GRAFFITI & MASONS’ MARKS

St Andrew . Leigh . Dorset . Graffiti in the West Porch

GREAT ENGLISH CHURCHES: an excellent resource for research about stonemasons or an introduction to selective features, in 2 parts

STONEMASONS Part 1

STONEMASONS Part 2

HAMPTON COURT PALACE

Mason’s Mark on a staircase step within an archway

ST PETER . MERE . WILTS

ST ALDHELM’S CHAPEL . DORSET

Full post HERE

ALL SAINTS . SECKINGTON . WARKS

Erica Clarkson

ST PETER & ST PAUL . HEYTESBURY . WILTS

ST MARY . IWERNE MINSTER . DORSET

On the stone bench inside the porch: W D 1773

ST MARTIN . BARFORD ST MARTIN . WILTS

1697 TH

ST MICHAEL . NORTH CADBURY . SOM

Hands cut into the original medieval stone bench seats within the porch

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ALL SAINTS . HOUGHTON . HANTS

Scratch Dials post HERE

A gallery showing a splendid mix of graffiti, crosses, protection marks and hexfoils

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ST OSMOND . MELBURY OSMOND . DORSET .

Mason’s marks / initials and dates that relate to the rebuilding of the church (except the C15 tower) in mid- C18. There are other marks, including a presumed Marian V V mark (bottom left), a ‘ritual protection mark’.

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ST MARY . PUDDLETOWN . DORSET

Dated initials and names 1802, 1807, 1819

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TEWKESBURY ABBEY

A gallery of Masons’ marks and graffiti scratched or cut into the columns

Tewkesbury Abbey . Masons’ Marks and graffiti . All photos: Keith Salvesen

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BATH ABBEY

Bath Abbey – graffiti on a column

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OLD ST PETER’S . STOCKBRIDGE . HANTS

Link to scratch dial post HERE

OLD ST PETER’S . STOCKBRIDGE . HANTS – date 1682; graffiti and witch marks

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ALL SAINTS . ALL CANNINGS . WILTS

Graffiti: dates, initials, witch marks. Link to Scratch Dials (9)

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ST ANDREW . PRESTEIGNE . POWYS

St Andrew . Presteigne . Powys – Masons’ Marks

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ST PETER . CHETNOLE . DORSET

St Peter . Chetnole . Dorset – graffiti and Marian Marks

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ALL SAINTS . WEST CAMEL . SOM

All Saints . West Camel . Som – date 1762 and a formy cross

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ST ANDREW . BRYMPTON . SOM

E. Apsey – believed to have been involved with a restoration in C18

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ST MICHAEL . OVER COMPTON . DORSET

St Michael . Over Compton . Dorset – graffiti / dates on both sides of nave archway

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ST MARY . PEMBRIDGE . HEREFS

Triangular mason’s mark. There are also a number pentagrams, said to be masons’ marks rather than (as might be thought) ritual protection marks

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SECKINGTON . WARKS . ALL SAINTS

C17 initials and dates. RPB looks later. CIP is plausibly old but dated 1989

All Saints . Seckington . Warks – C17 graffiti in the porch π Erika Clarkson

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AFFPUDDLE . DORSET . ST LAURENCE

FULL POST HERE

St Laurence. Affpuddle: Medieval Graffiti with witch marks & drawing of a house

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HAMPTON COURT PALACE

Hampton Court Palace – on a step near the Chapel