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St Giles-without-Cripplegate is one of the very few churches in the old City of London to have survived the Great Fire. It was founded around 1100 though much of the present design dates from the sixteenth century. The church was badly damaged during World War II and required restoration.
The statue by the window is of the poet John Milton (1608-74) who is buried here. In 1793 some enterprising workmen dug him up, taking some of his teeth for souvenirs. One local Del Boy even charged visitors to see his remains. William Shakespeare would have known this church well. It is quite near his lodgings in Silver Street and his brother Edmund's son was christened here.
London EC2, 22 February 2018
This is the side wall of stained glass, facing the alley, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Bloomfield. When the church was built in 1961, it was a bit controversial. Many people were unsure about its severely modern architecture. Situated on an odd-shaped plot of urban land across a narrow street from West Penn Hospital, the unusual angles and arches and walls of stained glass have created a sanctuary which is at the same time large and intimate, and not at all austere as are many modern churches.
Because of declining city population, Immaculate Conception has merged with two other churches, another in Bloomfield and one in Lawrenceville, to form St. Maria Goretti Parish. It remains one of the few churches in the city whose doors can be found open every day.
The Parish of Virginia Church of Ireland building was completed c.1821, aided with a Board of First Fruits grant that was one of many grants given for the building of Anglican churches across Ireland. This parish, also known as the Parish of Lurgan, now includes the four Anglican churches that were amalgamated into one incumbency in 1972 to become the Virginia Group of Parishes whereas previously, each operated separately under their own ministry. The current incumbent of the parish is the Reverend Craig McCauley.
The origins of Virginia town go back to the Elizabethan Ulster Plantations when in 1612 an English Adventurer, Captain John Ridgeway, was granted a thousand acres by Royal patent for estates and to build a new town there. Virginia was intended to be one of 25 new towns to be built at strategic locations within Ulster and secure the land for the English Crown and protect it from a hostile indigenous population. The number of settlers from Scotland and England were insufficient and so the new town had not yet materialised. In 1622 the Virginia estates were sold to Lord Plunkett, 1st Earl of Fingall, a long-standing Anglo-Irish Lord who already held extensive estates in County Meath. Plans to commence laying out the new town were submitted in 1638 but these were set back by the 1641/1642 Irish Rebellion.
Plans to develop the town lay in abeyance until around 1750 when the Plunketts sold their Virginia estates to Thomas Taylor (Lord Headfort). The Taylors soon set about improving the lands with drainage scheme, afforestations and other agricultural improvement as well as new building within the town and the establishment of regular markets there. By the 1830’s the population of the town had increased to over 900 inhabitants and much of the town’s buildings from this period still survive. Industry in the region was mainly agricultural, especially flax growing for the linen industries, creamery products and cattle. In 1863, the completion of the Kells to Oldcastle railway line by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) facilitated transport of goods in and out of the town and greatly improved trade within the region.
Post-Famine conditions (post-1850’s) hit the town hard and emigration became endemic causing a gradual but continual fall in the town’s population, falling to its lowest with only 297 residents (1951 census). Over the past fifty years, the town’s population recovered and there were 2,282 residing in Virginia town (2011 census), a 32% increase over the previous census of 2006. Virginia, along with many other towns within commuting distance of Dublin, was heavily developed as a ‘commuter town’ during the building boom of the 1990’s and 2000’s with new housing estates. It is said that the town was named Virginia after Queen Elizabeth I, who was known as “The Virgin Queen”.
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References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia,_County_Cavan
www.cavan.ie/cavantourism/virginia (Virginia tourism website).
Angel Moroni on top of the Provo, Utah Mormon Temple. As with most Mormon Temples this statue faces east. This shot was taken looking south west.
Nine LDS temples do not have an angel Moroni. They are the St. George Utah, Logan Utah, Manti Utah, Laie Hawaii, Cardston Alberta, Mesa Arizona, Hamilton New Zealand, London England, and Oakland California Temples.
To see a statue of Moroni as a mortal man before becoming an angel look here farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/3111238858_cc9aafcc39_b.jpg
The Provo Temple was originally built without a statue on the spire this angel was added about 30 years after a the temple's dedication during a general overhaul which included changing the color of the spire supporting the angel from gold to white. A picture of the whole temple from the front can be seen here farm3.static.flickr.com/2377/2146583171_edece87a44_o.jpg
The Jorden River Temple and 5 others have a different version of Moroni. You can see the one where the statue has the Golden Plates from which Joseph Smith, Mormon Church founder translated The Book of Mormon. farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2521866450_63eb4a3e21_b.jpg
The five temples that feature an angel Moroni statue holding the gold plates, are the Los Angeles California Temple, Washington D.C. Temple, Seattle Washington Temple, Jordan River Utah Temple, and México City México Temple. (courtesy LDS 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.
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 design on the sides of the Abbey's bell tower. I flipped the photo on it's side to emphasize the design. Information about the bells can be found in the Abbey's website's galleries.
