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Jamie Hew

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West Country boy interested in architecture, history, churches, standing stones, wildlife and wilding, roses, clean politics, justice and democracy

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Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 1h

Why is my English feed flooded by America? It's all bloody baseball, lunatics ranting about the antichrist or frogs being batonned and gassed. ffs america

Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 1h

As an Englisman I can say civilised nations don't really do Jesus anymore. It's a bit passé you know

Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 4h

Graphic?

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 8h

Sunday read: "And so I stand beside the latch, comforted by the collective thumbprint. Through the imperceptible hollowing of its burnished curve, it cradles an immortality defined through touch" www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 10h

#SundayStonework
St Martin’s at North Nibley has an elegant south aisle dating from the later 1400s. Slender octagonal piers and capitals carved with various motifs, including this foliate head/green man.

A carving of a “green man” high up on the capital of an octagonal column. Foliage sprouts from the mouth left and right of a moustachioed face. The shot is rather marred by a twist of wire running below the figure.

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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 3d

What’s behind this door at Charlecote in Warwickshire?
#AdoorableThursday
#HistoricHouses
#Warwickshire
#Photography

I’m pretty certain it’s a spiral staircase. There is a yukka plant on the left and a pink climbing rose on the right. The door is wooden with metal studs. It is surrounded by patterned brickwork of one of the towers at Charlecote.

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Royal Archaeological Institute @royalarchinst.bsky.social · 1d

Booking is now open for our Autumn Meeting in Canterbury!

We will be visiting St Martin’s Church, St Augustine’s Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral during the day, with guided tours at each location and a special visit to the archives at the Cathedral ⛪️

www.royalarchinst.org/events/2025/...

A view of the vaulting of Bell Harry Tower at Canterbury Cathedral

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 1d

Good day all.

The image shows several headstones surrounding a rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) tree covered with clusters of orange-red berries.

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 1d

💐 Leaves from the book of nature, Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars;[184-?]

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Illustration titled "Leaves from the Book of Nature" showing various species of British butterflies arranged in clusters, each group perched on delicately sketched garden plants. Butterflies display diverse wing patterns and colors, including orange, brown, black, white, blue, and red hues. The detailed artwork combines hand-colored butterflies with fine line drawings of botanical elements, capturing the natural garden habitat. The page includes text identifying the butterflies and publisher information at the bottom. This vintage print highlights the beauty and variety of butterflies commonly found in British gardens.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21h

Derwent village’s drowned church in Ladybower Reservoir, Derbyshire

two people looking at a church spire above the water level of a reservoir

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John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 22h

Continuing my study tour of Hampshire churches my guests enjoyed the iconography of the Tournai Marble Font at East Meon. Here Eve takes the apple.

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Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 21h

That's great, John

Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 21h

No idea. A Welsh saint who arrived by coracle and was hot on Marianism? And long nuns.

Before the Saxon Church and law penetrated to the land where the Levels reach the sea. Far far beyond Athelney

Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 22h

Rather dreadful. It and the flags being 'stored' in a tiny inaccessible corner wedged behind the pew.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1d

Your praises were sung all round.

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Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 1d

Good point.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

Gazing in awe & wonder 😮

Inside the spectacular Little Woodbury house at @butserancientfarm.co.uk where the great soot-blackened roof stands without central posts

An incredible family house from Late Iron Age Britain

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@theduncanmackay.bsky.social

📷 My own, Sept

Duncan & Miles inside a roundhouse gazing up at the roof

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Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 1d

You Americans seem to think they're handed out like sweeties!

Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm practically ribbon pointing. Looks like hard cement. Either way the mortar is given precedence and greater importance than the stone with no respect for the lime either.

Nul points from the Minehead contingent.

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · 1d

Just five more minutes, mother!

😊😊😊😊😊😊🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

#bluesky #nature #animals #wildlife

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John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 1d

As I lead my party around the churches of Hampshire I introduced them to Shedfield designed by local architect John Colson who took his inspiration from Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 2d

Carmunnock Parish Church in Glasgow. Rebuilt in the 1760s, it's possibly based on a pre-reformation religious site. The main entrance is through the small door under the stairs, while the stairs themselves lead up to one of the upper galleries.

#glasgow #carmunnock #church #architecture

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Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 2d

That wasnt my point

Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social · 2d

Obsequiousness and blind loyalty are so hard to stomach.

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John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 2d

Romanesque pillar piscina at Swannington church, Norfolk, decorated with a lively image of St George and the Dragon. Church open daily

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