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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

01/11/2026

View of St Paul’s across the river from the Tate Modern…
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📍St Paul’s Cathedral, London
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Here are a few shots of St Paul’s from across the River Thames, over the Millennium Bridge just outside Tate Modern 🔟. St Paul’s Cathedral on Ludgate Hill, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and where he’s buried, was built between 1675 and 1710 to replace the medieval cathedral after the Great Fire in 1666. Truly one of my favourite buildings, especially in the low late afternoon light of autumn, it’s lovely to study the details - like the difference between the relatively recently regilded pineapples and flames of the West Tower (2003) 2️⃣ & 7️⃣ and the Dome Ball & Cross which haven’t been regilded since the smoggy Sixties 3️⃣ & 9️⃣. Or that wonderful Golden Gallery at the top of the dome 3️⃣ & 4️⃣ and the tiny, tiny people looking back at us, or the finials on the West Tower....Simply glorious.....!
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31/10/2026

Happy Hallowe’en....
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📍England
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Well, as it’s Hallowe’en, here’s a little Haunty Jaunty Lemon Press Halloween selection of devilish demons and impish ne’er-do-wells (some admittedly more Bacchanalian than Mephistophelean!) to mark this All Hallows Eve...
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1️⃣ Satanic Sun Alliance Building - built 1891 by Joseph Goddard & Alfred H. Paget in Modified C16th Flemish Style (🔎 List Entry Number: 1361428)
2️⃣ Devilish wood-carving in the Consistory Court Stalls in the Nave of Hereford Cathedral - C14th restored C19th (🔎 List Entry Number: 1196808)
3️⃣ & 6️⃣ Diabolical capitals, Hans Town.
4️⃣ Baccanalian keystone at The Orange Public House & Hotel, Pimlico Rd, London. Built c.1846 (🔎 List Entry Number: 1226938)
5️⃣ & 7️⃣ Impish terracotta formerly the Royal Oak inn, Derby. Built in 1890
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29/10/2026

Hergest Croft Gardens in the Autumn...
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📍Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, Herefordshire
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Here are some pictures from another visit to Hergest Croft 1️⃣, 3️⃣, 4️⃣, 6️⃣, 8️⃣ & 9️⃣ with its wonderful gardens at it’s Annual Autumn Plant Fair the other week. The house was built in 1895-6 for the Banks family, designed in the Arts & Crafts style by Richard William Drew, a pupil of William Butterfield, in red brick with terracotta pantiles 2️⃣, 5️⃣ & 7️⃣. The gardens were the creation of three generations of the Banks family. The weather was really splendid, really setting off the autumn colour 🔟...!
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28/10/2026

Architectural menagerie...
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📍Public Library, Art Gallery & Museum, Hereford
🔎 List Entry Number: 1280595
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This wonderfully fronted building is the Public Library, Art Gallery & Museum in Hereford. It was built by Frederick Robertson Kempson in 1874 in a Victorian ‘Anglicised Venetian Gothic’ style in coursed grey stone, yellow ashlar dressings and a five arched arcade at ground level 1️⃣, 2️⃣, 3️⃣ & 8️⃣. It has wonderful corbels, capitals, arches and friezes as enriched as they can be with all manner of intricate carvings of the animals, birds and foliage of the world. The doorway arch features a water shrew, Australian platypus, beaver, hippopotamus, walrus, elephant seal, rhinoceros, tapir, sea leopard, otter, and water rat 4️⃣ & 5️⃣, with a fabulous crab 9️⃣ and a bat 6️⃣ at the junction of the other arches. The capitals which top the four columns either side of the entrance show animals representing the four continents of Europe, America, Asia & Africa like this pair of squirrels 7️⃣ (Europe). There’s far too many wonderful carvings to mention all the flora and fauna going through the friezes on the floors above intermingled with signs of the zodiac, except to say that along the parapet are nine roof grotesques including a monkey playing the ‘cello in the middle 🔟 - well worth a look....!
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25/10/2026

More from Langstone Court...
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📍Langstone Court, Llangarron, Herefordshire
🔎 List Entry Number: 1178604
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We spent an utterly charming late summer’s day in the company of the Rev. Jones, the owner of the wonderful Langstone Court being shown around his house and gardens in aid of local charity, Home Start Herefordshire. Described by Pevsner as ‘the best house of its date and size in the county’, and situated so beautifully in its landscape, it was built c. 1675-1700. Isn’t it marvellous? Architecturally, it’s in English Bond brick with a slate roof, and the sashes 2️⃣ & 3️⃣ were part of a Georgian makeover which replaced earlier mullioned casements sometime early in the C19th. I love that cupola on the stable block 8️⃣, its glorious gates 5️⃣ & 9️⃣, and the iron finial on the top of them, a right hand holding a sickle aloft 🔟. The coat of arms for the Gwillym family, who lived at Langstone Court during the C16th and C17th, features this emblem. Apparently, in heraldry the right hand, or dexter, represents faith, action, sincerity and justice, and the sickle represents agriculture and the harvest, altogether indicating a readiness to perform the work necessary to secure the harvest...
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25/10/2026

Handsome house in Hereford...
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📍The Fosse, Hereford
🔎 List Entry Number: 1196800
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This charming house is The Fosse, sitting charmingly in the corner of Castle Green in Hereford just next to the river and looking particularly autumnal. It was built c.1825 for a Captain Pendergrass R.N. by Sir Robert Smirke, one of the leaders of Greek Revivalism, architect of the British Museum and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, and more locally Shire Hall in Hereford and Eastnor Castle. Rendered in stucco and echoing elements of Classicism and Jacobean architecture with Dutch gables and a Victorian conservatory, with crisp white windows, architraves, pierced work and moulded quoins etc it cuts quite a dash, and I particularly how the octagonal chimney stacks are echoed in the octagonal glazing bars on the window panes...Splendid!
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22/10/2026

Civic Pride in Hereford...
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📍The Town Hall, Hereford
🔎 List Entry Number: 1279640
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These shots are of the Town Hall in Hereford - built in terracotta and brick in Edwardian Baroque style c.1904 by Henry Cheers. This replaced previous Town Halls in Hereford - a Tudor black and white half-timbered one built in 1620, and its Georgian neoclassical version which had had its top floor removed and refaced in plaster in 1792. The Edwardian version wreaks civic pride from every angle, with fine terracotta work by W J Bowers. It’s symmetrical with seven bays, an arched door with rusticated columns, double height tripartite mullioned windows above, topped off with the coat of arms for Hereford, an oculus and towers at either end...Glorious!
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20/10/2026

Mellow Yellow...
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📍Church of Francis Xavier, Hereford
🔎 List Entry Number: 1297462
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This neoclassical symphony in yellow ochre is The Roman Catholic Church of St Xavier in Hereford. Originally designed by Charles Day in the Greek Revival style in 1837-39, it’s based on the Athenian Treasury in Greece and features a striking Doric portico 1️⃣, 2️⃣, 4️⃣ & 🔟 with fluted columns 3️⃣, guttae and triglyphs 5️⃣, 6️⃣ & 7️⃣ topped by a golden cross 8️⃣. The coat of arms on the door is that of the Jesuits of whose number, Francis Xavier was one of the ‘seven companions’ who founded the order in 1534. He was canonised in 1622....
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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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