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Una vista sintetica di questa particolarissima rampa d' accesso all' edificio condominiale
presentato nei giorni scorsi.
La scelta della rampa invece delle scale consentiva forse, come giustamente osservato, di usare asini o muli per il trasporto di carichi pesanti.
Ivančické viadukty majú svoje čaro v ktorejkoľvek dennej hodine, no iba počas najdlhších dní sa tu skoro ráno dajú vlaky fotiť s násvitom z tohto uhla. Malou zaujímavosťou je, že hoci sa mosty volajú Ivančické, vlaky idúce po moste cez obec Ivančice nejdú (trať do Ivančic sa kúsok za Moravskými Bránicami v smere z Brna stáča pravým oblúkom cca 200 metrov od viaduktov).
842.016 ČD, Moravský Krumlov - Moravské Bránice (Os 4403), 19.06.2018
Maybe, as a welsh person of non-confoimist stock, the austerity of Soar y Mynydd in the Cambrian mountains is my spiritual ideal. BUt there is no denying the power and history of St Davids cathedral as a cultural and spiritual masterpiece. There is something special about the place, a genius loci. that never fails to impress
A closer shot of another of the sites featured in the green diagram linked below.
A modest but vivid cluster of sarcophagi currently dated as late as the 12th century: a cusp of a hill with several carved rock outcrops and views down onto the plain (now flooded) and over to the Picos and Cantabrian mountains (2648m).
Early churches and hermitages are often seen to have been built over flat versions of just such monolithic Sarcophagi, a simple proof that the graves date from before the current building. It is normally imagined that there was once a smaller church, even if many sites of monolithic sarcophagi exist without any sign of associated building.
The church is Romanesque and really very big, as can be seen on this Wiki:
www.wikiwand.com/es/Iglesia_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn_(Quintanilla_de_la_Berzosa)
The church currently stands 'guarding' this small cluster of vivid carved rocks. Whilst it belonged to the village of 'Quintanilla de la Berzosa' (flooded from view for the hydroelectric project) the village only had five homes registered in the 1842, and the one factor that seems relevant, is that it is a massive construction for a quiet corner.
Hills were, and can still be special places in a landscape for gatherings (Saint Jean, Solstice and harvest included). By opening out the calibration of the chronology of monolithic sarcophagi it becomes possible to imagine that tombs of important passing or local figures might attract pilgrimages from passing populations of this wide and natural landscape crossroad. Assimilating and appropriating local wisdom was part of the first thousand years and more of the first phases of Christian tradition, and the surprising scale of the church may simply be a way of measuring the importance and residual cultural strength of this loci: another vivid statement regarding people and stone within an array of other loci that may have much to do with the last ages of pre and protohistory.
Monolithic sarcophagi were certainly created from medieval dates and were this proposed chronology to be a graph, it may be a little like the covid 19 graphs so typical of life in 2020: a long slow runup to a strong and dominating period of surge, with the crossing point into history aligning with the surge. It is one thing to see the simplicity that comes from shifting a chronology and quite another providing evidence and then rational. These last elements will be the subject of future posts.
AJM 10.11.20
Ten brightly orange coloured letters of various sizes at the corner of Wellington and Parkdal... They spell "Hintonburg".
The project titled “Genius Loci” won an Award of Merit at the 2021 City of Ottawa Urban Design Awards.
I don't use my 12" f4.5 Ektar lens enough!
This is from an 8X10 inch wet plate collodion negative made with the Ektar lens on the Deardorff. Exposure was 8 minutes (yes, you read that right) at f6.3 using Quinn's collodion for negatives and corresponding developer.
Remains of barley (Hordeum vulgare) grains found at archaeological sites in the Fertile Crescent indicate that about 10,000 years ago the crop was domesticated there from its wild relative Hordeum spontaneum. The domestication history of barley is revisited based on the assumptions that DNA markers effectively measure genetic distances and that wild populations are genetically different and they have not undergone significant change since domestication. The monophyletic nature of barley domestication is demonstrated based on allelic frequencies at 400 AFLP polymorphic loci studied in 317 wild and 57 cultivated lines. The wild populations from Israel-Jordan are molecularly more similar than are any others to the cultivated gene pool. The results provided support for the hypothesis that the Israel-Jordan area is the region in which barley was brought into culture. Moreover, the diagnostic allele I of the homeobox gene BKn-3, rarely but almost exclusively found in Israel H. spontaneum, is pervasive in western landraces and modern cultivated varieties. In landraces from the Himalayas and India, the BKn-3 allele IIIa prevails, indicating that an allelic substitution has taken place during the migration of barley from the Near East to South Asia. Thus, the Himalayas can be considered a region of domesticated barley diversification.