Title: Facade of tower at All Saints' Church from Ashmont Street
Creator: Boston Landmarks Commission
Date: 1977 July
Source: Boston Landmarks Commission image collection, Dorchester series, 5210.004
File name: 5210004_012_007
Rights: Copyright City of Boston
Citation: Boston Landmarks Commission image collection, Dorchester, Collection 5210.004, City of Boston Archives, Boston
Spires of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,Phila Pa-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400.
Elsinore, Utah (population 733). This church building was recently replaced with a new "box style" chapel located close-by. Currently the structure is owned by a private family who reside in the basement.
The Church of St James at Hemingford Grey near St Ives in Cambridgeshire dates from the early part of the 12th century, and like so many English churches has been substantially altered over the years. Early in the 13th century, a south aisle was added and the chancel rebuilt and rather later in the century a complete reconstruction took place which involved pulling down the central tower and the formation of two arches in its place, and the lengthening of the aisles. The aisles appear to have been widened in the 14th century, and towards the end of that century the west tower was added and the western arch of the nave arcade rebuilt. Finally, in about 1500, the clearstory was added.
Lady Elizabeth Tanfield (d. 1629), and behind her husband Sir Lawrence (c. 1551 to 1625), a detail of the fine "Tanfield tomb" in the church of St John the Baptist in Burford.
Sir Lawrence and Lady Elizabeth were classic power players in the English way that has continued for many centuries - Eton College, the law, politics, all the right connections and lots and lots of money. Sir Lawrence missed out on Oxbridge, but otherwise this is the kind of path that ambitious Englishmen have walked since the Middle Ages. A generation earlier, the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII had placed huge wealth in the hands of those with the right patrons at Court. One might say that in our generation, the dissolution of the old social contract at the hands of the banks and the elites of the FTSE 100 and Wall Street has had a similar effect.
The Tanfields bought Burford Priory in 1586 and the story of the intense animosity which soon arose between them and the people of Burford became the stuff of legend and eventually of ghost stories. If you see a fiery carriage speeding down Burford High Street, then look away if you want to live - the terrible Tanfields will be inside it.
St John the Baptist, Burford, Oxfordshire, 11 August 2016.
Deddington is a very pretty village in Oxfordshire six miles south of Banbury. The oldest parts of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul date from the early 13th century. The church once had a tall spire but it collapsed onto the nave in 1634, rendering it unusable for several years. The rebuilt tower, which was not completed until 1683, has a ring of eight bells, six cast in 1791 and two added in 1946. There are stained glass windows by Charles Kempe and A.J. Davies. The church is Grade II*-listed.
Sources: Wikipedia, British Listed Buildings.
This is a different version of the Angel Moroni atop the Provo, Ogden and Salt Lake Temples. This version of the statue has Moroni carrying the Golden Plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated by Mormon Church founder, Joseph Smith. Compare this statue with the one on the Provo temple shown here farm3.static.flickr.com/2229/2338267436_d5096c3d60_b.jpg
Only five temples feature an angel Moroni statue holding the gold plates. They are the Los Angeles California Temple, Washington D.C. Temple, Seattle Washington Temple, Jordan River Utah Temple, and México City México Temple. (Courtesy LDS Church)
St Mary's in Newnham Murren. St Mary's dates from the early twelfth century. The church is no longer in use but is preserved and kept open by the Churches Conservation Trust.
Newnham Murren, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, 18 June 2014.
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.
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.
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 Saint Mikhail the Archangel is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.
Reaching for the sky,
yet ever so grounded
in earthy concrete and tile;
incarnating the heavens,
uniting heaven & earth.
Having discovered the manual mode on the camera, I'm having much more fun with inside the church shots!
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 Saint Mikhail the Archangel is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.
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.
Detail of the the superb alabaster tomb of Alice, Duchess of Suffolk (1404-1475), the granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. It was most likely made soon after her death and stands in St Mary's Church, Ewelme - Oxfordshire, 25 August 2013
In St Mary the Virgin, Bampton, which dates from the late twelfth century.
Bampton, Oxfordshire, 03 July 2014
Angel Moroni with a mantle of new snow on his shoulders, on top of the Provo, Utah Mormon Temple. As with most Mormon Temples this statue faces east. This shot was taken looking south west. Nine LDS temples do not have an angel Moroni. They are the St. George Utah, Logan Utah, Manti Utah, Laie Hawaii, Cardston Alberta, Mesa Arizona, Hamilton New Zealand, London England, and Oakland California Temples. The Provo Temple was originally built without a statue on the spire this angel was added about 30 years after a the temple's dedication during a general overhaul which included changing the color of the spire supporting the angel from gold to white.
The nave of York Minster was built between 1291 and 1350 and is in the decorated Gothic style. It is the widest Gothic nave in England and has a wooden roof (painted so as to appear like stone). This was rebuilt following an accidental fire in the 1840s.
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.