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Cathedral Church of St Mary The Virgin
Grade II* Listed
List Entry Number: 1239147
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/10/2012
SD 6827 NW 2/1 28.11.51
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
(Formerly listed as The Cathedral Church of St Mary)
GV II*
Cathedral church (since 1926), formerly parish church. 1820-6 by John Palmer of Manchester; damaged by fire in 1831 and restored by Thomas Stones, clerk of works, in consultation with Thomas Rickman. Large-scale E extensions of 1926 by W A Forsythe; central (transeptal) corona by Lawrence King, 1961. C19 work in ashlar; C20 in snecked rubble; slate roofs. W tower flanked by rooms that contained the stairs to the galleries (now removed), nave and aisles. Shallow chancel removed and replaced by large transepts, choir and side chapels, all set over offices. C19 work in Decorated revival style. W tower, archaeologically careful and advanced for its date: 3 stages, the lower stage with ogee-headed superordinate arch containing W doorway under flat gabled portal, and 2-light window; 1st stage divided with paired windows under clocks; paired belfry openings under ogee hood moulds; angle buttresses gabled and finialed clasp polygonal pinnacles; pierced parapet. Aisles and nave battlemented, the former with tall 3- light windows with a heavy transom (to conceal galleries), buttresses between; the latter with paired windows. 1926 work (incomplete) in spare Decorated style; corona with 7-light square-headed windows to each of the eight facets, the window bays divided by mullions that rise above parapet level; taller angle pinnacles; all this in an economical Modern style, the whole surmounted by a tall spire. Interior: nave of 6 bays (the E bays altered when church extended). Cylindrical piers with attached shafts to cardinal points; deeply moulded arches with continuous hood-moulds; continuous formal foliage frieze below clere story windows; ribbed tierceron star vault with longitudinal rib. Aisles have flat ribbed ceiling with springers. Tripartite W arrangement of doorway flanked by ogee-headed recesses. Fittings: very few. 4 C14 seats with misericords. Some C19 glass includes (NE) Morris & Co; glass to N transept 5-light window formerly in E window of original church, mid-C19 Flemish. Palmer's design is an interesting early example of archaeologically-careful pre-Puginian Gothic Revival work, and the starred status of this building reflects the importance of this.
Listing NGR: SD6836027988
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Blackburn Cathedral is one of England's newest Cathedrals, yet it is one of the country's oldest places of Christian worship. For many centuries, this has been the Parish Church of Blackburn dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.
It continues as a place of prayer and worship and is at the centre of the Diocese which takes in almost the whole of Lancashire.
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Originally a parish church by John Palmer, it became a cathedral in 1926. The church was damaged by fire in 1831 and repaired, it was extended at the east end from 1938, and in the 1960s a corona was added over the crossing. The cathedral is built in stone with a slate roof. It consists of a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, aisles, transepts, and a choir with side chapels. The original part of the cathedral is in Decorated style, and the later parts are in a simpler Gothic style. The corona is octagonal in Modernist style, surrounded by tall windows, and with pinnacles and a tall spire.
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Official list entry
Heritage Category:Listed Building
Grade:II
List Entry Number:1206829
Date first listed:10-Jan-1975
Statutory Address 1:FOUNTAIN IN PRINCESS GARDENS, PRINCESS GARDENS
Location
Statutory Address: FOUNTAIN IN PRINCESS GARDENS, PRINCESS GARDENS
District: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference: SX 91655 63478
Details
Fountain. c1894, contemporary with the laying out of the pleasure grounds. Cast-iron and stone. 3-tier fountain discharging into a round pool. Pool with a moulded edge with stylised foliage. Base of fountain tripartite with spouting dolphins ridden by trumpeting children. Central moulded column with countryside scenes in relief including squirrels, birds. Decorated iron brackets support the scalloped basin on top and storks decorate the cylinder that supports the top basin, decorated with a seated infant who holds a crowning basin like a parasol. HISTORY: Ellis records that H Young of the Torbay and Cumper's Hotels provided the fountain as a gift at a cost of about »150 on condition that the corporation provided a suitable basin for it. Attractively festive item of public park furniture and to a pattern produced by the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.380).
