Freelance art and architectural historian with focus on English medieval churches but love poking around all buildings. ALL BUILDINGS! www.stainedglassattitudes.com https://ko-fi.com/stainedglassattitudeshttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mz6xikbqtc2vBlimey no time wasted this year31 Oct 2026 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz6xikbqtc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mz6q6f3ud22iWhen researching Elisabetta Sirani thought this was a remarkable staging of the beheading of the Baptist by her. It gives unprecedented character to the scant Biblical figure we now know as Salome, who looks pleadingly at her mother Herodias. Original plate dated 1657, when she was 19 years old.31 Oct 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz6q6f3ud22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mz4qzjwrgc2iI've not been round a huge amount of churches this year, but it always makes my heart drop when I see a parish using ChatGPT posters (paint swipes! no space left without an aphorism! confusing icons next to every point!). Hoping the bubble bursts in 2027...30 Oct 2026 21:47 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz4qzjwrgc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3myu54vy4m22zI gave regular lectures on V&A Academy until cuts recently, and now it looks like the whole thing is being cut into utter oblivion. Such a familar tale these days. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/26/victoria-albert-museum-proposing-significant-cuts-academy-amid-financial-pressures27 Oct 2026 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3myu54vy4m22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3myiny63nts2jTony Iommi, promo shot for new solo album "From The Dark", released 23 Oct 2026. Taken at the 15thc great hall of Dorney Court, Buckinghamshire. Linenfold panelling is said to come from the abbot's lodgings at Faversham (although it must have been somewhere else before its installation c.1905-10)22 Oct 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3myiny63nts2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3myhernycys2tFinally posted my bit about a canvas that features on a death metal album cover, and its place within Seicento painting in Bologna. I don't think it's by Elisabetta Sirani, but that makes it all the more important as witness to lost prototype by Guido Reni. https://stainedglassattitudes.com/2026/10/21/the-daughter-of-herodias-an-investigation-at-thirty-years-as-a-death-metal-icon/22 Oct 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3myhernycys2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mydfovu4ks25this has been driving me nuts recently [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Oct 2026 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mydfovu4ks25https://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mycr3gj7bk25Salle des Mariages on W end of la mairie, Limoges, a building that Wikipedians were edit-warring to put in the past tense the other day, with ceiling painting by Urbain Bourgeois. Some other painted rooms will not be so fortunate, but buildings don't just burn down "to the ground" and blow away20 Oct 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mycr3gj7bk25https://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mxh3e2vlts2nRepresenting the Shuttleworth's motto, personifications of Prudence (with her snake) and Justice (with her... uh, name) oddly raising their skirts. Are they meant to be curtseying? Plaster overmantle of fireplace in 2nd-storey bedroom of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, by the Gunton brothers, 1604-5.09 Oct 2026 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxh3e2vlts2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mxfhkrbt222wTandF are a bunch of crooks latest. sigh. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2026 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfhkrbt222whttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mxbs4kg66s2hThis is really an appalling end to a chronically-neglected heritage asset. The reason the stained-class windows won't have come out is they would cost more to take out than they would sell for... but is that really "preservation first" as the City Council say? [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Oct 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxbs4kg66s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mwr6x2in7k2sThe twelfth-century masonry keep of Clitheroe Castle is currently being unsheathed from its scaffold wrap after restoration work began in December last year, in case you are wondering about the current status of Clitheroe Castle's twelfth-century masonry keep30 Sep 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwr6x2in7k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mwc247nkzk2jBeen thinking about this since I was at Burghley House last month. N front (1587), featuring the Bow Room on 1st floor (decorated 1698) above the ground entrance hall (latter not open to public). The ceiling inside, right, it's so high that it means the 3rd storey windows aren't open to rooms?24 Sep 2026 19:58 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwc247nkzk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mum7mnqenk2llistened to this since it's all there. it's exactly what you'd expect for a Radio 4 drama. yes "the old ways" are a bit of a plot point ("don't you remember the cakes for Eostre? the winter sacrifice?"), but it tells an imagined story in 45 minutes about the making of Bayeux Tapestry. it's fine. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mum7mnqenk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3muf3mr3gck2bTook a detour to Bourne Abbey on the way home the other week just to get a south aspect picture for my Pinchbeck fen map project. Of course the E arm is gone, and the site of the crossing replaced by a post-Dissolution banged-together chancel. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf3mr3gck2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mu5h75qhds2kGenuine gargoyle giving good gargle-gargling, true to its name. Yesterday at Bymhill, Staffordshire It's part of the old church's major (and really rather fancy) Victorian rebuilding under G.E. Street 1856-9, financed in great part by George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl Bradford, whose son was rector here.28 Aug 2026 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5h75qhds2khttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mtvnch3ggs2qBig surprise at the little church of St Mary, Great Eversden, just SW of Cambridge, which has a laconic entry in the 2014 Buildings of England. A Christ in Judgement, only uncovered in 2017!25 Aug 2026 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvnch3ggs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mtbnxepovc2brough joggled masonry fireplace lintel in the Old Kitchen of the former collegiate premises of what is now the Cathedral church of Manchester. Always enjoy a joggle.17 Aug 2026 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbnxepovc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mrnn6mowsc26something that surprises me here is that the cuts are approved by the Astronomer Royal, Michele Dougherty, as Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, a council of UKRI. I remember Michele from way back on The Sky At Night (like, 20 years ago) being a great communicator. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jul 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnn6mowsc26https://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mrnhaafyns2hTwo new areas /marked/ as 3D coverage have appeared on G Earth today, one very large reaching west of Norwich (encompassing Great Yarmouth that's already in) and between existing Worcester and Hereford. HOWEVER: zoom in and there's nothing new. But presumably soon?27 Jul 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnhaafyns2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mrklpliwfk2aSt Peter, Barton-Upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. The surviving tower and baptistery block of rendered rubble with sandstone dressing which pre-date (... obviously) the Early Norman belfry of coursed limestone. Likely built as a cemetery chapel inside the manorial enclosure c. 1010-5.26 Jul 2026 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrklpliwfk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mrdue3arrs2qbit weird isn't it when do the generic search engine thing for Robert Hooke, at top you get an AI slop image of him with a clearly 19thc or later compound microscope, entirely unlike that which he pioneered. Oh yeah also a desk lamp as well as a candle. Great stuff. Internet's doing very well23 Jul 2026 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdue3arrs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mrcqy4mvw22pAhead of a great volume measurement ranking of the English cathedrals, I've been giving my surrogate of Old St Paul's a jolly good clean: rebaking the textures, fixing holes and glitches, and getting it down from 387k verts to about 66k. And tiny things like having John of Gaunt's chapel on N side.23 Jul 2026 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcqy4mvw22phttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mqpptrpxhc2lAnyway, one of the best things about the feast of the translation of St Swithun in 971 was it made BlueSky feel like 2014 twitter. Everyone watching the same thing, having a funny take, genuinely good stuff15 Jul 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpptrpxhc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mqpcgboj4c2gMonument to archaeologist Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, within excavation of the Old Minster at Winchester she worked on from 1964. It is just S of site of the shrine of St Swithun in the E arm of 992/4, demolished under Bishop Wakelin 1093-4. Note her birthday was his feast: 15 July (pics taken last Sept)15 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpcgboj4c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mqonqkzhis2gwhat15 Jul 2026 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqonqkzhis2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mqhyhkysfs2plosing my mind here. this is from a planning application of 2023. The officer thinks "MDCCCC" means that this bank building dates from 180012 Jul 2026 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqhyhkysfs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mqh5zwutys23Stoner/doom at the Ants! [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Jul 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqh5zwutys23