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Snapped while visiting St Catherine's over the road, this was Blackwell, #Worcestershire's, Wesleyan Memorial Chapel, built 1880-1, now a house. But I couldn't resist it's cutey tower and lil' spire - and imagine having that spire balcony as your own! #SteepleSaturday

Let's go for #SundayYellow! After carking my little toe last weekend I've had to abandon orchid hunting and proper rambles for now, but the pond in the nature reserve near Waitrose, #Stroud, gave some solace! Attempting a stroll in sandals to the Cemetery today 🤞🤞🤞

Another R J Stubington window for #StainedGlassSunday, this time at Lickey, #Worcestershire, to Joseph and the excellently named Comfort Rowlands, 1934. His love for geometric patterning comes through alongside the figurative scenes and symbolic sigils #ArtsandCrafts

Merrie Maidens in the merry month of May at Lamorna, #Cornwall, for #StandingStoneSunday, transformed after a wild party on Sat night, when they danced, fittingly, into the Sabbath - their musicians ran, but were transformed into the nearby Pipers #FolkloreSunday

A wondrous profusion of red and bladder campion for #pinkfamily #wildflowerhour at Lamorna #Cornwall last week...

Back in #Stroud, all these newly out on my hobble round town today with my poorly toe - mallow, elder, yellow rattle, foxglove, bindweed and hedge bedstraw #urban and #cemetery #wildflowerhour

Tracery? In granite? Why, yes we can. #TraceryTuesday at Altarnun, #Cornwall is pretty simple as befits the hard stone, but look closely and you'll see they've managed a sophisticated overlay of pattern. Impressive!

As part of the redisplay work in our Origins galleries, we’re including a number of taxidermy specimens from our natural sciences collections. We’ll showcase some of Wiltshire’s endangered species, including the West European Hedgehog.

I love the cunning little details in this #stainedglass by M Farrar-Bell, 1972, in Lickey, #Worcestershire, to the Christies. They died on the same day in 1969 - their long lives, and a love of nature (particularly little dogs, it seems!) is captured here #WindowsOnWednesday

Not a very exciting door, tbf, but what an entrance to Barnt Green, #Worcestershire, added onto Arthur Dixon's unfinished 1909 church in 2001 by Liz Jeavons-Fellows in keeping with the church's #Birmingham #Byzantine style #AdoorableThursday

A tricky to photograph, but rather excellent plain #ArtsandCrafts #FontsOnFriday by Arthur Dixon, at Barnt Green, #Worcestershire. I'm afraid I've photoshoped out the shopping trolley from by the door...

When we reopen on Saturday, it’s not just the gharial that’ll be new - we’ve changed our shop area and Origins galleries too! The brand-new displays will include two new acquisitions to the Museum & Art Swindon collections, which haven’t been displayed previously.

A can-you-spot-it #SteepleSaturday in St Ives, #Cornwall, with the tower of St Ia just appearing beyond Barbara Hepworth's garden full of #sculpture

It's the Venerable Bede's saint's day today - this eminent (and biased!) historian died #otd 735, at his monastery in Jarrow. Without Bede, we would know so much less about the C6th & C7th in Britain: so here's a #StainedGlassSunday tribute by Edward Payne at Chalford, 1950s.

For #Wildflowerhour the theme #WildFlowerShow reminded me of photographing this wall in 2021 where we were still nervous thanks to the pandemic and saying on fb, 'who needs art galleries?' Here it is this week, still putting on a fine urban show in #Stroud!

Two very different orchids within a few yards of each other today! Bird's foot in the woods, pyramidal just without in the cow field #wildflowerhour - poorly toe means limited flowers atm so was glad to see these!

Nothing says important memorials here like slapping them either side of an altar, even if it's in a chapel. #MonumentsMonday & #MementoMoriMonday (can you spot Old Father Time?) with two Eyre families, 1620s, in St Thomas, Salisbury, #Wiltshire. Reredos actually 100 years later!

Unexpected #stainedglass in Cheltenham Playhouse - salubritas et eruditio! Note the pigeon, the famous finger of #Cheltenham's spa water!