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Now that the southwest corner is a coffee shop the stained glass window of Christ and the Devil seems strange.
captured on P9 edited in Snapseed
The Cowper Memorial United Reformed Church in Olney, North Bucks, was named after one of its former deacons.
As a church historian wrote in 1662,
"It is 79 years since [William] Cowper left this mundane world to grace the higher and the eternal, to take the golden harp that is strung and tuned for endless years.
"Surely it is time that something was erected to his memory, something that was worthy of the man, worthy of the town, worthy of the nation and what better than a place of worship! What better than a Congregational Church."
The present building dates from 1879.
North Church built in 1878.United Church of Christ.Towle and Foster Architects.Portsmouth New Hampshire.-35mm Nikon FM2,Kodak Portra 400.
The Despenser Retable, named after the Bishop of Norwich, Henry le Despenser (1369-1406). During the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, Despenser's forces successfully contained the revolt in Norfolk and the painting was probably commissioned in thanksgiving. Several shields, in the border of the painting, are associated with others who led the attack on the peasants. The retable was re-discovered in 1847, having been reversed and used as a table top.
Trifonovskaya St at Olympic Ave
The worker on the lower scaffolding gives scale to this huge building.
Aug 2014 PS. Consecrated on 17 Sep 2013. Apparently now known as the Armenian Monastery Complex of Moscow. Shown here is the NW view of the Cathedral of the Holy Transfiguration. For a description of the complex, see: www.ghulyan.com/#!armenian-monastery-complex/cuz6 and www.armenianow.com/arts_and_culture/48578/armenian_church...
Village Podzhigorodovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia
The church was built in 1778-1783 by two brothers Yurevyh, local noblemen who had a large manor here. It's believed that the architect was the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov. Unusual two-story church with the winter church on the first floor and the summer church on the second floor. The exterior was plastered and whitewashed in 1906.
The last owner of the Podzhigorodovo manor was nobleman Vladimir Sokolov. He was a revolutionary and his party nickname was Volsky. Vladimir Lenin visited Sokolov before the 1917 revolution. There's a photo of Lenin playing chess with Sokolov in his Podzhigorodovo manor house.
Olga remembers climbing the bell tower as a child. The church was used then to store chemical fertilizer. She still recalls the smell of the fertilizer and the treacherous circular staircase.
The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. Services are presently held in the first floor winter church. The second floor summer church has not been restored. Like many rural churches in Russia, the Church of Archangel Michael is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.
Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan - clicked on August 18, 2012 with a Sony NEX 5N. Amongst so many tall buildings and marvels of architecture in Lower Manhattan (Financial District), I still found the Church's architecture to be the most appealing. Somethings, no matter where they are, are just the best!
St Hugh was born at Avalon in Burgundy in 1140 and at first made his profession with the Augustinian canons but, when he was twenty-five, he became a monk at Grande Chartreuse. In about 1175, he was invited by the English king, Henry II, to become prior of his Charterhouse foundation at Witham in Somerset, badly in need of reform even though it had been only recently founded. In 1186, Hugh was persuaded to accept the See of Lincoln, then the largest diocese in the land. He brought huge energy to the diocese and, together with discerning appointments to key posts, he revived the Lincoln schools, repaired and enlarged the cathedral, visited the See extensively, drew together the clergy to meet in synod and generally brought an efficiency and stability to the Church which was to be much emulated. Hugh also showed great compassion for the poor and the oppressed, ensuring that sufferers of leprosy were cared for and that Jews were not persecuted. He both supported his monarch and also held out against any royal measures he felt to be extreme, yet managing not to make an enemy of the king. He died in London on 17 November in the year 1200.
The side aisles of York Minster have vaulted stone roofs. The patterned marble floor, which covers the whole of the minster, dates from the 1730s.
York Minster is one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe. There had been a church building on this site since the 7th century, and a series of buildings followed. Some were badly damaged by fire, and others by invaders, including the Danes in 1075. The present building dates from around 1220 when the then Archbishop, Walter de Gray, ordered a Gothic-style cathedral to be built on the foundations of an earlier Norman cathedral. The new building would be comparable with that at Canterbury. Building took place over the next 250 years, and the western towers were completed in 1472 when the building was finally completed and consecrated.
In the 10th century Ailwin, Earl of East Anglia, gave Hemingford Abbots and part of Hemingford Grey, near St Ives in Cambridgeshire, to Ramsey Abbey. King Edgar granted a charter for the first church to be built, on the site of the present chancel, in 974.
