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Not only a National Trust visitor attraction, this is also the home of the St Aubyn family. I remember a couple of years ago when on a visit to the property, we bumped into Lord St Leven (John Francis Arthur St Aubyn) and he came across as an avuncular sort of chap, not unlike (in my eyes) 'Old Mr Grace' from the TV sitcom 'Are You Being Served'!
Last night's sunset at Marazion was incredible. There were all sorts of colours going off after the sunset with light and dark pinks, oranges and blues. I've been wanting to visit St Michael's Mount for a long time and finally got my chance this week with a surprise birthday visit down there arranged by my amazing wife.
Abandoned homestead, Wasco County, South of Dufur, OR. Access permission granted by property manager.
El Castillo de los Este (Castello Estense, también llamado Castillo de San Michele) es el principal monumento de Ferrara. Es un edificio de ladrillo de planta cuadrada dotado de cuatro torres defensivas y rodeado por un foso de agua, que está situado en el centro de la ciudad. Durante los siglos XV y XVI albergó una extraordinaria colección de pinturas, que luego se dispersó.
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The Castello Estense ('Este castle') or castello di San Michele ('St. Michael's castle') is a moated medieval castle in the center of Ferrara, northern Italy. It consists of a large block with four corner towers.
Located just outside the walls of Golden Domed St Michael’s, this memorial to the victims of Stalin’s Holodomor famine of 1932-3 is centred on a view straight down Volodymyrs’kyi Passage to the other great ecclesiastical site of central Kyiv, St Sophia’s Cathedral.
It was unveiled on 12 September 1993, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Holodomor, and was sculpted by Vasyl Perevalsky.
In the centre of a figure of the Mother of God, a silhouette of a child with widely spread arms is carved. Land brought from all regions of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was poured at the foot of the memorial.
St Sophia Cathedral is one of Kyiv’s most significant landmarks, dating back to the days of Kievan Rus’. Originally built in the first half of the 11th Century, it has had downs as well as ups since being sacked in 1169 and 1240, but still retains mosaics and frescos from the 11th Century. It was significantly expanded in the late 17th and 18th Centuries. The 76 metre high bell tower was built in this period.
After the October Revolution, Soviet authorities proposed demolishing the cathedral complex and turning it into a memorial park for combatants who died in the Civil War, and was only saved through the efforts of scientists and historians. It was nonetheless secularised and turned into a museum in 1934. By the 1980s, however Soviet authorities had promised to return the cathedral to the Orthodox Church, and this promise was maintained by governments of independent Ukraine, but internal divisions within Orthodoxy in the country have prevented this as of 2020. The cathedral remains a secular museum of Christianity.
This description incorporates text from the Ukrainian Wikipedia.
Above the west door is a fine window by Nathaniel Westlake in 1882. It shows the first and second advent, with the birth of Jesus in the lower half and in the upper, his rising from the dead. It also has St Michael, sitting in judgment.
St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, meaning "grey rock in the woods", also known colloquially by locals as simply the Mount) is a tidal island 366 metres (400 yards) off the Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a civil parish and is united with the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water.
We had to have a windscreen replaced before we could resume our homeward journey, from Auburn to Townsville, so we had time for a walk around this town in the South Australian wine region. Not normally drawn to churches as subjects, I was taken by this small, classical-looking church, built between 1873 and 1883. New sky and texture have been added.
I thought I'd exhausted all the possible viewpoints of this iconic location, but this year I found a few more.
This shot was taken on the east side of Marazion, looking out across Mounts Bay towards Penzance.
I'm guessing that St Michael's Mount could well be Cornwall's most photographed landmark. It's easy to see why as it sits like a scenic jewel, dominating Mount's Bay, near Penzance.
The classic view is from the beach, with the cobbled causeway leading the eye to the rocky outcrop that becomes an island at high tide. There are lots of other viewpoints too, both near and far. This one was taken aboard the RMV Scillion III, just after departing from the Penzance quayside en route to the Isles of Scilly.
