Philip Wilkinson

Door with lion knocker, Broad Street, Oxford. #oxford #trinitycollege #door #lion #gothic

Lullington, Sussex. Tiny church (actually the chancel of a church once much larger) with tiny steeple. #SteepleSaturday #churchcrawling

Cheltenham’s soaring 19th-century Christ Church. #steepleSaturday #churchcrawling

Stanton, Gloucestershire. Telephone box repurposed as information point.

Stanton, Gloucestershire. #steepleSaturday

Font in the church at Rock, Worcestershire. #fontsonFriday

Coloured tile-clad frontage with images of Johannes Gutenberg, William Morris, an angelic figure holding a book, etc.

The glorious Art Nouveau facade of Edward Everard’s printing works in Bristol. Tiles made by Doulton and designed by their chief designer, W J Neatby, c 1900. Johannes Gutenberg at his press on the left, William Morris on the right.

Norman church with thatched roof and round tower.

Hales, Norfolk. Highly picturesque Norman church. #churchcrawling #SteepleSaturday

Flank wall of multi-storey Victorian granary building. Polychrome brickwork in red, black and buff with round-arched, pointed, circular and slit-shaped openings.

Looking up at the Welsh Back Granary, Bristol, one of the most dazzling bits of architectural patterning I know.

Shopfront with old signs above advertising brands such as Fry’s chocolate, Tizer, Palethorpe’s sausages, the Sunday Dispatch, R White’s ginger beer, etc.

Gwalia Stores, Ross-on-Wye, and its extraordinary collection of enamel advertising signs.

Pointed Gothic arches and carved capitals on the open arcade that fronts this stone and brick building.

Venetian Gothic in Bristol. Browns, originally museum and library, a building of the 1860s-1870s.

Row of small houses in Cotswold stone with polychrome stone arches.

Sun on Dent’s Terrace, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, the other day. Almshouses designed by George Gilbert Scott and and J Drayton Wyatt, 1865.

Thank you! I’ve been a bit quiet on social media for the last couple of weeks— had a bad cold of some kind, with accompanying cough, but getting better now.

Snowdrops in the churchyard, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, a couple of hundred yards from where I live.

Baptismal font carved with lions, angels holding shields. Cherubim, and ?Tudor rose.

Font, Halesworth church, Norfolk. #fontsonFriday

Fan vaulting in. Cirencester parish church.

Victorian pub on corner site, the ground floor tiled in green and red (with tiled pilasters and capitals); the upper floor is red brick with stone dressings.

The Vine: a beautifully tiled Victorian pub in Cheltenham.

Chastleton, Oxfordshire. With Chastleton House poking up behind. #SteepleSaturday #churchcrawling

Gloucester Docks. Penfold post box — a Victorian design, although this may be a later replica, as the slot looks rather large for an original.

Another from Gloucester Docks. Biddle and Shipton warehouses.

Seven-storey brick-built Victorian warehouse by the dockside. Painted sign saying LLANTHONY WAREHOUSE.

Gloucester Docks, Llanthony Warehouse, this morning. Dull weather but still a reflection.

Broughton, Oxfordshire. #steepleSaturday #churchcrawling

Difficult to say. A lot of woodwork was left unpainted, especially oak, which goes this lovely silvery grey colour. I can’t see any traces of colour.

Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. Font carved with figure of centaur with bow and arrow, inscribed SAGITTARIUS.

Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire. #adoorableThursday

Northleach, Gloucestershire, this morning. Limestone lower walls and roof, timber-framed upper storey. #woodensday

Possibly, but I think it might have got here before the Dissolution. Maybe part of a damaged cross slab.

Re-used carved slab (early medieval?) used as door lintel, Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire.

Tewkesbury Abbey. Light from a stained glass window projected on to stone wall and shafts. Warm light on a cold day.

Tewkesbury Abbey, west front a few days ago. Enormous Norman arch framing later medieval window and doorway.