Simon KnottThree gorgeous angels by Henry Holiday, 1920 at Ormesby St Michael, Norfolk for #AdventAngels.
'It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold'
3/3 Mawkish sentimentality? Perhaps, but very much of its date. Two musical #AdventAngels at the Adoration in the stable, by Robert Anning Bell, 1911 at Hethersett, Norfolk.
3/3 Awestruck #AdventAngels by Ward & Hughes, c1880s at Walsoken, Norfolk (though actually a suburb of the Cambridgeshire town of Wisbech).
'When peace shall over all the earth
its ancient splendors fling,
and the whole world send back the song
which now the angels sing.'
2/3 Two 15th Century musical #AdventAngels at Cawston, Norfolk, one left handed, one right-handed.
'Still through the cloven skies they come
with peaceful wings unfurled,
and still their heavenly music floats
o'er all the weary world'
3/3 Three #AdventAngels at Stanhoe, Norfolk, by Henry Holiday, 1878 for Powell & Sons. One plays, two listen.
2/3 An adoring angel, by Clayton & Bell perhaps? for #AdventAngels at Langham, Essex, one of the few placenames you can find in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. There isn't one in Cambridgeshire, though there is one not far off in Rutland.
It's the last day of Advent today, so a cavalcade of #AdventAngels. Three angels perched in the eaves of the Bethlehem stable in 16th Century collected Rhenish glass at Weldon, Northamptonshire. The expression on their faces was a conventional way of showing awe. Spot the spider!
Kevin WilbrahamMedieval carved angel from St. Peterβs Church at Great Walsingham in Norfolk. πΈ My own. #Woodensday #Walsingham #Norfolk #AdventAngels
2/2 Angels by Harry Stammers for Powell & Sons at Bessingham, Norfolk, 1932. I love the idea that Hugh Arnold, a pupil of Christopher Whall born in 1872, and Stammers who was still producing glass into the 1960s, were both part of the ongoing tradition at Powells. #AdventAngels
