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St Mary, Walpole, Suffolk
Walpole is a fairly large village on the outskirts of Halesworth. I've been cycling through it long enough to remember when it still had a shop and a pub, and what felt like a life of its own, but these are gone now. However, St Mary survives, set back from the road in a large graveyard up the hill on the way to Halesworth. At first sight, it appears to be a fairly run-of-the-mill Victorian village church, but a Norman doorway has been preserved within the south porch. Otherwise, what you see today is largely the work of the 19th century architect HM Eyton.
To be honest, It is easy to moan about churches like this. But here it is, at the heart of its village, open to visitors, reasonably friendly inside - honestly, it is hard to criticize. From the outside, it puts me in mind of Catholic churches in northern France, rebuilt in this style after the destruction of the First World War. This design is also familiar from a thousand municipal cemetery chapels, with its funny little spire and restrained mock-decorated windows.
There are some medieval survivals here. But not many. The base of the tower was retained, and footings of the nave walls suggest it was originally Saxon. The Norman doorway is remarkably well-preserved, suggesting the previous porch had survived for many centuries. It has had an electric light fitting driven through it, presumably by someone who thought it was a good idea.
Even on a sunny day the church seems dark inside, but as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom your first surprise is the rather odd medieval font. It is not originally from this church but from St Andrew, in the centre of Norwich, which may explain its urban solidity. It must be said that it is much more attractive than the vulgar 19th century one that replaced it in Norwich.
The parish have been busy here over the last few years, and one of the most striking aspects of the interior is that the long chancel has been cleared of all its furnishings, exposing a fine Victorian tiled floor. It does perhaps accentuate the gloom of the nave, and modern chairs would look much better in that space than clumpy old Victorian pews.
The village of Walpole is a mecca for church explorers, but they are on their way to visit Walpole Old Chapel up the hill, rather than the homely charms of St Mary. I was headed there next, as I understood it was open on Saturday afternoons, and I hadn't seen inside since recording a programme about it for BBC Radio Suffolk a year or so previously. I came out of St Mary into the rain. It was that horrible seeping drizzle, and so I sped as fast as I could up to the Old Chapel. I got there to find that it didn't open until 2pm. There was no shelter, and waiting an hour in the rain wasn't really an option, so I hurried back to Halesworth and took shelter in the Angel Hotel instead.
Reception Special Olympics Team Canada Rally/ Réception pour le départ de l’équipe d’olympiques Spéciaux Canada
L to R / G à D: Beverley Hammond, Chair, Special Olympics Canada; Sarah Eyton, Vice President, Business Development & Marketing, Special Olympics Canada; Michael Danagher, Canada’s senior trade commissioner in Seoul; very special moose Mountie guest from the Canadian Embassy; Lindsay Glassco, President & CEO, Special Olympics Canada; Matthew Williams, Special Olympics International Global Messenger.
Photographer: Megan Grittani-Livingston, Special Olympics Team Canada / Équipe Olympiques spéciaux Canada
1712 Thomas Foulkes aged 47, late Postmaster of Ruthin, son of Humphrey Foulkes of Conwy, Gent.
And Mary his wife 1713 .
He was in his younger years Agent to Roger Salusbury of Rug Esq in which office he behaved himself faithfull & honest.
After his marriage he settled in this town where he lived well beloved of all and at his death much bemoaned having been a good friend, a kind neighbour & true to his trust.
LIkewise Mary (an infant) daughter of Edward Eyton of Maer ...Gent by Mary his wife niece of ye abovesaid Mary Foulkes 1717
Underneath also lyes Mary Eyton wife of the aforementioned Edward Eyton Gent 1738
Early 15th-century effigies of Sir Fulk and Lady Isabel de Pembrugge.
According to an article on Wikipedia, the tomb is made from Nottingham Alabaster and has sustained some damage, although some of the original black paint in Isabel de Pembrugge's widow dress is still visible today. Dame Isabel died in 1446 and, every Midsummer's Day, a chaplet of roses is placed around her head. RW Eyton, the great Shropshire antiquarian, reported in 1855 that this tradition had at that time died out, although he quoted an anonymous correspondent of The Gentleman's Magazine for 1800 to show that it had been alive, if not understood, in the late 18th century.
The effigies lie on an altar-tomb, and had the remains of a garland of flowers (then nearly reduced to dust) round the neck and breast. The sexton told me, that on every Midsummer day a new garland was put on, and remained so until the following, when it was annually renewed. As this is a singular custom, I could not forbear noticing it, and wish to be informed what was the origin of it.