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For prehistory, this was a rocky coast of crabs, octopus and shoal. The hills of deer, rabbits and boar ran right into the sea. By the neolithic, crofts and conglomerates also looked after goats, cows, with domesticated dogs keeping the loci in noise. Today many of the lights are no longer fireplaces, rather restaurants that still propose some of these resources.
Seeing clusters of people from the light they produce at night and from the smoke that rises from their fires.
Traces of an iron age Iberian village can be seen up a riddle of steps that start not far from behind the tripod. From this point of view two other iron age coastal settlements would have been visible as points of smoke rising in the tapering distance.
AJ
One of the largest collections of monolithic body forms and graves can be found at the down slope of this monolithic carved form, in a greater site that can almost hear the lapping way of the river Ebro. Whilst many of the carved body forms are certainly sarcophagi from the early medieval, the above main monolithic loci looks coherently to have the surface language more typical of late prehistorical ages (for example the chalcolithic bridge), suggesting a lengthy period of site use that spanned prehistory with history.
AJM 16.02.21
Bamboo House (Genius Loci) -oil on canvas 16" x 24" by JBulaong 2013
#PhilippineRuralView #JBulaong #Painting #OIlOnCanvas #bahaykubo #nipahut
Un portoncino procidano che mette in risalto la caratteristica più diffusa nell' architettura procidana , la ricerda dell' originalità e il rigetto della simmetria speculare !
E gli uomini se ne vanno a contemplare le vette delle montagne, i flutti vasti del mare, le ampie correnti dei fiumi, l'immensità dell'oceano, il corso degli astri, e non pensano a sé stessi.
Sant'Agostino
Amsterdam - Westerdoksdijk.
"Western Cape", built in 2009, 51 apartments, architects: awg.
Het Westerdokseiland is een voormalig rangeerterrein ten westen van het Centraal Station.
Westerkaap Noord heeft, anders dan de andere deelplannen, geen binnenhoven, maar een gedeeltelijk overbouwde royale binnenstraat. Awg architecten beschouwt architectuur als 'het maken van intelligente ruïnes' en zocht daarom naar een tijdloze vormentaal en robuuste materialen. Daarnaast moest de ‘genius loci’ in het gebouw voelbaar worden.
De woningen in de punt hebben een panoramisch uitzicht, zowel over het IJ als over het Westerdok (gebouwdin.amsterdam.nl).
In de volksmond heten ze taartpunten. Omdat Amsterdam cirkelvormig is gebouwd, ging men spaarzaam met de ruimte om en verrezen er nogal wat huizen in een puntvorm.
Behind the rock art site of Concoules and above a cluster of monolithic graves; aside a cluster of dolmens and behind the pagan hill of Jupiter - an early Monastic priory (Romane so from either side of the 10th century) and presenting a credible loci for understanding a gradual local interface of late prehistoric values with Christian beliefs. The buildings had a 15th century upgrade, and were converted for habitation after the Revolution. The buildings are currently disused, but kept in approximate order for farm storage. Several vivid stones from many chapters and ages of time can be witness here and there. The local area is rich with minerals including lead, tin, copper and maybe some gold.
AJM 17.07.20
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The edge of the rise prior to the sprawling Iron Age site of Ulaca is alive with vivid boulders. The shot is taken from before the sites final rise and so still high above the fluvial plane below. One has a throne carved into its top, and the way the natural mineral erratic's, some visible on the horizon of this image, are 'appropriated' by culture and passage coheres with other iron age sites in the greater area.
The site features a sauna, and as you sit in its two well worn stone-carved chairs (see later), aside the larger and still steamy 'changing room', you 'hear' the conviviality and sweat of a pre Roman spirit of cleanliness and pride. The sauna is a practical space that is described on Wiki Fr as an 'initiation' space. If a community of a sample 500 people each use the facility once a week, then everyone could access for 30 minutes for just a 12 hour day, perhaps not the best description of the concept of 'initiation'. Likewise for Wiki Fr, the site's monolithic stairs (see below) are described as being there for 'sacrifices'. Stairs do exist with summits used for sacrifice, but this vivid explanation adds a cold breath over other possible usages, from a meeting point for local 'bigmen' from the valley below, to a vivid waiting space for pre Gladiator specialist warriors; a meeting point for traders, to a loci for spiritual rites of passage and an arena for speech, specific oratory and controlled song - and indeed many of the above according to context and time and date.