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Found this in my room recently. A relic of roommates past.
My list:
1. What would Buddha do? Franz Metcalf
2. The Island of the Day Before. Umberto Eco
3. O conto da ilha desconhecida. José Saramago
4. BAD, or the Dumbing of America. Paul Fussel
5. Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon. Joe Queenan
6. Beowolf. translated by Seamus Heaney
7. When do I clap? Valerie Cruice
8. Eva Luna. Isabel Allende
9. A fine and pleasant misery. Patrick F. McManus
10. Mysteries. Knut Hamsun
11. Me talk pretty one day. David Sedaris
I
Cuando emprendas tu viaje hacia Ítaca
ruega para que el viaje sea largo,
lleno de aventuras, lleno de experiencias.
No temas ni a los lestrigones ni a los cíclopes,
ni la cólera del airado Posidón.
Nunca tales monstruos hallarás en tu ruta
si tu pensamiento es elevado, si una exquisita
emoción penetra en tu alma y en tu cuerpo.
Los lestrigones y los cíclopes
y el feroz Posidón no podrán encontrarte
si tú no los llevas ya dentro, en tu alma,
si tu alma no los conjura ante ti.
Ruega para que el viaje sea largo,
que sean muchos los días de verano;
que te vean arribar con gozo, alegremente,
a puertos que tú antes ignorabas.
Detenete en los mercados de Fenicia,
a comprar sus mercancías:
madreperlas, coral, ébano, y ámbar,
y perfumes placenteros de mil clases.
Acude a muchas ciudades del Egipto
para aprender, y aprender de quienes saben.
Conserva siempre en tu alma la idea de Ítaca:
llegar allí, he aquí tu destino.
Mas no hagas con prisas tu camino;
mejor será que dure muchos años,
y que llegues, ya viejo, a la pequeña isla,
rico de cuanto habrás ganado en el camino.
No has de esperar que Ítaca te enriquezca:
Ítaca te ha concedido ya un hermoso viaje.
Sin ellas, jamás habrías partido;
mas no tiene otra cosa que ofrecerte.
Y si la encuentras pobre, Ítaca no te ha engañado.
Y siendo ya tan viejo, con tanta experiencia,
sin duda sabrás ya qué significan las Ítacas.
Constantino Kavafis
II
Más lejos, tenéis que ir más lejos
de los árboles caídos que os aprisionan.
Y cuando los hayáis ganado
tened bien presente no deteneros.
Más lejos, siempre id más lejos,
más lejos del presente que ahora os encadena.
Y cuando estaréis liberados
volved a empezar nuevos pasos.
Más lejos, siempre mucho más lejos,
más lejos, del mañana que ya se acerca.
Y cuando creáis que habéis llegado,
sabed encontrar nuevas sendas.
III
Buen viaje para los guerreros
que a su pueblo son fieles
favorezca el Dios de los vientos
el velamen de su barco
y a pesar de su viejo combate
tengan placer de los cuerpos más amantes.
Llenad redes de queridos luceros
llenos de aventuras, llenos de conocimiento.
Buen viaje para los guerreros
si a su pueblo son fieles
y a pesar de su viejo combate
el amor llena su cuerpo generoso
encuentren los caminos de viejos anhelos
llenos de aventuras, llenos de conocimiento.
Lluis Llach
El Casar - Fiesta de las Candelas 2014
VÍDEOS en www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhOGO1Wd2-SqTHP-0tV-ptZdv5...
Crónica de www.guadaque.com: Colorido, estética y variedad de actos es lo que se ha podido observar este fin de semana en El Casar con la celebración de su Fiesta de las Candelas, declarada de Interés Turístico Provincial, que cada año consigue congregar a multitud de público, muchos de ellos amantes de su pueblo pero otros muchos amantes de las tradiciones y de las fiestas populares.
Pese al frío de algunos momentos, casareños y también foráneos venidos desde distintos puntos no sólo de Guadalajara, sino de provincias cercanas, se han dado cita en una fiesta en la que los actos propiamente religiosos en honor de la Virgen de la Candelaria (misa, procesión y entrega de la vela) se rodean y contagian del costumbrismo y tradición de unos ritos profanos de raíz puramente militar.