Eyton explained that the custom was rooted in a deed sufficiently unusual to be recorded by the herald William Dugdale, by which a lord of Tong, Roger la Zouche, some time between 1237 and 1247, had granted land and rights to a neighbouring landowner.
This Roger, being Lord of the Mannor of Tonge, in Com. Salop. … did, by a fair Deed grant to Henry de Hugefort, and his Heirs, three Yard-Land, three Messuages, and certain Woods lying in Norton, and Shawe, (in the Parish of Tonge) with Paunage for a great number of Hogs, in the Woods belonging to that Mannor: As also liberty of Fishing in all his Waters there, excepting the great Pool of Tonge; with divers other Privileges, viz. of getting Nuts in those Woods for several days, &c. Rendring yearly to him the said Roger, and his Heirs, a Chaplet of Roses, upon the Feastday of the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist, in case he or they should be then at Tonge; if not, then to be put upon the Image of the Blessed Virgin, in the Church of Tonge.
Subsequent authors have asserted out that since the Reformation when the statue was removed, the churchgoers have placed the flowers into the hands of the churches' "other lady". However, the original terms indicated that the chaplet was owed by the Hugford family to Roger la Zouche and his heirs, so the logic seems to be that it is now paid or commemorated on "the earliest Monument of the Manorial Lords which the Church happened to contain."
St Mary, Walpole, Suffolk
Walpole is a fairly large village on the outskirts of Halesworth. I've been cycling through it long enough to remember when it still had a shop and a pub, and what felt like a life of its own, but these are gone now. However, St Mary survives, set back from the road in a large graveyard up the hill on the way to Halesworth. At first sight, it appears to be a fairly run-of-the-mill Victorian village church, but a Norman doorway has been preserved within the south porch. Otherwise, what you see today is largely the work of the 19th century architect HM Eyton.
To be honest, It is easy to moan about churches like this. But here it is, at the heart of its village, open to visitors, reasonably friendly inside - honestly, it is hard to criticize. From the outside, it puts me in mind of Catholic churches in northern France, rebuilt in this style after the destruction of the First World War. This design is also familiar from a thousand municipal cemetery chapels, with its funny little spire and restrained mock-decorated windows.
There are some medieval survivals here. But not many. The base of the tower was retained, and footings of the nave walls suggest it was originally Saxon. The Norman doorway is remarkably well-preserved, suggesting the previous porch had survived for many centuries. It has had an electric light fitting driven through it, presumably by someone who thought it was a good idea.
Even on a sunny day the church seems dark inside, but as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom your first surprise is the rather odd medieval font. It is not originally from this church but from St Andrew, in the centre of Norwich, which may explain its urban solidity. It must be said that it is much more attractive than the vulgar 19th century one that replaced it in Norwich.
The parish have been busy here over the last few years, and one of the most striking aspects of the interior is that the long chancel has been cleared of all its furnishings, exposing a fine Victorian tiled floor. It does perhaps accentuate the gloom of the nave, and modern chairs would look much better in that space than clumpy old Victorian pews.
The village of Walpole is a mecca for church explorers, but they are on their way to visit Walpole Old Chapel up the hill, rather than the homely charms of St Mary. I was headed there next, as I understood it was open on Saturday afternoons, and I hadn't seen inside since recording a programme about it for BBC Radio Suffolk a year or so previously. I came out of St Mary into the rain. It was that horrible seeping drizzle, and so I sped as fast as I could up to the Old Chapel. I got there to find that it didn't open until 2pm. There was no shelter, and waiting an hour in the rain wasn't really an option, so I hurried back to Halesworth and took shelter in the Angel Hotel instead.
The head of the stairs. I liked the simple finial and the unusual shaped newel post, a square with three-quarter circles attached at each corner.
The Summerhouse at Eyton-on-Severn is the survivor of a pair of banqueting towers built in the garden of Eyton Hall at the turn of the seventeenth century for Sir Francis Newport. It consists of two joined octagons in stone and brick, the smaller containing a spiral staircase. Originally the ground floor with its arches would have been an open loggia; the room above would have been used during banquets and entertainments, perhaps for guests to admire and eat fanciful sweetmeats.
Eyton Hall was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century. The other tower was included in a georgian house and was lost when that too burned (the house was rebuilt but not the tower).
The eastern tower survived in an increasing state of decay until restored in the 1980s by the Vivat Trust, a small charity that preserves historic buildings by letting them as self-catering holiday accommodation.
