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/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/3mqh5zwutys23https://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mq5f4qjtjs22In a continuing novel experiment of "writing things and putting them on a webpage", last week I visited the exciting town of Spalding, Lincolnshire and have brought together all my thoughts on one of my favourite missing pages of English architecture. https://stainedglassattitudes.com/2026/07/08/in-search-of-spalding-priory/08 Jul 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5f4qjtjs22https://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mpjrdijlrk2zif anyone is just learning about Jonathan Jones here's his review of the V&A's Opus Anglicanum where he criticised the exhibition for being "boring" because it had the vestments in glass cases rather than on bishops in a cathedral. Also the title was in Latin. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/29/opus-anglicanum-review-victoria-and-albert-museum-london30 Jun 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjrdijlrk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mpjcfeuwuc2zFinally got hold of a model of the one English cathedral I was missing in the photogrammetry collection I've been building for the last six years! Along with working out a seemingly robust volume-measuring method, I should now be able to present a ranking of them in size order. don't wait up tho30 Jun 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjcfeuwuc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mpexgjbtqs27saw a Sonic the Hedgehog plush toy on the hard shoulder of the southbound M6 between Forton Services and J32 today. Makes you think. about hedgehogs.28 Jun 2026 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpexgjbtqs27https://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mperesjw6c27The titular saint of St Mary Magdalene, Newark, high up in the gable of the 1487-1500 rebuild of the superstructure of the chancel and its aisles28 Jun 2026 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mperesjw6c27https://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mpekixyh6c27oh no, not again, they are my favourite feature of the building. I think that this should be repairable with epoxy adhesives (the hammerblow on the other in 2020 as I understand made so many fractures smaller than the engravings themselves, it was basically impossible to reassemble the lower half) [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jun 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpekixyh6c27https://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mpcf3pxrrc2xExciting stuff: the new toilet/café block at St Mary Magdalene, Newark, Nottinghamshire. Best bit is the little clerestory so you can see the stained glass from inside the cubicles.27 Jun 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpcf3pxrrc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3moo3ymchwk2eBlindingly obvious Somerset location in the new He-Man movie, Masters of the Universe. Hopefully Amazon-MGM Studios gave the Cathedral plenty of money for this19 Jun 2026 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3moo3ymchwk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mnxbxa4w2s2sAnd today, on the centenary of Gaudí's death (10 June 1926), the central tower is to be inaugurated (it was actually topped out on 20 Feb) [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jun 2026 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnxbxa4w2s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mnnhgadk2k2lfound this in old papers: pretty sure it was from 2009 (£15 was a lot of money in those days!) such a ridiculous policy to enforce till 2019. especially walking round the cathedral in a sash so you don't get yelled at thing06 Jun 2026 20:08 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnnhgadk2k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mmzb6u5vms2vLovely surprise to see St Walburge Preston has just got rid of its Vatican II altar platform that current custodians Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest have been ignoring since 2014.29 May 2026 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmzb6u5vms2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3ml2jzzddis2gLytham Hall's main staircase plaster ceiling, attributed to Swiss-Italian stuccoist Giuseppe Cortese (house designed by Yorkshire architect John Carr and built 1757-64) has been repainted over the last few months and unveiled in the past week. Can't say I'm disappointed: I think it looks spectacular04 May 2026 20:44 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2jzzddis2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mkarey63622aA different angle to the usual view of Cologne Cathedral before the 19thc completion. Made 1670-5, looking from the NW. The S tower, completed up to clerestory height with its famous medieval crane is to the right, but to the L you can see the interior of the E wall of the N tower.24 Apr 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkarey63622ahttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mjxevpl23222never fails to amaze me how 1987 cover art for thrash band Toxik (by the stalwart Ed Repka, who painted a multitude of classic thrash covers and endures to this day) while being a bit on the nose for "ooh big business bastards waging war and murdering mother Earth", still somehow remains relevant20 Apr 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxevpl23222https://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mjuocdlth22zWanted a model of the parish church of St Mary, Long Sutton (Lincs) so was able to find two drone passes of it that I could render. Problem is one was taken in snow so I had to change the roof colouring as well as the overall colour temp. But I think it turned alright, as an illustrative massing.19 Apr 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjuocdlth22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com/post/3mjn7i7jsnk2sEnjoying collecting a multitude of bluesky errors as the website spends a day shitting itself inside out16 Apr 2026 20:05 +0000at://did:plc:4dgydito7sq5a5vzdsro3ve4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjn7i7jsnk2s