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Chandelier Aurum 8 is the most beautifully designed ceiling chandeliers that has 8 lighting, 8 liana and 8 crook arms which are exceptionally decorated with angel wing leaves and crystal jewelers. The chandelier has a diameter of 88 cm, and height of 83 cm including the chain.
A bit of history found when Owners were renovating Planasker School "George Mcleod 17 Kenneth Street Stornoway & Donald Macrae Keith Street lined this ceiling. Staying with Alexander Maclennan, fisherman Marvig Lochs by Stornoway. Remember us when we are dead and gone. Goodbye." The next sentence is difficult to decipher, but on the other side of the wood it says "Farewell to whisky"!! The second piece of wood says Marvig 12th March 1879 blowing a gale from the north east and raining. George Mcleod. The third piece says Robert Matheson 8 Bayhead Street March 14th 1879. Remember this Now at Marvig - a dry part of the land. Not as much as a pint(?) can be got at present" The Alexander Maclennan is in all probability my Great Grandfather
By Bernard Smith, to a design by EP Warren (1892-1893).
At Balliol Historic Collections Centre, formerly St Cross church, Oxford.
Oxford Open Doors, 2018
Wood Ceiling
Birmingham Library
Product: Wood Grill
See all project pictures at: www2.hunterdouglascontract.com/
Architect: Mecanoo
Painted panel from the vault of the chapter house, the last remnants of a series of large scale figures that formed the original 14th century decoration of the ceiling. Exhibit in the Undercroft beneath the Minster's crossing, a gallery space created within the cathedral's foundations during major underpinning project of the 1970s.
York Minster is England's largest medieval cathedral and almost impossible to do justice to. It has an awesome presence that cannot fail to impress.
Uniquely the cathedral was spared the ravages of the Civil War that decimated the medieval art of most English cathedrals and churches, and it thus possesses the largest collection of medieval glass in Britain throughout most of it's vast windows.
Sadly this fortune was not matched by the Minster's vulnerability to fire which has ravaged the building in 3 major outbreaks, the worst in 1829 when a madman set fire to the precious medieval furniture of the choir, which was destroyed along with the organ and the high vaulted ceiling of the eastern half of the church. Only 11 years after this tragedy a careless workman accidentally set fire to the nave roof, which also lost it's vault. Both roofs were rebuilt in replica, but a further fire caused by lightning strike in 1984 destroyed the south transept roof (rebuilt 4 years later).
Most medieval cathedrals were provided with stone vaulted ceilings precisely to avoid the problems suffered here, but York's builders found that building on such an unprecedentedly large scale brought limitations, thus all the Minster's high ceilings had to be built of wood in imitation of stone. An Achilles' Heel, but a beautiful one!
搭乘飛驒號特急列車，自名古屋出發到高山市車站，約費時2小時40餘分。循既定行程來到下榻的所在地，有些忐忑的心情終於安定下來。
圖為高山車站內，放置了兩座祭屋台供人觀覽，所謂屋台，一般通常指日本傳統的街邊小吃，福岡即是以此聞名；
而祭屋台顧名思義專門用於祭典慶典，高山祭分為春、秋兩季進行，春季為日枝神社主辦的「春之山王祭」；秋季則為櫻山八幡宮主辦「秋之八幡祭」。
最大的特色就是華麗的人力屋台車遊街景象，屋台各有名字，在兩個季節的祭典當中，使用的屋台也完全不同，各屋台都是日本國重要的有形民俗文化財產，裝飾的精緻繁複程度，在日本有所謂「活動陽明門」的美譽。
As Google was not being helpful, I asked for information on this ceiling using the Archivist's contact email, and had a lovely reply....
"The ceiling was designed by John Hayward, the artist who worked closely with the architect Lawrence King. It was originally put in in the late 60s as the sanctuary area was nearing completion. The sun in the middle represents a new dawn and reminds us of the resurrection, the flames represent the Holy Spirit and reminds us of Pentecost and the vegetation shows the glory of God's creation."
The Cathedral was very light and airy.
Until 1926 the building was the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin.
In 1926, the Bishop of Manchester William Temple established the Diocese of Blackburn and the Parish Church became a Cathedral. Lots more information at blackburncathedral.com/learn/our-history
Also, if you are interested in looking around the Cathedral as it is now, then this trail "leaflet" has lots of photos and information blackburncathedral.com/learn/cathedral-trail
St John the Baptist, Bere Regis, Dorset
Built in the 15th century the nave roof is said to have been a gift from Cardinal Morton whos face is the largest boss on the roof.
It is made of entirley from oak, then painted and gilded and features the full length figures of the twelves apostles. There is also the shiled of arms for Cardinal Morton plus the Tudor Rose and a golden cord symbolising the marriage between henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York in 1486.
Cardinal John Morton was born in the Parish of Bere Regis in c.1420.
He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1477 he was sent by Edward IV to the French court as ambassador.
In 1478 he was made Archdeacon of Leicester and in 1479 Bishop of Ely.
From 1472-9 he was Master of the Rolls.
Although he was imprisoned in Brecknock Castle by the Tudors at the end of The War of the Roses, Henry VII quickly made him Archbishop of Canterbury in 1486, he was then elevated to Cardinalate in 1598.
He was also made Lord chancellor in 1487 and was credited with 'Mortons Fork', where by no one was exempt from tax.
He built the 'old palace' at Hatfield House and was the mentor to the young Thomas More.
He died at Knole House, Kent on 15 Sept 1500.
He was buried as requesdted in the central crypt of the Virgin Mary at Canterbury CAthedral, where there is also a monument to him bearing his effigy.
In conjunction with this he was erected a Chantry chapel in Bere Regis but as this was eneglected and damaged during the dissolutions it is now a quiet side chapel.
As I tried to sweet-talk the manager into letting me run a photography workshop, I looked around and found the ceiling to be rather nice
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The following story about the ceiling is from an information plaque. "Almohade coffering built in 1170 that is made of pine & oak wood, with inlays which make typical arabesques. At the bottom are encrusted the shields of Arab families who lived on the property as well as the Kingdom of Aragon & Cataluña overlapped"
Jardines de Alfabia (Gardens of Alfabia) near Bunyola. The gardens are worth a look & can be found on the right hand side just before the Soller Tunnel 20/04/15