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I was sitting on a park bench, minding my own business, when this Carolina Wren decided to perch across the path from me and regale me with its scolding call.
George Owens Nature Park, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri.
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The choir of the gothic cathedral of Chartres (completed c. 1221) was recently restored, albeit not to everybody's taste.
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Detail of the Choir screen and the decorated medieval arches above. St Albans Abbey, England. Hasselblad X2D.
Ardchattan Priory
The Priory was a Valliscaulian monastic community, it was founded in 1230 by Duncan MacDougal, Lord of Argyll. Before this church was built in 1236 the Monks had to walk up the hill to the Church of Baodan for worship seven times every day. Monastic life came to an end here with the reformation of 1560. The priory building itself is now a private residence, but the gardens and the ruins of the church are open to the public and are in the charge of Historic Scotland. This photo shows some carvings in what remains of the priory choir.
The priory and gardens are situated overlooking Loch Etive on its north shore, five miles from the village of Connel.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
Conditions de prises de vues très diificiles dans cette cathédrale, peu de lumière.
L’orgue de la cathédrale Saint-Bertrand de Comminges possède l’un des plus beaux buffets Renaissance conservé à ce jour et classé Monument Historique depuis 1840. Commandé par Jean de Mauléon, évêque du Comminges, il fut réalisé après l’achèvement des stalles du chœur en 1551.
Comme les stalles, ce buffet serait l’œuvre de Nicolas Bachelier, architecte et sculpteur français (1487 – 1556) à qui l’on doit, entre autre, le célèbre Hôtel d’Assézat à Toulouse.
Le nom du facteur et la composition d’origine de l’instrument nous sont inconnus. Il subira de nombreux avatars au cours des siècles et, en 1793, les tuyaux de montre seront fondus et l’instrument abandonné.
De l’instrument Renaissance enfermé dans ce buffet, il ne reste rien. Pour imaginer en quoi pouvait consister l’instrument commandé par Jean de Mauléon, évêque du Comminges, on en est réduit à formuler des hypothèses, en se référant d’une part à la composition connue d’orgues de cette époque, à la structure du buffet, et d’autre part, à la littérature pour clavier éditée autour des années 1550. Les parties les plus anciennes (2 sommiers de grand orgue de 48 notes et deux petits sommiers de pédale, plus quelques jeux anciens, bourdons et flûtes) remontent aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.
Bernard Raupp, facteur d’orgues à Mirande, a retrouvé des dessins sur des soupapes des sommiers de grand orgue, qui peuvent être attribués à Jean-François Lépine. Le reste résulte des reconstructions successives menées au cours des siècles suivants.
En 1896, les frères Magen reconstruisent l’orgue et livrent un instrument à 2 claviers et pédale.
En 1970, Robert Chauvin restaure les sommiers du Grand Orgue, puis sous la direction de Pierre Lacroix, la reconstruction de l’instrument actuel est confiée à Jean-Pierre Swiderski et réalisée en plusieurs tranches, de 1975 à 1981. À l’exception de 218 tuyaux du XVIIe siècle et de 243 tuyaux de Magen, la tuyauterie est entièrement neuve. Réalisée à la demande, elle a été harmonisée par Jean-Pierre Swiderski pour les jeux de fonds et Georges Lhôte pour les jeux d’anches. L’instrument conserve encore deux sommiers de 14 jeux au Grand Orgue et deux sommiers 4 jeux à la pédale remontant au XVIIe siècle.
Depuis 1974, la commune de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, propriétaire, a délégué ses pouvoirs à l’Association des Amis de l’Orgue de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, en vue de la restauration et de l’entretien de l’instrument.
Very difficult shooting conditions in this cathedral, little light.
The organ of the Saint-Bertrand de Comminges cathedral has one of the most beautiful Renaissance cases preserved to date and classified as a Historic Monument since 1840. Commissioned by Jean de Mauléon, bishop of Comminges, it was made after the completion of the stalls of the choir in 1551.
Like the stalls, this buffet would be the work of Nicolas Bachelier, French architect and sculptor (1487 – 1556) to whom we owe, among other things, the famous Hôtel d’Assézat in Toulouse.
The name of the maker and the original composition of the instrument are unknown to us. It will undergo many avatars over the centuries and, in 1793, the watch stems will be melted down and the instrument abandoned.
Of the Renaissance instrument enclosed in this case, nothing remains. To imagine what the instrument ordered by Jean de Mauléon, bishop of Comminges, could consist of, one is reduced to formulating hypotheses, by referring on the one hand to the known composition of organs of this period, to the structure of the buffet, and on the other hand, to keyboard literature published around the 1550s. in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Bernard Raupp, organ builder in Mirande, found drawings on the valves of the windchests of the great organ, which can be attributed to Jean-François Lépine. The rest is the result of successive reconstructions carried out over the following centuries.
In 1896, the Magen brothers rebuilt the organ and delivered an instrument with 2 keyboards and pedal.
