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Kate North
@curatorkate.bsky.social
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Heritage & conservation professional / enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃 Curator of Properties for English Heritage, and freelance consultant. Studying p/t for a PhD in lime finishes, at the University of Stirling. Easily distracted by dogs!
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 11h
Definitely! 😂
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 12h
A really unusual and lovely misericord chair…perhaps made up from bits of traditional medieval misericord seats 🤩
St. Andrews’s Church, East Lexham, Norfolk.
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 2d
Stamford, Lincolnshire, is full of excellent historic buildings - but it also has this fabulous Norman arch and enticing cobbled passageway 😍
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 3d
You’re welcome! ☺️
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 3d
You’re welcome! 😀
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 3d
The very colourful rood screen at the Church of All Saints in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, has some unusual decoration…it was re-painted in 1935 by Henry Bird, who happened to be a lepidopterist and incorporated hundreds of butterflies into his design!
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 4d
Yes, guess we’re getting some of the wind from the edge of storm Amy. Thanks for the reminder about The Lodge 😀
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 4d
A beautiful autumnal sunrise in this little corner of Cambridgeshire 🥰
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 5d
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 5d
A lovely 14th century ogee arched doorway framing the disused rood stairs in the Church of St. Nicholas, Swineshead, Bedfordshire 😍
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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 7d
Former entrance to The Welcome to Cumberland Inn, Eamont Bridge, Cumbria. “Struimus in Diem, sed Nox venit,” (We build for the Day, but Night comes) with the date “MDCCXVII” (1717) and the names of Nathan and Elizabeth Coull. R. L. Wharton added later in 1781.
#WindowsOnWednesday
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 6d
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 6d
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 6d
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 6d
Seriously impressive early C17 monument to the Deyers, in St. Andrew’s Church, Great Staughton, Cambs.
The whole thing is incredible, but one of my favourite things about it is the gauntlets looming creepily…especially given that they’ve all lost their hands at some point! 😱😂
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 6d
I don’t think there are that many to be found! The only other one around here is this one…

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Hosted By Bedford Borough Council: Cople Bier House
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 6d
A rare 19th century ‘bier house’, opposite St. Mary’s Church in Keysoe, Bedfordshire…this is where the bier, which was a wheeled contraption for moving coffins from parishioners houses to the church, was kept!
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 7d
It’s not an exterior elevation (but it’s a ruin now, so guess it has become an exterior feature! 😂)…it goes into the tower 😊
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 7d
A fantastic little door - and doorway - in the ruins of the largely 13th century Church of Holy Trinity (also known as St. Nicholas) in the grounds of Ettington Park Hotel, Warwickshire 😍
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 8d
The golden hues of early autumn ❤️…with the added bonus of a quick game of ‘spot the ladybirds’ 🤩
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 9d
Niche! 😂
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 9d
It’s a really beautiful morning here in Cambridgeshire 🥰
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 10d
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 10d
Part of the highly detailed and intricate 13th century west front of Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire 😍 Such an incredible place!
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