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Saturday, 28 July 2012

Whaddon, Wiltshire





 










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Posted by Rhiannon at July 28, 2012 No comments:
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Labels: beading, Britain, England, Norman, Romanesque, sculpture, tympanum, vegetation scrolls, Whaddon, Wiltshire, zig-zag
Location: Whaddon, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14, UK
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Subjects (work in progress)

Anglo-Saxon animal carving beakhead Berkshire bird capital chancel arch chevron column corbel cross dragon effigy experience face foliage scrolls font Gloucestershire green cat green man Hampshire head holy well household god lamb of god lettering lintel Mary Norman North East Somerset North-East Somerset Oxfordshire piscina Romanesque sarsen stones Shropshire Somerset South Gloucestershire tree of life tympanum Wiltshire 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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