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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 3h

Avebury, Silbury Hill, or the West Kennet Long Barrow. A veritable cornucopia of walking options 😍 #FingerpostFriday

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beckford’s Folly: Fonthill Abbey ‘desert of magnificence’ built for William Beckford, ‘England’s richest commoner’ (1760-1844), whose art collection included Bellini's Doge Loredan 1501, Raphael's St Catherine c 1507. National Gallery London | JMW Turner, Watercolour of Fonthill 1799, Bolton Museum

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” William Blake, 1790. A back door at William Burges’ Knighthayes Court, Devon #AdoorableThursday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wonderful painting at Dunster Castle. ‘A Religious Allegory with Sigur Thomas Copley’, an Elizabethan Catholic recusant who lived his last years in exile and died in 1584. Can’t say I understand it all but that’s the Reformation/s for you.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Deirdre. By Jacob Epstein, from circa 1940. In front of Eagles and Doves, a painting by William Frend de Morgan - arts & crafts friend of William Morris. At Knighthayes Court in Devon recently.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Oh ye who have your eyeballs vexed and tired, Feast them upon the wideness of the sea.” John Keats. #WindowsonWednesday View last month from the 19th C Round Tower at Watermouth, North Devon.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One more image for Michaelmas Day, from Christopher Whall’s wonderful if tragic window of 1918 in Chippenham commemorating the death of three Wilson sons in the Great War. Below these four Archangels are scenes of mourning and battle, but they stand resplendent all the same.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tis Michaelmas, the feast day of St Michael and sometimes also his fellow Archangels Gabriel & Raphael. Here are the three of them at Great Cheverell by Mary Lowndes in 1920.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Silbury Hill, the largest prehistoric built mound in Europe, a mere 4500 or so years old. Always a joy to walk down the avenue of standing stones at Avebury, up the slope to the right and then this comes into view 😍

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

West Kennet Avenue at Avebury today in the wind and then rain. Timeless as ever 💚 #StandingStoneSunday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“You would see faces that were worth a second look Those were years when something whispered”. Gottfried Benn. Fragments of medieval glass in Cirencester yesterday. #StainedGlassSunday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hugh Easton’s 1937 Fruit of the Mystic Rose #stainedglass in Cirencester, with 13th C font in the foreground and the 1638 Monox Tomb in front of the window. #StainedGlassSunday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Boleyn Cup, made in 1535 for Queen Anne a year before her head was removed by Henry VIII. Kept behind reinforced glass at St John the Baptist in Cirencester.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fly buttresses, fly. The 600+ year old strongly buttressed tower of St John the Baptist in sunny Cirencester today. #SteepleSaturday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Excellent afternoon in Bath today with my oldest to hear Anthony @scaramucci.bsky.social give an insider’s view on many things Trump 🤮 as well as a deeper analysis of the roots of populism in the USA. Funny, insightful and even humble at times. Good stuff.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More of the rarely used St Mary’s, Old Dilton - replaced by a new church in the 1840s and so escaped Victorian “improvement”. Though the font is 19th C. Arms are George III - small but rather nice. Lovely triple decker Georgian Pulpit too. #LesArmoiriesduVendredi #FontsonFriday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Stillness personified. Heron on the Kennet & Avon canal.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Time has stood still not just for decades but centuries at Old Dilton near Westbury. Lovely to go back there today ahead of a talk I am doing nearby in a few weeks. Churches unspoiled by Victorians are such special places.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m forever blowing bubbles. Pretty bubbles in the air. Late 16th C Memorial brass to Nicholas Grobham with a strange image of a bubble blowing boy (far left of full image). Hard to photograph as in a glass case. St Mary the Virgin Bishops Lydeard, Somerset. #MementoMoriMonday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The smiling sunken pillbox of Porlock Weir earlier this month. #SundayStonework

