Stiffleaf's photos
studham font 1219
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dragons ring the font bowl, the base almost looks like another inverted bowl, or a capital. but the fit is perfect
studham 1219 font
purton 1180
llantony1180
llanthony west towers
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hotel rooms spread into the south tower on the west front from the old hunting lodge built into the west range of the cloisters. unusually, it was in this range that the dorter was situated.
llanthony west front
llanthony transept
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this large arch was built in the early c13, throwing two smaller chapels off the transept into one.
cambridge st.peter font
cambridge st peter
cambridge st.peter 1190
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cambridge st.peter font 1200
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a ring of big bellied mermen forms an ambiguous motif for a font, what remains of the harsh faces does nothing to clarify the meaning either here or at anstey
cambridge st.peter font
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cambridge mermen 1200
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malling abbey 1090-1190
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the oddness of this west front is exacerbated by the lack of any original fenestration or entry, it must have been crude in deed at first without the later arcading and pepperpots. the octagonal central tower was added in c.1380, the lower central portion was originally recessed between two turrets as at rochester, being filled in with a moved c14 window in the c18
malling abbey 1090-1190
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llanthony east end
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llanthony abbey
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view of the church from the east. rebuilt from 1180 after welsh destruction, the church is in a stripped back transitional style related to other south western work, the lack of capitals being repeated at wells, though not in the main arcades as here. the same english horizontality occurs, the lack of emphasis on seperate bays that was to lead english gothic rapidly away from french
llanthony abbey
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underneath the central tower, looking down the nave of fully fledged gothic of the late c12
