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Heidi The History Mouse

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A mainly medieval mouse with a passion for history and architecture. Historia, Caseus, Somnum!

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · Jun 14

Mouse's #RiverAxeTopThree #Somerset. So which of the sixteen churches would Mouse recommend visiting? In at number one: #StJohnAxbridge. Church and town make a fine day out. More Perpy perfection. Crossing and vaulting are wonderful, but add ceilings, roof timbers and monuments

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1h

Chancel to nave #StMaryCannington #Somerset #Woodensday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1h

Mouse made you wait long enough and now here it is. Very fine C15 rood screen matching the two parclose. The rood group, incredibly, was added in the 1980s. You have no idea how long it took Mouse to line the cross up with the central window mullion #StMaryCannington #Woodensday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1h

East end of south aisle #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #Woodensday

Original C15 parclose. Very fine openwork

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1h

North of chancel adjacent to altar #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

The slit window top left was, so the story goes, used by nuns of #CanningtonPriory to get a good squint at proceedings in the chancel. Only women over 10ft tall were allowed to join the order

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1h

Who wins?

This is the only style of window that is used on both north and south aisles and to the north and south of the chancel. Only the east and west panel windows differ. Both are larger and with more elaborate tracery #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2h

North aisle #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

Panel window - plain glass edition #JustPlainGlass

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2h

North aisle #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

Panel window - stained glass edition

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2h

North aisle #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #Woodensday

Often aisle roofs are either flat or lean-to. This is unusual as it has a ridge changing the geometry of the ribs. The medieval bosses here are complimented by painted corbels and moulded wall beam with painted decoration

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2h

The church of #StMarysCannington #Somerset has a single wagon roof that extends from east window to tower arch. Plain panels, moulded wall beam and original, albeit repainted, medieval bosses, 131 in number #Woodensday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2h

It has to be said that #CanningtonsGreatBigWall is rather impressive. Coped and supported by (roughly) equidistant pilaster buttresses each with its own little 'pent roof'. Seen here extending from the churchyard of #StMaryCannington to the main road #WallsOnWednesday

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2h

It comes from domestic interior design and is (probably) from C17/C18 and the English country house. A wooden moulding which separates two differently decorated portions of a wall is a dado rail🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2h

An interesting one this which (unhelpfully) has three very different and distinct meanings although the use of the word still relates to its Latin origin in each case. A cut, part of a column's pedestal and in this case the lower third of a wall when decorated differently to the portion above it🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2h

Mouse love the idea of an eccentric tower! Makes you wonder what it's going to do next🐭

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 2h

The fabulous east window of #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

The start of #CanningtonsGreatBigWall can be seen to the right. On the other side of the wall the grounds of Cannington Manor, formerly #CanningtonPriory

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 3h

So what is Cannington in Somerset notable for? A wall! A great big wall. A C17 wall. A Grade II Listed wall no less. Thought to follow the original boundary of #CanningtonPriory and now enclosing (surprise) the 'Walled Garden of Cannington' #CanningtonsGreatBigWall for #WallsOnWednesday

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 12h

Mouse provide some closeups on Friday🐭

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 12h

That's an idea, thank you🐭

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 12h

Mouse is sure🐭

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

Mouse think most, if not all, are. They are largely in a good state of repair. Too good to be the same age as either the tower or the remainder of the church🐭

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

For those who like such things a closeup of the dado tiling to the chancel #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #TilesOnTuesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

There's more than a faint tang of Victorian dairy, fishmongers or butchers to this wrap around the chancel dado tiling and mosaic work. Not entirely up Mouse's strasse but it makes a good photo with furnishings and memorial tablet #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #TilesOnTuesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

Chancel #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #TilesOnTuesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

West tower around font #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #TilesOnTuesday

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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

South aisle. East elevation #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #TraceryTuesday

This style is used throughout the church apart from the east (chancel) and west (tower) windows. Pointed 2x3 panel window with cusped #Ogee lights. The lower panel spandrels are decorated with quatrefoil

Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 1d

A Mouse eye view #StMaryCannington #Somerset for #TowerTuesday

Perfect Perpy window with slender mullions and bar tracery and unusually, niches populated by effigies of saints. They are more often than not long gone (you know why) #TraceryTuesday

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