Tyria jacobaeae

walwyn Sun, 02/07/2010 - 23:16

Tyria jacobaeae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Tyria
Species: T. jacobaeae
Common name: Cinnabar moth.

 

 

Tyria
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Sermon on the Mount - Tewkesbury Abbey

walwyn Sun, 02/07/2010 - 13:41

Healing the Sick - Tewkesbury Abbey

 

 

Main panel of this Hardman window illustrates Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount.

Gloucestershire
Victorian
Stained Glass
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Nativity - Tewkesbury Abbey.

walwyn Sat, 02/06/2010 - 22:45

Nativity

 

 

 

Hardman & Co representation of the Nativity

Gloucestershire
Victorian
Stained Glass
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Megachilidae

walwyn Sat, 02/06/2010 - 01:55

A worldwide family of solitary bees commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, due to the material that they use to build their nests.

 

 

Megachilidae
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Netelia testacea

walwyn Wed, 01/27/2010 - 19:45

 

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Netelia
Species: N. testacea

 

 

Netelia
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Tenthredinidae

walwyn Sun, 01/24/2010 - 13:26

 

Tenthredinidae is the largest sawfly family. It has 6000 species worldwide, with  900 European species and some 400 that are found in the British Isles. In size they range from 2.5mm to 15mm in length, and are either black or brownish yellow in colour.

 

Tenthredinidae
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Lyddington

walwyn Thu, 01/21/2010 - 23:56

lyddington bede house 02

 Originally the late medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln. By 1600 it had passed to Sir Thomas Cecil, son of Queen Elizabeth's chief minister, who converted it into an almshouse for twelve poor 'bedesmen' over 30 years old and two women (over 45), all free of lunacy, leprosy or the French pox.

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Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York - Stanford on Avon

walwyn Thu, 01/21/2010 - 01:36

 

Consisting of five lights the left and right hand lights contain portraits of Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York respectively, this lower part of the east window is loaded with symbols of the Tudor dynasty.

 

Northamptonshire
Victorian
Stained Glass
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Romanesque font - All Saints, West Haddon

walwyn Mon, 01/11/2010 - 21:48

Romanesque font West Haddon, Northamptonshire

 

Discovered in 1887 this C12 square bowled font has carved scenes from the life of Crist on all four sides.

 

Northamptonshire
Medieval
Romanesque
Sculpture
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Wolfhampcote

walwyn Mon, 12/28/2009 - 18:40

wolfhampcote 18012009-33

Nowadays St Peter's church at Wolfhampcote is owned by the Churches Conservation Trust, and remains a consecrated building, although services are only held here once a year.

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