Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Door with lion knocker, Broad Street, Oxford. #oxford #trinitycollege #door #lion #gothic 1212
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Lullington, Sussex. Tiny church (actually the chancel of a church once much larger) with tiny steeple. #SteepleSaturday #churchcrawling 2416
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Cheltenham’s soaring 19th-century Christ Church. #steepleSaturday #churchcrawling 0161
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Stanton, Gloucestershire. Telephone box repurposed as information point. 0140
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Stanton, Gloucestershire. #steepleSaturday 0150
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Font in the church at Rock, Worcestershire. #fontsonFriday 0194
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The glorious Art Nouveau facade of Edward Everard’s printing works in Bristol. Tiles made by Doulton and designed by their chief designer, W J Neatby, c 1900. Johannes Gutenberg at his press on the left, William Morris on the right. 14811
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Hales, Norfolk. Highly picturesque Norman church. #churchcrawling #SteepleSaturday 0428
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Looking up at the Welsh Back Granary, Bristol, one of the most dazzling bits of architectural patterning I know. 0264
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Gwalia Stores, Ross-on-Wye, and its extraordinary collection of enamel advertising signs. 051
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Venetian Gothic in Bristol. Browns, originally museum and library, a building of the 1860s-1870s. 0141
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Sun on Dent’s Terrace, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, the other day. Almshouses designed by George Gilbert Scott and and J Drayton Wyatt, 1865. 0170
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Snowdrops in the churchyard, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, a couple of hundred yards from where I live. 2263
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Font, Halesworth church, Norfolk. #fontsonFriday 1131
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Fan vaulting in. Cirencester parish church. 0160
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The Vine: a beautifully tiled Victorian pub in Cheltenham. 0120
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Chastleton, Oxfordshire. With Chastleton House poking up behind. #SteepleSaturday #churchcrawling 0141
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Gloucester Docks. Penfold post box — a Victorian design, although this may be a later replica, as the slot looks rather large for an original. 0121
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Another from Gloucester Docks. Biddle and Shipton warehouses. 060
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Gloucester Docks, Llanthony Warehouse, this morning. Dull weather but still a reflection. 080
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Broughton, Oxfordshire. #steepleSaturday #churchcrawling 0151
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. Font carved with figure of centaur with bow and arrow, inscribed SAGITTARIUS. 0244
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire. #adoorableThursday 1143
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Northleach, Gloucestershire, this morning. Limestone lower walls and roof, timber-framed upper storey. #woodensday 0121
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Re-used carved slab (early medieval?) used as door lintel, Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire. 2432
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Tewkesbury Abbey. Light from a stained glass window projected on to stone wall and shafts. Warm light on a cold day. 2294
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Tewkesbury Abbey, west front a few days ago. Enormous Norman arch framing later medieval window and doorway. 0214
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Carved door with gothic panelling and angel. A medieval survival that always stops me in my tracks. #adoorablethursday 1203
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025The great font at Castle Frome, a work of the Herefordshire school of Romanesque sculptors. This one has a baptism scene—complete with fishes. Marvellous. #FontsonFriday 05813
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Pershore, Worcestershire. Doorway with Tuscan columns and fanlight with Gothic glazing. A delightful hybrid. #adoorablethursday 0120
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 01/01/2025A carved critter in Halesworth, Suffolk. Happy New Year. #woodensday 0111
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Intricately carved bargeboards, Ludlow, Shropshire. #woodensday 0417
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I’m a great fan of traditional hand-painted signs. Here’s one in Bungay, Suffolk. I don’t know how old it is (early 20th century?) but it must be a while since cattle medicines were available from a High Street pharmacy. 0251
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Holy Trinity church, Bungay, Suffolk. #steeplesaturday 1122
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Another fabulous Herefordshire font, this time at Eardisley. #fontsonfriday 19321
Reposted by Philip WilkinsonIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 27/12/2024'‘What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?’ Nothing again nothing. ‘Do ‘You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember ‘Nothing?’" -- The Waste Land, TS Eliot 2374
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Happy Christmas—and season’s greetings, whatever your festival. Stained glass angel, Yarnton, Oxfordshire. 1281
Reposted by Philip WilkinsonAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch) 17738591082
Reposted by Philip WilkinsonHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar The last window ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin 10701131
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxfordshire. Light and shadow on some very worn but rather beautiful medieval encaustic tiles. #tilesontuesday 0151
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Castle Frome, Herefordshire. Monument of William and Margery Unett, 17th century, Cavalier clothes for him, flowing hair for both. #momentomorimonday 060
Reposted by Philip WilkinsonKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Saxon decoration - an animal head label stop from St. Mary’s Priory Church at Deerhurst in Gloucestershire. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #SundayStonework 27915
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Huish Episcopi, Somerset. Nativity window with Madonna and Child, angels and Magi. Designed by Burne-Jones and made by William Morris’s firm. #stainedglasssunday Christmas greetings. 1394
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Church tower at Glastonbury, Somerset. #steeplesaturday 0111
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Here in Gloucestershire we don’t go in much for pictorial town signs like those in Norfolk, but Northleach has a good one. The sheep represents wool which brought prosperity to the town, the keys St Peter, for the church also pictured, the mace the town’s ancient Court Leet. 0121
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Beautiful beam and bargeboard carving, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. #woodensday 05210
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Fan vaulting, Cirencester parish church. Delightful. #churchcrawling 1143
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Simply amazing dole cupboard in the church at Bungay, Suffolk. A bit of 17th-century folk art, including a rebus consisting of the letter Q enclosing an image of a rat, to indicate that the person who provided the cupboard was the curate (Q-rat). 1213
Reposted by Philip WilkinsonHeidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Vaulting and coloured bosses of the choir #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset Truly one of the most beautiful sights Mouse ever seen. Mouse's shonky photography doesn't do it justice but expand and have you ever seen grey look so good? If you don't repost you're depriving millions of pure beauty 1236
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Mosaic portrait of William Shakespeare above entrance to the Old Bank (now HSBC), Stratford-upon-Avon. #mosaicsonmonday 3141