Clever Tapsel lych gate at St Mary the Virgin, Weston Turville.
Originally C18.
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Bronze & enamel lecturn by Gilbert Bayes in the Savoy Chapel, memorial to Laurence (son of Henry) Irving who drowned with 1000 others when the Empress of Ireland sank off Canada in 1914. Its captain Henry Kendall, on his prior ship, sent the radio message that led to Dr Crippen's arrest.
The Kölnische Zeitung building by Wilhelm Riphahn and Caspar Maria Grod at Pressa, an International Press Exhibition in Cologne 1928
(photograph by Werner Mantz)
The winged horse of @TheInnerTemple at Prince Henry’s Room in London.
“Virtue Flies to the Heavens”
#StainedGlassSunday
“Virtue Flies to the Heavens”
#StainedGlassSunday
Roman glass ‘cage’ cup, 4th Century. The outer decorative cage is attached to the inner cup by short stems. The Greek letters read: ‘Drink, live well forever’.
(Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne)
(Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne)
