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My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Scotland.
Day Eighteen .. Heading South towards England.
St. Michael's Parish Church is one of the largest burgh churches in the Church of Scotland. It is one of two parishes serving the West Lothian county town of Linlithgow, the other being St. Ninian's Craigmailen. St Michael is the town's patron saint; the town's motto is "St Michael is kinde to strangers".
King David I of Scotland granted a charter for the establishment of the church in 1138. The church was built on the site of an older church and was consecrated in 1242. Following a fire in 1424, most of the present building dates from the mid 15th century, with extensive restorations in the 19th century. Parts of the Church of St Michael were brought into use as they were completed, and the church was completed in 1540.
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St Michael's Church stands within an extensive Churchyard within Lowther park and in the shadow of the ruined Lowther Castle. A spectacular location which overlooks the River Lowther and commands fine views over forest and fell. From "hog-back" Saxon burial stones unearthed in the Churchyard, it is clear that Christian worship has continued on this sight for 1000 years. Todays building dates from 1686 when the walls of the 13th Century Church were pulled down and rebuilt. There are also 18th and 19th Century additions.
St. Michael's Church (German: Hauptkirche Sankt Michaelis, colloquially called Michel, German pronunciation: [ˈmɪçəl]), is one of Hamburg's five Lutheran main churches (Hauptkirchen) and the most famous church in the city. St. Michaelis is a landmark of the city. It is dedicated to the Archangel Michael. A large bronze statue, standing above the portal of the church shows the archangel conquering the devil.
The 132-metre high Baroque spire totally covered with copper is a prominent feature of Hamburg’s skyline and has always been a landfall mark for ships sailing up the river Elbe.
The present church building is the third one at this site. The first one was built from 1647 to 1669. It became the church of the new town (Neustadt), which was created in 1625 inside the new city walls, and which grew steadily since. In 1687, the Michel became the fifth chapter church (Hauptkirche), as the new town (Neustadt) became a parish. That church was destroyed on March 10, 1750, by a lightning strike. The original church has been replicated and built in 9 different cities around the world.
In 1786, a new construction following the design of Johann Leonhard Prey and Ernst Georg Sonnin (de) was completed. This is the church as we know it today. It was reconstructed twice in the 20th century: after catching fire in 1906 during construction work and after the bombings of 1944 and 1945. Since 1983, renovation is ongoing: first the spire and then the roof.
Offering 2,500 seats, the Michel is the largest church in Hamburg. The spire, which offers an excellent view over the city and the harbour, can be climbed, but there also is a lift.
On a cold, windy, rainy day. The rain stopped just long enough for me to wipe the lens and take this. Would of liked a longer exposure but the rain was directed straight into the lens.
St Michael's Church - Llanfihangel-y-pennant
This attractive little church stands near the River Dysynni, just east of the ruins of Castell-y-Bere. The church has several interesting historic features. The font, a scalloped bowl atop a cylindrical column, is 12th century and is thought to have come from the castle chapel.
There has been a church on this site since the 13th century, suggesting that the current building was erected in conjunction with Castell-y-Bere. Near the vestry is a small window, slightly offset. This is known as the Leper Window, and tradition says that it was made to allow inmates of a local leper colony to view services without actually entering the church.
In the vestry is a fascinating fabric model of the Dysynni valley, crafted by local people. The model is fully 14 feet long, and is housed in a glass case. Also in the vestry, which was added to the church around 1878, is a display on the life of Llanfihangel-y-pennant's most famous native, Mary Jones.
Jones was born in the village, and became famous as the inspiration for the foundation of the Bible Society. In 1800, at the age of 15 or 16, she walked barefoot from Llanfihangel-y-pennant to Bala, a distance of 26 miles, to obtain a Bible. Her story gave impetus to the foundation of the Bible Society in 1804. Mary Jones's parents are buried in the churchyard, but her grave is at nearby Bryncrug. A short walk from the church brings you to Tyn-y-ddol, where you can find a monument, erected in the ruined shell of the Jones house.
The location of the church is utterly superb, and the setting, combined with the historical connections, makes St Michael's a fascinating place to visit.
A couple of days ago I posted an image looking at the cliffs at the southern end of Avalon Beach, taken during a floatplane flight up the Northern Beaches in late 2009. The image above is in North Avalon. At the time I took it, I thought some of the houses looked precariously close to the cliff edge and worth a shot. It was only when I researched it I discovered the story below.
Although the peninsula that you see is composed primarily of Hawkesbury sandstone and the underlying Narrabeen group of sandstones and shales from the Triassic period (250-200 million years ago), tectonic movements over the eons have created vertical cracks through the layered sedimentary rocks.
In the succeeding Jurassic period (200-145 million years ago), molten rock forced its way through these cracks, forming dolerite dykes that rise from the depths and form thin vertical sheets punctuating the otherwise sedimentary geology.
Dolerite dykes weather more slowly on sea-level rock platforms, as can be seen at Long Reef (off to the south - left), but dykes exposed above sea level tend to erode more quickly, as is the case with St Michael’s Cave.
Much of the metre-wide dyke here is mineral feldspar which, when decomposed by weathering turns to a light clay. As the dyke has been weathered over the eons, so too have the immediately-adjacent shales and sandstones, and a cave has formed, penetrating nearly 70m into the headland.
Not only have the sides of the cave weathered but also the roof, from which material has continued to fall to the floor of the cave.
In earlier times, especially during those brief periods when the sea level was higher than it is now, the fallen material would have been washed away, leaving the floor of the cave clean. But when the sea level stabilised at its current level, the fallen material simply lay where it fell, slowly building up the floor level.
