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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
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15/07/2026

Architectural wanderings in Leicester...
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📍Leicester
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Just a little selection of some of the other glorious buildings and architectural details from my recent jaunt to Leicester not already posted. Interesting to see the same architect’s names coming round time and again showing just how buoyant a time they must have been having in the late C19th Leicester...
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1️⃣ Fabulous Sun Alliance Building - built 1891 by Joseph Goddard & Alfred H. Paget in Modified C16th Flemish Style (🔎 List Entry Number: 1361428)
2️⃣ Statues of Robert Grosseteste, John Wycliffe & Henry Hastings above the Vaughan Porch at Leicester Cathedral - built 1897 by George Frederick Bodley (🔎 List Entry Number: 1183725)
3️⃣ Former Leicestershire Bank building - built 1872-74 by Joseph Goddard and Samuel Barfield in French Gothic Revival Style (🔎 List Entry Number: 1074047)
4️⃣ Modern grotesque of a wild boar, the emblem of Richard III, Leicester Cathedral - carved 2022 (🔎 List Entry Number: 1183725)
5️⃣ Corner plot details Granby St & Belvoir St - built 1898 by Joseph Goddard (🔎 List Entry Number: 1183651)
6️⃣ Grand Hotel - built 1896-98 by Cecil Ogden & Amos Hall in Franco-German Renaissance Style (🔎 List Entry Number: 1074048)
7️⃣ Carved stone doorway at the Former Constitutional Club - built 1893 by Frank Seale, in an Eclectic style combining English, Flemish and French Renaissance (🔎 List Entry Number:1389645)
8️⃣ Wonderful Viking head flying buttress ornamentation - Granby St, built 1902 in Edwardian Baroque style combining elements of Gothic, Queen Anne, Jacobean and Arts and Crafts
9️⃣ Gorgeous Georgian doorway, New St - built late C18th (🔎 List Entry Number: 1074770) 🔟 ‘Burma’ detail featuring an elephant from Coronation Buildings, formerly the SInger Building - built 1902-04 by Arthur Wakerley, an Edwardian commercial property with Art Nouveau style faiance facade (🔎 List Entry Number: 1270257)
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13/07/2026

Fireplace envy...!
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📍Mayor’s Parlour, Guildhall, Leicester
🔎 List Entry Number: 1361405
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This gorgeous slice of carved wood is the wonderfully decorative overmantel in the Mayor’s Parlour at the Guildhall in Leicester. Whilst the first buildings on the site date back to 1390, the Guild purchased and began using it for meetings in 1530. The ground floor of the west wing became the Mayor’s Parlour in 1563 however, which was extensively and expensively remodelled in 1637 4️⃣ It features a crest with the coat of arms of Leicester, a white cinquefoil on red in the centre 2️⃣, surrounded by a multitude of cherubs 🔟, faces 3️⃣, 5️⃣, 7️⃣, 8️⃣ & 9️⃣, fluted columns 2️⃣, fine scrollwork and Baroque friezes bearing horses and sea-serpents.
Absolutely superb...!
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09/07/2026

Gobbling up Art Nouveau in Leicester...!
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📍The Turkey Café
🔎 List Entry Number: 1074750
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This is the truly gorgeous Turkey Café, built by Arther Wakerley 1900-01 in an eclectic Moorish style with Art Nouveau lettering. Its frontage is adorned with matt- glazed coloured Carrara ware tiles manufactured by Doulton & Co. Wonderful turkey corbels 1️⃣, 5️⃣ & 7️⃣, pendant drops at ground floor 1️⃣ & 9️⃣ and at first floor 1️⃣, 2️⃣, 3️⃣, 6️⃣ & 8️⃣, alternating cream and green bands on piers and voussoirs 2️⃣, 4️⃣ & 6️⃣, all topped with a fabulous turkey horseshoe shaped panel. The sinuous Art Nouveau lettering spelling out ‘The Turkey Café’ was designed by Doulton head ceramicist, William James Neatby...
Quite, quite superb...!
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📸 9️⃣ Leicester Past & Present
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07/07/2026

Edwardian Neoclassicism in Leicester...
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📍Former Birmingham District and Counties Bank, Leicester
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Another fine former bank facade, this time the Birmingham District and Counties Bank who built this in Leicester in 1903. The heraldic scrollwork one can see above the door 3️⃣ & 5️⃣ feature the coats of arms of Birmingham (top), Stafford (centre right) and Nottingham (botttom). I’m not sure of the centre left coat of arms - it looks like York (which is a red cross on white) but in different colours, maybe changed so that it wasn’t red touching red - any ideas anyone? Maybe they weren’t originally painted? There seem to have been a series of mergers between a number of the financial institutions of many a town and county in the late C19th and into the C20th, hence the heraldic representations of their former allegiances, and the bank was sold to Commercial Union who inscribed their name at the top in 1921.
Just above the crests is a rather peculiar architectural feature of a balcony which seemingly can only be accessed by jumping down from the windows on that floor, an endeavour for which one might need the help of that angel 6️⃣...!
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06/07/2026

