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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 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 present church was founded by the charter of King Henry III in about 1220, with the tower being the last part of the first phase to be completed in about 1250. A large proportion of the original church survives to the present. The next phase of building in about 1320, was the widening of the North Aisle and the replacement of the Nave arcade, to allow for the insertion of the Lady Chapel. Additional windows were added to the Chancel and the South Aisle. The Clerestory and the low pitched roof, with parapets is of early 15th century, possibly under the auspices of Bishop Henry Chichele. The Archbishop also had the screen and Choir Stalls with their misericords installed in about 1425. A medieval former grammar school can be partially seen to the left of the church tower.
Simon Jenkins considers this to be one of England's Thousand Best Churches.
Source: Wikipedia
St John Missionary Baptist Church, Houston
2222 Gray Street, Third Ward, Houston, Texas, US
African-American Missionary Baptist Church
James M. Thomas, contractor & architect
1899, founded
1946, completed
Detail of the fine seventeenth-century memorial to Sir Henry Lee, 1st Baron of Quarenden who died in 1631, with his wife Eleanor (née Wortley). The Lees owned nearby Ditchley House and later in the seventeenth century the family went on to become the Earls of Lichfield. Despite marrying into a staunchly Royalist family, Eleanor married a Parliamentarian two years after she was widowed.
The memorial is topped by an angel playing a flute. It was created by a sculptor from Gloucestershire and is of alabaster with epitaphs carved on grey limestone and decorated with black marble.
The vaut beneath this memorial is the resting place of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester - the poet Rochester - who was born at Ditchley House. He died in 1680 aged just 33, worn out by a rather eccentric life whose ending was not made any easier by the attentions of a self-serving prelate desperate to obtain a deathbed conversion. He later claimed the poet had asked that "all his profane and lewd writings" be burned and eventually became Bishop of Salisbury.
In recent years, another clergyman got into the vault and then opened the coffin to make sure that poor Rochester was actually inside. The coffin's fine brass nameplate was removed and placed in a glass case inside the church.
In All Saints Church, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, 31 May 2014.
The First Unitarian Meeting House was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright completed in 1951. This building is classic FLW and is so beautiful to see in person.
In St Mary the Virgin, Charlton-on-Otmoor, showing the early sixteenth-century rood screen. Few rood screens survived the Reformation - they were ordered to be removed.
The church was originally a thirteenth-century building but received substantial alterations in the fourteenth century. Further work was carried out in the sixteenth century and some in the nineteenth, but the church as it stands today has not been over-restored.
Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxfordshire, 08 April 2014
Derby Cathedral's magnificent perpendicular style tower was built between 1510 and 1530. The rest of Derby Cathedral was remodelled in the classical style in the early 1700s (1723) by the great English architect James Gibbs who also designed St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London's Trafalgar Square.
The Bishop’s Consistory Court dates from 1636 and is beneath the south west tower. It is now a unique survival in England, hearing its last case, that of an attempted suicide of a priest, in the 1930s.
Chester Cathedral dates from between 1093 and the early 16th century, and had many alterations in the intervening period. The site had been used for Christian worship since Roman times. There was a Saxon abbey here from the mid-10th century, but this was razed to the ground in around 1090. In 1093 a Benedictine monastery was established here, and in 1541 this became a cathedral of the Church of England, following the dissolution of the monastries by King Henry VIII.
The abbey church, beginning with the Lady Chapel at the eastern end, was extensively rebuilt in Gothic style during the 13th and 14th centuries. At the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, the cloister, the central tower, a new south transept, the large west window and a new entrance porch to the south had just been built in the Perpendicular style, and the southwest tower of the façade had been begun. The west front was given a Tudor entrance, but the tower was never completed.
Detail of the the early sixteenth-century rood screen in St Mary the Virgin, Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxfordshire, 08 April 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.
Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove as seen from across the 5 freeway in Orange, CA To see a closer picture of the main building look here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/243198580/
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 chancel of St Mary's in Newnham Murren, a peaceful spot by the Thames. St Mary's dates from the early twelfth century. The chancel roof is sixteenth 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.
Chapel of St. James-the-Less
In response to the growing town of York (Toronto) and the overcrowded cemetery adjacent to St James Cathedral at King and Church streets, this cemetery on Parliament Street north of Wellesley (in the countryside) was opened in 1844. The Gothic Revival style chapel, opened 1860, was designed by the architectural firm of Cumberland and Storm.
www.stjamescathedral.on.ca/Cemetery/CemeteryHistory/tabid...
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 summer church on the first floor and the winter 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.
Chester Cathedral dates from between 1093 and the early 16th century, and had many alterations in the intervening period. The site had been used for Christian worship since Roman times. There was a Saxon abbey here from the mid-10th century, but this was razed to the ground in around 1090. In 1093 a Benedictine monastery was established here, and in 1541 this became a cathedral of the Church of England, following the dissolution of the monastries by King Henry VIII.
The abbey church, beginning with the Lady Chapel at the eastern end, was extensively rebuilt in Gothic style during the 13th and 14th centuries. At the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, the cloister, the central tower, a new south transept, the large west window and a new entrance porch to the south had just been built in the Perpendicular style, and the southwest tower of the façade had been begun. The west front was given a Tudor entrance, but the tower was never completed.
Merry Christmas, everybody
Liverpool 201222 #4 Liverpool’s Roman Catholic Cathedral.
My final set of shots from Liverpool’s Roman Catholic cathedral are of its beautiful circular worship area and central altar. The design is a response to the Liturgical Constitution of the Second Vatican Council which had called for a closer and more active connection between the congregation and the celebrations at the altar.
One image that I took especially for today was that of the ‘Little Town of Bethlehem’ nativity scene in one of the chapels built into the cathedral’s buttresses.
Light from the above changes during the day as the Sun circles around the coloured panels of the Lantern.
This fine building dates from the mid-19th century or shortly thereafter, as do the other buildings seen in this image.
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).
www.ramortheatre.com/ (The Ramor Theatre).
Exterior of church of St Michael and All Angels, Croston. There has been a church in the village since 1075, but the current building, church tower and clock are all more modern restorations.
Royal arms in the form of Prince of Wales feathers on the west wall of the nave of the parish church in Beckley. Most of the scheme dates from 1607 and the barely visible H and P on the upper crest are thought to refer to Prince Henry (1594-1612), the eldest son of James 1.
Painted arms like these are a fairly rare survival. Lettering on the scheme suggests that it could have been commissioned by or at least has a connection with Francis Norris (or Norreys), 1st Earl of Berkshire whose family owned Beckley Manor at the time.
Norris (1579-1623) was an impetuous and quarrelsome character. His marriage broke up amid some acrimony. He severely injured a man in one duel (Peregrine Bertie, with whose brother Lord Willoughby de Eresby Norris had a long-running feud) and was tried and convicted of manslaughter after a servant was slain in a second round with the Bertie family (the King pardoned him).
In 1620-1, King Charles sent Norris to the Fleet Prison after Norris attacked Lord Scrope in a passage leading to the House of Lords while the Prince of Wales was in attendance (Lord Scrope had clumsily brushed past him). Norris was obliged to submit a written apology to the House which then summoned him to kneel before the heir to the throne and accept reconciliation. Humiliated, Norris retreated to his mansion in Rycote, Oxfordshire, and eventually committed suicide with a crossbow. On the other hand, Norris was generous in his support of Sir Thomas Bodley in the building and endowment of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
In the parish church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Beckley, Oxfordshire, 07 April 2014