east meon font

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east meon font

01 Nov 2009 206
Adam and Eve eat the fruit offered by the serpent on this Tournai marble font from c.1150

east meon 1150

bramley 1801 soane

20 Nov 2009 176
the transept was built by soane, with tracery of coade stone

grateley 1225 st.stephen

23 Nov 2009 120
glass from salisbury cathedral

grateley 1225 stoners

23 Nov 2009 127
glass from salisbury cathedral

grateley 1225 stoning of stephen from salisbury

23 Nov 2009 185
most likely from st.stephen's chapel in the cathedral, broken out c.1788

grateley 1225 salisbury glass

23 Nov 2009 151
glass from salisbury cathedral, broken out c.1788 before wyatt started work, saved by an enthusiast and given to the parish church at grateley

grateley 1225 gabriel

23 Nov 2009 141
obviously part of an annunciation, the glass came from salisbury cathedral before wyatt started work, about 1788, and seems to have been saved by antiquarian enthusiasts from where it was dumped

the vyne 1769

30 Nov 2009 140
c18 trompe l'oeil mural in the chapel over the pews

wilton 1841

wilton 1841-5 t.h.wyatt+brandon

east meon font c.1150

01 Nov 2009 172
Made in the mid C12th of Tournai marble this font shows the angel instructing Adam in the use of a spade, and booting Adam and Eve out of a many arched Eden. there are 8 and a half of these fonts in England.

thruxton hants 1480, 1869

christchurch reredos 1360

hurstbourne tarrant 1300

hurstbourne tarrant 1300

netley from west

netley nave 1290


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