The shot is a montage using a Takumar 35mm at the first bounce of dawn. The exposure has been brightened a tad to return the image to my memory of the light.
AJ
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…The perceptual space is not homogeneous or isotropic...
“temenos, templum, tirthas, rewe, nox profunda, nigredo, divine grace, holy spirit, sensory deprivation, stimuli, fire! Fire! Cat?"
OR:
"gycyfycgxgcg vyccydycuxtdb buucycuvh cycruutxtuzry" is as good as any other explanation.
Actually it contains an even deeper meaning.
Why? because of because of because of yodiydigxsjtsxgdiits.
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Cfe gopre brao my Sunny Side of the Moon 💕
Excerpt from skhartsfestival.hk/en/work/%F0%9F%A4%B2/:
Dylan Kwok
Everything is in God’s Hands. The creation of this installation has followed a winding path that leads to a core that reflects our inner conditions. The site is located at the sixth spot, Resurrection, along Father Dominic Chan’s “Nature Trail of Reconciliation”. The location was situated on a prior soccer field, adjacent to The Holy Ground as known as Yim Tin Tsai’s graveyard. Like our lives, this place is filled with intertwined memories of happiness and sorrow.
The creative journey of this “Hand of God” might be blessed by the Genius Loci (architectural term), where challenges, infinite loops and Hong Kong soccer slangs become the inspirations of this interactive monument.
The picture on the right is an aerial shot I have taken from another photo at the site.
Ho trovato disponibile solo questa ma ci sono esempi migliori che andrò a cogliere successivamente.
Questo è un ingresso procidano ancora leggibile nelle sue parti secondo un modello settecentesco, sono purtroppo già molte le comprensibili trasformazioni come la chiusura del terrazzo, la sostituzione delle porte e gli scalini di marmo
I would like to rediscover everything with our new eyes. Magic was always present but it takes two in order to be seen clearly. ILD my Sunbeam💕
Second attempt at a refractogram (thanks graemes83 and tim.louden)
Pentax KP with no lens; LED LENSER P7qc light source playing on the rim of a cut crystal sugar bowl; single frame. (Ignore FL in EXIF, no lens was used).
Maybe, as a welsh person of non-confoimist stock, the austerity of Soar y Mynydd in the Cambrian mountains is my spiritual ideal. BUt there is no denying the power and history of St Davids cathedral as a cultural and spiritual masterpiece. There is something special about the place, a genius loci. that never fails to impress
The curve of the final rise means that the great Spanish Iron age Castro 'city' of Ulaca would have been difficult to see from below. Contrast this with the open views down onto the plain.
To be able to see without being seen - a natural sense of presiding.
A castro/hill fort where earthworks and walls do not interfere with the view as they are below the main level of occupation.
To live on and between monoliths as a link to sentiments of a deep past and the ancestors who domesticated life during the adjacent ages before metal.
Specialist skills, asset protection; local and inter regional decision making, markets and entertainment, learning and spiritual and epicurean dialogues are all categories suited to the hill top of a local area, and it should not be expected that people lived in the hill top and walked down every day to work the flood plane - even if this may have been closer to the model in times of conflict with Rome. Crofts and small villages should have coexisted below, some lost to the meanders of a river and others lost under the modern urban.
During periods of conflict with Rome, the Castro will inevitably have undergone 'military' adaptations, resembling more a camp than a high market town and spiritual loci. A large rectangular casern 'type' building may be one of these late modifications.
The drama of the drop down from the hilltop is almost hidden by the clarity of the light at the end of the day.
AJ
Maybe, as a welsh person of non-confoimist stock, the austerity of Soar y Mynydd in the Cambrian mountains is my spiritual ideal. BUt there is no denying the power and history of St Davids cathedral as a cultural and spiritual masterpiece. There is something special about the place, a genius loci. that never fails to impress
D'una città non godi le sette o settantasette meraviglie, ma la risposta che dà ad una tua domanda. (Italo Calvino)
A city you do not enjoy the seven or seventy-seven wonders, but the answer that it gives to a your question
D'une ville tu ne jouis pas les sept ou soixante-dix-sept étonnements, mais la réponse qu'elle donne à ta question
Grazie Brus :)
No Atque Artificia group, please. Thanks
In the heart of the autumn season, we venture into the depths of a mystical forest, where nature paints a breathtaking masterpiece. 'Enchanting Autumn' captures the essence of this enchanting woodland, where the dense canopy of beech and oak trees unveils its deep green foliage in a secluded glade. The forest floor is adorned with a rich tapestry of golden-brown and reddish leaves, forming a vibrant carpet underfoot.