Por destacar algunos de los protagonistas de esta fiesta –que ha centrado especialmente sus actos este sábado 1 de febrero- cabe hablar de los conocidos como “funcioneros” (capitán, teniente abanderado, segundo teniente, alférez, sargento, cabos, el pagador, el yuntero y un “cura de candelas”), que ataviados convenientemente para la ocasión, son los actores indiscutibles de una fiesta en la que también aparecen en escena las picas, la yunta de mulas engalanadas de fiesta y adornadas con dibujos, y la bandera multicolor que los participantes enrollan y desenrollan usando un único brazo.
La misión de los funcioneros es la de honrar a la Virgen. Ellos son quienes deciden festejar esta fiesta y para ello se organizan en una tropa de disciplina y jerarquía militares que en vez de llevar elementos de guerra llevan símbolos de paz.
En cuanto a las picas, en origen armas en forma de lanza, en esta fiesta se visten de gala recubriéndose de cintas multicolores rematadas con ramilletes de flores, que son enarboladas y lanzadas al cielo al compás de la música de los tambores y dulzainas, instrumentos que forman parte de esta tradición festiva.
La bandera confeccionada con retales multicolor es insignia de esta singular “unidad militar”, y preside la formación. Durante la fiesta es desplegada a los pies de la Virgen en señal de respeto cuando se procesiona su imagen, y revoloteada al viento por los funcioneros componiendo un vistoso espectáculo.
Otro acto vistoso de esta fiesta que se lleva a cabo poco antes de la lectura de la Carta de Candelas es cuando los miembros de la cofradía dan varias vueltas a la plaza perseguidos a caballo por un hombre vestido con capa y capirote rojo, el pagador, que monta a caballo y porta espada. Se trata de la persona encargada por otra de satisfacer rentas, al que le siguen la yunta de mulas en su recorrido por la Plaza.
La “Carta de Candelas” es el acto licencioso que consigue congregar más casareños alrededor del balcón de la Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Desde ahí, se procede a la lectura de la Carta de Candelas. El encargado de dar lectura a estas cartas, escritas en verso, ha sido en esta ocasión Mario Carpintero.
En su carta expone en clave de humor las “comidillas y pecadillos” de los funcioneros, ocasionando en ciertas ocasiones –más de las que quisieran algunos- algún disgustillo, al salir a la luz “pecados” desconocidos hasta el momento.
En definitiva, un acto para mostrar los “pecados” de forma pública intentando el perdón colectivo, para iniciar un nuevo ciclo tras esta purificación. Un año más, la Fiesta de la Virgen Candelaria y de San Blas, ha hermanado a todo el pueblo con lazos de unión difíciles de romper.
El hecho de que a la Candelaria se le una casi en el tiempo la celebración de San Blas ha conllevado que la fiesta se haya prolongado un día más, con una misa de campaña este domingo, ante la imagen custodiada en la ermita de la Soledad.
Tras este acto religioso, como es costumbre, se ha roto la rígida disciplina castrense que caracteriza la fiesta de las Candelas, y se ha ofrecido la bandera a aquellos que voluntariamente desean mantener vivo el espíritu un año más. Aquí, el nexo generacional cobra siempre un especial protagonismo.
Durante tres días, los vecinos de El Casar han disfrutado de la fiesta en honor de la Candelaria, un festejo que consigue congregar a todo un pueblo involucrado con el amor a su Virgen, pero también con el jolgorio y el mantenimiento de sus tradiciones.
El alcalde, Pablo Sanz, ha aprovechado esta festividad para demostrar un recuerdo cariñoso y entrañable de los funcioneros que lo fueron y que ya no están entre ellos, así como para reivindicar la necesidad de que el Gobierno Regional reconsidere la consideración de la Candelaria como Fiesta de Interés Turístico Regional, “ese es mi deseo y el gran parte de los casareños”, ha puntualizado
Autor: José-María Moreno García. Fotógrafo humanista y documentalista. Cronista Oficial de la Villa de Madridejos.