I spent a very pleasurable week in the Summerhouse.
St Mary, Walpole, Suffolk
Walpole is a fairly large village on the outskirts of Halesworth. I've been cycling through it long enough to remember when it still had a shop and a pub, and what felt like a life of its own, but these are gone now. However, St Mary survives, set back from the road in a large graveyard up the hill on the way to Halesworth. At first sight, it appears to be a fairly run-of-the-mill Victorian village church, but a Norman doorway has been preserved within the south porch. Otherwise, what you see today is largely the work of the 19th century architect HM Eyton.
To be honest, It is easy to moan about churches like this. But here it is, at the heart of its village, open to visitors, reasonably friendly inside - honestly, it is hard to criticize. From the outside, it puts me in mind of Catholic churches in northern France, rebuilt in this style after the destruction of the First World War. This design is also familiar from a thousand municipal cemetery chapels, with its funny little spire and restrained mock-decorated windows.
There are some medieval survivals here. But not many. The base of the tower was retained, and footings of the nave walls suggest it was originally Saxon. The Norman doorway is remarkably well-preserved, suggesting the previous porch had survived for many centuries. It has had an electric light fitting driven through it, presumably by someone who thought it was a good idea.
Even on a sunny day the church seems dark inside, but as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom your first surprise is the rather odd medieval font. It is not originally from this church but from St Andrew, in the centre of Norwich, which may explain its urban solidity. It must be said that it is much more attractive than the vulgar 19th century one that replaced it in Norwich.
The parish have been busy here over the last few years, and one of the most striking aspects of the interior is that the long chancel has been cleared of all its furnishings, exposing a fine Victorian tiled floor. It does perhaps accentuate the gloom of the nave, and modern chairs would look much better in that space than clumpy old Victorian pews.
The village of Walpole is a mecca for church explorers, but they are on their way to visit Walpole Old Chapel up the hill, rather than the homely charms of St Mary. I was headed there next, as I understood it was open on Saturday afternoons, and I hadn't seen inside since recording a programme about it for BBC Radio Suffolk a year or so previously. I came out of St Mary into the rain. It was that horrible seeping drizzle, and so I sped as fast as I could up to the Old Chapel. I got there to find that it didn't open until 2pm. There was no shelter, and waiting an hour in the rain wasn't really an option, so I hurried back to Halesworth and took shelter in the Angel Hotel instead.
St Mary, Walpole, Suffolk
Walpole is a fairly large village on the outskirts of Halesworth. I've been cycling through it long enough to remember when it still had a shop and a pub, and what felt like a life of its own, but these are gone now. However, St Mary survives, set back from the road in a large graveyard up the hill on the way to Halesworth. At first sight, it appears to be a fairly run-of-the-mill Victorian village church, but a Norman doorway has been preserved within the south porch. Otherwise, what you see today is largely the work of the 19th century architect HM Eyton.
To be honest, It is easy to moan about churches like this. But here it is, at the heart of its village, open to visitors, reasonably friendly inside - honestly, it is hard to criticize. From the outside, it puts me in mind of Catholic churches in northern France, rebuilt in this style after the destruction of the First World War. This design is also familiar from a thousand municipal cemetery chapels, with its funny little spire and restrained mock-decorated windows.
There are some medieval survivals here. But not many. The base of the tower was retained, and footings of the nave walls suggest it was originally Saxon. The Norman doorway is remarkably well-preserved, suggesting the previous porch had survived for many centuries. It has had an electric light fitting driven through it, presumably by someone who thought it was a good idea.
Even on a sunny day the church seems dark inside, but as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom your first surprise is the rather odd medieval font. It is not originally from this church but from St Andrew, in the centre of Norwich, which may explain its urban solidity. It must be said that it is much more attractive than the vulgar 19th century one that replaced it in Norwich.
The parish have been busy here over the last few years, and one of the most striking aspects of the interior is that the long chancel has been cleared of all its furnishings, exposing a fine Victorian tiled floor. It does perhaps accentuate the gloom of the nave, and modern chairs would look much better in that space than clumpy old Victorian pews.
The village of Walpole is a mecca for church explorers, but they are on their way to visit Walpole Old Chapel up the hill, rather than the homely charms of St Mary. I was headed there next, as I understood it was open on Saturday afternoons, and I hadn't seen inside since recording a programme about it for BBC Radio Suffolk a year or so previously. I came out of St Mary into the rain. It was that horrible seeping drizzle, and so I sped as fast as I could up to the Old Chapel. I got there to find that it didn't open until 2pm. There was no shelter, and waiting an hour in the rain wasn't really an option, so I hurried back to Halesworth and took shelter in the Angel Hotel instead.