Maybe, as a welsh person of non-confoimist stock, the austerity of Soar y Mynydd in the Cambrian mountains is my spiritual ideal. BUt there is no denying the power and history of St Davids cathedral as a cultural and spiritual masterpiece. There is something special about the place, a genius loci. that never fails to impress
OLynpus OM2n
Kodak TMAX
Ambrosius Blarer hielt am 2. September 1534 die erste evangelische Predigt auf der Kanzel der Stiftskirche. Dies verbot der Rektor der Universität, Johann Armbruster jedoch. Doch am 7. März 1535 wurde die katholische Messe schließlich abgeschafft.
Ambrosius war der ehemalige Abt von Alpirsbach.
Auf jedem Alpirsbacher Bier ist er symbolisch abgebildet.
Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) übernahm nach Luthers Tod die Führung der jungen evangelischen Bewegung.
Melanchthon führte die "Verwaltung" für die evangelische Bewegung mittels vieler Vorschriften und Regeln.
Seine als "Hauptbegriffe" ("Loci communes") bezeichnete Dogmatik erschien erstmals Ende 1521.
Ein ehemals katholischer Professor für alte Sprachen.
Das Wort „Reformation“ kommt aus dem Lateinischen. Es bedeutet „Erneuerung“. Heute versteht man unter „Reformation“ die Entstehung der evangelischen Kirche vor etwa 500 Jahren.
Am 19. April 1560 wurde er für tot erklärt . Sein Leichnam wurde neben Luthers in der Schlosskirche in Wittenberg begraben. In seinen letzten Augenblicken machte sich Melanchthon weiterhin Sorgen über den desolaten Zustand der Kirche.
...about 11.30am, local time.
Santa Pola harbour...it’s a working town on the coast and so has a flotilla of fishing boats ranging from dilapidated dinghies that I wouldn’t trust in a fish pond to massive trawlers that scoop every last sea inhabitant into their sprawling trawl nets.
Die Stapelmoorer Kirche ist eine evangelisch-reformierte Kreuzkirche. Die romano-gotische Kirche aus dem 13. Jahrhundert gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Sakralbauten in Ostfriesland.
Die Kirche wurde zwischen 1250 und 1275 auf einer Warft als Wehrkirche erbaut, wovon noch die Schießscharten im Westturm zeugen.
Die Kirche weist einen ungewöhnlichen Grundriss in der Form eines griechischen Kreuzes ohne rechten Winkel auf. Bis heute ist die äußere Anlage in ihrer einheitlichen und schlichten Gestaltung unverändert erhalten.
Die benachbarte Pastorei datiert laut Giebelinschrift in Mönchsbuchstaben (gotische Minuskeln) von 1429 und ist eines der ältesten bewohnten Pfarrhäuser Deutschlands.
Das Erbauungsjahr bezeugt die Inschrift :
„an[n]o d[o]m[ini] MCCCCXXIX co[n]structa e[st] h[aec] dom[us] t[em]p[or]e d[o]m[ini] thyabra[n]di curati loci isti[us]“
(„Im Jahre des Herrn 1429 ist dieses Haus erbaut worden zur Zeit des Herrn Thyabrand, des Pfarrers dieses Ortes“).
Sein Priestersitz wurde im Stil der alten ostfriesischen Häuptlingsburgen („Steinhäuser“, Stinsen) gebaut.
aus Wikipedia
Tsurphu was founded by the first Karmapa, Düsum Khyenpa (1110-1193) in 1159, after he visited the site and laid the foundation for an establishment of a seat there by making offerings to the local protectors, dharmapala and genius loci. In 1189 he revisited the site and founded his main seat there. The monastery grew to hold 1000 monks.
It was totally destroyed in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution and began to be rebuilt in 1980 by the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. Following the recognition of Ogyen Trinley Dorje (b. 1985) by the Tai Situpa and the Chinese government, he was enthroned at Tsurphu and resided there until he escaped from Tibet to India in 2000.
Although not described in any Tibetan text on stupa symbolism, it has been assumed that the stupa represents the five purified elements:
The square base represents earth
The hemispherical dome/vase represents water
The conical spire represents fire
The upper lotus parasol and the crescent moon represents air
The sun and the disolving point represents the element of space.
