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 · 06/02/2025Thank you! I’ve been a bit quiet on social media for the last couple of weeks— had a bad cold of some kind, with accompanying cough, but getting better now. 000
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 · 17/01/2025Difficult to say. A lot of woodwork was left unpainted, especially oak, which goes this lovely silvery grey colour. I can’t see any traces of colour. 110
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 · 14/01/2025Possibly, but I think it might have got here before the Dissolution. Maybe part of a damaged cross slab. 010
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 · 03/01/2025Showing remarkable long-distance trading links between Devon and, well, the edge of civilisation, as we once used the term. 0180
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 · 28/12/2024This had me googling. It’s fascinating. As you say, developer woz’ere… but one glorious room and a lovely front. Thank you for mentioning it. 110
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 · 27/12/2024So good. And this series is a very unusual example of two artists collaborating in this way. 000
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) 17738571081
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Love those Thomas Denny windows. Thank you for posting. 110
Reposted by Philip WilkinsonHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar The last window ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin 10700131