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Philip Wilkinson

@philipwilkinson.bsky.social
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Author: historic architecture, places, history. Here I post English buildings in their variety: churches but also cafés, gazebos but also garages, public houses but also public loos. Plus occasional books, art, carvings, and other stuff.

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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Door with lion knocker, Broad Street, Oxford. #oxford #trinitycollege #door #lion #gothic
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Lullington, Sussex. Tiny church (actually the chancel of a church once much larger) with tiny steeple. #SteepleSaturday #churchcrawling
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Cheltenham’s soaring 19th-century Christ Church. #steepleSaturday #churchcrawling
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Stanton, Gloucestershire. Telephone box repurposed as information point.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Stanton, Gloucestershire. #steepleSaturday
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Font in the church at Rock, Worcestershire. #fontsonFriday
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The 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.
Coloured tile-clad frontage with images of Johannes Gutenberg, William Morris, an angelic figure holding a book, etc.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Hales, Norfolk. Highly picturesque Norman church. #churchcrawling #SteepleSaturday
Norman church with thatched roof and round tower.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Looking up at the Welsh Back Granary, Bristol, one of the most dazzling bits of architectural patterning I know.
Flank wall of multi-storey Victorian granary building. Polychrome brickwork in red, black and buff with round-arched, pointed, circular and slit-shaped openings.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Gwalia Stores, Ross-on-Wye, and its extraordinary collection of enamel advertising signs.
Shopfront with old signs above advertising brands such as Fry’s chocolate, Tizer, Palethorpe’s sausages, the Sunday Dispatch, R White’s ginger beer, etc.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Venetian Gothic in Bristol. Browns, originally museum and library, a building of the 1860s-1870s.
Pointed Gothic arches and carved capitals on the open arcade that fronts this stone and brick building.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Sun on Dent’s Terrace, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, the other day. Almshouses designed by George Gilbert Scott and and J Drayton Wyatt, 1865.
Row of small houses in Cotswold stone with polychrome stone arches.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thank 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.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Snowdrops in the churchyard, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, a couple of hundred yards from where I live.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Font, Halesworth church, Norfolk. #fontsonFriday
Baptismal font carved with lions, angels holding shields. Cherubim, and ?Tudor rose.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fan vaulting in. Cirencester parish church.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Vine: a beautifully tiled Victorian pub in Cheltenham.
Victorian pub on corner site, the ground floor tiled in green and red (with tiled pilasters and capitals); the upper floor is red brick with stone dressings.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Chastleton, Oxfordshire. With Chastleton House poking up behind. #SteepleSaturday #churchcrawling
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Gloucester Docks. Penfold post box — a Victorian design, although this may be a later replica, as the slot looks rather large for an original.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Another from Gloucester Docks. Biddle and Shipton warehouses.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Gloucester Docks, Llanthony Warehouse, this morning. Dull weather but still a reflection.
Seven-storey brick-built Victorian warehouse by the dockside. Painted sign saying LLANTHONY WAREHOUSE.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Broughton, Oxfordshire. #steepleSaturday #churchcrawling
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Difficult 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.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. Font carved with figure of centaur with bow and arrow, inscribed SAGITTARIUS.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire. #adoorableThursday
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Northleach, Gloucestershire, this morning. Limestone lower walls and roof, timber-framed upper storey. #woodensday
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Possibly, but I think it might have got here before the Dissolution. Maybe part of a damaged cross slab.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Re-used carved slab (early medieval?) used as door lintel, Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Tewkesbury Abbey. Light from a stained glass window projected on to stone wall and shafts. Warm light on a cold day.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Tewkesbury Abbey, west front a few days ago. Enormous Norman arch framing later medieval window and doorway.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Carved door with gothic panelling and angel. A medieval survival that always stops me in my tracks. #adoorablethursday
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The 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
Stone church font carved in relief with a baptism scene of a figure being immersed in a pool in which fishes swim. A pair of birds carved to the right, the whole surrounded by an interlace design.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Showing remarkable long-distance trading links between Devon and, well, the edge of civilisation, as we once used the term.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Pershore, Worcestershire. Doorway with Tuscan columns and fanlight with Gothic glazing. A delightful hybrid. #adoorablethursday
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A carved critter in Halesworth, Suffolk. Happy New Year. #woodensday
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Intricately carved bargeboards, Ludlow, Shropshire. #woodensday
Upper part of timber-framed building showing bargeboards (boards along the edges of the gables) carved with complex patterns of circles and wavy lines, plus a pinnacle with a pointed top.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Fantastic. Thank you.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I’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.
Hand-painted shop sign reading ‘Drugs & cattle medicines. Photographic supplies’.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This 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.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Holy Trinity church, Bungay, Suffolk. #steeplesaturday
Medieval church either Gothic windows, red tiled roof and round tower.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Another fabulous Herefordshire font, this time at Eardisley. #fontsonfriday
Bowl-shaped baptismal font, carved in deep relief with two figures fighting with spear and sword. Much use of interlaced patterns.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Approaching peak cheese here.
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Ian 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
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
So good. And this series is a very unusual example of two artists collaborating in this way.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Lovely place. Should be better known.
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I want one!
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Happy Christmas—and season’s greetings, whatever your festival. Stained glass angel, Yarnton, Oxfordshire.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The 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)
Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen
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Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Love those Thomas Denny windows. Thank you for posting.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar The last window ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin
Finely detailed illustration looking through winter trees towards a valley and the lovely, subtle colours of sunrise. In the mid-ground, a small group of deer roam past.
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