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Philip Pankhurst

@oldpanks.bsky.social

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Man of Kent, Herefordian 'from off' for past 37 years. Retired after career of extreme variety. Architectural history, photographer, woodworker, waterways, railways. Grateful OU graduate. 'Just lots of wistful nostalgia' some say... Quite happy with that.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 6d

#SteepleSaturday The incomparable Beverley Minster, seen here in 2005.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 8d

#AdoorableThursday The West door, Beverley Minster. By William Thornton of York, 1720.

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 8d

#AdoorableThursday St Peter, Howden. Collegiate masterpiece of early 14th century, now partly ruinous. South door, a hybrid of 1320 with 19th century infill.

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 9d

Get your order in - a snip at £20. A fine history and tribute. Quite beautiful in every way...

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted to receive my complimentary copy of The Story of the Herefordshire Pomona, surely the most beautiful publication ever produced about the county and its orchards. A exquisite tribute by Bill Laws, published by Logaston Press. Many thanks, the perfect antidote to a day of hateful politics...

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 13d

#SteepleSaturday St Mary, Beverley. The tower rebuilt after spectacular collapse in 1520. Western turrets by Myers to designs by Pugin 1844-52. Original turrets survive, one in a garden at Woodmansey, the other on Council property in Beverley.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 15d

#AdoorableThursday Beverley Minster, North transept portal. A sumptuous piece dating from no later than 1260. Woodwork by William Thornton of York, under the supervision of Nicholas Haksmoor.

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 16d

#Woodensday A visit to the magnificent St Mary, Ripple is so worthwhile. The icing on the cake, however, is the wonderful set of misericords showing the Labours of the Months and the Sun and Moon. The church is justly proud of them and displays them well.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 23d

#TilesOnTuesday From a small factory in the Herefordshire village of Lugwardine, William and Henry Godwin produced encaustic tiles which adorn cathedrals and churches all over the former British Empire and beyond, including their own parish church of St Peter.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 24d

Sorry, I should have been more helpful - near Stroud in Gloucestershire. If you like him, it's a William Morris shrine with quite breathtaking stained glass.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 26d

#SteepleSaturday All Saints, Selsley. Bodley masterpiece for Samuel Stephens Marling in spectacular setting. Epic stained glass inside by Morris and all of the boys in the band. Philip Webb kept them all under control.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 28d

#FontsonFriday St Mary, Cusop. Early Norman font in the parish church of Hay on Wye poisoner Herbert Rouse Armstrong, who lived a few yards from the church.

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 28d

#FontsonFriday St Meilig, Llowes. The 13th century font, patched up with two iron bands by a 1950s blacksmith and returned to the church after many years in the nearby garden at Brynyrhydd, the home of Colonel Beavan.

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Sep 9

Nothing - ever, I would suggest. Where would you find/how would you afford a cast like that ever again ? How could you reproduce the London of that era ?

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Sep 6

#SteepleSaturday St Peter & St Paul, Uplyme, East Devon. 'Largely of the early 19th century and of 1875', says Pevsner. The tower is medieval, however. Many a blissful holiday here, a mile or two from Lyme Regis...

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 30

#SteepleSaturday St Michael, Dewsall. At the end of a long lane with the Court as a neighbour and dating from the 14th century, with restoration by F.R. Kempson in 1868. The spire was restored in 1923 by John Nicholson. On the Duchy of Cornwall estate, on a glorious early May evening.

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 28

#AdoorableThursday St Mary, Pembridge. Two 14th century doors with contemporary ironwork. The North door and the plainer West door, which still shows the damage inflicted by Parliamentarian forces in 1645.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 27

We are very proud of it.

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Certainly did...

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 27

St David's Cathedral - knew it from photographs but I attended a choral service there and was absolutely bowled over by the acoustics...

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 27

#Woodensday St Mary's, King's Pyon. Nave and South transept roof, very early 14th century.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 26

Recent minor vandalism at the font in St Mary's, King's Pyon has resulted in increased security. The poor old 1380 lion's hearing isn't what is was - he is tucked away in the South transept and didn't hear a thing. His new mate now looks after that end of the building.

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 24

#StainedGlassSunday St Mary, Whitton, Shropshire. Morris & Co/Burne-Jones windows - the breathtaking East window of 1893 designed by him and two angels of 1912 by Dearle, reusing EB-J designs.

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Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 23

#SteepleSaturday St Paulinus, Llangors, Powys

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · Aug 21

#ADoorableThursday St John the Baptist, France Lynch. The Priest's Door on the North side of the chancel. Built on a hillside, the second complete church (after Llangrove) by G.F. Bodley, described in Pevsner as 'a foretaste of his future masterpieces'.