Una de las mejores formas de conocer la historia de un pueblo es a través de sus imágenes; en ellas se conserva no sólo su realidad tangible, calles, plazas, monumentos, sino también sus costumbres, fiestas, tradiciones, lenguaje, indumentaria, gestos y miradas, que nos dicen sin palabras como se vivía, cuales eran sus esperanzas y temores, qué había en su pasado, qué esperaban del futuro. Uno de los objetivos más ambiciosos es recuperar y catalogar todo el material gráfico existente en nuestra familia desde 1.915, para después ponerlo a disposición de vosotros, que la historia volviera a sus protagonistas, y los que aún siguen con nosotros pudieran disfrutar con ello. VISITA La colección "CIEN AÑOS DE FOTOGRAFÍA FAMILIA MORENO (1915-2015)" en www.josemariamorenogarcia.es y www.madridejos.net
SI ALGUIEN NO DESEA APARECER EN EL ÁLBUM POR FAVOR COMUNÍCALO A josemariamorenogarcia@gmail.com
Ancient building among the modern structures and a busy road network in the heart of Newcastle.
It is the Holy Jesus Hospital - built in 1681 and serving various purposes: almhouses, museum, and now offices. It is Grade II* listed.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1297661
Date First Listed : 13 January 1971
A pair of red brick houses with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. They have an H-shaped plan with projecting wings and extensions to the rear. The houses have two storeys and attics, and a symmetrical front of six bays. The outer bays are gabled and contain two-storey canted bay windows. There is a gabled porch in the angles of the wings containing an arched doorway. The inner bays contain windows with hood moulds.
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Hotel. Mid C17, refurbished in mid C18, early and late C19. Rough Ham Hill stone ashlar, slate roof with stepped stone coping and brick stacks to gable ends and left-of-centre, backing onto the north wall of the carriage entrance. Long rectangular-plan front range with extensive rear wings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 9-window range. Second floor has 3/6-pane sashes; windows to first and ground floors have keyed lintels over horned 2/2-pane sashes in forward frames. A painted stone doorcase to right-of-centre has a pediment, moulded achitrave, and double doors of 3 panels; this reaches the painted platband at first-floor sill level. The carriage entrance with segmental arch, is below the third window from the left, and immediately to its left are double 3-panel doors with overlight. To far left are late C19 paired 1/1-pane sashes with a shared sill. The rear, facing west, has large C19 gabled extension to the centre of the main block, 2 storeys and attic, with C19 windows and C20 entrance and door. To the right is an C18 two-storey rubblestone and slate wing which has a stone mullioned Venetian window with intersecting glazing bars to the top. Attached to this is an early C19 two-storey lower wing with three 8/8-pane sashes to the centre and stone steps with wrought-iron railings rising from the centre, to double first-floor doors at each end. The ground floor of this wing has 2 re-set early C17 four-light stone mullioned windows, ovolo to the left, cavetto to the right. The late C19 wing to the left is the rubblestone and pantile stable block which has C20 two- and three-light windows to the ground floor, wide planked doors to inside-right and to the hayloft above, and to inside-left, which is flanked by fixed 3-light windows, each with 3/3 fixed lights above. All openings to this wing have segmental arches and rounded jambs; the west-facing gable end is weatherboarded above planked garage doors. INTERIOR: A late C17 fireplace with egg-and-dart moulding to an eared architrave and a central block set in cushion moulding to the top, stands against the wall to the left of the main building, ie. to the right of the arch; a chamfered cross-beam remains to the left of the main room. The first floor has been altered; the second floor reveals a structure of 11 bays with heavy square trenched purlins and original jointing-in of the rear right wing. The roof, probably repaired and boarded in the early C19, has substantial main rafters jointed with roughly-cut plates to house the ridge-in-notch; many common rafters are repaired, replaced or jointed in. A straight early C18 staircase near the left end is open-string with turned balusters, a wide swept rail and fretted ends. HISTORY: Always a coaching inn, The George rose to great prosperity when a new turnpike was opened in 1809, from Honiton through Ilminster on the route from London to Exeter. The Duke and Duchess of Kent and the infant Princess Victoria stayed here on their way to Sidmouth in 1819. EH Listing
The Grade II Listed 118 & 120 Colmore Row in the city centre of Birmingham in the West Midlands.