56087 made another appearance on the Chirk to Teigngrace timber 6Z52 this morning. Seen here approaching Eyton Lane crossing, having just passed the redundant box at Baschurch, Wednesday 7.11.12
Seen from the lane. The sides facing outwards are in diapered brickwork and stone; those facing inwards are in two colours of stone.
The Summerhouse at Eyton-on-Severn is the survivor of a pair of banqueting towers built in the garden of Eyton Hall at the turn of the seventeenth century for Sir Francis Newport. It consists of two joined octagons in stone and brick, the smaller containing a spiral staircase. Originally the ground floor with its arches would have been an open loggia; the room above would have been used during banquets and entertainments, perhaps for guests to admire and eat fanciful sweetmeats.
Eyton Hall was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century. The other tower was included in a georgian house and was lost when that too burned (the house was rebuilt but not the tower).
The eastern tower survived in an increasing state of decay until restored in the 1980s by the Vivat Trust, a small charity that preserves historic buildings by letting them as self-catering holiday accommodation.
I spent a very pleasurable week in the Summerhouse.
The diminutive church of All Saints at Eyton lies a couple of miles to the northwest of Leominster and is one of Herefordshire's more humble churches.
The building is a simple nave and chancel with no structural division and only a small bellcote piercing roof level. The real surprise is to be found within, a remarkable 15th century rood screen complete with an enormous coving that would have supported the rood loft.
The church is generally kept open and welcoming to visitors.
In the 1970s, when I used to stay at my Grandparent's house when my Mum and Dad went disco dancing, or whatever they called it before disco dancing was a thing, there was a TV series they used to watch called "How Green was my Valley". I remember little of it, except Granddad saying the valley was go green because of all the rain.
So, on Sunday, the rain was due to fall in the valleys, the hills and all else between.
What to do when we had come away without coasts and umbrella?
Churchcrawling.
And thanks to the Church Conservation Trust, you ban fairly reply on those under their care to be open. I made a list of their churches in Shropshire, and after breakfast we set off for the first one, passing through the village of Knocking
.
I kid ye not.
Where the village shop is called, of course, The Knockin Shop.
I also kid ye not.
Rain fell, roads were nearly flooded, so we splish-splashed our way across the county, down valley and up hills until we came to the entrance of an estate.
Here be a church.
Not sure if we could drive to it, I got out and walked, getting damp as the rain fell through the trees.
But the church was there, and open, if poorly lit inside. And I was able to get shots before walking up the hill to the car.
Two more churches tried, but they were locked and no keyholder about. So onto Wroxter, where a large and imposing church towered over the road. And to get there we passed through a former Roman settlement from which the modern town took its name. Most impressive was a reconstruction of a villa.
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When you open the wrought iron gate to enter the churchyard of St James' Church, the first impression is of a typical small 18th-century church.
It is built of brick with round arches dressed with local sandstone in a simple neo-classical style with its west tower and simple nave.
Walk round the side of the church, however, and the solid mass of sandstone blocks that make up the heavy square chancel, comes as something of a shock.
The tiny narrow windows give an impression of great antiquity.
This is part of the original church building that was built around the middle of the 12th century. It is almost 900 years old.
Inside the church, the same startling contrast can be seen.
High box pews and a wooden two-decker pulpit typical of the 1700s are set against a magnificent Norman arch carved with three different motifs.The earliest arch dates from about the year 1150.
Both the church and its churchyard are Scheduled Ancient Monuments and the church building itself has a Grade I listing, reflecting both its national historical and architectural importance.
Architectural evidence shows Stirchley church to be of Norman origin and to date from the 12th century. However, it is also suggested that the chancel arch may actually be set in an even older Anglo-Saxon one.
Walter, described as the chaplain of Stirchley, is the first rector whose name is known. He was the priest here from c1220-1230. However, the church was over 100 years old by the time Walter conducted the services here.
Of the foundation of Stirchley church, Rev Robert Eyton wrote in his ‘The Antiquities of Shropshire' 1885:
‘This was in its original state a chapel, probably in the Parish of Idsall [Shifnal], and founded by the Manorial Lords of Stirchley in the twelfth century.’
