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Thursday, 21 August 2014

Compton Martin, North East Somerset

Spiralled Norman pillar at Compton Martin, Chew Valley, North East Somerset

Norman font with chevrons, Compton Martin, North East Somerset

Images © Rhiannon 2014
Posted by Rhiannon at August 21, 2014 No comments:
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Labels: Britain, church, column, Compton Martin, England, Norman sculpture, North-East Somerset
Location: Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset BS40, UK
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Anglo-Saxon Berkshire Gloucestershire Hampshire Mary Norman North East Somerset North-East Somerset Oxfordshire Romanesque Shropshire Somerset South Gloucestershire Wiltshire animal carving beakhead bird capital chancel arch chevron column corbel cross dragon effigy experience face foliage scrolls font green cat green man head holy well household god lamb of god lettering lintel piscina sarsen stones tree of life tympanum wyvern

Websites of Interest

  • Anglo Saxon Churches
  • Beakheads
  • Beyond the Pale: exhibitionist carvings on medieval churches
  • British Listed Buildings Online
  • Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland before the 13th century: illustrated book by J Romilly Allen, on the Internet Archive.
  • Echoes of the Past (a fellow font-fancier)
  • Extraordinary Book of Doors
  • Great English Churches - Norman fonts
  • Ipernity: Stiffleaf
  • North Stoke
  • Rex Harris on Flickr
  • Romanesque Britain on Flickr
  • The Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture
  • The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
  • The Modern Antiquarian (visitable prehistory)
  • The Ragged Society of Antiquarians
  • The Sheela Na Gig Project
  • The Time is Now
  • Via Lucis (European Romanesque sculpture)

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