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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Mouse having a break (Mouse thinks it's well earned) for a couple of weeks so no brand new material. But she'll be RTing and commenting and will be back. Forget her not!🐭 Nave through chancel arch #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

North porticus, north east corner #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire Stone basin with moulded corners. Badly worn. Stem square section and is grooved with graffiti cross. No base or plinth. Basin and shaft weren't born together one pre-conquest the other Norman #FontsOnFriday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

You can see more if it's broken... Here you can see the stone courses corresponding to base and capital and the vertical and horizontal lines where the pilaster and string course have been hacked away #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire #StLaurenceDecoration

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How are these arches made? Time to zoom in. A narrow course of masonry corresponds to the capital and base from which they were cut. The pilaster is inserted into a vertical channel. The arch is cut in relief from the stones above #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire #StLaurenceDecoration

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Each elevation of the nave and chancel of the church of #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire is decorated with a blind arcade. There are two styles; solid arch (shown left) and circular strip of masonry (shown right). These in themselves vary slightly #StLaurenceDecoration

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The #ViewFromTheChurchDoor #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday #AdoorableThursday A view three hundred years into the future. The decorated period window to the north of the chancel, church of the #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

North porticus to nave #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday Two orders of arch. Left side preserves some of the original detail including a reeded respond. The marks are just visible to the right where this detail was hacked away #StLaurenceDoorways (4/5)

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Nave to north porticus #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday Two orders of arch, probably with a common abcus. Hacked flush to allow wall to be lined and plastered when the building was a dwelling #StLaurenceDoorways (3/5)

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

North porticus #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday Repairs to the right (facing) show two orders of arch, the outer projecting slightly from the inner. The vertical marks to the left show supports and abcus hacked flush to the wall #StLaurenceDoorways (2/5)

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

South of nave #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #DoorwayThursday Jambs capped by projecting abacus stone with arch. Typically Saxon opening; tall and thin, abacus is single stone running through the entire depth of the wall, circular stilted arch #StLaurenceDoorways (1/5)

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Nave #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire Victorian, of course, but very impressive. A 3-bay common rafter roof with curved trusses, purlins and curved wind braces #Woodensday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Nave, south elevation #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire A Saxon double splay single light contemporaneous with the original building? Mouse actually think not #WindowsOnWednesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Chancel, south elevation #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire Single light with circular head and deep splay. An external splay would tend to suggest a Saxon opening. Saxon lights were double splayed, internal and external and would be unglazed #WindowsOnWednesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Chancel, south elevation #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire From top; four bay blind arcade on piers with bases and capitals, string course, pilaster strip. circular headed single light with deep splay east of pilaster strip #PilasterStrip #WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Time for a #NerdyMouseAlert. Look away now if you don't like minute technical detail. A pilaster strip sits in a channel in the wall. It may be laid with each stone course or cut in later #PilasterStrip #StLaurenceDecoration #WallsOnWednesday #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

West elevation of north porticus. Decoration on wall; two pilaster strips and clasping pilaster strip to the north corner

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The vertical, very slight projection from this wall's surface is a pilaster strip or lesene (different from a pilaster which has a base and capital) #PilasterStrip. It is a feature of both Saxon and Norman architecture #WallsOnWednesday #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A quick walk around #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire (Part IV of IV): From north east the #MouseEyeView. Showing upper sections of chancel and nave, with blind arcade and upper section of porticus

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A quick walk around #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire (Part III of IV): From south east. Showing the continuation of the blind arcade cross south and east elevations and carved reeded shaft motif to nave gable end

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A quick walk around #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire (Part II of IV): From north west. The north porticus, the top third of which has more likely than not been rebuilt as the north elevation is dotted with #Spolia. Also fragment of blind arcade to nave. Note its form

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A quick walk around #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire (Part I of IV): From south west. The west elevation which was rebuilt C19 reinstating the blind arcade and inserting two windows in the centre. The arcade continues cross the south elevation. Creasing left by lost porticus

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The chancel #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire The walls are testament to myriad changes over centuries that forgot this was once a Saxon church, and removal of windows and doors of the Victorian 'return to the original' Stand here alone no matter how long you have to wait

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

From nave through chancel arch #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire Standing on this spot, you're about to enter the most atmospheric space Mouse ever been in. You're staring back over 1000 years. Only west Kennet Long Barrow comes even close

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What remains of the church of #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire are the nave and chancel (shown photograph left) and a single porticus to the north of the nave. The building's origin and purpose were seemingly lost until C19 having been incorporated into a school and dwelling

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Welcome to the church of St. Laurence , Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. The only church Mouse has visited more than once and with good reason. Said to be almost entirely Saxon, although Mouse had her doubts. Mouse wonder if she'll change her mind #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

From the south showing nave to the left, with two large buttresses, and chancel to the right. The building is perhaps most noticeable for its height for a single stage. However this is typical of the Saxon stone church. A door sits between the two buttresses. Nave and chancel each have a circular headed single light

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Curiously although the church of the #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire is really quite beautiful in totality, few single photos seem to stand out. This though caught Mouse's eye it's the #MouseFavouritePhoto

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

And as Mouse move on, what of the church of the #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire? If you wanted a church where you could see the key features of a medieval church from Romanesque to Gothic choose here. The lighting though is awful. Mouse award 4/5 #MusVisit🐭🐭🐭🐭

Church of the Holy Trinity Bradford on Avon from the north east showing chancel, nave, north aisle and west tower

