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The UK Govt's are ending the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, that covered the whole UK, replacing it with a scheme for England alone.
We've had a look at some of the data they used to justify change and blogged on what it means for Scotland 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/listed-...What we all need to see is a red squirrel in a power pose.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle
#WomensArt#StainedGlassSunday #BurnsDay Robert Burns, by Clayton and Bell. In the McManus, Dundee.
Disco Inferno 🔥🔥🔥
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Let's talk about the Aylesbury tunnels.
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New York doesn't have a monopoly on this kind of picture. Construction of Co-operative Insurance Society tower, Manchester, 1960s (Manchester Libraries).
Now, these are something special! 🤩 Mid-13th century wall paintings at St. Agatha’s Church, Easby, Richmond, North Yorkshire.
A photo thread…
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
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The 13th January 1691 marks the death of George Fox, the English founder of the religious group the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. It was just two years earlier that after years of persecution, with their members often being fined or imprisoned, the government
An embroidered silkwork panel, titled Spring Flowers or similar, designed by Helen Adelaide Lamb around 1909–1910.
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The 7thC Holderness Cross was discovered by a farmer at Burton Pidsea, East Yorkshire,
#OTD in 1965. It spent 30 years in a drawer before his granddaughter took it to a ‘finds day’ at a museum in Hull. The gold pectoral cross is set with garnets.
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Dec 23: Feast of Frithuberht (†766), bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham). He also acted as the administrator of Lindisfarne while its bishop, Cynewulf, was in captivity. Alchmund succeeded him. 📸Kevin Wilbraham
#medievalskyJust had a festive visit to my favourite church…St. Margaret of Antioch, Knotting, Bedfordshire. It has a host of wonderful architectural features, including a possible Saxon arch. Above all though, it’s just a completely beautiful and peaceful place 😍
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#Orkney. 20th December.
Sunrise 9.03am
Sunset 3.15pm
Tomorrow is the
#WinterSolstice. In 2 days the sunset will be a minute later than today. In 2 months it will be 2 hours later. By June we'll have 18 and a half hours of daylight in
#Orkney. 💡
I'm delighted to share that my book is out and available to read online for free! Thank you to the many people who either participated in my research or supported me to do it 😊
Book page:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/navigatin...
Free online access:
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#bluebird (Sialia mexicana) perches on a sapling along a country road in rural SW
#Oregon. Unlike many songbirds, the species often hunts insects by dropping to the ground from a perch, rather than catching them in midair
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English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 16 is
#Bells. In Dunblane Cathedral lie two bells, smaller of which has words inscribed, "Founded by Lieutenant-General Drummond in the year 1687.” He was a friend of Robert Leighton, & architect of Leighton Library, completed in 1687
Very sorry to hear this. His work is very much admired on a regular basis at the Cathedral.
I'm sorry to hear of the death of the sculptor, carver and letterer Richard Kindersley, who followed in his father David's footsteps at his Cambridge workshop. He'll be best known to many people for his beautiful memorial in Dunblane Cathedral to the young victims of the 1996 school shooting.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 13 is
#shopping. Dunblane Museum shop is full of items which would make perfect gifts, from jewellery, books, toys, scarves and mugs, to coasters, soaps, tea-towels, and more.
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum on Saturdays until 20 Dec
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free
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One of Yorkshire’s lesser-known Boxing Day traditions is the walk from Ripon Cathedral to Fountains Abbey, following the path taken by thirteen monks. formerly of St Mary's Abbey in York in the winter of 1132. They set out in bitter conditions in search of a harsher, simpler
St Michael & All Angels Church,
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#Hertfordshire
St Cecilia window by Karl Parsons. 1929
#StainedGlassSunday #KarlParsons
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Uplifting memorial to Durham University student
#DivineLight
Durham – Illumination Window (2019)
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Well, our lovely volunteer church recorders from Aberdeenshire have put in quite the shift this week!
They've visited three churches - Edzell, Montrose Old and Holyrood, Newburgh to record moveable items in each one. As always, they never know what they will find when they come to record... (1/4)
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