These may rank as the strangest photos I've ever posted, since they're so hard to see. They were the best I could manage through the glass internal window at St Michael's, the chapel being locked. Pevsner describes it as ‘The richest single storehouse of funeral monuments in any parish church in England’, which makes it all the more frustrating. The chapel was built in 1556 by Anne Sapcote, Countess of Bedford in accordance with the will of her husband Sir John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford. Monuments range from the Cheyne family in the 15th century through elaborate 16th and 17th century sculpture, to the 9th Duke who died in 1891 (and who was an early supporter of cremation, so the chapel only has his ashes). Apparently all the recumbent figures have their feet turned away from the East. The windows are by Kempe. It has a wood hammer-beam roof and marble floor, and is only open by permission of his grace, the Duke of Bedford. In 1868, a new parish church was completed near Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, under the 8th Duke. It has a crypt beneath, which was intended as the burial place of the Dukes of Bedford and their family. In the end the Russell family continued to use the ancient mausoleum at Chenies.
A view of St Michael's Mount on the south coast of Cornwall, taken from Mounts Bay beach in the evening.
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Neon sign for Michael's Fine Clothes on Main Street.
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Hard to believe but this time last week we'd just spent the day on the beach in Cornwall watching the sun go down over St Michael's Mount – in glorious weather and 20°C of November sunshine!
Dating back to the 12th century the lovely old church of St Michael’s is the centrepiece of the wonderful thatched cottage village of Amberley .
we Spent a day in Gibraltar England and had a chance to take a tour up the famous rock. Our first stop was St. Michael's Cave which is a beautiful limestone cave converted into a concert theater.
All aboard for St Michael's Mount – the first visitors of the day about to be ferried across to this iconic Cornish landmark.
At low tide you can simply walk across the causeway, but at high tide, you need a boat to reach this tidal island.
One of the three landing jetties used to ferry visitors back and forth to St Michael's Mount when the causeway is covered. Each jetty is at a slightly different height and is used at different times, depending on the height of the tide.
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, at 57 acres, than Mont St Michel which covers 247 acres), when it was given to the Benedictine religious order of Mont Saint-Michel by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century.
St Michael's Mount is one of forty-three (unbridged) tidal islands that one can walk to from mainland Britain. Part of the island was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1995 for its geology.
The chapel of St Michael, a fifteenth-century building, has an embattled tower, one angle of which is a small turret, which served for the guidance of ships. The chapel is extra-diocesan and continues to serve the Order of St John by permission of Lord St Levan. Chapel Rock, on the beach, marks the site of a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary, where pilgrims paused to worship before ascending the mount. Many antiquities, comprising plate armour, paintings and furniture, are preserved at the castle. Several houses are built on the hillside facing Marazion, and a spring provides a natural flow of water. There is a row of eight houses at the back of the present village; built in 1885 they are known as Elizabeth Terrace. Some of the houses are occupied by staff working in the castle and elsewhere on the island. The mount's cemetery (currently no public access) contains the graves of former residents of the island and several drowned sailors. There are also buildings that were formerly the steward's house, a changing-room for bathers, the stables, the laundry, a barge house, a sail loft (now a restaurant), and two former inns. A former bowling green adjoins one of the buildings.
The harbour, enlarged in 1823 to accommodate vessels of up to 500 tonnes deadweight, has a pier dating back to the 15th century which has also been renovated. Queen Victoria disembarked from the royal yacht at St Michael's Mount in 1846, and a brass inlay of her footstep can be seen at the top of the landing stage. King Edward VII's footstep is also visible near the bowling green. In 1967 the Queen Mother entered the harbour in a pinnace from the royal yacht Britannia.
Another noteworthy point of interest on the island is its underground railway, which is still used to transport goods from the harbour up to the castle. It was built by miners around 1900, replacing the pack horses which had previously been used. Its steep gradient renders it unsafe for passenger-use, thus The National Trust has made it out-of-bounds for public access.
The causeway between the mount and Marazion was improved in 1879 by raising it by one foot (30 cm) with sand and stones from the surrounding area. Repairs were completed in March 2016 following damage from the 2014 winter storms. Some studies indicate that any rise in ocean waters as well as existing natural erosion would put some of the Cornwall coast at risk, including St. Michael's Mount.
