The Mermaid of Churchdown, Gloucestershire

Would now be a good time to rehabilitate the mermaid as a feminist icon? In Medieval Western Europe they were…

Illustrated Talks 2022

A tiny (about 11 millimetres across) Marian Mark composed of two conjoined ‘V’s on the 15th century font of the…

A preliminary survey of a random sample of churches in Gloucestershire revealed examples of devotional, commemorative and apotropaic graffiti types.…

Demonic Possession….Spiritual Middens…Witch Bottles….Concealed Clothing & Boots….Apotropaic Graffiti…and more!! https://www.treadwells-london.com/lectures?fbclid=IwAR0pvg1OFn5b73dGkh9X1w-PXGEUyQutyqS4kGFj-5LNbZLw28QhdGulYCA

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Examples of figurative art among graffiti corpora are relatively common but no more straight forward to interpret than some of…

The remarkable octagonal font (AD 1405-7) at St Clement’s, Sandwich, features a number of bas-relief carvings on each of its…

A recent survey in London has revealed a number of marks and symbols carved into the masonry of the capital’s…

Folk Saint John Schorne was the Rector of North Marston in Buckinghamshire in the 13th century. He is said to…