Buildings that inspire, appeal, comfort, anger, annoy or ....

[Crow]

I always thought this one was funny

hahaha that's great.

[Crow]

^ I'm a fanatic, you see. 

I take it you like the novel " The Pillars of the Earth". I love that book, I refused to read it for years because of its subject nature but I am glad that I changed my mind as it truly is brilliant.

[Tank]

I always thought this one was funny

hahaha that's great.

One would have to be a 'Basket Case' to live there! I'll get my coat.

[Tank]

^ I'm a fanatic, you see. 

I take it you like the novel " The Pillars of the Earth". I love that book, I refused to read it for years because of its subject nature but I am glad that I changed my mind as it truly is brilliant.

Have you seen the TV series?

[Crow]

Have you seen the TV series?

Yeah I enjoyed it, even though it was almost a totally different story I still thought it was good. Though I can't remember how the TV series ended.

One would have to be a 'Basket Case' to live there! I'll get my coat.

Ooohh that so bad it good, haha.

[OldGit]

Whitney, that's funny!

Yes, I've read The Pillars Of The Earth, but not seen the TV version.  Follet has quite a way of getting across the feel of medieval life from the minutiae and not from great historic events.  I've read another similar one of his; can't remember the title.

[Tank]

I've added The Pillars of the Earth to my Christmas list 

[The Magic Pudding]

I see a problem with this building. 

[OldGit]

Here's some more Romanesque.  This is the W door of Leominster Priory, built around 1150 by the same school of masons that did the Kilpeck S door above.

The shot is by a profoundly disabled man in my charity.



BTW there is something very, very unusual about this doorway.  Can anyone spot it?  It's plain to see, not a tiny detail.

[Crow]

BTW there is something very, very unusual about this doorway.  Can anyone spot it?  It's plain to see, not a tiny detail.

Is it the shape of the stones on the middle column arch. Is that a green man on the left inner archway?

[OldGit]

Shape ... you're right, but you need to be more precise.  

Green Man - yes indeed, but that's not very unusual.  I've got quite a lot of Green Man shots from Herefordshire churches.

Here's a closer shot of that one, by me:

[xSilverPhinx]

Good eye, Crow. I would've never spotted it 

Anyways, gothic beats romanesque in my view...




Bigger windows and doors, higher walls, ya know?

[OldGit]

^ Fussy, fiddly, festooned with folderols and fakery.

[Tank]

^ Fussy, fiddly, festooned with folderols and fakery.

I.E. Bling!

[OldGit]

^ Exactly.