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Holy Trinity Church, Ohariu Valley, Wellington, New Zealand
This church came up in conversation at work the other day (I have some strange conversations with my Wedding Photography colleagues), and I remembered that I still had some photos of her that I had not processed. Coincidentally it is almost 2 years to the week since I shot these photos.
This little wooden church was built in 1870 and is the oldest church in Wellington with regular services.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1379697
Date First Listed : 15 November 1972
Built over several years [1895-1913] on the site of previous churches, it was designed by Huon Matear in free Perpendicular style. The church is built in brick with dressings of Portland stone and sandstone with slate roofs. It consists of a nave with aisles, a north transept, a chancel with a north chapel and south vestry, and a northwest tower. The tower is in four stages, the lower part being in brick and the upper part in stone with pinnacles.
Over Worton is a small village or hamlet of just a few houses lying in quiet countryside far from any main roads. Holy Trinity was built in the Gothic revival style in the 1840's after the original medieval church was demolished by the then Lord of the Manor.
One of the several disused ornate gateposts that must have barred the way through this remote hamlet. Perhaps they lost their gates in the push to aid the war effort in the 1940's when so many iron gates and railings were sent for scrap.
(A good article. among others, about what may have happened to all those railings that mysteriously disappeared at
17th century chapel known for its finely painted ceiling. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was begun in 1673, The ceiling is of special interest, painted as a celestial firmament, with angels, doves, cherubs, and other allegorical symbols mixed amid symbols of the sun, moon, and stars. There are carved and painted wooden cherubs attached to the wall panelling. A royal coat of arms of Charles II is set upon the south wall
Holy Trinity Church, a Russian Orthodox church in Karakol.
The first church in Karakol, built when the city was founded, in 1869. Its purpose was to serve the troops stationed in Karakol, which it did until it was destroyed in an earthquake in 1889. A new wooden church was built on the same spot over the course of six years, and was consecrated in 1895.
Upon its completion, the spire of the new Holy Trinity Church was the tallest building in Karakol, at 26m tall. The church was active until 1917, when it became property of the state, and was used as everything from a theater to warehouse. In 1947, the church started holding services again, but in the 1960s was again used for other purposes.
After independence in 1991, the building was returned to church authorities, who started repairs and reconstructions for the damaged interior and exterior.
"In Memory of Thomas, son of Richard and Ann Barrow, Master of the sloop Two Brothers, who by the breaking of the horse fell into the sea and was drown'd.
October the 13th, 1759 Aged 23 years."
The horse was a section of foot rigging which allowed access to parts of booms.
Williamstown #22
(#1 and introduction to series with map references: www.flickr.com/photos/tengtan/3094072785/ )
Abstraction of the rows of pews (church benches) in the Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Williamstown.
Taken with the Tokina AT-X 124 PRO DX 12-24mm F4 wide-angle zoom. HDR from 3 bracketed exposures.
A Grade II* Listed Building. Since 27-05-1949.
One from my archives.
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The east end of Skipton's parish church has a Victorian reredos painted rather garishly, and in the east window, glass by Capronnier with distinctively strong colours. They work rather well together...
The many eras of Sheffield all in one shot.
Looking South down the River Don we have Aizelwoods Mill, The Harlequin Pub, The Church and various old buildings with new edging into the area.
The church was built in 1848 as the Holy Trinity parish church and is on Nursery Street, Sheffield. Now, in 2016 it is the New Testament Church of God.
The ancient church of Holy Trinity has stood at the top of High Street in Skipton for centuries, welcoming local people as well as visitors from all over the world. The first church on this site in Yorkshire was built about the beginning of the 12th century. This has disappeared without trace, but by about 1300 another church was being built and extended in the 15th century.
Built in 1865 in Victorian Carpenter Gothic style, the former Holy Trinity Church of England can be found on a rise along Morses Creek Road in the little alpine town of Wandiligong. Built of weatherboard it is a charming example of wooden churches built all over Australia in little country towns. Unusually, it features Elizabethan loopy bargeboard gingerbreading. It is unpretentious and looks like a picturesque country village church, nestled into its surrounds which are full of tall elm trees and surrounded by a pretty white picket fence. The church was last used as a place of worship in the mid 1960s. Originally containing rather ornate stained glass which has subsequently been replaced with plain glass windows, the former Holy Trinity Church of England has since been converted into a residence, named McKenzie. Although an extension with skylights has been put at the rear of the building, the designs are sympathetic with the original 1865 building and are not visible from Morses Creek Road.
