Just as with humans, old doors don't have to be gussied up in ornate bling to be beautiful.
The original Norman north door at the back of St. Margaret's Church at Hales reassures me that 'old, knackered and worn out' is still a good look, so that's what I'm going for.
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The first thing I thought when I saw this picture, Dive, was "guipure lace." Now where does a Hoosier like me get a word like "guipure"? Dunno, but then I looked up examples; there it is - all the thick and thin lines, textures, and patterns are in both examples of the lace and this door. So, yeah, Dive, your knackered door is silver guipure lace.
Thanks for a new Word of the day, Speedway. I looked it up and we always used to call that Maltese Lace (being from Malta) or Portuguese Lace. Mum has some somewhere.
The old door does look pretty cool, even in thousand-year-old oak rather than lace.
I'd give a lot to have a door like that opening onto my property.
@Speedway, it's because you read, and then unlike me you go and remember what you read.
We're making some fake (for fake, read historically accurate reproduction) doors for the Castle, Petrea, including equally fake Norman arches and pilasters.
Now that the bickering Academic Advisory Committee has agreed to my designs I'll soon post some working drawings. All you'll need then is a good joiner, some quality air-dried oak, a really creative blacksmith (Hollywood must have shedloads of those) and you can rename your home Camelot and Vine.
The Academic Advisory Committee received my first designs in April, 2019 and we've been arguing ever since, hurling ancient documents, photographs, topographical drawings and hefty copies of Jane Geddes (Goddess of Mediæval ironmongery) at one another. That's what you get when you put the nine most esteemed Professors of Saxo-Norman Architecture, Gods of Archæology and fusty Pipe Roll analysts in a room together.
Add me and it all gets a bit fraught.
Still, I win! I WIN! With such luminaries as Liz Popescu and Sandy Heslop backing me up, together with Tim at the Castle it has only taken us four-and-a-quarter years to agree on something.
As it should be!
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