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

On a random stop at Bishops Lydeard in Somerset a couple of weeks ago I came across this Ninian Comper window beautifully set by him under a golden tester. Rather superb. #StainedGlassSunday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spire Cross in the heart of Exmoor last week, near the Caracatus Stone and on the way to Tarr Steps. #FingerpostFriday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Caratacus Stone on Winsford Hill in Exmoor. Suggested to be inscribed in the 6th C in memorial to the 1st C British chieftain who defeated the Romans. Now protected by a more modern structure. #StandingStoneSunday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#StoneworkSunday Tarr Steps in the heart of Exmoor this weekend. Stone slabs laid across the River Barle, making an idyllic crossing at this time of the year. Such beautiful and unspoilt part of the world.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#SteepleSaturday St Brides 1703 wedding cake spire, the highest in the City of London other than St Paul’s. Designed by Wren, albeit slightly reduced in size after an 18th C lightning strike.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#WindowsonWednesday Knightshayes Court, the William Burges designed country house in Devon, with drought ridden fountain and lawns recently.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

‘I could have told you Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.’ Faces at the Courtauld this week, in chronological order: Manet, Van Gogh, Lautrec, Fry. All superb in their way.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A site of worship for almost 2000 years (remarkable really) and probably one of the most rebuilt churches in the country, the interior of St Brides Church just off Fleet Street in London yesterday. #TilesonTuesday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Capped in 1703, last restored in 1933, this rather strange looking oak framed spire is originally 13th C - on a rare sunshine free day last week in Porlock #SteepleSaturday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The sun going down at Lynmouth this evening after a swim in the sea and a bag of chips on the beach.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

19th Century Lime kiln right on the beach at Hunter’s Mouth in North Devon. The kiln is over a mile from any road and only reachable by narrow paths, but was the best way to create lime for building or soil improvement from stone shipped there from Wales. A different era!

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Always #lookup - a must at Knightshayes near Tiverton. The William Burges designs were mostly tempered down or replaced but his spirit is there. The first ceiling was his style & ? some parts of the fireplaces may have been. The rest is still beautiful if Crace not Burges.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Cleopatra puts the poisonous asp to her breast (not asparagus as the autotext suggested!), and other scenes from Anthony & Cleopatra - late 17th painted leather wall hangings from the Spanish Netherlands at Dunster Castle. #TextileTuesday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

William Burges’ Knightshayes Court in Devon. It could have been close to the greatest of Victorian Uber Gothic but most of his interior designs never came to fruition. Still a great visit though.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Close ups of 17th & 18th C portraits at Dunster Castle. Most visitors just walk by such images these days. I love their timeless characterisations.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

RIP Yoshi, May 2014 - July 2026. Breaker of hearts in life and in death 🐶💔🥲

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Nice font and cover at Christ Church at St Leonard’s on Sea. Only had time for a quick holiday visit sadly. #FontsonFriday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I do love a good flying buttress or two. St Mary’s Church in Rye today.

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The simplest exterior design, but look at the explosion of colour on the glass inside. One of Marc Chagall’s smaller windows in the glorious All Saints at Tudeley. #TraceryTuesday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Marc Chagall’s sublime and moving east window at All Saints, Tudeley today. As beautiful an image as I have ever seen 💙 #StainedGlassSunday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Reasons to be Cheerful Part One: J’ay Bonne Cause. Thynne Family hatchment in Longbridge Deverill. #LesArmoiresduVendredi

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it a font? The frankly weird memorial font by flamboyant Art Nouveau sculptor Alfred Gilbert who also designed the fountain & statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus and the Alexandra Monument in London. Longbridge Deverill #Wiltshire #FontsonFriday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Door of perception. This 1922 screen doorway opens to reveal a bizarre Art Nouveau freestanding font and memorial in Longbridge Deverill. #AdoorableThursday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Angels One Five. Summer is on its way through this window in the Thynne Chapel at St Peter & St Paul in Longbridge Deverill #Wiltshire

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Dressed more for the Summer of Love than the Supper at Emmaus, the shirt on this disciple is as flowery as they come - in Kington St Michael from 1894 #Wiltshire #StainedGlassSunday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A perfect palette of medieval glass fragments in the quatrefoil tracery at St Cyriac’s in Lacock #Wiltshire #TraceryTuesday

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The gathering storm. Once in the centre of a village which was then reputedly wiped out by plague, the wonderful cruciform church at Bishopstone stands mostly alone these days in the fields south west of Salisbury. #SteepleSaturday

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I was deeply inspired by Tom Denny's stained glass at Tisbury: " It offers fresh perspectives that allow us to value each other and the world we live in, and, through that process, opens up untold possibilities for navigating our way through it." www.digest.andymarsh...

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