Victorian Carpenter Gothic style emerged where timber was the mail building material or where transport and portability were considerations, and most buildings were simplified versions of Victorian Gothic buildings, although some did have very beautifully ornamental wooden gingerbreading and fretwork.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
Although the cross above the east window is in alignment with the tower in this photo, the window into the bellringing chamber isn't. And the twist in the spire is clear as well.
I seem to have finally had some success at Holy Trinity (see below) by dint of getting there earlyish. This was taken at 9.11am.
Sometimes things are better the second time.
A new painting of Saint Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland, painted on St Patrick's Day 2016 by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
The 5th century missionary introduced Christianity to Ireland and the artist was moved to learn that he often used the Shamrock to represent and explain the Holy Trinity: God The Father, The Son & The Holy Spirit.
St Patrick is also Patron Saint of Nigeria, Puerto Rico and several states in the USA including New York, Boston & Missouri.
"Christ be within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ inquired, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger." ~ from The Breastplate, St Patrick's poem of faith & trust in God.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24in/76 x 61cm
Private collection, Middlesex, UK
For someone like me, who has set himself the task to visit and document photographically as many as possible of those wonderful Romanesque churches and monasteries, a trip to Normandy is both cause for despair and for enchanted amazement. Despair, because the Norman architect, at the time of the Romanesque which coincided with the conquest of Britain by Duke William in 1066 and the tremendous influx of power and riches that ensued, that architect is above all focused on efficiency and the projection of power and majesty. For that architect, the absolute must, the beginning and the end of church building, is the wall. Sculpture doesn’t matter. When it exists at all, it is often relegated to simple modillions under the cornice that supports the roof. The bare wall, perfectly aligned and appareled, reigns as the undisputed king of Norman Romanesque. He who likes to smile and wonder at the ingenuity and inventiveness of Mediæval sculptors, is most of the time sorely disappointed by the utter lack of adornment of those great and tall Norman churches, next to which the barest Cistercian sanctuaries look positively alive and overflowing under the comparatively unbridled abundance of rinceaux, human figures and assorted creatures.
No sculpture to speak of, then, is the norm in Normandy. But on the other hand, the masterfulness of the architects and masons turns the job of putting one stone on top of another into a veritable art: it is here, in Normandy, that was first experimented the very innovation that would bring about the end of the Romanesque: the voûte d’ogives, the rib vaulting from which the whole world of Gothic derives. It is in Normandy that it was first imagined and implemented, even as the 11th century hadn’t yet come to a close. We will see where, and how.
Dedicated to the Holy Trinity, the Abbaye aux Dames stands not very far from the Abbaye aux Hommes in the city of Caen. Founded in 1060 by Duchess Mathilda, William’s wife, it was only completed in 1130.
Slightly shorter than the Mens’ Abbey, the Ladies’ church is much more decorated. Do not be fooled by the façade, however: it did take up the exact same concept of façade harmonique, and the sculpted tympanum you see above the main portal is an ugly 19th century “opus” that never existed in the Middle Ages, and sparked controversy even in the 1860s!
You will notice that the engaged pillars on the façade are ever so slightly tapered: the two middle ones are so shaped on both side, while the two on the sides are only tapered on the inside. It is a very clever trick that fools the eye. Let me underline once again that the camera was perfectly level before the photos of the façade were taken...
The abbey church was listed as a Historic Landmark on the very first list of 1840.
(More on the history of Duke William the Conqueror, his wife Mathilda and the two abbeys of Caen can be found in the captions under the photos of the Men’s Abbey, which I uploaded just before those of the Ladies’ Abbey.)
The main portal, very soberly decorated. You need to do your best to unsee the tympanum and the chrism below, which are uglies from the 1860s. The wood in the doors seems fairly modern (1800s I would say) but it looks like the carpenters re-used the gorgeous Mediæval iron works, as was often the case.
