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Architectural Portraits from Jaunty Lemon Press, a Design & Illustration Studio based in Cheltenham, England Please do get in touch if you have any queries.

Hi and welcome to Jaunty Lemon Press, a Design & Illustration Studio based in Cheltenham, England. This range is prompted primarily by my lifelong passion for architecture. Celebrating the most cherished places in our lives, I create beautiful bespoke pieces for you from my studio in the heart of The Cotswolds, ably assisted by a handlebar moustache and two overly inquisitive cats. Your personalis

ed work will be professionally produced for you as a fine giclee print on fade resistant museum-quality art paper ready for you to frame. Perfect if you love your house or if you know anyone who loves theirs...

You can find me at my Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/jauntylemonpress where you can see more examples of my work. Thank you for stopping by. Adrian
Chief Scribbler at Jaunty Lemon Press

17/06/2026

Vaulted ceilings - are you a fan...?
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📍The Cotswolds (mostly!)
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Here’s a little selection featuring fan vaulting, medieval engineering’s remarkably beautiful solution to the problem of supporting large, tall expanses. The ribs all have the same curve, sending up these wonderful fans decorated with intricate tracery to support the ceiling, rather than how rib vaults had previously worked intersecting at a ceiling boss. Exemplifying the Perpendicular Gothic style, it was first used in Gloucester Cathedral in the C14th, and continued to be used into the C16th, and once more in the C19th as part of the Gothic Revival. Aren’t they exquisite...?
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1️⃣ & 2️⃣ Fan Vaulting in the Cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral - built C14th
3️⃣ & 4️⃣ Fan Vaulting in the Choir and Chancel at Bath Abbey - built C16th
5️⃣ Fan Vaulting in the South Porch at Tewkesbury Abbey - built C14th originally as part of the Cloister
6️⃣ & 7️⃣ Fan Vaulting in the South Porch at St John the Baptist, Cirencester - built early C12th
8️⃣ Fan Vaulting in the Cloisters of Cheltenham College - built 1919-21
9️⃣ Fan Vaulting in the Vaughan (or Trinity) Chapel, St David’s Cathedral - built 1509-22
🔟 Vaulting corbel at Woodchester Mansion - unfinished Victorian stonemasonry in the Gothic Revival style built 1857-70
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14/06/2026

Wonderful Westonbirt...
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📍Westonbirt House, Westonbirt, The Cotswolds
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This wonderful golden stone facade is Westonbirt House, a Victorian country house built 1863-70 by Lewis Vulliamy for Robert Stayner Holford - wealthy landowner, MP and founder of Westonbirt Arboretum. Built in an Elizabethan style with ‘Renaissance classical ornament’, it has, since 1928, been a school and has been used often as a film location, doubling recently as Wyvern Abbey in the Netflix adaptation of Agatha Christie’s ‘The Seven Dials’ and Wallace University in ‘Sex Education’.
These shots are generally of the south side and terrace with its distinctive central semicircular oriel window, pierced strapwork balustrade featuring the family’s ‘H’ monogram on top, classical masks and highly decorative use of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders...
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12/06/2026

Young Prince Arthur’s Tomb...
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📍Prince Arthur’s Chantry, Worcester Cathedral, Worcester
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Here are some details of Prince Arthur’s Chantry in the cathedral at Worcester. The tomb in Perpendicular Gothic style to Henry VII’s eldest son was built in 1504. The young prince died at Ludlow Castle at the tender age of 15 of the ‘sweating sickness’, just months after his wedding, and the tomb is covered with badges and emblems of the House of Tudor, and of his young wife Catherine of Aragon as well as Christian iconography. Interestingly, apparently a similar chantry in Westminster Cathedral to his father, Henry VII in 1509 is very symmetrical, however this one seems to have been altered mid-build...
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10/06/2026

Victorian restoration...
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📍North Porch, Worcester Cathedral, Worcester
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This is the North Porch to Worcester Cathedral, originally built in 1386 in the Decorated Gothic style, and restored in the C19th by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Between 1857 and 1874, many of the statues surrounding the portal, which feature Christ flanked by the Apostles holding objects which identify them, were recarved or restored in a much paler stone that it was felt was more likely to weather better than the medieval Red Highley Sandstone from South Shropshire used originally, and certainly over 150 years later it seems as crisp as ever...
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08/06/2026

More than its fair share...?
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📍Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
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Initially I wondered how these two handsome early C19th houses shared that middle window (- did one house really have more windows than the other?) until I realised that both houses were mirror images of each other, with the middle window of the five window range faux with blacked out panes. And as soon as two buildings/one facade is not treated as a one, one ties oneself in knots over which bits get painted. All the window sill of the shared windows seem to be the blue of the right hand one and more than half of the flat gauged brick arch above! Thoughts…?
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05/06/2026