The chancel is the oldest visible part of the building and probably dates from about 1150. It is almost square and has small Norman round-arched windows. Old masonry on the inner face of the nave and tower walls is also likely to be 12th century. The work may have been financed by first recorded lord of the manor, Osbert of Stirchley who was the under-tenant here from 1167 to 1180.
The ornate late-12th-century chancel arch is set in a larger and earlier arch, probably of the mid-12th century. The stone used is local sandstone. This is a particularly fine chancel arch with two orders of shafts with scalloped and foliage capitals and three orders of arches with rosette, chain-link and zigzag patterns.
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John Vassallo, Vice President EU Affairs, Microsoft
Edward Astle, Pro-Rector (Enterprise), Imperial College London
Tore Land, Director Ecomagination EMEA, GE
David Eyton, Group Head of Technology, BP
Janez Potočnik, Commissioner for the Environment, European Commission
Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business
A live webcast organised by the Science|Business Innovation Board www.sciencebusiness.net/events/EcoInnovation/
European Commissioner for Environment, Janez Potočnik, the EU Eco-Innovation plan architect, discusses with members of the Science|Business Innovation Board and the online audience how industry and universities can benefit from Eco-Innovation.
Photographer: Carlos Nomen
DVT 82306 heads south through Eyton Crossing north of Shrewsbury. Propelled by 67001 this was a rugby special to Cardiff running as 1V51 on Sunday 11th Oct 15.
Frank Brown, Dean, INSEAD, (left-right) Francoise Le Bail, Deputy Director-General, DG Enterprise, European Commission and David Eyton, Group Vice President for Research and Technology, BP PLC at The Innovation Economy conference in Brussels, Belgium, 2nd June 2009. Photograph: Paul O'Driscoll.
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Seen from the lane.
The Summerhouse at Eyton-on-Severn is the survivor of a pair of banqueting towers built in the garden of Eyton Hall at the turn of the seventeenth century for Sir Francis Newport. It consists of two joined octagons in stone and brick, the smaller containing a spiral staircase. Originally the ground floor with its arches would have been an open loggia; the room above would have been used during banquets and entertainments, perhaps for guests to admire and eat fanciful sweetmeats.
Eyton Hall was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century. The other tower was included in a georgian house and was lost when that too burned (the house was rebuilt but not the tower).
The eastern tower survived in an increasing state of decay until restored in the 1980s by the Vivat Trust, a small charity that preserves historic buildings by letting them as self-catering holiday accommodation.
I spent a very pleasurable week in the Summerhouse.
In the 1970s, when I used to stay at my Grandparent's house when my Mum and Dad went disco dancing, or whatever they called it before disco dancing was a thing, there was a TV series they used to watch called "How Green was my Valley". I remember little of it, except Granddad saying the valley was go green because of all the rain.
So, on Sunday, the rain was due to fall in the valleys, the hills and all else between.
What to do when we had come away without coasts and umbrella?
Churchcrawling.
And thanks to the Church Conservation Trust, you ban fairly reply on those under their care to be open. I made a list of their churches in Shropshire, and after breakfast we set off for the first one, passing through the village of Knocking
.
I kid ye not.
Where the village shop is called, of course, The Knockin Shop.
I also kid ye not.
Rain fell, roads were nearly flooded, so we splish-splashed our way across the county, down valley and up hills until we came to the entrance of an estate.
Here be a church.
Not sure if we could drive to it, I got out and walked, getting damp as the rain fell through the trees.
But the church was there, and open, if poorly lit inside. And I was able to get shots before walking up the hill to the car.
Two more churches tried, but they were locked and no keyholder about. So onto Wroxter, where a large and imposing church towered over the road. And to get there we passed through a former Roman settlement from which the modern town took its name. Most impressive was a reconstruction of a villa.
-------------------------------------------
When you open the wrought iron gate to enter the churchyard of St James' Church, the first impression is of a typical small 18th-century church.
It is built of brick with round arches dressed with local sandstone in a simple neo-classical style with its west tower and simple nave.
Walk round the side of the church, however, and the solid mass of sandstone blocks that make up the heavy square chancel, comes as something of a shock.
The tiny narrow windows give an impression of great antiquity.
This is part of the original church building that was built around the middle of the 12th century. It is almost 900 years old.
Inside the church, the same startling contrast can be seen.
High box pews and a wooden two-decker pulpit typical of the 1700s are set against a magnificent Norman arch carved with three different motifs.The earliest arch dates from about the year 1150.