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A full day late but time for Mouse to yell #FontsMeanFarewell (with just a trace of Saturday's Prosecco still racing through her veins). Good job she only has to cross the road to visit the next church on Mouse's #ScamperUpTheSomersetAvon. One of THE most photographed and debated

Foregrounded and partially obscured by a stone wall with a hedge growing above it, the gable end of a tall stone building. An arcade of six circular arches is visible half way up the building. The central two bays are glazed, the pair either side are blind

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

REPOST DUE TO HEAD LOSS Memorial niche south of chancel #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #FridaysFacesInStone Medieval carved heads, two from the gable hood mould, two from the pinnacles on the #Ogee canopy. From C13 on head stops evolved in sophistication. These are wonderfully expressive

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

North aisle #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #FontsOnFriday Font dating to C15 but maybe later recut. Octagonal. Bowl with carved faces; quatrefoil, escutcheons etc. Unusual stem; deep square-set, pointed cusped niches with small hollow spandrels holding items various

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"If you liked it, you should have put an organ in it...." Fabulously be-piped organ proudly occupying the easternmost bay of the north aisle arcade #FridayPipes from #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Memorial niche south of chancel #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #FridaysFacesInStone Medieval carved heads, two from the gable hood mould, two from the pinnacles on the #Ogee canopy. From C13 on head stops evolved in sophistication. These are wonderfully expressive

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: Three beautifully painted roundels of C15 Flemish glass #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: You'd need good eyesight to see the mysteries of the Eucharist from here. Long hagioscope cut in the wall behind the chancel arch. Perfect angle though #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

Long, narrow channel framing the cross on the altar

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: claimed to have been a reredos from one of the two chantry chapels that once occupied the north aisle, it's now #Spolia reset in the north wall #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: Peeking through the tree line a C19 building formerly the Avon tyre factory, now riverside apartments. One little clue tells you which town its in. Know what it is? #BradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: North west of chancel arch, adjacent to rood stair. Hagioscope. The east end of the north aisle was a chantry chapel. This looks to the former altar position #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

Memorial tablet and some wooden #ChurchClutter framed in a chamfered pseudo-4-centred arch cut through the wall between the end of the nave and the east end of the north aisle

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A #ViewFromTheChurchDoor from #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #AdoorableThursday Part II of II Through pointed doorway, the two leaves of the church door thrown wide open, to rain sodden churchyard. A forlorn lamppost stands irritatingly off centre from the apex

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A #ViewFromTheChurchDoor from #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #AdoorableThursday Part I of II From inside out; Tudor rere with painted Bible quote (Psalm 84:10) round the arch, shallow Tudor doorway, pointed doorway, lamppost

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

North of chancel arch #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #AdoorableThursday After a seeming age, a #DoorInMidAir. Access to the now vanished rood loft. Lower and upper doorways are a Tudor arch. Upper door is original; ledged two planks. Beautiful

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Stair turret. Nave projection #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #AdoorableThursday The masonry in which this planked door is set looks Norman but that would mean it predates the tower. So let's say the circular arch doorway is 'Norman Style'. Lighting is 'Prison Style'

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Gloomy #WestDoorAndWindowCombo from #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #AdoorableThursday Segmental pointed 3x2 panel window above wide 3-centred doorway. Central window lights are wider than outer lights. Cusped pointed lights and gloriously slender mullions and muntins

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

West of tower #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #AdoorableThursday Wide, roll-moulded 3-centred doorway with narrow label and short horizontal stops. Doubtless part of the C15 alterations to the C13 tower. Planked studded door and now seemingly obligatory HMP issue light

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Stuff Mouse #ShouldHavePostedOnWednesday: South of chancel. The external gabled projection houses a niche for an effigy to the interior although Mouse cannot work out how the depths work looking at the window splays #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #WindowsOnWednesday

Niche comprising cusped pointed arch with thin pointed hood mould framed by a shallow gable (like a hood mould but triangular) in turn flanked by pinnacles. Gable and pinnacles are surmounted by foliate finials

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Stuff Mouse #ShouldHavePostedOnWednesday: South of chancel. Fine Perpendicular panel window. Each panel contains several roundels of good C15 Flemish stained glass. Assembled mid-C20 but very impactful #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #WindowsOnWednesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Stuff Mouse #ShouldHavePostedOnWednesday: Red ochre wall painting, typical of C14, north of chancel east window. St. Anne tutors Mary, although from a distance it looks like she is about to teach Mary to drive #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #WallPaintingWednesday

Anne and Mary are depicted under a cusped #Ogee arch against an ochre tiled background. Around this niche there re the remains of #FictiveMasonry, the verticals double lined. The use of the ogee niche and the double lining point to the date of the piece. The chancel walls must have looked incredible before the inevitable lime wash was applied

East window and altar from the chancel arch showing the location of the wall painting fragment, top left

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Stuff Mouse #ShouldHavePostedOnWednesday: Stern looking #PeckyMouseBotherer to the left of the chancel arch. Wonder what's got up his (worry not pronouns checked) beak #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #Woodensday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Stuff Mouse #ShouldHavePostedOnWednesday: A really nice pointed 3x2 panel window with late Perpendicular tracery, emerging from shrubbery (Ni... niche) that runs the gamut of greens #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #WindowsOnWednesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

South of chancel #HolyTrinityBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire for #WindowsOnWednesday History in stone. From left; Perpendicular 2-light window, blocked C12 circular headed window, gabled projection with C19 pointed trefoil light, pilaster buttress, C12 long circular headed window

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