We don’t know for certain who she is, possibly one of the Everard family, but someone had put a spray of flowers into her hands when I visited St George’s, Dunster, Somerset a couple of weeks ago

stone female, effigy with canopy

#MonumentsMonday

South Devon. Dappled sunlight through the tunnel of trees with bluebells in the hedgerows. A country walk on Friday.

A beauty in South Devon, Combeinteignheadchurch… lovely Late Medieval wood carving, a C17 monument made from clay (!) and more lovelies as ever…
My latest online church, click here to enjoy: bit.ly/3QAizef

Cartmel Priory #Cumbria visited in 2021.
Beautiful reset fragments of medieval stained glass in the porch.
#StainedGlassSunday

14th century stained glass at St Mary’s Priory Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. St Catherine and her wheel on the left.

#StainedGlassSunday #medieval

One of a pair of Saxon carved animal heads either side of door inside St Mary’s Priory Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire.

Wolf or dragon?

#SundayStonework #Saxon

#onthisday 4th May 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury, a decisive victory for Edward IV and the House of York over Lancastrian forces. Margaret of Anjou taken prisoner, Henry VI died soon after in the Tower and Edward Prince of Wales killed on battlefield. His plaque in Tewkesbury Abbey.

Another from last week’s travels. You can spot the Merchants House by the oiled linen widow covering.

John Moore Museum #Tewkesbury #Tudor

#HistFicMay
Day 3 Which writers most inspire me?

The late Dame Hilary Mantel - wonderful Tudor novels but especially her Reith lectures .

C J Sansom’s vivid detail of the Tudor world and thrilling storytelling . Sad news last week …

#inspirational

St Mary’s Priory Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire

#SteepleSaturday
#wildflowers

It wasn't until the Baedecker Raids that Exeter was hit.
4/5/1942 over 10,000 incendiary & 170 high explosive bombs fell. The cathedral was hit on the chapel of St James completely demolishing it.
156 killed, over 550 injured, many left affected physically & mentally for life.

A few from my travels for #Flowersonfriday

It’s not very seasonal to be talking turkey in May but I was reminded of William Strickland when I saw his coat of arms at St Mary’s Deerhurst, yesterday.

Read about him here

rosemarygriggs.co.uk/blog/36/

#turkey #LesArmoiriesdeVendredi

Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, a wonderful 9th century Saxon font carved from a single block of limestone.

Discarded in 1653, re-discovered being used as a drinking trough on a farm in 1843

#FontsonFriday #saxon

I’m Rosemary and I spend a lot of time in the 16th century.

I research, I write, and I bring history to life for groups all over the West Country, love gardening, needlework, visiting old buildings and live in beautiful Devon.

#histficmay Day 1+2

Another 17thc embroidery, this time Killerton, silk satin ground stitched in silk and metallic threads, framed panel

Make your own peacock,
1589

(Musée du Louvre)

Ready for picking, an embroidered strawberry from a 17th century pincushion Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter Pear, pomegranate, rose and strawberry were all symbolic fruits and flowers. Pattern page from Richard Shorlyeker's A Scholehouse for the Needle at TRC Leiden. The strawberry looks v similar.

Here’s an update on my progress making a Tudor Gable Hood, one of 3 new headdresses I’m making for an event in June.

#historicalcostume #sewing #headdress

The Angel' of Deerhurst, a 9th-century carving in what was originally the apse of the church. She’s high up on an outside wall around the back at St Mary’s Priory Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire

#saxon #carving #stonework