The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo

Churches, cathedrals, stained glass, art, architecture, faith, fundraising and books

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@Liz_ORiordan She’s a beauty. And welcome back

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Today is the feast of St Frideswide, the Anglo-Saxon nun who is the patron saint of Oxford. She led a religious community in the early 8th century on the site of what is now Christ Church Cathedral, where this medieval window of her survives.

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@SarahBlick3 Fonts! That’s all you need.

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@fugitiveink Spoon, in a Vermeer

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@WealandsBell Long live the via media

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@LucyGoBag I remain convinced that children were probably conceived on the 1706 from Marylebone to High Wycombe due to enforced proximity

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@PriceLaurence Country churches fill from the back

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@TheSimonKnott This is one of my favourite windows and Durham one of my favourite cathedrals (=top 3) - so glad you posted.

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@william_whyte Ah, you must be at Snape. I love the sculptures in that setting.

[Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford @ChChCathedralOx]

Today we remember St Francis of Assisi (c.1181-1226), the Italian mystic, poet and friar known for his poverty, charity and humility. St Francis is especially remembered for his love of God's creation, and his feast day marks the end of the Church's new Season of Creation.

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

I am SO glad I saw this in Bayeux a few years back because the reports I am hearing are utterly dreadful. So sorry Dr Ellen

[Dr. Ellen Walker @EllenFWalker]

Waited since I was 7 years old to see the Bayeux Tapestry. Got in an hour-long online queue to spend £50 on tickets. Got there ahead of time. Stood in a queue for 20 minutes. Then was told halfway through the queue that the gallery was closing.

The @britishmuseum stinks 😭

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@James___Lyons @andyburnham Strong start. Even better finish 👏👏👏

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@MatSilk @LordPhilofBrum @Davewwest 👏👏👏 Mat

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

A new National Care Service. Greater public control of water, energy, and housing. A National Commission on Electoral Reform. Strengthening our relationship with Europe. Reforming the education and welfare system.

Today I set out a different path for Britain.

You may disagree with some or all of what I have said today. But I have given you what you often say is missing from politics.

Honesty, ideas and a clear direction for the country we all love.

If you agree with enough of what I have said, get behind this plan. And get behind each other.

It's time to draw a line.

To move beyond a decade of drift and division.

To bring a spirit of unity and positivity back to our country.

To unlock the working-class aspiration that is still there in every postcode.

To hope again.

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@fromOliver Isn’t he just. The hopefulness I feel is so welcome.

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@MatSilk @AliJaneMoore It is vastly improved, but businesses take up retail space and lack of footfall means they don’t all survive. I use the P&R too. To Alison’s point Cornmarket is improving but it’s awash with Harry Potter kitsch shops.

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@MatSilk @AliJaneMoore It is very complex. The retail side of the city centre is shrivelling up. Of course guests/tourists don’t come to see that but closed up shops and cafes sends a sad message.

I get 25 “passes” through the city per year as I live in the county.

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

@william_whyte @PHBookshop Amazon assures me mine is en route

[Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris @notredameparis]

À 10h, les cloches de Notre-Dame de Paris ont sonné, comme celles de nombreuses églises de France, pour accueillir le pape L��on XIV, arrivé aujourd’hui à Paris.

Église mère du diocèse de Paris, la cathédrale @notredameparis est au cœur de la vie liturgique de l’Église à Paris. Ses cloches appellent les fidèles à se rassembler, à entrer dans la prière et à vivre ensemble les grands moments de la vie de l’Église.

Aujourd’hui, elles ont ainsi invité les fidèles à prier pour le Saint-Père et pour son voyage apostolique en France.

#pape #pontifex
#notredame #notredamedeparis

[The Girl with the Church Window Tattoo @JaneEAppleton]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary