Donors - Stanford on Avon, Northamptonshire

walwyn Sat, 03/20/2010 - 10:23

Donors Stanford on Avon

 

 

The roundels are late C15 to early C16. The figures of the donor family are mid C16 and probably come from Stanford Hall.

 

 

 

 

Xylocopa

walwyn Wed, 03/17/2010 - 20:39

The Xylocopa genus of bees are commonly known as Carpenter bees. These are large black bees that somewhat resemble bumblebees but have a nonhairy abdomen. They are widely distributed around the world,and the genus contains some 500 species.

William Bagot Brass - Baginton, Warwickshire.

walwyn Sun, 03/14/2010 - 10:40

William Baghot Brass

 

 

 

Large brass monument to William Bagot (d1407) and his wife Margaret.

 

 

 

Captain Henry Kingsmill - Radway, Warwickshire

walwyn Sat, 02/27/2010 - 14:00

Captain Henry Kingsmill

 

 

Semi reclining stone figure of Cavalier in recess. Henry Kingsmill was killed at the battle of Edgehill Sunday, 23 October 1642. This was the first pitch battle of the English Civil War.

 

 

Cercopidae

walwyn Thu, 02/25/2010 - 00:02

Cercopis vulnerata

 

 

Cercopidae is a large family of Hemipteran bugs which are commonly called froghoppers, or spittlebugs.

 

 

 

Polygonia c-album

walwyn Thu, 02/18/2010 - 18:45

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Polygonia
Species: P. c-album

 

Hylaeus

walwyn Mon, 02/15/2010 - 23:41

Worldwide there are over 500 species of these wasp-like bees. They are generally hairless, black  with yellow-white faces small bees. They feed their larvae pollen, but being hairless cannot collect it in the normal manner, instead the female carries the pollen and nectar in her crop and regurgitates it into the cell into which she will lay an egg.

 

Marriage at Cana - Tewkesbury Abbey

walwyn Tue, 02/09/2010 - 19:57

Marriage at cana - Tewkesbury Abbey

 

 

This window by Hardman & Co. illustrates the first of Christ's Miracles.

 

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.

 

 

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.

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