Showing posts with label Décor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Décor. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Hare Décor

Image: Sculptor and photographer unknown.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Hare Décor

Image: The Leveret (artist unknown).

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Church Hare


Notes the website of the English village of Stow Bardolph:

Stow Bardolph centres around the site of Stow Hall, a stately mansion constructed by Nicholas Hare, Esq., Master of the Rolls and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in 1589. Nicholas Hare also constructed Hare Chapel – a large annexed dormitory for the internment of himself and family adjoining the Church, which is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

Since that time, the Hare family have played a significant role in the village’s history. In 1622, Sir Ralph Hare built six almshouses, and provided them with 86 acres of land for division among the inmates. Later, in 1744, Sarah Hare committed the “sin” of sowing on a Sunday. Whilst doing so, she pricked her finger and, shortly afterwards, died of blood poisoining.In her will, she requested that six poor men from the parish act as her pallbearers, and they each receive five shillings for their services.

She also bequeathed two shillings and sixpence to each of the poor residents of Alms Row, and requested that an effigy of her face and hands be made and placed in a Mahogany case, close to where she was buried. The effigy still remains in the Hare Chapel of Stow Bardolph’s Holy Trinity Church, acting as a warning to Sabbath breakers. It is the only funerary effigy of it’s kind outside of Westminster Abbey.

One pub remains in the centre of the village – the Hare Arms. The original building was erected during the Napoleonic wars (at a time when Nelson travelled through the village en route to his ship in London) and the transformation of the house into an inn took place when Captain Thomas Hare offered it to three soldiers.

Opening image: All Saints Church, Stow Bardolph, Norfolk, United Kingdom. (Photo: G. Butler)
Images 2 and 3: Photographers unknown.

Friday, February 3, 2023

Sub-Zero

The head of my ornamental moon-gazing hare, protruding out of the snow and into the sub-zero temperatures currently being experienced in Minnesota.


See also the previous posts:
Minneapolis Weather: Brrring on the Coldest Night of Winter – Sven Sundgaard (Bring Me the News, February 3, 2023).
Bitter Cold Friday Morning Gives Way to a Big Weekend WarmupMinnesota Public Radio News (February 3, 2023).

See also the previous posts:
In the Winter Garden
Winter Hare
In Winter Field
Winter Light
Hares in Winter
The Promise of Imbolc

Image: The Leveret.

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Hare Tumbler

Image: Artist and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
Hare Décor – March 12, 2020
Hare Décor – January 25, 2017

Friday, September 16, 2022

Penis Planters

. . . Also known as Body Positive Planters and Male Body Vase Planters. (Designer unknown.)

See also the previous posts:
Penis
Soft
Spiritual Phallicism

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Hare Décor

A tin-enamelled earthenware tile of Mexican origin (c. 1700) with a design of a hare amongst foliage. (Artist/maker unknown.)

See also the previous posts:
Hare Décor – March 17, 2019
Hare of the Agave
The Mexican Hare
Xōchipilli

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Alcove

Image: Photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
Ornamental Hare
Garden Hare I
Garden Hare II
Hare Décor
Resting Hare

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Thursday, September 30, 2021