Colin Dunn 🏳️‍🌈

Art historian, musician, reader, singer, Westminster Abbey devotee..

[Colin Dunn 🏳️‍🌈 @Jan_Lievens]

@charliebelllive Delighted! That's wonderful

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

A wise old bishop once, when asked “Can you boil Christianity down to one line” replied that “We are all forgiving, forgiven, sinners.” That has stuck with me over the decades.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Even as someone who is not religious in the slightest, I find these Spanish semana santa 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 absolutely awe-inspiring - so I did a montage of some of them👇
Happy Easter❤️🇪🇸 (sound on)

[Charlie Bączyk-Bell 🏳️‍🌈 @charliebelllive]

Good to see the sheer level of hate here being addressed at me. At least it will have given some other target a moment or two off whilst these rather sad individuals attack a fellow human being that they do not know.

And yes, this is the direct result of Christian homophobia.

[Grizzlegutweed the Bear @Grizzlegutweed1]

Lower Brockhampton, a more uncontrived, organic, throughly English building cannot be imagined

[Gretel Le Maître @GretelleMaitre]

I visited this 11th century church, St Mary the Virgin, in Strethall, on my drive back from Suffolk to Dorset. To be found at the end of an unwelcoming farm track in deepest rural Essex, it was sadly locked. The atmosphere, especially with the cold conditions, felt contd..

[Muse @xmuse_]

The ceiling of Henry VII’s Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey (1509) looks like carved lace. Utterly breathtaking.

[Simon Knott @TheSimonKnott]

I'm sorry to hear of the death of the sculptor, carver and letterer Richard Kindersley, who followed in his father David's footsteps at his Cambridge workshop. He'll be best known to many people for his beautiful memorial in Dunblane Cathedral to the young victims of the 1996 school shooting.

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

This isn't a trained trick, this is a wild transaction. Sea Otters carry "favorite rocks" in their armpits to crack open clams. This otter realized that humans value "things," so he offered his prized possession, a perfect white stone, in exchange for a high-value item, a fish.

He literally invented currency on the spot.

How cool and adorable is that? ❤️

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

My favourite photograph of the day (so far). @bishopSarahM wreathed in incense.

[Tom Sander 🚴 @RevThomasSander]

It’s the Gopak tables covered in banqueting roll which truly confirm this as an authentic moment in the life of the Church of England. The wax seal and associated screw press are immaterial really.

[Lewis Roberts @LewisPRoberts]

Pretty standard train journey into Cambridge this morning. My seat neighbours are between them reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; an obscure Dutch translation of Dante (she's not Dutch); and the score to Tristan und Isolde

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

A college cat on a mission

[Mytho Britannia @MythoBritannia]

Inside Britain's most complete Anglo Saxon church, 675AD - Escomb, County Durham:

[Colin Dunn 🏳️‍🌈 @Jan_Lievens]

@gillianpatrick3 @is_glasgow Oh yes now you say it I can appreciate the similarities

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

How lovely is this church? Another from my Pocketable Churches series… All Saints’, Billesley in Warwickshire. Once at the heart of a medieval village, now standing solitary in a copse.

[damnatio memoriae @MementoRoma]

The ciborium of St Mark’s, Venice is supported in4 ornately carved alabaster columns

These are universally accepted as being transplanted to Venice from Constantinople in 1204, but the age of the columns themselves is subject to wide interpretation, anything from the 400s to the 1100s has been suggested, though the consensus seems to point to them being produced during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I (491–518 AD)

[This Is My Glasgow @is_glasgow]

Love this sign from A Sign of Humour I spotted on a bike rack in Argyle Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow today. Not really too sure it's needed, but better safe than sorry!

#glasgow #keepglasgowweird #giraffe #tenements #cycling #finnieston #streetart

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

😍🫢A door of real beauty. It simply astonishes me to think that the base of the tower at All Saints in Brixworth is Anglo Saxon 7th century. Notice the murmuration of re-used Roman brick tiles in the stone coursing taken from Leicester and Towcester. #thread

[Colin Dunn 🏳️‍🌈 @Jan_Lievens]

@ahistoryinart @Almd1233 And the widowed Lady Munnings was a force of nature, walking around the western reaches of the King's Road in Chelsea holding a stuffed cat. A friend used to see her and told me about it