Index of Topics
This is an alphabetical list of the many topics I touch upon within this website. As you might well have seen by now, it doesn’t take much for me to digress when I am writing about a church. As the site has expanded there are now a lot of these so I thought it might be useful to list them. You might find that following links in this way is a good way of meandering around the site rather than being systematic.
I have included some entries that just allow you to follow a particular line of enquiry. For example, you might want to see what Norman tympani there are to bee seen on the site. Please note, however, that I haven’t made these exhaustive but have picked out places of particular interest.
Aethelred “The Unready”
Alabaster Fonts
Alcfrith, King of Deira
‘Amptons - South and North
Anchorite Cells
Compton and Shere, Ryhall, Iffley, Staplehurst, New Romsey
Ape and Urine Bottle Symbolism
Apotropaia
Arts & Crafts Movement Churches
Bardolph (Shakespeare Character)
Baring-Gould, Sabine (“Squarson”)
Barnack Stone
Baskervilles (family)
Bats
Beer Stone & Quarry
Bell Towers (Anglo-Saxon)
Bench Ends
Altarnun, Lewtrenchard, Brent Knoll, East Brent, Stogursey, North Cadbury
Betjeman, John
Biscop, Benedict
Burne-Jones, Edward (artist)
Youlgreave; Ribbesford; Brockhampton; Roker
Byzantine Empire, Christianity Art
Canons
Cardinal Morton
Cathars
Catholic Rebellions against Protestant England
Clifford, Lady Anne
Chertsey Tiles
Church Guides
Churchyard Miscellany
Moccas, Coates by Stow, Nassington, Greensted; St Enodoc, Luppitt
Cistercian Order
Clofeshoch, Councils of
Codex Amiatinus
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collegiate Churches
Columbaria (Pigeon Lofts)
Comper, Ninian (Victorian Architect)
Corbel Tables
Kilpeck, Elkstone, Steetly, Studland, Barfreston, Iffley, Lullington, Berkswell, Kirkburn, Adel; Devizes; Worth Matravers
Crabbe, George (poet)
Crypts
Lastingham, Berkswell, Duntisbourne Rouse; Repton
De Clinton (family)
De Vere (family). Earls of Oxford. Shakespeare
De Haviland Mosquito Aircraft
Discolouration (Blackening) of Church Carvings
Domesday Book
Doom Paintings
Dovecotes (see also “Columbaria”)
Eagle in Mediaeval Bestiaries
Easter Sepulchre
Heckington, Coates-by-Stow, Hawton; Sibthorpe
East Midlands School of Carving
Bums, Fleas & Hitchhikers; Demon Carvers & Mooning Men; Oakham, Ryhall; Heckington; Brant Broughton
Eliot T.S.
English Eccentrics
Farmyard Churches
Winterbourne Tomson, Stragglethorpe, Coates-by-Stowe, Coombes, Cowlam, Billesley
Fiske, Pilot Officer Billy (American Airman)
Forests
Future of Rural Churches, the
North Norfolk School of Fonts; Lowick
Gill, Eric (artist)
Green, Thomas of Camberwell (sculptor)
Hatchment Symbolism
Hogbacks
“Jellinge Style” (Viking Art)
Kilvert, Francis (diarist)
Knights Hospitaller
Garway, Temple Balsall; Little Maplestead
Knights Templar
Labours of the Month Font
Lawrence, T.E (“of Arabia”)
Wareham
Lead Fonts
Long Wittenham (main article), Brookland, Woolstone, Ashover, Wareham St Mary’s
Little Hormead Church Door, Hertfordshire
Lollards
Losecoat Field, Battle of (Wars of the Roses)
Losh, Sarah
Lovell Family (Richard III Connections)
