View allAll Photos Tagged Churches
(3 image HDR)With a little twist of 'olli-ort'..
Thanks for all the Christmas & new year wishes..
INFO 'The Domesday Book records Ringmore as a Devon Manor known then as ‘Ronmore’. Stephen de Haccombe, and his successors are know to have built three chapels in the area, two survive as chapels today, one at Haccombe, and the other is St Nicholas in Ringmore, Shaldon.
The third local chapel is only a ruin. Church Architects are of the opinion the St Nicholas is of 13th Century origins, a fact borne out by the East end Wall with it’s Lancet window-a fact accepted as proof.
Records of various events refer to this church, and the Register of Baptisms was started in 1616, prior to that, Baptisms had taken place at Haccombe. About this time, the Carew family –now Lords of the Manor of Haccombe, carried out repairs to St Nicholas, but the fabric of the building, and it’s architectural features were kept intact. Haccombe Church supplied the Clergy to the Church until 1621 when the first Clergy signed the Baptism register - Elezeus Coke.
Burial and Marriage registers were than started –and in 1671 Lord Clifford bought several local estates including the Manor of Ringmore with St Nicholas Parish. Bishop Keppel visited the church in 1768 and decided that care was needed to restore the Church.
By 1790 a large extension had been added, and a gallery built, along with various other improvements. Mention of a Church organ was made in 1827, but was then replaced with an early version of the Harmonium called a ‘Seraphine’. 1839 saw a gallery added to the North wall for the Sunday School, and a new roof with a domed skylight and wooden Bell tower added in1841. The original font had been removed, and replaced by the existing font-which is Saxon or early Norman.
Reverend Richard Marsh-Dunn cancelled plans for any more changes to St Nicholas, as he had decided to build a new church on the reclaimed land on Riverside in Shaldon.
This was consecrated and dedicated to St.Peter, and became the new Parish Church of St.Nicholas, South Devon in 1903. St Nicholas was subsequently renovated with funds generated by a generous benefactor, and was given the official title of Chapel of Ease.'
St. Mary's Church in the village of Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, UK. Although only a village, Steeple Ashton was a prosperous place in the 15th. century and this magnificent church was built between 1420 and 1500. This was the third church on this site but the steeple which gave the village its name was on the second church. The current church also had a steeple at one time but it was destroyed by lightning in 1670. Two men, who had been repairing the steeple after a previous lightning strike, were killed and the steeple was never rebuilt. With the steeple in place the church was 57 metres high.
I also took a picture of the inside.
Trinity Church. Trinity Church is a historic parish church at the intersection of Wall Street and Broadway in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York.
This church was built in the 1930's and fits in perfectly with the surrounding architecture of the Santa Barbara area.
The Church of Mother of God in front of Týn (in Czech Kostel Matky Boží před Týnem, also Týnský chrám (Týn Church) or just Týn), often translated as Church of Our Lady in front of Týn, is a dominant feature of the Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic, and has been the main church of this part of the city since the 14th century. The church's towers are 80 m high and topped by four small spires.
Source: Wikipedia
Camera: Konica Minolta Z3
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal length: 22.2 mm
Shutter speed: 1/250
ISO: 50
This church is on Snæfellsnes, Iceland. I felt the strength of my religion, so I kneeled down about 1km away. After prayers, I shot the photo from the open field. Ingjaldshóll
Turf church from the village of Hof in the Eastern Region of Iceland.
This photo is offered under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to this image on my Flickr page.
Flickr resolution: 1800 x 1414 px
Also available for download at 5000 x 3928 px on my Patreon page, an ever-growing collection of high res images for one low monthly subscription fee. You can find this specific photo at the following post:
Ovingham, Northumberland
Ovingham's parish church of St Mary dates to the Saxon period, with major rebuilding in the 13th century and again in the Victorian period.
St Mary's church was the site of historic drama in 1534, Henry VIII's church commissioners, sent to dissolve Hexham Abbey were challenged from the top of the church tower by the abbot, dressed in armour. The abbot was hanged for his impudence, ostensibly for wearing armour, which was forbidden to a cleric.
………From our visit to Acton Burnell Castle on Saturday, a tiny village with lots of history and a HUGE independent college - Concord College. It was a grey dull morning but I managed to eat out a bit of detail in this one. Alan:-)
For the interested I’m growing my Shutterstock catalogue regularly here, now sold 49 images :- www.shutterstock.com/g/Alan+Foster?rid=223484589&utm_...
©Alan Foster.
©Alan Foster. All rights reserved. Do not use without permission.……
Looking downhill towards "Bottom Street " and over part of Knutsford.
Orange filter brings out the blue sky , and the brick work.
We begin church decponstructions not in communist style, badly, but in a proper, esthethic manner.. in the direction of True Values..
The Parish Church of St. James the Great and vicarage, Gawsworth.
Info from www.gawsworthchurch.co.uk
The walls of the Nave were built of limestone in 1430 and the Chancel and Tower of pink sandstone in 1480. The splendid roofs are five hundred years old - the Nave roof, barrel beam in design and unique in this Diocese, shows considerable traces of its original brilliant colouring and gilt. The Chancel roof, arch camber beam in construction and with rare panelled sections with tie beams, was never painted but both roofs are of exceptional beauty of design and in excellent condition.
Previously a Norman Chapel stood on this site, probably resembling the chapel which now stands in the churchyard at Prestbury.
7DWF - Thursdays: B&W and Sepia
Lullington Church, also known as the Church of the Good Shepherd, on the South Downs at Lullington in East Sussex is one of several churches claimed to be the smallest church in England. It was built from the remains of the chancel of an earlier church that was destroyed by fire, generally believed to have occurred at the time of Oliver Cromwell. It measures a mere 16 feet (5 metres) square and seats 20 people.
The original church is believed to date from the late 12th or early 13th century and was built as a chapel in the parish of Alfriston, owned by Battle Abbey, and later became a separate parish. In 1927 the parishes of Alfriston and Lullington were merged. The original dedication of the church is unknown, and in 2000 the Bishop of Chichester dedicated the church to the Good Shepherd.
The church was the inspiration for British Sea Power's song "The Smallest Church in Sussex", which featured as a b-side to "Remember Me" in 2003. The organ featured on that song comes from the harmonium inside the actual church.