November Miscellany Items of Interest Lincoln Cathedral graffiti Familiar symbols showing up as quilt designs From Twitter Marked stone from the Neolithic which was found during excavations at Barnhouse – a Neolithic settlement on the shore of Harray Loch in Orkney, located close to the Standing Stones of Stenness. Now part of the collections at…
February Miscellany Upcoming Events Graffiti talk at Elsenham Village History Society on 9 March 8pm Looking forward to being a part of this! https://t.co/Le4ifIljIR — Crystal Hollis (@GraffitiGinger) February 15, 2022 Items of Interest New Light Through Old Windows: Apotropaic Merels, Dots & Powder Procurement. From Twitter Carlisle castle graffiti gets some rather splendid conservation…
November Miscellany Items of Interest Graffiti found in Westbury, Wiltshire The Mysterious ‘Arrow Stones’ of Shotwick From Twitter What an absolutely fantastic #Roman tile: it's marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry…
August Miscellany Upcoming Events Historic graffiti at Kibworth Harcourt windmill, Leicestershire. 16 September 2021 From Twitter Royal Naval Air Station Dale was built on the Pembrokeshire coast in 1941. During the war it was used by No.34 Polish Bomber Squadron. The site is now mostly farmland, tho one of the RAF officers' accommodation blocks…
St Mary Magdalene, Cowden, Kent The church of St Mary Magdalene Cowden is a border church, only just within the area covered by the Kent Medieval Graffiti Survey, lying as it does with its southern edge almost touching the Sussex border and is three kilometres at the most from Surrey to the West. Cowden, although…
St Dunstan’s, Snargate, Kent In 2018 the Kent Medieval Graffiti Survey undertook the graffiti survey of the 14 medieval churches on Romney Marsh. One of these is in East Sussex, St Mary East, Guldeford, the rest are spread out across the rest of the Marsh. In late 2017, several members of the survey made a…
September Miscellany Upcoming events Speed Dating – Identifying the Age of Historic Buildings with James Wright Items of interest Interview with Brian Hoggard on Churches’ Conservation Trust blog Talk on graffiti in Winchester Cathedral Graffiti carved in the New Forest Trees Irish viking ship graffiti From Twitter Doodles in 13th century manuscript…
St Mary, Upchurch & St Margaret, Lower Halstow The Kent villages of Upchurch and Lower Halstow lay roughly five and six miles east of Gillingham respectively and north of the main A2 road. Lower Halstow is possibly slightly the smaller of the villages, with the little church of St Margaret of Antioch, tucked away on…
The Graffiti of St Giles, Wormshill and All Saints, Iwade Alan Anstee of the Kent Medieval Graffiti Survey talks about two churches near Sittingbourne in Kent. When looking through the surveys of these two churches prior to starting to write this, I was struck by the difference in what was found in each church. This…
St Mary Magdalene, Stockbury, Kent St Mary Magdalene is a relatively small church built alongside the remains of a Norman motte and bailey castle, which overlooks the Stockbury Valley and Dean’s Bottom, a smaller valley that runs into it. The building originates from the late 12th century with 13th and 15th century additions; and was…
St Mary the Virgin, Stone near Dartford, Kent In December 2016 the Kent Medieval Graffiti Survey (KMGS) surveyed the church of St Mary the Virgin, Stone near Dartford. Tucked away down a lane, off what used to be the main A2 road and now surrounded by modern housing developments is the lovely old church of…
The Porch of St Mary Kenardington Alan Anstee of the Kent Medieval Graffiti Survey pays a visit to an old haunt and describes the fascinating porch of St Mary’s church in Kenardington, Kent. St Mary, Kenardington is a small church with medieval origins near Ashford in Kent. Kenardington is a scattered hamlet consisting of clusters…
A Tale of Two Churches – The Graffiti of All Saint’s, Murston, Kent It’s always a good thing to think outside the box when graffiti hunting, as Alan Anstee of the Kent Medieval Graffiti Survey explains when he takes a look at All Saints, Murson. Since I started graffiti hunting with the Kent Medieval Graffiti…
Pew and Choir Stall Graffiti from Kent and a little from elsewhere Graffiti isn’t only found on stonework in churches, castles and houses. Alan Anstee of the Kent Medieval Graffiti Survey talks about some of the fascinating graffiti he’s seen on wooden church pews and choir stalls. When I was first asked to write something…