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Window in the Memorial Chapel by Clayton & Bell 1904.
The impressive parish church at Knowle is dedicated to Saints John the Baptist, Laurence and Anne; it is a good example of a Perpendicular Midland church, and is profusely adorned on the south side with battlements, pinnacles and gargoyles.
It is also built using two different coloured local sandstones, red and white, a feature of several Warwickshire churches that adds greatly to their appeal.
Inside the church is spacious with then nave flanked by aisles and the chancel disappearing beyond the late medieval wooden screen. The chancel contains ancient stalls with ten misericords (mostly fairly plain designs) and a sedilia too high up to be used (owing to the lowering of the floor following the removal of a passageway that once ran beneath the altar).
There is an interesting mixture of stained glass from several studios of the Victorian and Arts & Crafts period, an extensive and varied collection with some particularly notable pieces that reward study.
The church is happily normally open and welcoming to visitors.
The Ascend Learning UK team take part in a lunchtime Spinning class! Thanks to Greg Sayer for leading the session... we just about survived! (L-R: Ross Bartup, Kerry Fearnley, Greg Sayer, Rob Rodriguez)
Crested Butte is considered the wildflower capitol of Colorado. In July, the fields are filled with a myriad of varieties (including these Colorado False Hellebore) to tease the eye and camera. This photo was taken on Gothic Road at sunrise, with the peak of Teocalli Mountain in the background.
I guess the angle of this photo messes with your sense of the location, but I'm looking straight up into the tall ceiling with draping vines on the Indiana Jones ride, right before you get into the cars.
"Gladden us with holy joys, almighty God,
and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving,
for the Ascension of Christ your Son
is our exaltation,
and, where the Head has gone before in glory,
the Body is called to follow in hope.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever." Amen.
– Collect for the feast of the Ascension.
Detail from a fresco by Pinturicchio in the Bufalini Chapel (1486) of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome.
In the U.S. state of Utah, U.S. Route 89 (US-89) is a long north–south state highway spanning more than 502 miles (807.891 km) through the central part of the state. Between Provo and Brigham City, US-89 serves as a local road, paralleling (and occasionally concurring with) Interstate 15, but the portions from Arizona north to Provo and Brigham City northeast to Wyoming serve separate corridors. The former provides access to several national parks and Arizona, and the latter connects I-15 with Logan, the state's only Metropolitan Statistical Area not on the Interstate.
US-89 enters Utah from the south inside the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, about 7 miles (11 km) north of the Glen Canyon Dam, where it crosses the Colorado River near Page, Arizona. After leaving the recreation area and passing the small town of Big Water, the highway curves west through the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. US-89 stays near the monument's southern boundary, crossing the East Clark Bench and The Cockscomb and passing south of the Vermilion Cliffs of the Grand Staircase. At the city of Kanab, US-89 meets the north end of US-89A, an alternate route south into Arizona, and abruptly turns north and begins climbing the staircase. Here the Mount Carmel Scenic Byway begins; one of the Utah Scenic Byways, it stretches north to SR-12 at Bryce Canyon Junction. The Vermilion Cliffs are ascended via the canyon carved by Kanab Creek. Near the White Cliffs, US-89 meets SR-9 at Mt. Carmel Junction, where travelers can turn to reach Zion National Park. The final "step" is the Pink Cliffs, where the highway follows alongside the Virgin River to the highest point on US-89 in southern Utah and the east end of SR-14, a summit at Long Valley Junction (elevation 7450 feet/2300 m).
North from Long Valley Junction, US-89 descends through the valley of the Sevier River, meeting SR-12, a scenic highway that leads to Bryce Canyon National Park, at Bryce Canyon Junction, SR-143 in Panguitch, and SR-20 at Bear Valley Junction. As the highway continues north, the valley narrows significantly into the Circleville Canyon before opening out near the town of Circleville. In this part of the valley, the Sevier River is dammed to create the Piute Reservoir, and US-89 meets SR-62 near Kingston. North of Marysvale, the valley again narrows into the Sevier Canyon, which carries the river to its confluence with Clear Creek and US-89 to its overlap with Interstate 70, beginning at Sevier.
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