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The church of Saint Eustachius (Eustace) in the centre of Tavistock, Devon, was named after the Roman centurion who became a Christian. It was dedicated by Bishop Stapledon in 1318 though there are very few remains of that building today. It was rebuilt and enlarged into its current form between 1350 and 1450, at which time the Clothworkers' Aisle (an outer south aisle) was included, an indication of the growing importance of the textile industry to the local economy. The trade was protected by a 1467 statute. The whole is in the Perpendicular style and consists of a nave and chancel, both with two aisles, tower and outer south aisle. It possesses a lofty tower supported on four open arches, one of which was reputedly added to accommodate the 19th century "tinners" or tin miners.
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 haze is actually smoke from the numerous wildfires that were burning in the Moscow Oblast in August. This photo was taken at 0900 hrs.
The Church of Saint Mikhail the Archangel 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.
Born in London in 1829, Edward King, both as a priest and then as a bishop, was revered for the holiness of his life and the wisdom of his counsel. He was chaplain, then principal, of Cuddesdon Theological College, followed by a dozen years as a professor of theology in Oxford, during which time he exercised a great influence on a generation of ordinands. In 1885, he was consecrated bishop of the diocese of Lincoln, a position he held until his death. His advocacy of Catholic principles in ritual as well as theology involved him in controversy, but his significant gift to the Church was his example as a pastoral and caring bishop to both clergy and laity.
All Saints Episcopal, Corpus Christi
3026 S Staples St, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, US
Episcopal Church USA, Diocese of West Texas
William B Stalter – Architect
5 November 1964 – Dedication
1995 – Renovation & expansion
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.
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).
Idaho Falls, Idaho LDS Temple from across the river showing part of the falls.
ARCHITECTS: Board of Church Architects
DEDICATION: September 23, 1945
TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 92,177 sq. ft.
OWNER: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The temple in Idaho Falls was announced on March 3, 1937. The building was designed by the church board of temple architects: Edward O. Anderson, Georgious Y. Cannon, Ramm Hansen, John Fetzer, Hyrum Pope, Lorenzo Snow Young. The exterior of the temple was completed in September 1941 and the interior was expected to be completed the following year. However, with World War II shortages, it delayed the completion of the temple for four more years. In spite of delays, church president George Albert Smith dedicated the Idaho Falls Temple just one month after the war ended, on September 23, 1945. The temple was built on a 7-acre plot, has four ordinance rooms and nine sealing rooms, and has a total floor area of 92,177 square feet.
In March 2015, the temple closed for renovations that were expected to last 18 months. The renovations took nearly two years and following their completion, a public open house was held from April 22 through May 20, 2017. The temple was rededicated by Henry B. Eyring on June 4, 2017. -- Courtesy LDS and Wikipedia
Wright designed the Community Christian Church in 1940. This photo of the interior was taken just before the graduation ceremony in May 2008 for seniors at the Kansas City Art Institute.
For an exterior view, look at the church's website: www.community-christian.org/index.htm
Two views of the Great West window of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. The direction in this description is said to refer to the liturgical orientation since the cathedral is actually laid out north-south.
The largest parish church in Essex dates from 1250 with the majority of the Church rebuilt in Perpendicular style between 1470 and 1525. The spire built in 1832 is 59m high.
The Parish of Virginia Church of Ireland building was completed c.1821 aided with a Board of First Fruits grant, 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 under one incumbency in 1972 to become the Virginia Group of Parishes. Previously they operated separately under their own ministry and the current incumbent of the parish is the Reverend Craig McCauley.
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).
Mount Timpanogos LDS temple looking south east. Located in American Fork, Utah. An interesting architectural detail is the "moonstones" decorating the upper portion of the temple below the spire and the "sun stones" on the lower portion of the spire itself.
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 former National Irish Bank (NIB) building was completed c.1870 and was finished in the Italianate style that was popular in Ireland at the time. The Danish owned NIB closed four of their branches across County Cavan, including this one in Virginia, to centralise their county’s banking service at Navan. This building has been vacant since 2009.
To the left is the Ramor Theatre which now occupies what was the Church of Mary Immaculate, the town’s Roman Catholic church built in 1846 on land donated rent-free by the 2nd Marquis of Headfort. The church was closed in 1989 and later purchased by the Cavan County Council for the Ramor Theatre which opened in September 1999. A new Catholic church was built at the other side of the town to serve its congregation.
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).
Saint-Eugene-Sainte-Cecile,built 1855.Historic Monument.Paris France-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400.
Church of St Pol de Léon in the village of Paul just to the north of Mousehole. Rebuilt in 1600 with an imposing granite tower plus turret that serves as a landmark to shipping in Mount's Bay.
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.
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, 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.
View in winter season on the beautiful summer Church of Saints Peter and Paul surrounded by old timber houses on a small hill covered snow from Pokrovsky meadow (Intercession meadow, called by name of nearby convent) at the low bank of river Kamenka.
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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).
Photographer: Unidentified
Location: Bowen, Queensland, Australia
Description: The church was opened on 1st July 1939.
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/
This is the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. "Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The church was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1974. In 1978, the official name was changed to the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who helped to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the church's basement. The church is located steps away from the Alabama State Capitol. The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church congregation was organized in 1877 and was first known as the Second Colored Baptist Church. The church trustees paid $270 on January 30, 1879, for a lot at the corner of what is now Dexter Avenue and Decatur Street. The first church building was a small wood-frame building, [and] it began to be replaced by the current structure in 1883. The new brick building was not completed until 1889. The church began serving the broader African American community on October 3, 1887, when it hosted the first registration of students for Alabama State University. This community service continued into the 20th century with activities associated with the American Civil Rights Movement. Vernon Johns, an early leader of the Civil Rights Movement, served as pastor from 1947 to 1952. He was succeeded by Martin Luther King, Jr., who was pastor of the church from 1954 to 1960, and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott from his basement office." Wikipedia.
Downtown Canton, Ohio USA - 120 Cleveland Ave., SW
NRHP added 1979 - Building - #79001948
First built in 1864, destroyed in 1881, rebuilt in 1883.
Also known as First Methodist Episcopal Church. William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States worshiped here and married Ida Saxton here. Built in the Gothic Revival style
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.
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