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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 personalised 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

18/10/2026

Half-timbered happiness in Hereford...
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📍The Old House, Hereford
🔎 List Entry Number: 1207754
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This glorious ‘black & white’ half-timbered house in the centre of Hereford is The Old House, suitably named as it was built in 1621, originally as a shop and dwelling, part of ‘Butcher’s Row’, though now housing a museum of Jacobean life. It is a splendid building - timber frame with wattle and daub infill, wonderfully canted mullion and transom oriel windows 1️⃣, 2️⃣ & 5️⃣ supported by figurehead brackets 9️⃣. The gorgeously characterful wood carving is abundant in the ‘enriched bargeboards 3️⃣ & 7️⃣ and pendants’ 🔟 as the listing says. I especially love the angels - the one in the gable 4️⃣, and the one bearing the date ‘1621’ 3️⃣ & 8️⃣, and the fine coat of arms above the door for The Worshipful Company of Butchers (The Butchers’ Guild). The house was restored in 1882 with additional carvings in 1883 by Robert Calke...
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15/10/2026

Glorious neoclassicism in Hereford...
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📍The Butter Market, Hereford
🔎 List Entry Number: 1025031
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Here are a few shots of the lovely Butter Market in Hereford. This entrance facade was built c.1860 by John Clayton in what’s been described by Pevsner as ‘in a kind of free English Wren-Gibbs style’. The facade’s middle section 1️⃣ features the crest of Hereford, beneath which two statues stand in arched niches either side of a central window 6️⃣ & 9️⃣, one bearing flowers, the other carrying a basket, separated by Corinthian pilasters. Above it the tower carries a belltower and a clock 7️⃣ which, after winning a competition was originally destined for the Town Hall, however due to shifts in municipal planning and development, was redirected to the Butter Market. The ground floor 4️⃣ is rusticated with alternating vermiculated bands, and the usual neoclassical trappings of triglyphs and guttae and the whole facade finished off with four rather wonderful keystones with masks 5️⃣, 8️⃣ & 🔟...
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13/10/2026

Hereford Cathedral internals...(2 of 2)
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📍Hereford Cathedral
🔎 List Entry Number: 1196808
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Tremendous wood and stone-carving gracing the interior of the wonderful Hereford Cathedral. I particularly love the Consistory Court Stalls in the Nave 1️⃣, 2️⃣, 3️⃣ & 7️⃣ - especially the Devil 1️⃣ and that fabulous winged monkey 7️⃣. These stalls were used by the bishops when they held ecclesiastical courts addressing moral offences, and the misericords were ‘mercy seats’ to allow the clergy some support during long periods of standing. During the 1860s, architect Sir George Gilbert Scott rearranged the medieval choir stalls. Leftover 14th-century pieces from this work were gathered and reconstructed into the current stalls in 1934. 3️⃣ shows the Virgin Mary and her mother, Saint Anne. There are a number of fantastic effigies at Hereford, and 6️⃣, 8️⃣ & 9️⃣ show the wonderful alabaster effigies of Alexander Denton, and sadly his wife, Anne, who died during childbirth when just 18 years old and their baby child...
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11/10/2026

Inside Hereford Cathedral...(1 of 2)
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📍Hereford Cathedral
🔎 List Entry Number: 1196808
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Moving on from my exterior shots of the glorious cathedral at Hereford, here are a few of inside. The C11th nave is built in the Norman style with hefty round drum pillars supporting arches adorned with Romanesque zigzags 4️⃣, 5️⃣ & 8️⃣. Springing upwards are rib vaults 1️⃣ & 2️⃣ supported on corbel headstops 6️⃣ and meeting at elaborate ceiling bosses 3️⃣. At the other end, the Lady Chapel was rebuilt in the C13th with a crypt below in Early English Gothic style, and in the C14th the central tower was rebuilt with its wonderfully fashionable ballflowers (well, fashionable for the C14th!) both inside and out, like these in the medieval effigy of Bishop Losinga in the south choir aisle 🔟...
Quite superb!
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08/10/2026

Hereford Cathedral...(3 of 3)
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📍Hereford Cathedral
🔎 List Entry Number: 1196808
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Here are some shots of the fabulous East Front of Hereford Cathedral. It features remarkable examples of C13th Early English Gothic, C15th tracery 4️⃣ and additions, and was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the C19th. I particularly love the wonderful face hood moulds 4️⃣, 6️⃣, 7️⃣, 8️⃣ & 9️⃣, and how the mandorla (Italian for ‘almond’) shape 3️⃣ & 5️⃣ that was used in a number of ways in Hereford Cathedral; (i) it was used on the Mappa Mundi (c.1300), Hereford Cathedral’s great treasure, to depict Christ in Majesty, (ii) also to surround the C13th seal of Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, and (iii) the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture, the master masons who carved the cathedral’s stonework in the C13th, used it as an architectural device particularly on the East Front...
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06/10/2026

Hereford Cathedral...(2 of 3)
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📍Hereford Cathedral
🔎 List Entry Number: 1196808
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Some more shots from our recent trip to the glorious Hereford Cathedral. Sitting oh so picturesquely by the River Wye 5️⃣ it was frequented by the composer, Edward Elgar 1️⃣ who lived at Plas Gwyn in Hereford, and who was a driving force in the Three Choir Festival which toggles between the cathedrals of Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester.
Architecturally, the North Front 1️⃣, 2️⃣ & 🔟 features the North Transept, built in C13th Geometric Decorated Early English Gothic inspired by Henry III’s Westminster Abbey, whereas the South Front 3️⃣, 4️⃣ & 6️⃣ exhibits older C12th Romanesque influences and the Cloisters 9️⃣
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04/10/2026