Low Side Windows (aka “Leper Squints”)
“Mallard" (steam locomotive)
“Maria Assumpta" (sailing ship)
Mildmay, Sir Walter (confidant to Elizabeth I)
Monmouth Rebellion against James II
Mortimer, Hugh and de Merlimond, Oliver
Morton’s Fork
Misericords (not a complete list)
St Germans, Rothwell, Ludlow, Ufford, Sherborne; Tansor; Old Malton; Benefield & Hemington; Cartmel; Ripple; Whalley
Mitford Family Graves
Musician Carvings
Brant Broughton, Elkstone, Hanwell, Ryhall, Adderbury
Nan Scott’s Chamber
Night Stair (for monks)
Norman Capitals
Adel, Melbourne, Wakerley, Barton-le-Street, Rock, Leominster Priory
North Sides of Churches aka “The Devil’s Side”
Whitcombe, Luppitt, Church Hanborough
Northumberland Churches and the Normans
Northern Oxford School of Carving
North Yorks School of Norman Fonts
Ossuary
Oswiu, King of Northumbria
Piper, John (artist)
Plato and Greek Philosophy
North West Norfolk School of Fonts
Poppy Heads (on benches)
South Lopham, Little Saxham, Holme; Ketton; Ludlow, Blythburgh, Ickleton
Porticuses and Transepts
Prayer Book Rebellion, the
Premonstratensians (Religious Order)
Railway Church
Ransom Theory of Salvation
Ransome, Arthur (author)
Ratings (for churches)
Romans
Rood Screens (mediaeval)
Felmersham, Coates by Stowe, Burnham Norton; Church Hanborough; Ranworth
Roof Bosses
Ottery St Mary, Bere Regis; Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Sherborne
Runes
Bridekirk, Kirk Lonan; Kirk Michael; Pennington
Rysbrack, John Michael (sculptor)
Sagittarius (iconography)
Stoke-sub-Hamden, Beckford, Rock, Adel
Salamander (iconography)
Sanctuary (for criminals)
Sarum Rite aka “Use of Sarum”
Satyrs (in Christian iconography)
Saxon Fonts
Avebury; Potterne; Melbury Bubb, Deerhurst, Kilpeck
St Bede
St Bega
St Bernard of Clairvaux (views on church carvings)
Herefordshire School of Carving; Dore Abbey Gallery
St Brigid’s Cross
SS Cyneburgha and Cyneswith
St Felix
St Firmin
SS Medard and Gildard
St Ninian
St Petroc
St Simeon Stylite (Syria)
St Tibba
Sciapod (Carving of)
Seven Sacraments Fonts
Sheela-na-gig
Kilpeck, Romsey Abbey; Pennington
Solomon’s Knot
Sundials
Swithland Slate Grave Markers
Sykes Churches
Tinner’s Rabbits
Widecombe-in-the-Moor; Sampford Courtenay
Tostig and Harald Hardrada
Tournai Marble Fonts
Triple Sedilia
Turriform Churches
Breamore; Earls Barton; Barton-on-Humber
Tympana Not a full list)
Elkstone, Patrixbourne, Lullington, Barfreston, Pipe Aston, Billesley, Ribbesford, Beckford, Castor, Long Marton, Barton Seagrave, Egleton, Stoke-sub-Hamdon; Quenington
Vicar’s Pele Tower
Vikings
Staplehurst, Ellerburn, Kirk Lonan, Kirk Michael, Dearham; Stillingfleet
Vinegar Bible
Wall, Dennis: a Soldier’s Story
Wall Painting
Hardham, Ickleton, Stoke Dry, Coombes, Nassington; East Shefford, Clayton, West Chiltington, Claverley, Kempley, Slapton
Webb, Mary Curtis
The Late Mary Curtis Webb; North West Norfolk School of Fonts, Steetly, Northants School of Fonts, Dearham, Rock, Ault Hucknall; Stone; Dinton;
Welsh, the also Wealsca
West Country School of Carving
Wheel Window
Barfreston, Patrixbourne; Castle Hedingham
Wilson, Thomas (headmaster)
Witches of Belvoir
Wordsworth, William
Yew Trees