#SteepleSaturday The Norman church of St John the Baptist, Stokesay, destroyed in the Civil War, rebuilt in the mid-C17, viewed from the grounds of the castle.

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by Shake-scene: MEASURE FOR MEASURE and JULIUS CAESAR!

#ShakespeareSunday The miserable have no other medicine  But only hope. Measure for Measure 3:1 St Lawrence’s churchyard, Stretton Grandison. #StoneworkSunday

#ShakespeareSunday Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. Julius Caesar 3:1 #medieval #stainedglass St Mary’s church, Dymock, Gloucestershire. #stainedglassSunday

#ShakespeareSunday Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look: He thinks too much: such men are dangerous JC 1:2 Lean & hungry life-size figure on the marble reredos, 1911 by W. G. Storr-Barber, St Michael & All Angels church, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire. #StoneworkSunday

#ShakespeareSunday What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine. Measure for Measure 5:1 Tom Denny #stainedglass detail, Malvern Priory. #stainedglasssunday

#MonumentsMonday “Not for the true-born Englishman the bony angular knee of the so-called intellectual, not for him the puffy knee of the criminal classes. The British knee is firm, the British knee is muscular, the British knee is on the march!” 🤭Spode/Woodhouse. Ross-on-Wye.

#TraceryTuesday Looking up in Hereford Cathedral. #lookup Athelstan the Man

#woodensday “Saw something nasty in the woodshed!” Stokesay Castle.

#adoorableThursday The door of the crypt, Hereford Cathedral. Yes, it would have been a better photo if I’d closed it but I might have got locked in 😱

Make a splash this #ShakespeareSunday with the theme of WATER

#FontsOnFriday St Peter, one of nine apostles on the C12 font in St George’s church, Orleton. I’m seeing Desperate Dan, just me?

#SteepleSaturday St Mary Magdalene’s church, Stretton Sugwas: “Rebuilt 1877-80… much material re-used from the former church, including the entire black & white C16-C17 tower” Pevsner

#ShakespeareSunday I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. Pericles 2:1 C12 corbel, Kilpeck. #StoneworkSunday

#ShakespeareSunday Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep Henry VI, Part II 3:1 #stainedglass 1882 “no doubt by Clayton & Bell” (Pevsner), Stretton Sugwas. #StainedglassSunday

#ShakespeareSunday Once I sat upon a promontory  And heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s back  Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song MSND 2:1 #medieval misericord St Laurence’s church, Ludlow

#medievalmonday St Mary & St David’s C12 church, Kilpeck has rib-vaulting above the apse with “four grotesque heads clustered where the ribs meet” Pevsner. Why?

#tympanumTuesday Samson giving his pet lion’s teeth a deep clean. C12 Romanesque, St Mary Magdalene’s church, Stretton Sugwas.

#WindowsOnWednesday The millennium window by Jim Budd in Mary Magdalene’s church, Stretton Sugwas, featuring butterfly symbols of the resurrection & one-time village resident St Thomas Cantilupe. #stainedglass

#AdoorableThursday The door to “The Golden Chapel”, built by Sir Henry Vernon in 1510 as his Chantry Chapel, St Bartholomew’s church, Tong, Shropshire.