Repeats of 'Travels With Pevsner' are on #BBC4 and #BBC #iPlayer
A retrospective on the #UnitedKingdom travel guides of #NikolausPevsner, with the #landscape and #architecture explored by different celebrity presenters in 1997.
The #JonathanMeades episode isn't up; which isn't a great surprise given that it has been re-released as part of various Meades collections. It's on Vimeo last I checked though.
Tiny window, with an arch above, on the West front of All Saints Church in Tealby.
In his wonderful book The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner writes of being puzzled by the small arched window and the archway above the door on the outside of the tower. He writes
‘It is small with plain chamfered imposts and an unmoulded arch. Above the window, whose headstone is later Norman. Carved on it are small heads, two birds, and a hood mould on two snouted monster heads - all tiny. Does this go with the tremendous tower arch above the nave? But the arch is pointed? Above this arch, but pushed to the right, is a round arched opening. Where can ig have led to? The thing becomes more mysterious, as above the opening, in line with it, is another, but appearing above the roof, and this has a moulded surrounding a pointed arch. Both find no explanation inside the tower’
I noticed how small the window was and the remains of decoration that has been described, but I cannot say much more than that. If one as talented as Pevsner doesn’t know the answer, then who does?
#12thcentury #lincolnshire #village #lincolnshirewolds #church #churchesoflincolnshire #stainedglass #churcharchitecture #buildingsofengland #nikolauspevsner
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