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St. Michael’s Mount (kornisch: An Garrek Los y’n Cos ) ist eine Gezeiteninsel an der Südwestspitze Englands, die 366 m vor dem Ort Marazion in Cornwall liegt und eine Fläche von 0,23 km² hat. Sie ist entweder mit einer Fähre oder, bei Niedrigwasser, über einen schmalen Damm von Marazion aus zu erreichen.
Die Sehenswürdigkeit ähnelt dem Mont Saint-Michel im Norden Frankreichs, ist allerdings weniger bekannt. St. Michael’s Mount hat daher ein geringeres Tourismusaufkommen und damit auch nicht die entsprechenden Probleme seines „großen Bruders“.
Die Kapelle auf dem Berg wurde im 15. Jahrhundert errichtet und befindet sich wie auch das Schloss unter privater Leitung, kann aber besichtigt werden. Die Adelsfamilie Baron St. Levan, die von den St. Aubyns abstammt, hat den Besitz 1954 dem National Trust vermacht. Nachkommen der Familie leben noch heute auf der Insel. Ein kleiner Hafen besteht ebenfalls seit dem Spätmittelalter und dient heute zum Anlegen der Touristenfähren.
Auf der Insel bzw. dem Berg befinden sich neben einem subtropischen Garten noch einige weitere Häuser und Anlagen vor allem religiösen Charakters. Ebenso wie sein französisches Pendant ist St. Michael’s Mount lange Zeit eine Pilgerstätte gewesen und genießt in entsprechenden Kreisen religiös-kultische Verehrung.
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Being just along the road from where we were staying, St Michael's Mount always proves to be an attractive draw for an early morning photograph.
The nearby car park charges £4.50 for an all-day stay, which sounds almost reasonable, but less so when all you want to do is grab a photograph and leave.
So, can I say 'thankyou' to the chap on the gate who said: "Well, if you're just going to be a few minutes..." and allowed me in for free!
Sacra di San Michele - Saint Michael’s Abbey (Piedmont, italy)
Thanks to pansaram for the help in finding the trail.
A storm passes over Mount's Bay, with just a few shafts of weak winter sunshine helping to silhouette the brooding presence of St. Michael's Mount. Now managed by the NationalTrust, the house and chapel have been the home of the St. Aubyn family since the mid sevententh century, and reported a counterpart to Mont St. Michel in Normandy (source Wikipedia). Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
on a spring visit to Chenies Manor and gardens. Chenies Manor was owned until recent times by the Russel family, the Earls and Dukes of Bedford and members of the Russel family are still buried in the church. (This is the same Russel family as own Russel Square in London).
St Michael's is the Church of England parish church in the market town of Melksham in Wiltshire. The church stands some 200 metres northwest of the town's marketplace. With 12th-Century origins, the building was altered and enlarged in the 14th and 15th Centuries, and restored in the 19th. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The church has a chancel and five-bay nave, with north and south aisles and north and south chapels, and a west tower. Originally dating to the 16th Century, the tower was moved from the crossing to the west end during TH Wyatt’s extensive remodelling in 1845. The chancel dates from the 12th century, while the church was enlarged in the 14th century, and in the mid-15th a clerestory was inserted and a chapel was added on the south side of the chancel.
Pevsner wrote: "... it is a big church, and so it is all the more remarkable that its Norman predecessor was just as big."
Domesday Book in 1086 recorded a church at Melchesha. In 1220 the living became a possession of the canonry of Salisbury Cathedral, continuing to the present day.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Formerly a Dunkin' Donuts, built in 1970. Dunkin' moved to a newly built location down the road in 2011.
I've been itching to get down this way since I moved to the UK two years ago, but the 8 hours drive always seemed a bit much. But thanks to a little 4 day road trip to Devon and Cornwall with my hubby, we were able to snap some shots of the Mount. It was a grey, cloudy evening until just moments before sunset. I feel quite fortunate for this kind of weather in October!
During its long history - the buildings date back to the 12th century - St. Michael's Mount has been a priory, fortress, a place of pilgrimage and finally became a private home coming into the ownership of the St Aubyn family in 1659. Today, the St Aubyn family as well as a small community still live on this island off the coast of Cornwall.