UK: architectural features

including ecclesiastical features

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mid 14th century Ampleforth Abbey, Yorkshire North Riding

Ancaster Lincolnshire

Beauchamp Chapel Warwickshire
early 1450's

Beverley Minster

1520 misericord Beverley Minster

1309-1349 Beverley Minster double pipe ,
stone carving 2

minstrels pillar St Mary's Church, Beverley

The minstrel is wearing the badge of the town waites. The pipe is now broken off,
leaving only the tabor of the pipe-and-tabor combination: a drawing by
Caroline Brereton, dated 1866 (now in the local Museum), shows the pipe
in place. It was still there in 1894, (when R. C. Hope read his paper
'Notes on the Minstrels' Pillar, St. Mary's Church, Beverley' to the
East Riding Antiquarian Society).

‘English bowed instruments from Anglo-Saxon to Tudor times' by Remnant, Mary 1986

Bloxham Oxfordshire

St James Church,
Bramley, Hampshire

Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, 14th century

Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
14th century

14th century Bristol Cathedral, pipe missing "When they learn Reynard is to be hanged Isegrin the wolf and Bruin the [muzzled] bear dance for joy." source		Carlisle Cathedral	Caster Church, Peterborough
Chichester Cathedral	1525 stained glass, Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire

Cirencester, St John's Church:

“early sixteenth century gargoyles above the nave clerestory, a remarkable series which are supposed to depict the revels attendant on a " Whitsun Ale."' One figure bears the legend " BE MERRIE," while others are represented playing musical instruments of the period, prominent amongst which are hunting horns, a double recorder, a double shawm, a bag-pipe, tabor and pipe, rebec, lute, portable organ, hurdy-gurdy, and a very rare example of the eunuch flute.”

[Ed These are said to be so eroded that the instruments cannot now be deciphered.]

'Ancient Cotswold churches. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and the author's photographs'
by Cecily Daubeny

early 16th century Cirencester

Cley-next-the-sea Norfolk	Cogges Oxfordshire	The Eden Project Cornwall	1338–1348 Ely Cathedral
Exeter Cathedral	Gawsworth Cheshire	Gloucester Cathedral 1	Gloucester Cathedral 2

Great Malvern Priory Church Worcestershire

Heckington,
Lincolnshire

Holdenby, Northamptonshire, broken pipe, 14th century			Holdenby close-up of angel/fool's hands
Higham Ferrers Northamptonshire	1418 Holy Trinity Hull [pipe missing]	Kensington Gardens London	Lichfield Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral

March , Cambridgeshire, St Wendreda

New College, Oxford	1320 Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Becket window		from a Norfolk church, now in Cecil Sharp House, London Photo credit: English Folk Dance and Song Society
Raunds Northamptonshire	Scotland, Rosslyn Chapel	15th century stained glass window St Nectan Chapel, St Andrew church, Cheddar, Somerset
	Shrewsbury, St Mary the Virgin