basilique Saint-Seurin de Bordeaux, France A 17th Century baptismal font. Made by the French sculptor and bronze founder, Léonard Hervé in 1659, according to the Ministry of Culture records. #FontsOnFriday

A round bronze font of height 70 cm placed on the ground. Reliefs on the side associated with baptism. Bronze lid.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Norfolk Coffee, Pensthorpe, Norfolk. Echinacea (Lakota Orange) - 📷 01.10.2026 #elevensestime

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

La cathédrale de Liège, Belgium Former rood screen door (la porte du jubé). These brass Louis XIII style doors were donated in 1643 by Dean Paul Simonis. #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday (actually brass 😉)

Brass double doors with plain edging to base & uprights. Panels contain foliage with roses. Also, low relief rounded with the name of the donor - Paul Simonis.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Rose (Lady of Shallott) - 📷 24.09.2026 #elevensestime #RoseWednesday

Pale orange rose. Tight petals in the centre, fanning outward.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

St Andrew’s Church, Isleham, Cambridgeshire. A #medieval angel roof “with a carved date of 1495, with the name of its donor, Christopher Peyton” - Pevsner guidebook @yalepress.bsky.social #Woodensday #WoodCarvingWednesday

A medieval wooden roof of alternating tie-beams & hammerbeams. The hammerbeams have carved angels.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s North Norfolk 🚶‍♀️ 🚶🏻‍♂️ Wells Next The Sea - Holkham Beach - Burnham Overy Staithe The beach was almost deserted !!!

White clouds over sandy beach & sea with breaking waves.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👀 Coffee time 🌺 - Wells Next The Sea, Norfolk Hollyhock - 📷 29.09.2026 #elevensestime

Pink hollyhock with large petals & pink stamens.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sedgeford, Norfolk Oh …….. The creature tile is in fact actually a Wild Boar 🐗. It has consistently been put in, my opinion, the wrong way round. 🤔 #TilesOnTuesday

Terracotta tile of an upright creature’s head looking skyward.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sedgeford, Norfolk The four tiles that compose the frieze in the cottage wall. • St George (?) & the dragon 🐉 • Queen Victoria • Cherub 👼 on a unicorn.🦄 • Creature #TilesOnTuesday

Terracotta tile of St George (?) on horseback fighting a dragon.

Terracotta tile of Queen Victoria’s head.

Terracotta tile of a cherub on a unicorn.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sedgeford, Norfolk A thread 🧵 - Cottage with interesting stone, brick & tile walls. • End gable with random flint nodules, carstone & brick wall. • Wall with row of terracotta tiles of 4 designs. • Detail of carstone, flint, brick & terracotta tiles. Tiny carstone galleting. #TilesOnTuesday

Cottage. End gable of random flint nodules, carstone & brick. Blocked windows & new brick window frame with drip mould.
Side wall of stone & brick with terracotta tiles frieze.

Upper part of wall of rows of brick & a terracotta tile freize. Lower course of wall with carstone, flint nodules & brick. Infilled with tiny carstone galleting.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Dahlia (Kenora Valentine) - 📷 24.09.2026 #elevensestime

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👀 Church of St Mary, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk Mosaic - c1850 The church guide suggests it is based on a design Henry le Strange (of Hunstanton Hall) had seen in Vienna. #MosaicMonday

A corner of the mosaic with swirling stems & white flowers. Bordered by a semi circle of small flowers & then a border of intertwined stems.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New Road, Downham Market, Norfolk Common Ivy with bee. 🐝 #WildflowerHour

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New Road, Downham Market, Norfolk A stroll this morning. Just for the fun of it, what would I see? 👀 • White Campion • Common Sainfoin • Toadflax • Yarrow • Mallow • Dandelion • Tansy #WildflowerHour

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Middle Levels, The Fens, Norfolk New Sugar Beet harvest. A Sugar Beet clamp is piled up at the edge of the huge field. Work will start again tomorrow. The machine will move along the clamp, guiding the beet onto a convey belt. The belt will stretch across the ditch to load the lorry on the road.

The mouth of the machine, with arms that guide the beet onto a conveyor belt.

The wheeled machine parked on the edge of the field. It will move along the pile of sugar beet, so guiding the crop onto a conveyor belt.

The folded conveyor belt, which will extend across the ditch & load the lorry on the road. The beet will be taken by the articulated lorry to be processed at the Wissington Factory.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, they provide a nice splash of colour under the trees.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Cyclamen - 📷 24.09.2026 #elevensestime

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sainte-Croix, Bordeaux, France Such amazing decoration on this #Medieval portal. The mixing of “Labours of the Month, “Signs of the Zodiac” with other #Romanesque decorative motifs. #SundayStonework

Concentric rows of carving. Vine motif of zig zag stem & alternate leaves. Figures involved in tasks from the “Labours of the Month” mixed with “Signs of the Zodiac”. Striding figures. Chevron design.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All Saints Church, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk St Peter & the Four Evangelists - Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The stained glass is by Samuel Yarrington in 1843. A time when there was a revival in the use of coloured glass. #StainedGlassSunday

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kingston’s Plantation, Downham Market, Norfolk “Common Darter” dragonflies. It is astonishing the clarity of photos today. Amazed by how these creatures can hang on to perches. It is possible to see the hairs on the legs & the hooks which allow them to grip. Early or late for #InsectThursday 😉

Dragonfly using hooks on its legs to grip barbed wire. Detail of the creatures face & transparent wings

Dragonfly using hooks on its legs to grip dead bracken. Detail of the creatures face & transparent wings

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

👀 Coffee time 🌺 - Tilney All Saints, Norfolk Rose - 📷 26.09.2026 #elevensestime

Red roses against autumnal colours of the trees.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tilney Cum Islington, Norfolk An EIIR box in need of some “tender loving care!” The box is on the High Road - a misnomer since it is only 2 metres above sea level. #PostboxSaturday

High Road sign & postbox against the backdrop of a hedge.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Church of St Peter and St Paul and - St Thomas of Canterbury, Bovey Tracey, Devon Not an optical illusion, but a tall thin west tower with battlements & pinnacles #SteepleSaturday

Tall tower with west door & window, tiny round headed windows & clocks to second stage. Windows to belfry & battlements & pinnacles.
A large aisle with four light windows & south porch.

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