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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.
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Took a few photos last night from the balcony. The returned servicemen and Knox Choir had just sung Bach cantata 140 Sleeper's Wake
I was never a fan of Shakespeare in my high school English class. Couldn't understand what all the fuss was about and thought perhaps even a bit pretentious. However, when I was looking for something to write along with this image, I came across a verse, which sums it up pretty well:
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang …"
The Choir of the Cathedral of Lugo is carved in walnut, has a very high value and was made by Francisco de Moure.
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.
found on an old SDcard. Furby Youth Choir performing at an experimental music event in Austin. August 2nd. 2009.
Der Dom St. Stephanus und St. Sixtus in Halberstadt, eine evangelische Kirche, gilt als einer der wenigen großen Kirchenbauten des französischen Kathedralschemas in Deutschland. Der Dom wurde in 250 Jahren (1236-1486) erbaut und ist der 3. Nachfolgebau im ältesten Bistum Mitteldeutschlands (gegründet 804 / 814). Vom Westportal eintretend, fasziniert der langgestreckte dreischiffige Innenraum, die Triumphkreuzgruppe über dem Lettner, der Hohe Chor, die Buntglasfenster, die Neustädter- und die Marienkapelle. Das im 11. Jahrhundert gegründete Chorherrenstift (1806 aufgelöst) führte erst 1591 die Reformation ein und vereinte seitdem katholische und protestantische Domherren. Dieser Ökumene ist der größte Domschatz zu verdanken, der noch am ursprünglichen Ort erhalten ist: Altäre, Reliquiare, Handschriften und romanische Bildteppiche (die ältesten Europas). Seit 2008 wird dieser Domschatz in der Domklausur neu präsentiert. Am 8. April 1945 wurde bei einem Bombenangriff auch der Dom schwer getroffen, bis 1955 konnten die die Bausubstanz gefährdenden Stoffe beseitigt werden. Jüngere Glanzpunkte der Bauarbeiten am Dom sind der Guss der Glocken Micha und Domina, die Installation des Dachreiters auf dem Langhaus und der Einbau eines neuen Glasfensters im südlichen Querschiff.
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The Cathedral of St. Stephen and St. Sixtus in Halberstadt, a Protestant church, is considered one of the few large church buildings of the French cathedral scheme in Germany. The cathedral was built in 250 years (1236-1486) and is the 3rd successor building in the oldest diocese in central Germany (founded 804 / 814). Entering from the west portal, the elongated three-nave interior, the triumphal crucifix group above the rood screen, the high choir, the stained-glass windows,Neustadt's Chapel and St. Mary's Chapel are fascinating. Founded in the 11th century, the canonry (dissolved in 1806) did not introduce the Reformation until 1591 and has united Catholic and Protestant canons ever since. This ecumenism is to thank for the largest cathedral treasure still preserved in its original location: altars, reliquaries, manuscripts and Romanesque tapestries (the oldest in Europe). Since 2008, this cathedral treasure has been presented anew in the cathedral cloister. On 8 April 1945, the cathedral was badly hit by a bombing raid, but by 1955 it had been possible to remove the materials that endangered the fabric of the building. More recent highlights of the construction work on the cathedral are the casting of the Micha and Domina bells, the installation of the ridge turret on the nave and the installation of a new glass window in the southern transept.
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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A choir member in Victorian clothes posesz after singing Christmas Carols during the Dickens on the Strand in Galveston, Texas.