Hereford Cathedral...(1 of 3)
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📍Hereford Cathedral
🔎 List Entry Number: 1196808
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Here’s a little selection of shots from our recent trip to the glorious Hereford Cathedral. Naturally I’ve taken far too many to fit into a single post so I’ll be dribbling them out over the next few. Hereford Cathedral was originally built C11th-C15th, and whilst it was restored in the C19th by Sir George Gilbert Scott, these pictures show the West Front, which was replaced by his son, John Oldrid Scott between 1902 and 1908. The West Front had collapsed in 1787, and was restored insensitively by James ‘Destroyer’ Wyatt, and it was decided after an earthquake in 1896 to replace it, described at the time as “the quiet setting right again of a mistake made 120 years ago”. Built in Hollington sandstone in Decorated Gothic style, with a large west window 2️⃣ between buttresses 1️⃣ with side turrets, there are some wonderful flourishes - I particularly like the ballflowers, a feature of the Herefordshire Decorated style, the niche statuary and the wonderful grotesques poking their tongues out beneath the Gothic arch moulding...8️⃣
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01/10/2026

Isn’t this an absolute gem…?
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📍Ledbury, Herefordshire
🔎 List Entry Number: 1082809
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Now I do love a lodge, folly or gatehouse when I see one, so it was lovely to see this little gem, the South End Toll Cottage at the junction of Mabel’s Furlong and South End, on our recent trip to Ledbury. Built, apparently, in 1840 onto an earlier C17th frame it fell into disuse after the 1960s and had to be repaired as the left wall was in a dangerous state. It was obviously built in the days when people were somewhat shorter(!) - the top of the front door came up to my chest!
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30/09/2026

Harvest Festival...
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📍Gloucestershire & Herefordshire
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In trying to pinpoint in exactly which church I took picture 9️⃣, I stumbled across the work of Charles Eamer Kempe. Kempe was a Victorian designer and manufacturer of stained glass, steeped in the Arts and Crafts Movement, who initially worked with George Frederick Bodley and William Morris developing the craft of how to colour a church, before setting up his own studio in 1866 in London. Kempe used an emblem on his family coat of arms of a wheatsheaf (or heraldic ‘garb’) on a red background as a way of ‘signing’ his pieces. Apparently, it’s said of Kempe’s work that you can’t travel more than twenty miles in England without stumbling on one of his windows, and it’s amazing after one gets one’s eye in, just how many one comes across. The work he did at Church of St Bartholomew, Much Marcle had a family connection as it commemorated Anna Chatwin, wife of his cousin, and in this instance he uses the complete coat of arms (see 4️⃣).
So as a grand hurrah for this year’s harvest, here’s a little selection of Kempe’s trademark signature wheatsheaves tucked into the corners of his windows. After the death of Charles Eamer Kempe in 1907, the company was run by his cousin, Walter Earnest Tower, and from then on a black tower was added to the wheatsheaf ‘signature’ (see 1️⃣ & 9️⃣).
By the way, Pic 🔟 for the eagle-eyed is not a stained glass window but is a fine wheatsheaf Harvest Loaf in the corner of the baker’s window in Ledbury...!
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1️⃣ & 4️⃣ Church of St Bartholomew, Much Marcle (🔎 List Entry Number: 1156241)
2️⃣, 3️⃣, 5️⃣, 6️⃣ & 7️⃣ Church of St Michael & All Angels, Ledbury (🔎 List Entry Number: 1301825)
8️⃣ Church of St Mary, Dymock (🔎 List Entry Number: 1303073)
9️⃣ Church of St Mary, Ross-on-Wye (🔎 List Entry Number: 1098720)
🔟 Harvest Loaf in The Baker’s Dozen, Ledbury
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29/09/2026

Harvest Festival...
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📍Gloucestershire & Herefordshire
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In trying to pinpoint in exactly which church I took picture 9️⃣, I stumbled across the work of Charles Eamer Kempe. Kempe was a Victorian designer and manufacturer of stained glass, steeped in the Arts and Crafts Movement, who initially worked with George Frederick Bodley and William Morris developing the craft of how to colour a church, before setting up his own studio in 1866 in London. Kempe used an emblem on his family coat of arms of a wheatsheaf (or heraldic ‘garb’) on a red background as a way of ‘signing’ his pieces. Apparently, it’s said of Kempe’s work that you can’t travel more than twenty miles in England without stumbling on one of his windows, and it’s amazing after one gets one’s eye in, just how many one comes across. The work he did at Church of St Bartholomew, Much Marcle had a family connection as it commemorated Anna Chatwin, wife of his cousin, and in this instance he uses the complete coat of arms (see 4️⃣).
So as a grand hurrah for this year’s harvest, here’s a little selection of Kempe’s trademark signature wheatsheaves tucked into the corners of his windows. After his death in 1907, the company was run by his cousin, Walter Earnest Tower, and from then on a black tower was added to the wheatsheaf ‘signature’ (see 1️⃣ & 9️⃣).
By the way, Pic 🔟 for the eagle-eyed is not a stained glass window but is a fine wheatsheaf Harvest Loaf in the corner of the baker’s window in Ledbury...!
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1️⃣ & 4️⃣ Church of St Bartholomew, Much Marcle (🔎 List Entry Number: 1156241)
2️⃣, 3️⃣, 5️⃣, 6️⃣ & 7️⃣ Church of St Michael & All Angels, Ledbury (🔎 List Entry Number: 1301825)
8️⃣ Church of St Mary, Dymock (🔎 List Entry Number: 1303073)
9️⃣ Church of St Mary, Ross-on-Wye (🔎 List Entry Number: 1098720)
🔟 Harvest Loaf in The Baker’s Dozen, Ledbury
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