#StMaryEastBrent
Victorian memorial tablet dappled with light from the south chancel window. The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryEastBrent #MemorialMonday
January 19, 2026 at 9:53 PM
South door, interior #StMaryEastBrent from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg. Cross braced. Styles that extend around the 2-centred head and a ledge that looks as if it was shaped with an adze. A sheer door delight #AdoorableThursday
January 22, 2026 at 9:45 PM
The end of the road for the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast. Four legs, 22 churches, four very different winners. All special, all beautiful, but which takes the crown? #StPaulKewstoke #StMaryEastBrent #StMartinFiddington #StGeorgeDunster...
February 7, 2026 at 10:17 PM
The go to church for effigies, memorial tablets and niches on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryEastBrent. This fabulous effigy is flanked by fine canopied niches the podiums of which would once have housed saints to watch over the deceased
January 19, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Little used but now reinstated #CeilingsSunday from #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset

Wonderful (and largely untouched) C17 plaster ceiling. Mouse like. Mouse like a lot
August 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
At peace on a mattress of grass and swaddled in moss... this effigy would once have been at rest inside. Perhaps ousted by iconoclasts. The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryEastBrent #MemorialMonday
January 19, 2026 at 9:48 PM
At the dying of the light...

South chapel #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset for #MemorialMonday
August 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
South of nave (interior) #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset on #AdoorableThursday

Mouse won't waffle on about how beautiful this door is...
August 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Angus?

Detail of octagonal font #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday
August 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
C15 bench ends, great survivors but looking every inch their 500 or so years, suffering worm and wear and tear

#StMaryEastBrent #Somerset on #Woodensday
August 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
August 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings

South door #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset on #FerrousFriday. Another upside down escutcheon. Surely there must be a reason for these
August 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
August 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
From south porch #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset on #TowerTuesday

If you zoom in you will be able to see a vast difference in the way the stone is dressed and coursed on the tower to that of the rest of the church. It is very distinctive and similar to that at #StMaryEastBrent
September 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Under a blanket of moss and at rest on a mattress of grass, this effigy with its pillow would once have been inside a church. It bears significant similarities to those relocated to the aisle and chapel but never made it back inside #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset #MemorialMonday
August 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Detail of octagonal font #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday

Wonderfully and convincingly carved in the style of a late C15 octagonal font
August 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Not the finest in its proportions but typical of its type, early C17 pulpit featuring circular arches on decorated piers #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset for #SundaySermons
August 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
And as #FontsMeanFarwell, Mouse has to choose the best church to visit from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg. It was a tough choice, but Mouse giving the top place to #StMaryEastBrent. Lovely external architecture and plenty of interest in the interior
January 24, 2026 at 10:11 PM
South porch #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset for #FridaysFacesInStone. Expression: mildly bemused
August 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. Highlights of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg that Mouse didn't get around to sharing. The setting of this doorway at #StChristopherLympsham is lovely. The door is a modern copy of the C15 door at nearby #StMaryEastBrent
January 23, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The winner of #FridaysFacesInStone from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg #StMaryEastBrent. Probably authentic, although well preserved. Mouse can almost imagine the people these were based on
January 23, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Sanctuary

#StMaryEastBrent #Somerset #StainedGlassSunday
Normally Mouse start her Sunday posts with the altar, but Mouse made such an appalling orielle de porc of it she needs a little sanctuary
August 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Mouse eye view (number two)...

Tower and stair turret. Solid #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset on #TowerTuesday
August 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Chancel #StMaryEastBrent #Somerset for #TilesOnTuesday

Part of Butterfield's handiwork, one Victorian who was variously responsible for 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'. In this case very much to the good. He doubtless made a fistful of dollars
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM