Su Westerman 📷
@suwesterman.bsky.social
Amateur photographer of historic architecture - portfolio at www.flickr.com/photos/suwesterman. Studied Architectural History @ContedOxford. Currently, Historic Graffiti Researcher & General Guide @cburycathedral.bsky.social.
How can we let things like this happen?
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Canterbury building 'needs £100k' to avoid slipping into river
Eastbridge Hospital, built in Canterbury in 1180, is
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December 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
How can we let things like this happen?
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The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain
December 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain
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Wonderful ancient Egyptian lion, from the Middle Kingdom, painted on the walls of a tomb in the Valley of the Nobles. #egyptiananimals - and they clearly knew exactly what a lion looked like. I saw him this morning. Wonderful!
December 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Wonderful ancient Egyptian lion, from the Middle Kingdom, painted on the walls of a tomb in the Valley of the Nobles. #egyptiananimals - and they clearly knew exactly what a lion looked like. I saw him this morning. Wonderful!
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Staircase of Hôtel Tassel, Brussels, 1893-94, first Art Nouveau building, designed by Victor Horta, influential Belgian architect, born 1861.
UNESCO World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage
December 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Staircase of Hôtel Tassel, Brussels, 1893-94, first Art Nouveau building, designed by Victor Horta, influential Belgian architect, born 1861.
UNESCO World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage
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#AdventAngels from the south doorway of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire. C12th carving by the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculptors possibly of the Angel Uriel.
December 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#AdventAngels from the south doorway of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire. C12th carving by the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculptors possibly of the Angel Uriel.
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Monasterio de San Pedro de las Dueñas, León (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸
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13 de septiembre de 2024
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13 de septiembre de 2024
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Monasterio de San Pedro de las Dueñas, León (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸
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13 de septiembre de 2024
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13 de septiembre de 2024
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Prague Castle, Vladislav Hall (1493-1502), when mad fictive coffers were still painted onto a crazily beautiful rib vault that soars and writhes and clutches and, in places, snaps.
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Prague Castle, Vladislav Hall (1493-1502), when mad fictive coffers were still painted onto a crazily beautiful rib vault that soars and writhes and clutches and, in places, snaps.
Having partaken of a walking tour with @thegentleauthor.bsky.social around Spitalfields, I certainly second this recommendation!
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Having partaken of a walking tour with @thegentleauthor.bsky.social around Spitalfields, I certainly second this recommendation!
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Fossil moquette for London Underground. Jack Thompson and Richard Eatough. c.1954.
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Fossil moquette for London Underground. Jack Thompson and Richard Eatough. c.1954.
A wonderful view by @fotofacade.bsky.social of a wonderful place.
✨From the archives: St Mary’s, Breamore in Hampshire, is one of the most complete late Anglo-Saxon churches we have — a building that’s held its ground for over a millennium. Here I photographed it with the Elizabethan Breamore House behind it, two eras folded into one view.
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A wonderful view by @fotofacade.bsky.social of a wonderful place.
Stumbled upon this myself by chance recently.
Silver End a model village near Braintree in Essex built by Francis Henry Crittall of Crittall windows who built a factory & housing for his employees in the 1920’s.
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Stumbled upon this myself by chance recently.
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How I wish this London Transport wonder at Manor House from 1933 had survived! As well as the signpost it masks a tram/trolleybus overhead pole with a remarkable "UD" Underground finail. Sigh.
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
How I wish this London Transport wonder at Manor House from 1933 had survived! As well as the signpost it masks a tram/trolleybus overhead pole with a remarkable "UD" Underground finail. Sigh.
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Palimpsest is such a lovely word. Here's an example in the C11 chapel of St Martin at Wareham, Dorset. Layers of decoration and script overlay each other on the Chancel arch. Gorgeous.
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Palimpsest is such a lovely word. Here's an example in the C11 chapel of St Martin at Wareham, Dorset. Layers of decoration and script overlay each other on the Chancel arch. Gorgeous.
If you're visiting Amsterdam and love architecture a visit to the Het Schip museum is a must.
Michel de Klerk designed 'Het Schip' with orange-red Groningen bricks and used more than twenty different types of brickwork patterns.