Leicester Neo-Gothic statuary...
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📍The Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower, Leicester
🔎 List Entry Number: 1361424
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This is the Clock Tower in Leicester, built in 1868 in the centre of the town at the intersection of Gallowtree Gate, Humberstone Gate, Haymarket, Church Gate & Eastgates. Built in Ketton stone with a base of Mountsorrel granite with columns of polished granite & serpentine and features four statues in Portland stone of benefactors to the town;
• Simon de Montford was the C13th Earl of Leicester who led the Second Baron’s War against Henry III, pleading to constitutional changes that paved the way in part to modern parliamentary democracy.
• Thomas White was a C15th cloth merchant and Lord Mayor of London, who set up a charity, still going strong, which gives interest-free loans to aspiring businesspeople in Leicestershire and Rutland.
• William Wyggeston was a wealthy C15th wool merchant in Leicester and a great benefactor to the town setting up a hospital and almshouse, and grammar school.
• Gabriel Newton was an C18th wool-comber, becoming Mayor of Leicester and marrying three times, each time to wealthy women, but who after the death of his only son, bequeathed his fortune to the education of the poor, setting up a charity school at the Church of St Mary de Castro.
The clocktower itself was built in Gothic style with all the usual trimmings by Joseph Goddard featuring a spiral up the entire tower suggesting a spiral stair within...
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03/07/2026

Georgian Leicester...
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📍Wyggeston House, Applegate, Leicester
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Just along the road from the cathedral is this fine facade. Originally a timber-framed merchant’s house dating back to 1490, it was given a Georgian makeover in 1760. It features ornately capitalled pilasters 4️⃣ as well as more typical Georgian leitmotif such as the semicircular fanlight above the door between an open pedimented doorcase 2️⃣, semicircular headed sash windows with radial glazing bars to the top sash at ground floor level 5️⃣ with upper windows having flat gauged brick arches 1️⃣ & 6️⃣, and the central first floor window having an ashlar surround and balustrade 3️⃣...
Isn’t it handsome...!
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01/07/2026

Double take...!!
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📍Fountain, Leicester Town Hall Square, Leicester
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The fountain shown in 1️⃣, 2️⃣, 4️⃣, 6️⃣ & 9️⃣ is situated in front of the glorious Town Hall in Leicester (see my last post). It was built in 1879 and presented as a gift to the town from Alderman Israel Hart, High Bailiff of Leicester and latterly holding the position of Mayor four times. I came across the green fountain in 3️⃣, 5️⃣, 7️⃣, 8️⃣ & 🔟 in Fonte dos Leões (Fountain of the Lions) in Praça de Gomes Teixeira square in Porto last year, and it was built in 1882. It seems the near identical fountains were the product of the renowned French foundry Val d’Osne, showing the Assyrian style winged lions in their catalogue of 1863, and is thought to be after a model by Eugène-Louis Lequesne. Apparently, originally the winged lions were designed to be part of the Musée de Picardie in Amiens by the architect Arthur Diet, commissioning the sculptor in 1861. The 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris was the first to establish the artistic casting industry, or fonte d’art, with an exhibition of cast iron artifacts from the Val d’Osne foundry. In the late C19th fine decorative ironwork for the benefit of beautifying towns and cities could be ordered from catalogues. Both the fountains in Leicester and in Porto are cast in iron, and apart from the more recent distinctively bright colour changes, one bronzed, one verdigrised, the differences seem to be mainly in the area between the basins above the lions...
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24/06/2026

Fine railway architecture...(2 of 2)
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📍Nottingham Railway Station, Nottingham
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More from the wonderful Edwardian railway station at Nottingham built for the Midland Railway Company in 1903 in Neo-Baroque style. Of particular note are the Art Nouveau gates at either end of the porte-cochere frontage 9️⃣, its windows with Gibbs surrounds 3️⃣ and its exceptionally long keystones 🔟...
Glorious!
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23/06/2026

Fine railway architecture...(1 of 2)
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📍Nottingham Railway Station, Nottingham
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Up to the Midlands for a whistle-stop tour of the cricket grounds and hostelries of Leicester and Nottingham to see old friends. This wonderful symphony in red is Nottingham Station, built in Neo-Baroque style by Lambert & Trubshaw in 1903/4 for the Midland Railway Company. Its symmetrical porte-cochere frontage features glorious windows with Gibbs surrounds 3️⃣, huge rusticated ‘blocked’ columns 🔟, huge Art Nouveau gates with plinth, dentil cornice, egg and dart moulding 8️⃣ and balustrade, and pride of place the wonderful clock-tower 2️⃣ with its paired rusticated columns. Apparently, costing over a million pounds it was the third Midland Station to be built in Nottingham, and was built in response to the Great Central Railway and its Victoria Station which opened in 1861 - isn’t it fine?!
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21/06/2026

Happy Summer Solstice...!
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📍Cheltenham College Porter’s Lodge, Cheltenham, The Cotswolds
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Well, as today’s the Summer Solstice, the Longest Day (at least up in the Northern Hemisphere!), here’s a couple of shots of one of my favourite little gatehouses looking its Summery and WIntery best.
So Summer of Winter? Longest Day or Shortest Day? Too soon to start thinking about the other Solstice? I’ll let you decide! As of tomorrow the nights will be drawing in...!!!
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1️⃣ & 2️⃣ Cheltenham College Porter’s Lodge - built c.1850
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