The service didn't start until four o'clock but I got to the church at a quarter past three to be sure of a good seat :-)
Built 1985-1913. Built on the site of previous churches, it was designed by Huon Matear in free Perpendicular style. The church is built in brick with dressings of Portland stone and sandstone with slate roofs. It consists of a nave with aisles, a north transept, a chancel with a north chapel and south vestry, and a northwest tower. The tower is in four stages, the lower part being in brick and the upper part in stone with pinnacles.
35L, 85L, 135L aka the holy trinity taking a bit of RNR (shoot with their cousin 50L)
Strobist: 430EX in shoot-thrue-umbrella camera right @ 1/2, triggered by 580EX2 on camera. B+W ND on lens
This is a high-key shot of Meteora, Greece taken on January 14, 2025 (the day after the first snowfall of the year). One sees the monastery of Holy Trinity; it was built in 1362 AD or earlier at a height of 1,755 ft (535 m), close to the top of the rock formation bearing the same name. One can use the 149 steps carved in the rock in 1925 to ascend to the monastery.
Prezbiterium Kościoła Świętej Trójcy w Krakowie.
Klasztor dominikanów i Kościół Świętej Trójcy w Krakowie znajdują się przy Placu Dominikańskim i przyległej ul. Stolarskiej.
Początki klasztoru sięgają roku 1222, kiedy to biskup Iwo Odrowąż sprowadził do Krakowa dominikanów z Bolonii i przekazał im dawny kościół parafialny, na miejscu którego stoi obecna świątynia (reliktem tamtych czasów jest romański refektarz).
Budowa nowej, gotyckiej budowli rozpoczęła się prawdopodobnie po Inwazji Mongolskiej w 1241 roku. W II połowie XIV i w XV wieku przebudowano halowy kościół, który uzyskał kształt trójnawowej bazyliki. Prestiż jakim cieszyło się zgromadzenie dominikanów sprawił, że kościół Świętej Trójcy stał się jednym z najznamienitszych w Krakowie. Wypełniony, podobnie jak krużganki przyległego klasztoru, niezliczonymi grobowcami i pochodzącymi z XVI i XVII w. kaplicami nagrobnymi, jako nekropolia ustępował jedynie Katedrze Wawelskiej.
Straszliwym ciosem dla świątyni był Wielki Pożar Krakowa w roku 1850; niemal zupełnemu zniszczeniu uległo wnętrze kościoła, runęło sklepienie. Odbudowę rozpoczęto prawie natychmiast, a nadzorował ją architekt Teofil Żebrawski. Prace rekonstrukcyjne zakończono w 1872 r. - zniknęły bogactwo wnętrza i róźnorodność ołtarzy, zastąpione jednolitą, zwartą i nieco surową neogotycką dekoracją. Chyba to i dobrze, bo mogę sobie świetnie wyobrazić te ołtarze i ich barokowe "bogactwo" dzięki tym krakowskim kościołom, których wnętrz Wielki Pożar nie strawił! Szkoda tylko oryginalnego sklepienia...
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The presbytery of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Kraków.
The Dominican monastery with the Church of the Holy Trinity are situated at Dominikański Square and adjacent Stolarska Street in Kraków. The beginnings of the Dominicam monastery at Stolarska reach back to the year 1222, when Bishop Iwo Odrowąż gave the former parish church to monks who came to Krakow from Bologna. A relic from this period is a Romanesque refectory.
The construction of a new early Gothic church was probably begun after the Mongol Invasion of 1241. Originally based on a hall scheme, it was extended and rebuilt as a three-aisled basilica in the second half of 14th century and the 15th century.
The great prestige enjoyed by the order of St. Dominic made the church of the Holy Trinity into one of the grandest in Krakow. Both the church itself, and the monastery cloisters filled with countless number of tombs, and the set of burial chapels of the 16th and 17th centuries was second only to the Wawel Cathedral necropolis.
The Great Fire of 1850 brought an end to the original splendour of the Dominican Church, damaging its architecture and almost completely destroying the furnishings. The church was soon reconstructed under the supervision of the architect Teofil Żebrawski - the works were finished in 1872. The opulence and formal variety of altars disappeared and was replaced by a uniform neo-Gothic decoration.