He believed that workers' houses deserved to be beautiful.
While modern social housing uses prefab garbage.
He believed that workers' houses deserved to be beautiful.
While modern social housing uses prefab garbage.
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
If you're visiting Amsterdam and love architecture a visit to the Het Schip museum is a must.
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Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. De expressieve gevel naar ontwerp van architect Staal golft tegen de strakker gevel van een school.
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. The expressive facade designed by architect Staal undulates against the sleeker facade of a school.
#amsterdamseschool #brickalicious
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. The expressive facade designed by architect Staal undulates against the sleeker facade of a school.
#amsterdamseschool #brickalicious
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. De expressieve gevel naar ontwerp van architect Staal golft tegen de strakker gevel van een school.
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. The expressive facade designed by architect Staal undulates against the sleeker facade of a school.
#amsterdamseschool #brickalicious
Joh. M. Coenenstraat Amsterdam. The expressive facade designed by architect Staal undulates against the sleeker facade of a school.
#amsterdamseschool #brickalicious
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The mediaeval London Bridge in the context of the modern city. Art by Julian Hoffman Anton and David Fletcher.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The mediaeval London Bridge in the context of the modern city. Art by Julian Hoffman Anton and David Fletcher.
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As it's #ADoorableThursday here is the entrance to Garforth House, Micklegate, York with a fine set of lamp holders for the dark nights ahead.
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
As it's #ADoorableThursday here is the entrance to Garforth House, Micklegate, York with a fine set of lamp holders for the dark nights ahead.
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
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#StaircaseSaturday
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#StaircaseSaturday
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
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Roman bronze dragon’s head standard, AD 190-260.
Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked!
Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked!
Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Roman bronze dragon’s head standard, AD 190-260.
Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked!
Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked!
Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
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November 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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OMG BATS 🦇
This piece is amazing.
Palma Depicting a Ball Player and Flying #Bats
Veracruz Culture, Mexico, Gulf Coast, c. 200-900 CE
Volcanic stone
@explorenoma.bsky.social NOMA
#IndigenousArt #HSS2025
This piece is amazing.
Palma Depicting a Ball Player and Flying #Bats
Veracruz Culture, Mexico, Gulf Coast, c. 200-900 CE
Volcanic stone
@explorenoma.bsky.social NOMA
#IndigenousArt #HSS2025
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
OMG BATS 🦇
This piece is amazing.
Palma Depicting a Ball Player and Flying #Bats
Veracruz Culture, Mexico, Gulf Coast, c. 200-900 CE
Volcanic stone
@explorenoma.bsky.social NOMA
#IndigenousArt #HSS2025
This piece is amazing.
Palma Depicting a Ball Player and Flying #Bats
Veracruz Culture, Mexico, Gulf Coast, c. 200-900 CE
Volcanic stone
@explorenoma.bsky.social NOMA
#IndigenousArt #HSS2025
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As another autumn storm rages, here is the gaunt skeleton of the impressive Cornish engine house at Bottalack Tin Mine, St Just, #Cornwall, in a brief weather window last week. Quite a view!
Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk
📷 My own
Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk
📷 My own
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
As another autumn storm rages, here is the gaunt skeleton of the impressive Cornish engine house at Bottalack Tin Mine, St Just, #Cornwall, in a brief weather window last week. Quite a view!
Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk
📷 My own
Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk
📷 My own
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St Michael's, Raddington, Somerset for #AdoorableThursday Medieval door (Pevsner: C15, listing: C15) in an arched doorframe of two massive oak baulks. The ironwork is original; Pevsner describes it as 'a firework of foliage' (steady on Mr P!) A beautiful, unspoilt church in a beautiful location.
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
St Michael's, Raddington, Somerset for #AdoorableThursday Medieval door (Pevsner: C15, listing: C15) in an arched doorframe of two massive oak baulks. The ironwork is original; Pevsner describes it as 'a firework of foliage' (steady on Mr P!) A beautiful, unspoilt church in a beautiful location.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Simple things... love this holy trinity of jaunty Georgian portals in Bridlington yesterday. Full of personality.
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Simple things... love this holy trinity of jaunty Georgian portals in Bridlington yesterday. Full of personality.