Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Avebury, Silbury Hill, or the West Kennet Long Barrow. A veritable cornucopia of walking options 😍 #FingerpostFriday 0130
Reposted by Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Beckford’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 1406
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 071
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Also not a believer but agree Michael comes out well in so many depictions. He brandishes his weapons, weights souls on his scales and so often looks like the star angel. 110
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Wonderful 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. 030
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Deirdre. 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. 010
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. 0111
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One 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. 052
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tis 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. 315617
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Silbury 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 😍 1140
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026West Kennet Avenue at Avebury today in the wind and then rain. Timeless as ever 💚 #StandingStoneSunday 19912
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 0152
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hugh 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 1312
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The 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. 140
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Fly buttresses, fly. The 600+ year old strongly buttressed tower of St John the Baptist in sunny Cirencester today. #SteepleSaturday 040
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Excellent 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. 031
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026More 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 150
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You get a better standard of dress in Bath bookshops. @toppingsbath.bsky.social 091
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Stillness personified. Heron on the Kennet & Avon canal. 1151
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Time 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. 0202
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I’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 090
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The smiling sunken pillbox of Porlock Weir earlier this month. #SundayStonework 0162
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026On 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 0112
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Spire Cross in the heart of Exmoor last week, near the Caracatus Stone and on the way to Tarr Steps. #FingerpostFriday 0121
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The 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 0272
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. 050
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. 0111
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. 071
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. 042
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026St Bride herself yes, identifiable ‘church’ remains 1000 yrs, but the site, Roman pavement, the possibly sacred well etc. go back 2000 yrs. Whether there was any (pre Christian) worship there cannot be known for sure. 000
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026A 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 111214
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026And even more so down to Porlock Weir 😃 010
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Capped 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 0212
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It was lovely. And lots of young families there. We went to Arlington Court NT and I felt about 30 yrs younger than anyone else there. 110
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The sun going down at Lynmouth this evening after a swim in the sea and a bag of chips on the beach. 1142
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 29/07/202619th 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! 161
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Always #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. 062
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Almost symmetrical is a great term for it. 010
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Cleopatra 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 031
Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026William 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. 1121