Today, the lip of the cave is now tens of metres above sea level. The mouth of the cave is now only about 8m wide and 4m high but the cave heightens as the floor near the lip falls away until a point is reached where the cave is about 17m high, although in the centre is a large pile of debris that has fallen from the roof and remained where it fell.
The dyke still traverses the full length of the roof of the cave, at the rear of which high-pitched squeaks and the smell of guano reveal a breeding site for common bent-wing bats and large-eared pied bats.
It would be interesting to know what significance was attached to the cave by the local Aborigines. This wondrous natural feature did not long escape the attention of arriving Europeans, although it is not known which of them was the first to enter the cave.
For all its beauty and wonder, this window into the geological past is a dangerous place to be - rocks continually fall from the roof and could easily kill a person - so the mouth of the cave is now fenced off for public safety.
And as for that trampoline in the grounds of the cliff-edge property on the left of the image, it is just landward of a fence - on the largest version of the image you can see that most of the properties have fence lines or walls that prevent direct access to the cliff...
Another grotesque. They seem in very good condition, and were perhaps renovated inn Victorian times if they needed it.
St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, meaning "hoar rock in woodland") is a small tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water. The population of this parish in 2011 was 35. It is managed by the National Trust, and the castle and chapel have been the home of the St Aubyn family since approximately 1650. The earliest buildings, on the summit, date to the 12th century.
Its Cornish language name – literally, "the grey rock in a wood" – may represent a folk memory of a time before Mount's Bay was flooded, indicating a description of the mount set in woodland. Remains of trees have been seen at low tides following storms on the beach at Perranuthnoe. Radiocarbon dating established the submerging of the hazel wood at about 1700 BC.
Historically, St Michael's Mount was a Cornish counterpart of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, France (with which it shares the same tidal island characteristics and the same conical shape, in spite of being much smaller), when it was given to the Benedictine religious order of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century. In the 12th century it was their hands that built the church and priory that still lie at the heart of the castle today.
From 1193 when the Mount was seized by Henry La Pomeray who disguised his men as pilgrims, through the Wars of the Roses in 1473 when the Mount was held by the Earl of Oxford, to the Civil War, when Royalists valiantly held back the forces of Oliver Cromwell – the Mount has weathered many times of battle. Visitors can gaze out across the rows of cannons which once drove a Napoleonic ship to its capture on Marazion beach or peer up to the top of the church tower where the first beacon was lit of the series that warned London of the approach of the Spanish Armada.
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St Michael’s Mount is a small tidal island in Mount’s Bay, Cornwall. The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway passable between mid-tide and low water.
Although notably smaller than it’s counterpart of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, France it is still very impressive.
A different take on St. Michael’s Mount, there wasn’t much of a sunrise to speak of so I thought I’d have a play and liked this orange filter effect… I can see this being a Marmite shot!
St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Launching, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The cemetery was established in 1820, and abandoned in 1860. Many of the headstones are just simple plain rocks.
Dusk over the Mount, Cornwall, England
The moon was revealed between fast-moving clouds for about 20 seconds during this exposure, which really pleased me.
It was a beautiful day and we went to St. Michael's for the antique boat show. There were dozens of beautifully restored boats as well as some that will be restored. This event is held every year on Fathers' Day weekend at the Maritime Museum. We are members and normally could dock where you see the boats on display in this picture but, during the show, all the slips are taken! Was really enjoyable and we drove a lot of the back roads on the eastern shore to and from and over the "big scary bridge" aka the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
Do view large!
I highly recommend this museum to anyone visiting the St. Michael's area. Lots of great exhibits about watermen and life on the bay.
Saint Michael's Cathedral, Bridgetown, Barbados.
It's an anglican church made of coral stone.
I read that the first American President George Washington attended services at this Bridgetown church in 1751.
The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael and All Angels (formerly The St. Michael's Parish Church), is an Anglican church located on St. Michael's Row, two blocks east of National Heroes Square; at the centre of Bridgetown, Barbados. The Cathedral is the highest of the Anglican (Church of England)'s houses of worship within Barbados.
Originally consecrated in 1665, and then rebuilt in 1789 it was elevated to Cathedral status in 1825 with the appointment of Bishop Coleridge to head the newly created Diocese of Barbados and the Leeward Islands.[1]
The first parish church to be built was the St. Michael's Parish Church, which was located where the St. Mary's Anglican Church now stands. The original St. Michael's Parish Church was a small wooden church constructed between 1660 and 1665. Destroyed by a hurricane in 1780, the church was rebuilt nine years later. The church was later damaged in the great hurricane of 1831 but not destroyed.
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The nave of Saint Michael's Church (Michaelskirche) on Munich's Neuhauser Strasse.
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It takes just minutes to walk across the ancient cobbled causeway that stretches from the mainland to the island of St Michael's Mount but watch out for the tide. The Mount is a small tidal rocky island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, crowned by a medieval church and castle.
Saint Michael's Church (Méchelskierch, Église Saint-Michel, Sankt Michaelskirche) is a Roman Catholic church, and the oldest extant religious site, in Fishmarket, in the central Ville Haute quarter of Luxembourg City.
The first church on the spot was built in 987 as the castle chapel for the Count of Luxembourg. Over the following centuries the building was destroyed, rebuilt, and renovated several times. Its current appearance dates to 1688, and unites Romanesque and Baroque architectural styles, pre-dating the national Moselle Baroque style. The building has since been restored, preserving its original form, most recently been renovated in the 1960s, 1980s, and 2000s.
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St Michael's Kirkham is the Parish Church of Kirkham, Lancashire. There has been a place of Christian worship in Kirkham for at least 1400 years, and the word Kirkham means "church town".
Today, the church remains at the heart of the local community, with its spire dominating not only the town, but also the surrounding countryside. The church is home to a large and diverse group of Christians, who welcome newcomers of any age and background.