In 1970, Robert Chauvin restored the windchests of the Grand Orgue, then under the direction of Pierre Lacroix, the reconstruction of the current instrument was entrusted to Jean-Pierre Swiderski and carried out in several stages, from 1975 to 1981. With the exception of 218 pipes from the 17th century and 243 pipes from Magen, the pipework is completely new. Produced on demand, it was harmonized by Jean-Pierre Swiderski for the back stops and Georges Lhôte for the reed stops. The instrument still retains two 14-stop windchests in the Grand Orgue and two 4-stop pedal windchests dating back to the 17th century.
Since 1974, the municipality of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, owner, has delegated its powers to the Association of Friends of the Organ of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, with a view to the restoration and maintenance of the tool.
Details of the Vang stave church (Polish: Świątynia Wang; Norwegian: Vang stavkyrkje; German: Stabkirche Wang) is a stave church which was bought by the Prussian King and transferred from Vang in the Valdres region of Norway and re-erected in 1842 in Brückenberg near Krummhübel in Germany, now Karpacz in the Karkonosze mountains of Poland.
The church is a four-post single-nave stave church originally built around 1200 in the parish of Vang in the Valdres region of Norway.
Re-erection
The foundation stone was laid on August 2, 1842 in the presence of King Friedrich Wilhelm himself. It was a demanding task for carpenters who had never seen the church, nor any stave church, to rebuild it correctly. In spite of excellent drawings, most of the materials were discarded. Only the main construction, consisting of sills, posts and wall plates, were made use of, in addition to the carved doorframes. All of the external gallery was built with new materials, and every wall plank was replaced.
The long lost apse was reconstructed, albeit with a very strange baroque roof. The gallery and the flèche were reconstructed, but several new windows without historical precedent were put in. The doorways were turned inside out, with the carvings facing inward. The decorated ceiling above the choir was not restored, probably because it seemed too Catholic in a Protestant church. All the original roof trusses were renewed.
The work took two years and the total cost amounted to more than 75 000 marks. On the King's birthday, October 15, 1843, the flèche with the date 1200 was raised. On July 27, 1844 Prince Frederick of the Netherlands together with huge crowds witnessed the consecration of "Die Bergkirche unseres Erlösers zu Wang" (The mountain church of Our Savior of Vang). The former owner J. C. Dahl was not present, but he was happy to know that his project had been realised. He was spared the burden of preserving only certain decorated elements, and pleased that "a fair likeness" had been rebuilt.
Now serving a Polish community, Wang church has become a major tourist attraction and is probably the world's most visited stave church with about 200 000 visitors each year.
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Penitent one in silence
So sorrowful a fate.
A neverending penance
Held at the miracle's face.
Thorns sink deep in the flesh
And reveal a resting place.
The penitent's followers
Perpetuating the divine faith.
My final entry for Brickscalibur 2024, for the "perspective matters" category. Since I am currently in America, I had to make it a digital entry.
This build is inspired by Blasphemous, a gorgeous metroidvania game that really inspired me. Finishing both the first and second game in 2024 really made me want to make a hommage to this fascinating universe.
Inside the choir of Winchester Cathedral.
The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, commonly known as Winchester Cathedral, is the cathedral of the city of Winchester, England, and is among the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and is the mother church for the Church of England’s Diocese of Winchester.
The cathedral as it stands today was built from 1079 to 1532. It has a very long and very wide nave in the Perpendicular Gothic style, an Early English retrochoir, and Norman transepts and tower. With an overall length of 170 metres, it is the longest medieval cathedral in the world, and only surpassed by five more churches, four of them built in the 20th Century. It is also the sixth-largest cathedral by area in England.
The first Christian church in Winchester can be traced back to c. 648, when King Cenwalh of Wessex built a small, cross-shaped building just north of the present building. This ‘Old Minster’, became the cathedral for the new Diocese of Winchester in 662, but no trace of it other than its ground plan exists today. From 963 to 993, bishop Æthelwold and then Alphege greatly expanded the church, which was briefly the largest church in Europe. Also on the same site was the New Minster, in direct competition with the neighbouring Old Minster, begun by Alfred the Great but completed in 901 by his son Edward the Elder.
The present building, however, was begun after the Norman Conquest, perhaps inevitably. William the Conqueror installed his friend and relative Walkelin as the first Norman Bishop of Winchester in 1070, and nine years later, in 1079, Walkelin began the construction of a huge new Norman cathedral, on a site just to the south of the Old and New Minsters, the site of the present building. The new cathedral was consecrated with the completion of the east end in 1093, and the following day, demolition of the New and Old Minsters began and left virtually no remains.
Work quickly progressed to the transepts and central tower, and these were certainly complete by 1100. In 1107, the central tower fell but was reconstructed and much of the work on this core of the present building was completed by 1129 to a very high standard, much of it surviving today.