Both the church and its churchyard are Scheduled Ancient Monuments and the church building itself has a Grade I listing, reflecting both its national historical and architectural importance.
Architectural evidence shows Stirchley church to be of Norman origin and to date from the 12th century. However, it is also suggested that the chancel arch may actually be set in an even older Anglo-Saxon one.
Walter, described as the chaplain of Stirchley, is the first rector whose name is known. He was the priest here from c1220-1230. However, the church was over 100 years old by the time Walter conducted the services here.
Of the foundation of Stirchley church, Rev Robert Eyton wrote in his ‘The Antiquities of Shropshire' 1885:
‘This was in its original state a chapel, probably in the Parish of Idsall [Shifnal], and founded by the Manorial Lords of Stirchley in the twelfth century.’
The chancel is the oldest visible part of the building and probably dates from about 1150. It is almost square and has small Norman round-arched windows. Old masonry on the inner face of the nave and tower walls is also likely to be 12th century. The work may have been financed by first recorded lord of the manor, Osbert of Stirchley who was the under-tenant here from 1167 to 1180.
The ornate late-12th-century chancel arch is set in a larger and earlier arch, probably of the mid-12th century. The stone used is local sandstone. This is a particularly fine chancel arch with two orders of shafts with scalloped and foliage capitals and three orders of arches with rosette, chain-link and zigzag patterns.
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Peter Ellis Eyton..MP. Eldest son of James Eyton and of Mary his wife and grandson of Lord David Parry .. and Captain in the Royal Denbighshire Local Militia 1878
Ernest J. Moniz, Professor of Physics; Cecil & Ida Green Distinguished Professor, MIT Energy Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Member, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, US
David Eyton, Group Head of Technology, BP
Stuart Haszeldine, Scottish Power Professor of Carbon Capture & Storage, The University of Edinburgh
This is the fourth in a series of Brussels events on various aspects of energy R&D policy organized by Science|Business with the support of BP.
The academic policy symposium was hosted by the Norwegian mission to the EU in Brussels, on 27 April 2012.
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The European Union is betting big on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies as part of its strategic energy roadmap to 2020. Ten to 12 demonstration projects are envisioned under the EU’s Strategic Energy Technologies (SET Plan), requiring an investment of up to €16 billion. But lack of funds and a comprehensive planning framework have stalled the projects. Europe now risks missing its target of making these technologies commercially viable by 2020.
What policy measures would give industry the confidence to invest in these costly demonstration projects and help Europe regain its lost momentum? What lessons can be drawn from the innovation policy approach to CCS in the US and China, which are outpacing Europe in this crucial field? And what kind of research results will help assure a skeptical European public that carbon capture and storage is a safe enough bet?
This high-level roundtable discussion will focus on the research needed to tackle a range of technology issues, particularly around CO2 storage offshore and safety monitoring, as well as the path to developing an overarching commercial framework for CCS to encourage private investment.
This is the fourth in a series of Brussels events on various aspects of energy R&D policy organized by Science|Business with the support of BP. A report of the conclusions will be published, as a contribution to the policy debate in Europe over this vital set of technologies for a sustainable energy future.
Pictures by Carlos Nomen
Tom Kerr, Senior Energy Analyst, International Energy Agency; and author of recent book, “Gaps in Clean Energy R&D”, Henrik Bindslev, Chairman, European Energy Research Alliance; and Director of the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark, David Eyton, Group Head, Research and Technology, BP
The Science|Business Roundtable "The Energy Difference - Accelerating Energy Innovation" took place on 11 March 2011 at the Representation of the German state of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union in Brussels.
Energy R&D has some fundamental characteristics that sets it apart from that in other technology sectors. The installed base of assets means it’s difficult and costly for alternative technologies to compete. And despite the risk and huge outlays for innovation, the final products – fuel and electricity – are largely undifferentiated. Research needs long horizons and planning certainty. Would a different policy approach help Europe meet the EC’s 2020 energy goals?
Science|Business is the first independent media company that brings together researchers, investors and policy makers in the European innovation community. It publishes news, organises networking events, conducts innovation-policy research, and provides communications consulting tailored to the specialized world of research and innovation. More: www.sciencebusiness.net
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Edward Astle, Pro-Rector (Enterprise), Imperial College London
Tore Land, Director Ecomagination EMEA, GE
David Eyton, Group Head of Technology, BP
Janez Potočnik, Commissioner for the Environment, European Commission
A live webcast organised by the Science|Business Innovation Board www.sciencebusiness.net/events/EcoInnovation/
European Commissioner for Environment, Janez Potočnik, the EU Eco-Innovation plan architect, discusses with members of the Science|Business Innovation Board and the online audience how industry and universities can benefit from Eco-Innovation.
