✨ Treasure Hoard: The beakheads at St. Mary the Virgin, Iffley
Long snouts curl around the roll mouldings as though the doorway itself were being held in a row of fantastic jaws.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The chancel arch at St. Michael, Upton Cressett
It’s not the biggest chancel arch, but its scale within these small pockets of space makes it seem otherworldly.
✨ Treasure Hoard: Monument with effigy reclining on books, St. Mary, Hardmead
He lies on a bed of books for eternity. A rather wonderful fate for anyone who has ever known the pleasure of being lost in one.
✨ Treasure Hoard: Barn Hill, Stamford
In a fit of laissez faire pique, to maximise my profit, I'd call my cheese Middlemarch, because parts of the series were filmed here.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Anglo Saxon Tower at All Saints Church, Earls Barton
The Saxons didn't have a stone building culture - indeed timber derives from an old Saxon word meaning 'building.'
✨ Treasure Hoard: The dragon bressumer, Mardol, Shrewsbury
The dragon is a witty modern intervention that explains an obscure piece of timber-framing terminology through sculpture.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Medieval Oak Door at St. Mary, Higham
Within this framework are roses, lilies, foliage and small human faces, along with a Green Man, an old bearded figure and a bird. Parts of its original ironwork also remain.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Marble Saloon at Stowe House
Cross the threshold and the room overwhelms.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Gothic Door, Carved Angel, Fire Mark combo - De Vaux House, Salisbury
Its cusped Gothic panels retain the touch of the medieval craftsman