A new Early English retrochoir was started in 1202, but the next expansions after that would not start until 1346, when Bishop Edington demolished the Norman west front and began building a new Perpendicular Gothic facade, featuring a huge west window, which still stands today. Edington also began renovation of the nave, but this was mostly carried out by his successors, most notably William of Wykeham and his master mason, William Wynford, who remodelled the massive Norman nave into a soaring Perpendicular Gothic masterpiece. This they achieved by encasing the Norman stone in new ashlar, recutting the piers with Gothic mouldings and pointed arches, and reorganising the three-tier nave into two tiers, by extending the arcade upwards into what was the triforium and extending the clerestory downwards to meet it. The wooden ceiling was replaced with a decorative stone vault. Following Wykeham's death in 1404, this remodelling work continued under successive bishops, being completed ca. 1420.
Between then and 1528, major rebuilding and expansion was carried out on the Norman choir and Early English retrochoir. This work included the building of further chantry chapels, the replacement of the Norman east end with a Perpendicular Gothic presbytery, and the extension of Luci's retrochoir into a Lady Chapel. Unlike the rebuilding of the nave some 100 years earlier, the Gothic presbytery was vaulted in wood and painted to look like stone, as at York Minster. With its progressive extensions, the east end is now about 34 metres beyond that of Walkelin's building.
With Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Priory of Saint Swithun, was dissolved in 1539, and the cathedral’s shrines and altar were destroyed. The monastic buildings, including the cloister and chapter house, were later demolished, mostly during the 1560–1580 tenure of the reformist bishop Robert Horne.
The 17th century saw important changes to the interior, including the erection of a choir screen by Inigo Jones in 1638–39, the insertion of a wooden fan vault underneath the crossing tower (previously the tower was open to the church) and the destruction of much medieval glass and imagery by Parliamentarian soldiers in December 1642, including the near-complete destruction of the massive Great West Window by Cromwell and his forces. The window was put back together by the townspeople as a mosaic following the Restoration of the Monarchy, but it has never regained its original appearance, the damage was too great.
In the 18th century, many visitors commented on the neglect of the cathedral and the town; Daniel Defoe described the latter in about 1724 as “a place of no trade… no manufacture, no navigation”. Major restoration, however, followed in the early 19th Century under the direction of architect William Garbett and then John Nash
At the turn of the 20th century, Winchester Cathedral was in grave danger of collapse. Huge cracks had appeared in the walls, some of them large enough for a small child to crawl into, the walls were bulging and leaning, and stone fell from the walls. After several false solutions that may have made things worse, over six years from 1906-12, diver William Walker worked six or seven hour shifts every day diving through septic water full of corpses and laying a new cement under-layer for the cathedral and its foundations. Walker laid more than 25,000 bags of concrete, 115,000 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks. In 1911, flying buttresses were also added along the length of the south nave to complete the work.
In 2011, a new single-story extension in the corner of the north presbytery aisle was completed, the first new extension on the cathedral since the mid-16th Century, housing toilet facilities, storage and a new boiler. An extensive programme of interior restoration was completed between 2012-19.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
I remember one Christmas morning.
A winter's light and a distant choir.
The peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell.
And eyes full of tinsel and fire.
Thank you Greg Lake, I do remember.
I hope everyone gets their very own wish come true this Christmas
all my love and best wishes at this special time of year
Kendra.
found on an old SDcard. Furby Youth Choir performing at an experimental music event in Austin. August 2nd. 2009.
El nou espectacle del Soweto Gospel Choir, guanyador de tres premis Grammy, commemora el moviment per la llibertat a Sud-àfrica i el moviment pels drets civils als Estats Units. HOPE és un programa de cançons sud-africanes per la llibertat que van inspirar el somni de la nació de l'arc de Sant Martí. A continuació, el cor es trasllada als Estats Units amb interpretacions d’artistes com Billie Holiday, James Brown, Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield i Aretha Franklin. Un viatge musical per una idea d'esperança.
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The vast open space of York Minster's medieval choir, finished in 1405 replacing the previous apse building from the Norman period. The ceiling was rebuild in 1829 following the fire that destroyed much of the original ceiling and many furnishings including the stalls and organ.
This one is for the GOLDEN BEARS of the University of California, who beat Stanford at Big Game this weekend 34-28! GREAT game.
The Campanile, or Sather Tower, is the symbol of the University of California, often called the world's best public university. The tower stands 307 feet tall and houses 61 bells which are rung three times daily by a carillon choir. It was originally built in 1914.
This is a shot I've been planning since I moved to Berkeley this summer. The University had been repairing the scaffolded Campanile all fall, and it was finally unveiled last week.
Go Bears! Go Cal!
Canon 5D, Canon 100-400L, f/13, 6s, ISO 50. Two exposure blend to retain the detail in the water and the color in the sky.
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My Brother's Wedding, the ceremony was holding at a new built Christian church in ZhongGuan business district.the wedding choir.
The staircase can be treacherous in this abandoned Memphis church; the choir loft is buried beneath a partially collapsed roof.
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View of The Choir in York Minster, North Yorkshire, England.