Cathy Rosamund Stillman-Lowe

61, ill-health retired from NHS; degree in English Lit; I love churches, historic barns, art, music, history & wildlife. My son Chris is a doctor in the NHS.

[Cathy Rosamund Stillman-Lowe @SlCathy]

Find your #Hashtags here! Ready and willing to assist church crawlers and the like for another year (see the date added bottom right). 🌟🌟🌟

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@chartres_Fiona Timid eyes 👀

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@cguyver Must have been a very well fed seagull!

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A glimpse of the poetry of the spruced up and somewhat shabby. Lovely!

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This weekend I have a short and peaceful video of lovely doors. House, garden and more. Enjoy!

https://t.co/VWCdheJcCy

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@TheHistoryMouse @HistoryMalc It's the fruit of the vine that's your problem Miss Heidi - rather than the bread of life!

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Good morning everyone!

My IT chaos somewhat tamed now, I'll be mostly tweeting new photos from my CatherineRosamundLowe account @CathyRLowe, so please join me there if rusty boot scrapers are to your taste. @_captainscience

#FerrousFriday from King's Parade, Cambridge.🧡

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#PrettyPipes Adorable decoration, in St Mark's, Englefield.

The sweet little cherubic faces (right)!

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@chartres_Fiona And finally, the top of the reredos, finishing off with a flourish!

Bright and beautiful, in St Mark's, Englefield.

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More detail of George Gilbert Scott's reredos in St Mark's Englefield.

The Evangelist symbols root the decorative scheme in the familiar for me. The painting of the lower portion of the reredos is very pleasing.

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Here's a favourite symbol - St Mark's lion, on the lefthand side of the reredos. #TinyLion

Is he directing a piercingly suspicious eye at me? Or merely being generally watchful and "on duty" at all times?

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POV lectern, left.

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Watchful! The stone head above, and the eagle lectern below, scan the nave carefully in St Mark's Englefield.

Would risk no shenanigans here!

This was definitely a chocolate box of a church, full of goodies of different eras, contentedly sitting side by side.

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Rather more sober tiling in the nave, with beautiful capitals to admire, and a fine eagle lectern on duty, with three step stone podium, & raspberry carpeting at the summit!

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#TilesOnTuesday or - the mosaic of Henry Woodyer meets the foot of the reredos of G G Scott, in the sanctuary of St Mark's, Englefield.

Plenty to engage the eye here! @Pericles494BC

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Pevsner "presumes" the reredos to be by G G Scott, c 1860. Scott was responsible for rebuilding the church.

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#TilesOnTuesday I found the tiling in the sanctuary at St Mark's Englefield to be most attractive.

Pevsner says that this mosaic floor is by Woodyer, 1894.

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The woman next to him in her own niche is also C14th.

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#MonumentsMonday Reclining in St Mark's Englefield, and nobly supported by a lion (showing us his haunches), this Medieval knight's identity is not known.

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He once had a second companion (left) but only wings, front legs and tail remain.

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#MonumentsMonday in St Mark's, Englefield. My eye was caught by the swan (right).

Detail from memorial to John Powlet, 5th Marquess of Winchester (d. 1675).

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#StainedGlassSunday Geometric greenery in St Mary's Upton, Hampshire.