"Millennium Prayer" is written with inspirational words to pray daily to Our Heavenly Father for world peace and unity. I was spiritually inspired by Our Lord Jesus to write a Millennium Prayer as a result of witnessing several spiritual wonders in my lifetime.
Faithful prayer can indeed accomplish much! In Psalm 37, Verse 4-6, the following is noted: "Find your delight in the Lord who will give you your heart's desire. Commit your way to the Lord; trust that God will act and make your integrity shine like the dawn, your vindication like noonday." However, we must pray for God's plan to fall into place and remain patient, in order for Jesus to set the stage and timing for signs, wonders, and miracles to unfold in our world!
The Bible conveys the following in Mark, Chapter 11, Verses 23-24: Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him. Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will recieve it and it shall be yours."
Let us give thanks to God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit for pouring out the graces and blessings for the salvation and healing of humanity.
Millennium Prayer
God the Father
Creator of the Heavenly Kingdom
We petition the Court of Heaven
And humbly pray for mercy and divine intervention.
Send forth blessings of spiritual deliverance—
Free nations from the strife of war—
Release cultures from the shackles of poverty—
Instill stability and prosperity—
Healing earth of suffering—
With saving grace for humanity—
We implore Heaven for miraculous signs
By altering the destiny of humankind
Into a glorious era of peace and harmony
Through divine love and prayerful unanimity—
Almighty Father we graciously thank thee
In granting our prayers through the name and power
Of your divine Son, Jesus.
Amen
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www.christian-miracles.com/prayerforworldpeace.htm
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St. Joseph's Church is a Franciscan Roman Catholic church in the Old City of Nazareth, modern-day Northern Israel. It was built in 1914 over the remains of much older churches. It is located close to the Church of the Annunciation. It was built in the Romanesque Revival style.[1]
The church is built on the site of the Church of Nutrition quoted by the pilgrim Arculfe about 670 in "De locis sanctis" (II, 26), then a church of the crusaders of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, whose vestiges are under the crypt, and a Franciscan church built in the 17th century. This history is described by the Franciscan Quaresmius in his "Historica, theologica et moralis terrae sanctae elucidatio", written between 1616 and 1626, but merely affirms the existence ab antiquo of the tradition of a cult in this place, without giving evidence.
Photographed inside the Hall of Candles at the Shrine of Saint Joseph. The Catholic Shrine is located on Long Hill Road, Stirling, NJ, USA.
Saint Anthony prayers are available at the following link: www.christian-miracles.com/saintanthonyprayer.htm
Copyright 2009 Loci B. Lenar
Acts 22:6-21
The Conversion of Paul
"About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me. I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?'
" 'Who are you, Lord?' I asked. " 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,' he replied. My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me.
" 'What shall I do, Lord?' I asked. " 'Get up,' the Lord said, 'and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.' My companions led me by the hand into Damascus, because the brilliance of the light had blinded me.
"A man named Ananias came to see me. He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there. He stood beside me and said, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' And at that very moment I was able to see him.
"Then he said: 'The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. You will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard. And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.'
"When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance and saw the Lord speaking to me. 'Quick!' he said. 'Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people here will not accept your testimony about me.'
" 'Lord,' I replied, 'these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you. And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.'
"Then the Lord said to me, 'Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.' "
The stained glass window detail was photographed inside the Church of Saint Michael in Netcong, NJ, USA.
Photograph Copyright 2010 Loci B. Lenar
No. 5 - 5: Exploring - the Abbey Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire .
Choir Stalls and Sanctuary.
Some of the more important aspects of this photograph are, from left to right:-
Screen gate:
The gates were made by Clarke, of Brackley, and were designed by Mr. J.O. Scott for the donor, Rev. W.R.F. Hepworth. Intricate in their design, and cleverly wrought as they are, they seem slightly incongruous in this wooden screen. The shields bear the correct arms of the Abbey, and round the shields are intertwining iron rods. Scrolls with leaves and other devices are also introduced. Across the top of the gates is a band of square panels with varied design in pierced work, and on the top is an elaborate cresting.
On the inside of the gates, on the shields are the texts, "Serve the Lord with fear."; and "Rejoice unto Him with reverence."
Choir stalls
- with misericords under the seating = which we will be studying later.
Founders chantry
the Founder's Chapel. Fitz-Hamon, was buried in the Chapter House, but Abbot Forthington removed his body to this site in 1241.
