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Finished in 1887,Saint Boniface Catholic Church in New Vienna, IA. is one of the finest cathedrals in Iowa. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
Cropped to hide an unsightly "watch your step" sign which is a shame-the door is equally beautiful!
An interesting hodgepodge after modernization. According to tax data, the three dwellings have a total of 2,495 square feet of area and the entire building has an assessed value of $383,000 C.
The first floor steps are actually a mini-wooden deck and a guy is on the roof. I suspect that in 1900 it was not built as a three plex but this is just a guess based on its current unconventionality and convoluted appearance.
On my walk to the hospital for my immunotherapy treatments; I like to take different routes and explore the city when I have the energy to do so. I came upon a newer statue and small garden area. Overlooking this Grey Nun statue, over her shoulder you can see a bit of the garden and the St. Boniface Hospital in the distance. Just thought this is a different perspective of a monument... what does the monument see and overlook?
www.archsaintboniface.ca/media/Histoires-de-foi-Our-Faith...
The old picket fence and the crudeness of the "boarded up" front door caught my eye.
Most of the visible part of the first floor except for the tower is in bad shape but the tower and second floor siding look quite new along with the tower roof. Curious.
I spent some time this morning in the old part of St. Boniface, the francophone (French) part of Winnipeg. I found some interesting and rather unique buildings in areas of St B where I had not previously visited. This is one of them.
I like hanging out in good back lanes generally but the fire escape, 2.0 and 2.5 floor porches, brick and hippie-era cloth poster had extra appeal. And what is going on behind the gray apartment block?
George Gilbert Scott designed this stone pulpit in 1876/1877 and it depicts the martyrdom of St Alban, St Boniface and the Victorian missionary bishop John Coleridge Patteson.
It's still an imposing facade, but sadly after the fire over 50 years ago I think, it is just a facade, with a new, modern church built inside it. The front and the back wall, are all that's left, complete with scorch marks on the stone.
St. Boniface Catholic Church in rural Bigelow Arkansas. Established in 1843 and still holding services each Sunday.
Happy Slider Sunday - HSS !!
Rolling away from their away-from-home terminal, the Montreal-based crew is homeward-bound on a warm spring afternoon, hoping to make the 105-mile run back to Montréal as quick as possible. The curved trestle spanning a little creek just north of St-Boniface was the site of numerous run past back in the excursion days on the Joliette subdivision.
Now it's basically impossible to shoot anything here, except climbing onto the rock cut on the south side of the bridge, like we do on this pleasant railfanning day thirteen years ago.
Next stop for the train will be the south siding switch at St-Justin, holding the main for a meet with northbound M368.
CN A46121-18
2257 2578
Milepost 52.4 Joliette subdivision
St-Boniface,QC
March 18th 2012
My mum and dad brought me here for the first time when I was about two. I remember sitting on his shoulders for the duration of the visit while we were jostled by the crowds of visitors. It was rather different on my latest visit..
Beautiful Buckfast Abbey, which has all the appearance of a medieval building is in fact quite modern, though it has been built on the site of a Cistercian Abbey dating from 1134. This was destroyed in the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the site was subsequently cleared.
In 1882 the site was purchased by a group of French Benedictine monks, who refounded a monastery on the site dedicated to Saint Mary. New monastic buildings and a temporary church were constructed. Work on the new abbey church, which was constructed mostly on the footprint of the former Cistercian abbey, started in 1907. The church was consecrated in 1932 but not completed until 1938.
Buckfast was formally reinstated as an Abbey in 1902, and the first abbot of the new institution, Boniface Natter, was blessed in 1903. The abbey continues to operate as a Benedictine foundation today.
Roman Catholic Boniface Church Almere NL.
Architects Jurgen Boonstra and Freerk Hoekstra of Royal HaskoningDHV - 2021
Almere was built at a time when church attendance was declining sharply. That is why it was decided to opt for ecumenical places of worship that Protestants and Catholics would make joint use of. Completely against the national trend, however, the number of Catholics in Almere has increased in recent years. This is mainly due to the rapid growth in the number of inhabitants in Almere, as well as to newcomers from countries where the Catholic faith is still widely practiced. Because of this increase, the Boniface parish needed its own church, where its own tradition can be visibly present. After years of preparation, the church is now in use. The architects opted for a classic starting point: a nave with two aisles and an apse at the end. Daylight has been chosen to enter the church from above. This gives a calming, sacred effect. That light also shines on the 72-meter-long artwork by Théodore Stravinsky that the church has purchased. That work was taken from a church in Almelo that has since disappeared. This artwork is incorporated into the top of the facade walls. The materials used for the church are often left unfinished, such as rough concrete, a laminated timber structure, wood paneling and rough masonry walls. The imposing artwork by Stravinksy enriches the art experience in Almere, so that the new church may be included in the art route.
This is one of Alberta's earliest German Catholic churches, its first stage being built between 1905 and 1908. It was completed in 1912.
The church was in regular use to the mid-70s, and is still occasionally employed for special services such as funerals and weddings. Burials are still being made in the cemetery. A statue of the church's patron saint is located above the front entrance.
St. Boniface Catholic Church was the first consecrated Catholic Church in the state of Washington in 1903.
The building has retained its original splendor and resisted proposals to modernize it.
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St Boniface Old Church, Bonchurch, is one of the few medieval churches in England dedicated to this Saxon monk who died in 755. Originally from Devon, but later based at monastery at Nursling near Southampton, he helped spread Christianity in Germany and became Archbishop of Mainz.
The church is a tiny building with a nave and chancel of Norman origin. The chancel is essentially 13th century but some windows are late Medieval or Tudor and the studded south door may date from the 17th century. The Flemish wooden cross behind the altar is 17th century. High up on the north wall of the nave are the remains of a wall paintings that are the only surviving example of Romanesque painting on the Island. The earliest and most complete appears to show parts of two draped figures, a tower-like feature, and swags of draperies decorated with stars. It has been dated to the early 12th century. Percy Stone restored the church in 1923 an 1931. Please note that Island churches may occasionally be closed or in use for services. Many are dependent on volunteers to stay open during the day.
I was struck at how this lovely church has allowed barriers to be thrown up between us and God's face/gaze/countenance. We need to be able to see the face of the icon that stands for the massive force we call God. I love trees; but these are like foster trees. They're sad and they need to find their real home. But, while they're here.... what are the barriers I throw up?
God let your countenance shine forth.... To see face-to-face is really the culmination of what it means to see. [John O'Donohue in "God's Earth"]
added south of the choir in 1527 ; viewed from inside, i.e. looking northward. More details at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Egerton