Cosy Cotswold Cottage Core...
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📍The Cotswolds
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Here are some of my favourite little cottages just oozing idyllic charm found hither and thither around The Cotswolds. Aren’t they gorgeous? Favourites, anyone...?
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1️⃣ Mill Cottage, Lower Slaughter - built mid C19th
2️⃣ Canal Round House, Chalford - built 1790
3️⃣ The Lodge, Ampney Crucis - built mid C17th
4️⃣ Pineapple Spa, Lower Swell - built 1807
5️⃣ High Street, Broadway - built C18th
6️⃣ Coachman’s Cottage, Adlestrop - built 1721, altered C19th
7️⃣ The Avenue, Great Tew - built c.1830
8️⃣ Milestone Cottage, Broadway - built late C17th
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03/06/2026

Blocked columns and pilasters...
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📍England (mainly The Cotswolds)
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This little selection features some rustication of the type that punctuates columns and pilasters with large cubic blocks, emphasising the weight and importance of such Neoclassical structures. Some of these punctuating blocks are also vermiculated (‘worm-eaten’) and as you can see in 7️⃣ facetted. Some of these blocks on round columns are square 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣, but some are round standing proud of the round column they seek to punctuate 8️⃣ & 9️⃣. I have noticed some of the type in 1️⃣, 4️⃣ & 6️⃣ called ‘Gibbs surrounds’, named after the Scottish architect, James Gibbs (1682 - 1754), who popularised this architectural device drawing on the influences of Serlio and Palladio exploring the architectural themes of Ancient Rome...
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1️⃣ No.3, Kingston Street, Bradford-on-Avon - built C18th
2️⃣ Former Fish Market, Newcastle upon Tyne - built 1880
3️⃣ The Former Rural District Council Offices - built c.1910
4️⃣ Beacon House, Painswick - built 1766
5️⃣ Old Rectory, Elkstone - early C18th
6️⃣ Cirencester Park, Cirencester - early C18th
7️⃣ The Central, Newcastle upon Tyne - built in 1856
8️⃣ Loggia at Kingston Lacy - part of alterations c.1835
9️⃣ Lodge Park, Sherborne - built c.1634
🔟 Former Gate Pier - built early/mid C18th
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01/06/2026

Getting all ‘hobbity’ in Puzzlewood…
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📍Puzzlewood, Forest of Dean
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What better on such a hot sunny heatwave day than a wander in a patch of welcome shade in the remarkable Temperate Forest of Puzzlewood in the Forest of Dean?! This wonderfully evocative place (with this enchanting little cabin within it!) was once an underground cave system that over time was eroded away to reveal a unique geological landscape known as “Scowles”. Open cast iron ore mining in the Iron Age and Roman periods has also left it’s mark leaving it for Nature to take hold and do its thing for a few hundred years since, covering verdant mossy ravines in lush ferns and lichen with twisted treeroots seemingly magically growing from the rock. In the C19th this 14-acre woodland was laid out with paths as a tourist attraction following the fashion for the ‘picturesque’, and in more modern times has been used often as a filming location for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Merlin’, and ‘The Secret Garden’ and was apparently the inspiration for Middle Earth for a certain JRR Tolkein’s ‘Lord of the Rings’, and the Forbidden Forest for JKRowling’s Harry Potter books. I don’t know the origin of this little shack, but I’d have to assume by the fixings that it’s a modern ‘folly’ to catch the eye and stir the imagination...
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22/05/2026

Utterly charming…(2 of 2)
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📍Gardener’s Cottage, The Newt, Somerset
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Absolutely wonderful! More pictures on from my last post from last week’s Great Garden Show down at The Newt in Somerset showing Gardener’s Cottage, the charming little brick and thatch delight, at the centre of the Cottage Garden inspired by the plantings of Gertrude Jekyll. Its use these days seems to be for drying flowers (hence the sign by the door), I dare say for the stunning displays they often have at the entrance barn...
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18/05/2026

Well for those of a horticultural bent, tomorrow marks the first day of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. So by way of celebration here’s a little selection of floral architectural decoration found here and there...
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📍England & Wales
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1️⃣ Metal floral capital at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History - started in 1855
2️⃣ & 5️⃣ Flower motifs on brick & terracotta tiles on Compton Buildings, Worcester - dated 1881
3️⃣ Flower decorated spandrels above doors and windows at the former bank, Frogmore St, Abergavenny - built 1892
4️⃣ Floral relief panel on Westonbirt House in The Cotswolds - built 1863-70 by Lewis Vulliamy in an Elizabethan style with ‘Renaissance classical ornament’.
6️⃣ Wooden floral porch bracket at The George Inn, Winchcombe - built as a pilgrim’s hostel C15th & C16th.
7️⃣ Stone floral relief panel on Cheltenham Ladies College, Cheltenham - added in the 1890s
8️⃣ Floral terracotta keystone on house/shopfront in Lymington - built C18th, altered C19th
9️⃣ Stone floral capitals to pilaster on Town Hall, Abergavenny - built 1869-71 in ‘rural Early French Gothic, but with some Italian touches’.
🔟 Stone flower relief on The Circus, Bath - built 1754-1769
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