Tim Palmer

Ex Learned Society charity administrator. Stone and stone buildings. Fonts.

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@lizaadamczewski Frankly I find them pithy and tasteless. I would leave them to look at😟

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

Two generations of font-rim repair from spalling damage from rusting staples. Presumably the opposite pairs of staples were themselves of different generations. More to be learned about font-covers from such examples, I suspect. Any more pics of this one, Barb?

[Barb Drummond @Barb_Drummond]

#FontsOnFriday #StMark #Bristol

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@KPW1453 This must, once, have been made of Dundry stone. I wonder whether it still is, or whether this is a later replacement in another limestone. Anyone know?

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@PosyHill1 @MercerCait Please don't forget that every time a fairy sneezes a baby is born

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

Start birdwatching here...

[The PalAss @ThePalAss]

An overview of the oldest & most comprehensive avifauna of the early Eocene British London Clay https://t.co/UQeu98JrhA #FossilFriday #PapersinPalaeontology

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

"I got us the Hawaiian one. Hope you're O.K. with pineapple..."

[Father Oliver Coss @purgstallheath]

Either they're unboxing a giant iPad, or our bishops are considerably smaller than I'd realised.

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@chartres_Fiona Roll up! Gravestone for sale! Very cheap. Only half used...

[Zara Handley @zarahandley]

13th century font with carved symbols including pentangle & a green man. My book says they are not Christian symbols with exception of the dragon at the base. “perhaps dragon represents old serpent of the devil very much defeated at the foot
#FontsOnFriday
St.Mary’s, Stow Lincs

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@SteveCaple4 My first ever Victorian Gothic building. Mum hated it but I knew at the age of 5 or 6 that she was wrong...

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@sciencegirl Visits to most British cathedrals

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@RamsdenVerity @JoshuaPenduck 'The Great Sermon Handicap'; one of the great short stories of all time...

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

This beautiful medieval church still contains the bogus font from Buckinghamshire. A bit offensive when there are so many unused fine-quality 12th & 13th locally-made stone fonts in Anglesey, and you even know where the original is located. Please do the decent thing...

[Friendless Churches @friendschurches]

In the 1960s, Llantrisant Old Church on Anglesey was a roofless shell.

This medieval structure had fallen into a state of disrepair after decades of effective abandonment, however, it was eventually saved.

1/10

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@WGCG_UK @YouTube Well, there you go Joe. Making invertebrate fossils interesting again. Tut-tut-tut - I thought we'd finally dispensed with that little problem🦕🦕🦕...

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@moog77 Is there sign of material being removed laterally (with backfill)? Doesn't look much like it in this photo. I give up! Tell us please...

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@TheHistoryMouse I spend much time declining to identify stones in close pictures, but this looks undeniably like lias with Ham dressings

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@SteveCaple4 Thanks Steve - yes, I think it will have been

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

What are the new or proposed new specific names, please?

[BirdGuides @BirdGuides]

Are you ready for some new penguin species?!

Gentoo Penguin has been split into four species following a major international genetic study.

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

Great picture of a dormer bungalow with ideas above its station. 'But where did the trains run?', I hear the children cry...

[James Wright @jpwarchaeology]

Spent today in Harlaxton (Lincs) recording fragments of mediaeval and early modern stonework in the grounds of this amazing house. It was built in the 1930s, almost entirely from material salvaged from the manor house which was demolished in 1857.

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@DianaBr95650186 @dolphinsands 😄

[Tim Palmer @TimPalmerEO]

@SteveCaple4 So is that the line that used to send trains down the Nene valley and which skirted the edge of Cogenhoe?