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Gretel le Maître 🐘

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Trying to be kind. Church and old buildings explorer; love words, cricket, history, theatre, books, art, music, nature, birds, manuscripts. 😊 Only here for gentle stuff. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2412300/episodes/16064942

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · Apr 17

Maundy Thursday at Sherborne Abbey.

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 36m

Ah yes

Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 36m

Yum! 😋

Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 37m

The 12th century remains of old Buckfast Abbey, Devon.

Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 2h

The creaking kissing gate at the end of an old sunken track. The stuff of dreams…

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 23h

I like this photograph very much. Different types of buildings jostling their shoulders side-by-side.

Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 23h

Those delicious, eye-soothing arches.

Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the remains of Wolvesey Castle in Winchester. Mostly 12th century in date, the castle was the main residence for the Bishops of Winchester. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #WolvesleyCastle #Winchester

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

Well put

Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

They’re fab - they draw you in and are really helpful 🤓

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

I loved that too. And I did!! 🤗

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

I adore these sort of diagrams. This is Buckfast Abbey’s own illustration of …. Buckfast Abbey. How it would have looked in the 15th century.

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

Buckfast Abbey, this afternoon.

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

A delicious mix of directions here. 😊

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

Wherever there is a monastery, there is a good source of running water.

Buckfastleigh, Devon, this evening.

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

The arch of the north gate and part of the barrel-vaulted undercroft by the west cloister are now the only buildings to survive (above ground) from the original 12th century Cistercian abbey.
The remains of the undercroft
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

The north gate arch at Buckfast Abbey is considered the only above-ground remains of the 12th century Cistercian rebuilding of the monastery. (More information below.)

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 1d

Do join me for a little gentle bedtime listening, including Jerome K Jerome, Bede and JL Carr. 🤓🍂
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The Breath of Autumnal Air in Oxgodby; Gretel waffles too much; and we toast The Barley Mow at Clifton - Gretel le Maître Ponders, with Bede & other guests

The second episode today, to listen to while tucking into bed with warm milk and an extra blanket. 🍂

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 2d

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 4d

A muddle of arches makes a church all the more charming. Sherborne Abbey this evening, looking south from the north transept.

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 4d

He’s conducting his own Requiem this evening at Sherborne Abbey

Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 4d

Sherborne Abbey this afternoon.

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 4d

As requested 🤗🥰

Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, tis my ‘local’, Sherborne. Sadly no cloisters any more but there are the ‘courts’ of the school which has existed for as long as the Abbey, though modified much over the centuries. The courts were modelled on the cloisters, were where Mr Chips was filmed. They bump up against the old cloisters x

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 4d

Every loss reveals what we're made of – the fascinating (and wonderfully poetic) science of why and how leaves change color www.themarginalian.org/2021/10/26/w...

Every Loss Reveals What We Are Made of: Blue Bananas, Why Leaves Change Color, and the Ongoing Mystery of Chlorophyll

“We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 4d

I’m spending some quiet time inside this beautiful Abbey later. Any requests for a lighted candle? Or information sought? Or a specific photograph? Your wish is my (conditional) command 🪔

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