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NCAA Open wrestling tournament. The 2018 Roadrunner Open held a California State University, Bakersfield. Photos by John Sachs www.tech-fall.com
NCAA Open wrestling tournament. The 2018 Roadrunner Open held a California State University, Bakersfield. Photos by John Sachs www.tech-fall.com
St Mary, Ixworth, Suffolk
Coming back to Ixworth after almost twenty years away, I found that I couldn't remember where the church was. Being too lazy to get out my map, and not stupid enough to use a satnav, I cycled up the long hill of that remarkably good high street until I reached the fire station at the top, and then I was back in open country. Finally checking the map, I found that the church was at the bottom of the hill. Still, it didn't take long to get back there.
Ixworth is one of those small towns, or large villages, that Suffolk seems to do so well. The Bury St Edmunds to Diss and Stowmarket to Thetford roads cross here, but both are now carried past the village on bypasses, and so Ixworth has the pleasant air of a relatively remote and self-sufficient place, with a shop, a post-office, a couple of decent pubs, and that pre-requisite of modern rural civilisation, a ladies' hairdresser. There's a super little water mill on the road to Pakenham, actually in Pakenham parish but closer to here. Ixworth is not to be confused with Ixworth Thorpe, a tiny hamlet a mile or two to the north, with a stunning little thatched church, and especially not with Ickworth, home of the Marquis of Bristol, some ten miles to the south-west.
As I say, the church is immediately beside the High Street, but as it is concealed from it by a row of shops and houses I felt vindicated for cycling past it without noticing. A short driveway leads into a small churchyard, out of which rises a pretty big church, apparently all built on the eve of the Reformation. This is pretty much the case, since the late 15th and early 16th century replaced everything except the porch and the chancel. There are even dates for the completion of the tower. That other great age of faith, the late 19th century, replaced the chancel. All pieces of the ensemble are pretty typical of their ages.
Look west of the church, and you can see the site of the former Ixworth Priory. Most of this has now gone, but the vaulted undercroft has been retained as part of the current house on the site. There are more ruins visible from the High Street further west.
You step into the feel of a thoroughly urban church, as at Yoxford. This is partly a result of the rather mediocre 1855 restoration, with its sombre benches, but is also to do with the size of St Mary, and its serious east window. With the aisles, the nave feels as wide as it is long. Towards the west, the space beneath the tower has been converted into a meeting room, all finished rather well in the early 1980s manner. I was glad that I had Sam Mortlock's book with me, because he told me about something rather fascinating I'd find inside the meeting room, if I had been able to get in (it was locked). Several of the dedicatory tiles that were set in the buttresses of the newly-finished tower in the 16th century have been reset here.
One of them is to a local man called Thome Vyal. I could just make it out through the glass door. Mortlock tells us that his will was proved in 1472, and he gave four pounds to the steeple. The interesting thing about it is that we know Vyal was a carpenter, so he probably worked in this church, where no woodwork of the period survives, but perhaps also at nearby Ixworth Thorpe, where much does. Additionally, many of the churches round about here are famous for their bench ends. Even more fascinating is the fact that the font here clearly includes carpentry tools among the symbols on the shields. Perhaps this suggests that Ixworth was once a centre of excellence for woodcarving, and one wonders what we might have found here before the Victorian restoration.
The sombreness of the nave is barely enlightened by the clerestory, and isn't helped by several heavy memorials around the north doorway. But the lady chapel at the end of the north aisle is rather sweet. In medieval times, it was the chapel of the guild of St James, says Mortlock. In any case, there is plenty of evidence of the busy life of the parish, so the gloom doesn't weigh you down too much.
The base of the roodscreen survives, and you step up through it into the 19th century chancel. Now, this is really serious - the great east window positively frowns on you. Up in the sanctuary, the Victorians reset the perky tomb of Richard Coddington. Brasses of Coddington and his wife are set within a semi-circular relief, and the tomb chest beneath glows with heraldry.
Coddington was not from Suffolk at all, and could never have expected to end up buried here. However, when the monasteries were suppressed in the 1530s, Henry VIII offered the estate and lands of Ixworth Priory to Coddington in exchange for the village he owned near Ewell in Surrey. This was good business for Coddington, but unfortunate for the villagers of the little settlement of Cuddington, because Henry had their houses and church erased from the map. In their place, he built the massive pile of Nonesuch Palace, the largest, grandest and most highly decorated single construction in England during the course of the 16th century. It was furnished with all the great riches that continental Europe had to offer. It was surrounded by an amazing park, woodlands and rides. I suppose that it is good to know that the irreplaceable treasures of the English medieval church weren't all frittered away on pointless and fruitless sieges of French coastal towns.
Nonesuch Palace no longer exists. When the English royal family could no longer keep itself in the manner to which it had become accustomed, the house was demolished for building materials. This seems to have taken a considerable time, for destruction began in the 1680s, but at least one of the towers was still standing in the early 18th century. Oliver Cromwell himself had overseen the selling off of the contents during the Commonwealth, and his parliament had ordered the cutting down of most of the trees for shipbuilding. Hardly a memory survives today.
But Richard Coddington lies here, probably still feeling quietly pleased with himself.
At this month's Open MAKE: Tools event, visitors were invited to explore their own creativity with our four Featured Makers from around the Bay Area, who shared their art, ingenuity, and techniques.
Guests made needle-felted creatures with Moxie, created three-dimensional shapes by sewing sheets of fabric together with Judy Castro, fused plastic with clothes irons, used sewing needles and conductive thread to make circuits embedded in bracelets and badges, and used motors and other tools to take Light Painting to a whole new level.
Photo by Gayle Laird
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When I saw space as the challenge for today, I thought of outer space but then I started to think of the space around us and went for a drive. Living in the country, I get to see alot of wide open space. You can see for miles without another car or person around!
Our Daily Challenge - Space - June 27, 2011
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To mark the sixtieth birthday of photographer Anton Corbijn (b. Strijen, 1955), the Gemeentemuseum and the Hague Museum of Photography are organising the most complete retrospective of his work to date. The museums will pay homage to this leading portrait photographer in a duo of exhibitions held in the two different locations.
www.gemeentemuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/anton-corbijn
Photo: Bert de Jong
München - Straßenmusik am Marienhof hinter dem Rathaus
Auf Fototour mit Roland Riesen durch München
12 maart 2016 gooide DBZ de deuren open voor geïnteresseerde jongens en meisjes uit het vijfde en zesde leerjaar.
This image was taken on Tuesday 1st April 2014 at Alexanders Live Open Mic Night. For more information about Alexanders see their web site:
The Irish Open 2022 Freestyle Wrestling Tournament was held on Saturday 15 October 2022 at :-
The National Sports Campus
Snugborough Rd,
Blanchardstown
Dublin
D05 EPN4
More than 160 wrestlers, representing 33 clubs were in action at the Sports Campus Ireland National Indoor Arena in Blanchardstown.
The I.A.W.A' s biggest championship yet! Was organised on 3 mats with wrestlers from clubs around Ireland and the World!
There were wrestlers from Ireland, the UK, the USA and more!.
Salem Willows Park
Fort Avenue
Salem, Massachusetts
Citation: Nelson Dionne Salem History Collection,
Salem State University Archives and Special Collections, Salem, Massachusetts
President's Open House is an informative and fun-filled day for newly admitted students to visit campus.
The President's Open House offers an opportunity to gain further insight into the Loyola collegiate experience. Students and guests take part in several events held throughout the day, including a talk with the president, a meeting with the deans, and special interest sessions. The day ends with a departmental and student activity fair and the President's Reception.
Photos taken April 6, 2013