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Adrian Fletcher & Sons and Dom Paradox in Britain, September - November 2009 last updated 13 February 2010
WEST MIDLANDS AND WELSH MARCHES
Just for a change, the earliest visits time-wise are at the bottom of this page
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St Peter & St Paul, Rock - arch capitals - a lion being nuzzled, a centaur about to shoot a deer on his back, an exhibitionist with a serpent piercing his leg and biting his ear.
Link to a new page in Paradoxplace with a description and more photos from SS Peter & Paul at Rock
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On the way to Rock, we stopped off at the cheese-maker in Monkland - not just excellent cheese but the only decent bacon we have had in England !
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St Mary Magdalene, Eardisley - Norman knights fighting on the font.
Link to a new page in Paradoxplace with a full description and more photos of the Eardisley font
link to crsbi descriptions another interesting web page
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St Michael and All Angels, Castle Frome - baptism of Jesus (with fish) plus signs of the evangelists.
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St George Brinsop - St Geotge skewers a legless wingless dragon, accompanied by voussoir images, inter alia, of Pisces and Taurus.
Link to new page in Paradoxplace with photos of St George Brinsop
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Hereford Cathedral and 3 of the 14 defaced Knights Templar guarding the shrine of "the other St Thomas" - Saint Thomas Cantilupe (c1218 - 1282 (64)), latterly Bishop of Hereford (though he died in Montefiascone in Lazio, where Adriano has a favourite seafood lunch Ristorante called Da Rita), who was canonised in 1320. Thomas was the Provincial Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and there are 14 of them standing and sitting in niches around the lower part of the shrine.
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St Mary & St David Kilpeck
Link to new page in Paradoxplace with photos from Kilpeck
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LITTLE MALVERN AND GREAT MALVERN
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Little Malvern Priory Web Site
Link to new page in Paradoxplace with photos from Little Malvern Priory
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Great Malvern Priory has an almost complete set of medieval monthly activity misericords, though this one is neither medieval nor monthly activity - just a Victorian bit of fun which we enjoyed.
Link to new page about Great Malvern Priory in Paradoxplace
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Great Malvern Priory - bench end parade.
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St James Abson
St James Abson - dinner of sinner in the sun - very Puglianesque
Link to new page about St James the Greater, Abson, in Paradoxplace
St James Abson - the shadow side.
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St Mary Winterbourne Monkton and a Sheela called Na-Gig on the font.
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St James Avebury - a croziered bishop (R) having his foot nuzzled by a Wyvern. Never heard of Wyverns ? Don't fret - the Paradox Bestiary is on the way ......
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Bellatrovata is the original "on the road" site for Adrian (aka Adriano and Dom Paradox) Fletcher's European explorations. Material relating to explorations in Italy (including Tuscany, Rome and Venice), Spain, France and Britain between 2004 and 2006 has now been transferred to Adrian's main web site - Paradoxplace - and Bellatrovata has been spring cleaned in preparation for the next road trips in England (Autumn 2009) and Northern Italy and Burgundy (May 2010).
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