Photographer: Carlos Nomen
Dendrocygna eytoni, Eyton's Whistling-Duck - Sedgwick County Zoo.
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Downstairs is now a kitchen/dining room. Upstairs a glorified bedsitting room with a four-poster bed. On the roof a terrace for admiring the countryside around.
The Summerhouse at Eyton-on-Severn is the survivor of a pair of banqueting towers built in the garden of Eyton Hall at the turn of the seventeenth century for Sir Francis Newport. It consists of two joined octagons in stone and brick, the smaller containing a spiral staircase. Originally the ground floor with its arches would have been an open loggia; the room above would have been used during banquets and entertainments, perhaps for guests to admire and eat fanciful sweetmeats.
Eyton Hall was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century. The other tower was included in a georgian house and was lost when that too burned (the house was rebuilt but not the tower).
The eastern tower survived in an increasing state of decay until restored in the 1980s by the Vivat Trust, a small charity that preserves historic buildings by letting them as self-catering holiday accommodation.
I spent a very pleasurable week in the Summerhouse.
Died 1546, son of John and Julyan Dering.
John Dering acquired the Pluckley Manor of Surrenden through his marriage to Christian Haut.
They had two sons, and he died in 1425. Christian died about 1473 having remarried Reynold Dryland. The eldest son Richard married twice, his second marriage to Agnes Eyton produced four sons and two daughters. He died in 1481.
The eldest son John then married Julian Darrell. They had two daughters and two sons, the eldest Nicholas married Alice Bettenham and died in 1517. The other son Richard, was Lieutenant of Dover Castle, and the five ports under five Lord wardens, and died in 1556. Nicholas had four daughters and one son John, who married Margaret Brent. They had nine children including Richard Dering who died in 1612 aged 82. He married Margaret Twysden, they had five sons, Anthony, Thomas, Twysden, George, and Edward.
Anthony the eldest son, married twice, firstly Mary Goring, they had a daughter Jane who died in 1607. Anthony secondly married Frances Bell and they had six sons and two daughters, the eldest son was Edward. Anthony died in 1636 aged 78.
Many of the Dering Brasses were forgeries, or certainly "alterations" by Sir Edward Dering in the 17th C. in an effort to enhance his lineage.
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Photo by Bernard De Keyzer
Country Walks of a Naturalist with his Children by Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S., RECTOR OF PRESTON ON THE WILD MOORS, SHROPSHIRE. Published by London: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 1870.
Most of the birds were drawn by Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, and a Mr. R.S. Chattock, of Solihull reproduced the drawings on a reduced scale. Also, a Mr. Eyton, of Eyton, allowed the use of some of Mr. Gould’s work and also various woodcuts.
Can be found at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23941.
On the roof, looking towards the site of the Summerhouse's pair on the left. Eyton Hall has completely vanished but logically it must have been to the right where the farm buildings now are, slightly uphill from its garden.
The Summerhouse at Eyton-on-Severn is the survivor of a pair of banqueting towers built in the garden of Eyton Hall at the turn of the seventeenth century for Sir Francis Newport. It consists of two joined octagons in stone and brick, the smaller containing a spiral staircase. Originally the ground floor with its arches would have been an open loggia; the room above would have been used during banquets and entertainments, perhaps for guests to admire and eat fanciful sweetmeats.
Eyton Hall was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century. The other tower was included in a georgian house and was lost when that too burned (the house was rebuilt but not the tower).
The eastern tower survived in an increasing state of decay until restored in the 1980s by the Vivat Trust, a small charity that preserves historic buildings by letting them as self-catering holiday accommodation.
I spent a very pleasurable week in the Summerhouse.
Die Sichelpfeifgans (Dendrocygna eytoni) ist eine Art aus der Unterfamilie der Pfeifgänse. Sie zählt zur Fauna Australiens und kommt dort im Norden und Osten des Kontinents vor.