Two hundred years later this wooden church was replaced with a stone building, around 1190. Two columns and part of the former tower from this survive at the east end of the nave. The font, which is still used for Baptisms, originated in the early 13th century.
Much of the present church, which is Grade I-listed, originates from the late 1300s, with the spire and wall painting being added in the 1400s. The roof of the church was raised to its present height and the 22 carved angels were installed in the early 1500s. Five of the Six bells are dated 1754.
The Enclosure Award of 1806 consolidated church lands in the parish. The frontage of the Old Rectory dates from 1814, and several major repairs to the church were carried out in the 1820s.
Following significant restoration of the church porch and aisles in 1872-5, most of the present chancel dates from 1913. The main structure of the rest of the church has remained the same for over 500 years.
The vigorous Doom or Last Judgement, dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in St James the Great, South Leigh, Oxfordshire, 05 August 2014
Victorian witches hat/Tower of Calvary United Methodist Church built in 1906.West Philadelphia.-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400.
Village Shestakovo, Volokolamsk Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Repurposed in 1930. Returned to the Russian Orthodox Church c 2000 (uncertain of this date). Church grounds now fenced off. However, no apparent restoration work.
Compare with our 2010 visit: www.flickr.com/photos/12535240@N05/5008362917/in/album-72...
First Christian Church, Corpus Christi
3401 Santa Fe St, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, US
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
1967
McCord and Lorenz: Architects
Wallace R. Wilkerson, engineer (tower)
Darkness and light on a day of terrible news from the Mediterranean.
In High Street, Oxford, 02 September 2015
Village Podzhigorodovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia
The church was built in 1778-1783 by two brothers Yurevyh, local noblemen who had a large manor here. It's believed that the architect was the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov. Unusual two-story church with the winter church on the first floor and the summer church on the second floor. The exterior was plastered and whitewashed in 1906.
The last owner of the Podzhigorodovo manor was nobleman Vladimir Sokolov. He was a revolutionary and his party nickname was Volsky. Vladimir Lenin visited Sokolov before the 1917 revolution. There's a photo of Lenin playing chess with Sokolov in his Podzhigorodovo manor house.
Olga remembers climbing the bell tower as a child. The church was used then to store chemical fertilizer. She still recalls the smell of the fertilizer and the treacherous circular staircase.
The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. Services are presently held in the first floor winter church. The second floor summer church has not been restored. Like many rural churches in Russia, the Church of Archangel Michael is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.
The Bath Abbey Footprint Project aims to repair Bath Abbey’s collapsing floor, installing a new eco-friendly heating system and providing new, improved space and facilities to ensure the Abbey is more sustainable, hospitable and useable for local residents, worshippers and visitors alike.
To learn more about Wessex Archaeology's contributions to the Bath Abbey Footprint Project, visit: www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/bath-abbey-footprint-project
The church of St Martin, Laval-sur-Luzège, Corrèze, France, 19 August 2013 (adapted with Dynamic Auto-Painter)
Village Podzhigorodovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia
The church was built in 1778-1783 by two brothers Yurevyh, local noblemen who had a large manor here. It's believed that the architect was the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov. Unusual two-story church with the winter church on the first floor and the summer church on the second floor. The exterior was plastered and whitewashed in 1906.
The last owner of the Podzhigorodovo manor was nobleman Vladimir Sokolov. He was a revolutionary and his party nickname was Volsky. Vladimir Lenin visited Sokolov before the 1917 revolution. There's a photo of Lenin playing chess with Sokolov in his Podzhigorodovo manor house.
Olga remembers climbing the bell tower as a child. The church was used then to store chemical fertilizer. She still recalls the smell of the fertilizer and the treacherous circular staircase.
The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. Services are presently held in the first floor winter church. The second floor summer church has not been restored. Like many rural churches in Russia, the Church of Archangel Michael is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.
Trifonovskaya St at Olympic Ave
Aug 2014 PS. Consecrated on 17 Sep 2013. Apparently now known as the Armenian Monastery Complex of Moscow. Shown here, from the SE, are (l to r) the Gymnasium, the Church of the Holy Cross, and the Cathedral of the Holy Transfiguration. For a description of the complex, see: www.ghulyan.com/#!armenian-monastery-complex/cuz6 and www.armenianow.com/arts_and_culture/48578/armenian_church...