Heidi The History Mouse

Cat just catting🐭

Mouse not sure if there ever was one. It's not uncommon for canopied chest tombs to just have a flat surface although saying that some effigies were removed and destroyed during Reformation and Commonwealth🐭

C19 copy. Say no more. #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #FontsOnFriday

Doorway west of tower #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #FridaysFacesInStone

These head stops have fabulous facial expressions. They could be C15 originals but Mouse suspects they are C19 additions or replacements. The masonry certainly suggests they have been re-set

It's been a while and so it's nice to find a good quality hatchment under the tower #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

Scallop shells and lions #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

Particularly finely carved freestone arms on the south aisle tomb. The tassels, pellets around the base of the helm, and egg and dart motif to the base are exquisite

East bay. North aisle. A curious looking organ for #FridayPipes from #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset

The things you find in churches! More rat than mus this. They'll nosh anything, even candles. No table manners and they put everything on the slate. Found in the memorial in the south isle #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from the church of the #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Relief carved fleurons in the cavetto moulding of the C15 south doorway

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from the church of the #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Door to tower stair turret set in hollow moulded lancet doorway. The planked filleted door matches south and west external doors

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from the church of the #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Chancel roof of three bays, decorated with cusped segmental panels forming a pleasing pattern the length of the central purlin

Jokes that don't work when you see them written down number 47. Exhibit A: What's a Greek urn? About 50 Euro a day. Exhibit B: What are amphorae? Makin' di sandwiches. Curious pottery in the priest's door, south of chancel #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from the church of the #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Finely carved tomb with baldachino baring a crest supported by six classical fluted columns. Now just a receptacle for the random

Melting...❤️

Is it odd for a mus to have a favourite cat breed? Oh, no. Mouse got Gondii🐭

Mouse live in a home for the terminally confused🐭

Mouse raise a full glass of Montepulciano to your talent. Saluti!🐭

Good point, well made!🐭

That's impressive. Lovely classical arcades too🐭

Mousey giggles🐭

Gotta love a quiz🐭

South door (interior) #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday

Large horizontal planks showing that the door is of double planked construction. Although this looks authentic, there is a bevel between each plank which suggests that it's more modern than C15

You'd be surprised too if you woke up one morning and suddenly one eye was vastly bigger than the other...

#SurprisedChurches #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday

South of chancel #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday

Tiny planked priest's door more suited to a farm building than a church perhaps. The pseudo-4-centred deeply moulded doorway has been re-set

Lovely blue and gold clock face above a fine #WestDoorAndWindowCombo #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday

As an aside the dressing of the stone has a C19 feel although it's dated to mid-C15. Quite unlike the rubble fill of near neighbour #StMaryPortbury

West of tower #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday

Filleted door, very similar in design to the south door with the addition of a thick bottom ledge. It is more likely than not a modern replacement. The #RichlyMoulded pointed doorway dates to mid C15

Hooray! A gate with a church behind it. What more could you want? #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #Thursgate #IronworkThursday

South porch interior #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday

Rather beautiful filleted door with styles extending to a pointed arch around the head. The quality and patina of the wood suggest age and good maintenance. Only the inside will tell

Just is doing a lot of heavy lifting there! If Mouse could do illustrations she wouldn't be using the word just. Mouse got no discernable artistic skill. It's the paws🐭

British Blue? Loving the cusping on his head🐭