The open screen-work, which was erected in 1397 by Abbot Parker, is an excellent specimen of early Perpendicular work. It is extremely light and graceful. The cresting of oak-leaves is finely wrought; below it is a frieze ornamented with roses.
It is unfortunate that the brass has disappeared from the marble top of the tomb.
On the cornice there used to be the following inscription:
"In ista capella jacet Dñus Robertus,
Filius Hamonis hujus loci Fundator."
The fan-tracery of the ceiling is a beautiful piece of work, and shows traces of its former decoration with colour and gold. There is fan-tracery at Gloucester, where it is thought to have originated, which is essentially the same as this. This specimen is one of the most beautiful in every way.
Brackets to support an altar remain in part, and there are faint traces of a fresco painting on the east wall, which is said to have represented scenes in the life of St. Thomas à Becket.
The easternmost panel of the chapel on the south side has been restored; the rest has been very little touched. Restoration was necessary because no access to the chapel could be obtained when the choir was all pewed, and the eastern end was ruthlessly cut away. Some of the cresting on the north side is also new.
The Dispenser Monument
The Despenser Monument.—Still further to the east is the tomb [C] of Sir Hugh Despenser, who died in 1349, and his widow, who died ten years later, having in the interval married Sir Guy de Brien, the tomb to whose memory is close at hand. This tomb is full of interest, and consists of a richly panelled base with trefoil arches (each of which must once have contained a statuette), in three sets of two each to correspond with the open tracery in the tier above.
On the tomb is a slab on which are two recumbent figures, carved in white alabaster. The knight is clad in armour, viz., a spherical bascinet, with a camail of chain-mail. His jupon is charged with his arms. The shirt is also of chain-mail, while the arms and legs are protected by plate armour. His head is resting upon a tilting helmet, his feet upon a lion. The Lady Elizabeth, who was a daughter of William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, has a dog at her feet, and is robed in a long flowing dress, which, with the square head-dress, is characteristic of the time of Edward III.
The Decorated canopy is in two parts, viz., the arched portion which covers the two figures, and the tabernacle work in four tiers above. Three arches of marvellously delicate work support the arched roof, which is like fan-vaulting on a diminutive scale; the ribs have been indicated by colour.
The tabernacle work tapers very gradually, and forms a charming finish to one of the finest tombs to be seen anywhere. Trefoil-headed arches are used throughout the design, but with such consummate skill that no feeling of sameness is aroused. Of straight lines there are many, but of stiffness there is none. Formerly the whole work was painted with red, green, and gold, traces of which are to be seen on the side next to the choir and underneath the canopy.
The tomb is more perfect on the choir side than on the other.
Of the statues that formerly formed part of the canopy or canopies, no traces are left, but it is evident that they were removed with unusual care.
This tomb was formerly ascribed to George, Duke of Clarence, and also to Thomas Despenser. The arms on the tabard, however, settle the question definitely. If further confirmation be required apart from the style of the architecture and the arms, Leland writes: "Hugo le Despenser tertius ... sepultus est apud Theokesbury juxta summum altare in dextera parte." Of the Lady Elizabeth he says: "Sepulta est juxta Hugonem maritum apud Theokesbury."
It is interesting to note that the Dispenser's body has been found in an archaeological dig this year in London (2009). Identified by the anatomical details of one being 'hung, drawn and quartered' and certain parts said to have been sent to his widow.
Altar. —The Purbeck marble altar is supposed by some to have been the altar mentioned in the Abbey Chronicles of 1239, but any Early English features have been destroyed beyond recognition. It is reputed to be the largest altar in England, but, at any rate, it may be said to be the longest. Originally set up in its present situation, it seems to have been buried in the choir by the monks, perhaps by some who were not so mercenary as the rest. Sixty-eight years afterwards it was found, and its purpose being recognised, it was set up in the middle of the choir as a Communion table. In 1730 it was transferred to the aisle, the churchwardens' accounts stating that 12s. was paid for so doing, and that 2s. 6d. was given "to the men that did it for working all night." The "large entire blue stone" was then cut into two lengthwise, and was further desecrated by being converted into seats for the north porch. Earl Beauchamp, at his own expense, had the two slabs restored to their original use. Considering what the marble has gone through, its size has been well maintained. In 1607 it was 13 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 6 inches by 7 inches; and now it is 13 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 5 inches by 5 inches. It is supported by a massive framing of oak.
The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury ...... by H.J.L.J. Masse, M.A.
London George Bell & Sons 1906
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