Ausgewachsen erreichen Sichelpfeifgänse eine Körperlänge von 40 bis 60 Zentimetern und wiegen dann zwischen 500 Gramm und 1,5 Kilogramm. Die Flügelspanne beträgt 75 bis 90 Zentimeter.[2] Wie die übrigen Arten der Pfeifgänse haben sie lange Beine und große Füße mit Schwimmhäuten. Ferse und Knöchel weisen ein netzartiges Muster auf, wie es eigentlich für Gänse typisch ist. Die namensgebenden Sichelfedern sind besonders kontrastreich bei mehrjährigen Männchen. Sie überragen deutlich den Rücken. Die Iris ist bei den Männchen leuchtend orange und bei den Weibchen gelb. Ansonsten besteht kein auffälliger Sexualdimorphismus. Adulte Vögel durchlaufen die Vollmauser nach der Fortpflanzungszeit. Die Mauser beginnt mit den Schwingen, daran schließt sich die Mauser des Kleingefieders an.
Die Sichelpfeifgans kommt ausschließlich in Australien vor und lebt dort überwiegend im Norden und Osten. Das Verbreitungsgebiet der Sichelpfeifgans hat sich im Südosten Australiens seit den 1950er Jahren ausgedehnt. Die Entwicklung der Landwirtschaft in dieser Region, die mit der Anlage von Weideland, Staudämmen und bewässerten Gebieten einherging, bietet der Sichelpfeifgans in dieser Region neue Lebensräume. Irrgäste erreichen gelegentlich Neuguinea und Neuseeland.
In the 1970s, when I used to stay at my Grandparent's house when my Mum and Dad went disco dancing, or whatever they called it before disco dancing was a thing, there was a TV series they used to watch called "How Green was my Valley". I remember little of it, except Granddad saying the valley was go green because of all the rain.
So, on Sunday, the rain was due to fall in the valleys, the hills and all else between.
What to do when we had come away without coasts and umbrella?
Churchcrawling.
And thanks to the Church Conservation Trust, you ban fairly reply on those under their care to be open. I made a list of their churches in Shropshire, and after breakfast we set off for the first one, passing through the village of Knocking
.
I kid ye not.
Where the village shop is called, of course, The Knockin Shop.
I also kid ye not.
Rain fell, roads were nearly flooded, so we splish-splashed our way across the county, down valley and up hills until we came to the entrance of an estate.
Here be a church.
Not sure if we could drive to it, I got out and walked, getting damp as the rain fell through the trees.
But the church was there, and open, if poorly lit inside. And I was able to get shots before walking up the hill to the car.
Two more churches tried, but they were locked and no keyholder about. So onto Wroxter, where a large and imposing church towered over the road. And to get there we passed through a former Roman settlement from which the modern town took its name. Most impressive was a reconstruction of a villa.
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When you open the wrought iron gate to enter the churchyard of St James' Church, the first impression is of a typical small 18th-century church.
It is built of brick with round arches dressed with local sandstone in a simple neo-classical style with its west tower and simple nave.
Walk round the side of the church, however, and the solid mass of sandstone blocks that make up the heavy square chancel, comes as something of a shock.
The tiny narrow windows give an impression of great antiquity.
This is part of the original church building that was built around the middle of the 12th century. It is almost 900 years old.
Inside the church, the same startling contrast can be seen.
High box pews and a wooden two-decker pulpit typical of the 1700s are set against a magnificent Norman arch carved with three different motifs.The earliest arch dates from about the year 1150.
Both the church and its churchyard are Scheduled Ancient Monuments and the church building itself has a Grade I listing, reflecting both its national historical and architectural importance.
Architectural evidence shows Stirchley church to be of Norman origin and to date from the 12th century. However, it is also suggested that the chancel arch may actually be set in an even older Anglo-Saxon one.
Walter, described as the chaplain of Stirchley, is the first rector whose name is known. He was the priest here from c1220-1230. However, the church was over 100 years old by the time Walter conducted the services here.
Of the foundation of Stirchley church, Rev Robert Eyton wrote in his ‘The Antiquities of Shropshire' 1885:
‘This was in its original state a chapel, probably in the Parish of Idsall [Shifnal], and founded by the Manorial Lords of Stirchley in the twelfth century.’
The chancel is the oldest visible part of the building and probably dates from about 1150. It is almost square and has small Norman round-arched windows. Old masonry on the inner face of the nave and tower walls is also likely to be 12th century. The work may have been financed by first recorded lord of the manor, Osbert of Stirchley who was the under-tenant here from 1167 to 1180.
The ornate late-12th-century chancel arch is set in a larger and earlier arch, probably of the mid-12th century. The stone used is local sandstone. This is a particularly fine chancel arch with two orders of shafts with scalloped and foliage capitals and three orders of arches with rosette, chain-link and zigzag patterns.
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