A three-story Stucco building built in the late 19th Century. First and second floors with arched window except those of the 2nd floor outer bays.
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Return visit to Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens. They are now open again from Wednesday to Sunday each week. Best to pre-book your tickets online in advance.
They had turned one of the Orangeries into a shop selling drinks.
Got to see Castle Bromwich Hall again from Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens. There is new gazebo in the front lawn of the hall.
Grade I Listed Building
Listing Text
CASTLE BROMWICH CHESTER ROAD
1.
5108
(South-West Side)
Castle Bromwich Hall
SP 1489 22/271 11.11.52.
GV
2.
Late C16 or early C17, remodelled with additions circa 1657. Heightened and altered
internally 1719. Enlarged by Rickman, 1825-40, by addition of north-east tower
wing, passages lining courtyard. Plan: hollow square with 3 wings on south, staff
wing on north-east. Stone dressed red brick. 3 storeys, plinth, floor bands, stone
coped gables with finials, central south front balustraded parapet. Stone mullioned
and transomed leaded casement windows, mainly 3 and 4 light. Central 2 storey rusticated
stone south projection has 1st floor window flanked by arched niches with statues,
1697 by Sir William Wilson, above broken segmental pediment on 4 Corinthian columns,
inner pair with twisted shafts.
Interior: exceptionally fnine late C17 plasterwork by Gouge, ceiling paintings
by Laguerre. Internal remodelling, 1685-1702, by William Winde. C.L., 17.8.1912
and 9.5.1952.
Castle Bromwich Hall, Bakehouse, Stable Block, Pigeon House. East and West Forecourt
Walls, Walls to north, east and south sides of garden, Flight of Steps and Pedestals
in west garden all at Castle Bromwich Ball form a group with the Gatepiers to
forecourt of Castle Bromwich Hall, Birmingham Road.
Listing NGR: SP1428489779
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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Rockwood Mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is an English Country Estate in America. The Mansion, built between 1851-1854, is an excellent example of Rural Gothic Revival Architecture. Rockwood Mansion was built for Joseph Shipley, a merchant banker originally from Wilmington. The Mansion was Shipley's retirement home. Shipley spent most of his life in Liverpool, England where he became wealthy. Rockwood Mansion was inspired by Wyncote, Joseph Shipley's English country house designed by George Williams. Shipley had Williams design Rockwood Mansion, though he had never seen the site. Joseph Shipley moved his entire household from England bringing his favorite dog and horse (Toby and Branker) as well as gardener Robert Shaw and housekeeper Audrey Douglas.
After Joseph Shipley's death, Rockwood eventually became the property of his great nephew Edward Bringhurst Jr. in 1891. Bringhurst with his wife Anna and their three younger children Mary, Edith and Edward moved into Rockwood the next year. The Bringhurst's eldest daughter Elizabeth Bringhurst Galt Smith, affectionately known as Bessie, was married and living in a castle in Ireland at the time. Bessie was responsible for much of the decorative features of the Mansion during this period. The mansion currently represents the 1890s when the Bringhurst family moved into Rockwood, though much of Joseph Shipley's furniture (imported from England) is still in place at Rockwood.
The estate passed to Mary Bringhurst who lived to age 100, and left the mansion to her niece Nancy Sellers Hargraves, who left it to an unnamed non-profit for the enjoyment of present and future generations. New Castle County received the mansion and acreage in 1973. The mansion was extensively restored by New Castle County in 1999. The 72 acres of Rockwood Mansion Park includes the Mansion & Conservatory, Porter's Lodge, Gardener's Cottage and Barn & Carriage House currently which was restored and converted into a catering facility.
The 6 acre historic garden of Rockwood is surrounded by a ha-ha (a sunken wall used on English estates instead of a fence to keep livestock away from the house, so it appears that the lawns are continuous). The landscape is referred to as Gardensque, a style that is characterized by long vistas, curving paths, and trees and shrubs bordering the lawn.