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Good Shepherd Parish was founded in 1868 by Elizabeth Colt, a wealthy Victorian lady with a vision of a church where the owners, management and laborers at the Colt Armory could worship together. Its church was consecrated, the following year. In 1895, Mrs. Colt built a spacious, three-story parish house to be a community center for the parish and its neighborhood. When she died in 1905, she left a trust fund to help provide for the parish’s continuing maintenance and ministry.
The church was built in memorial to Colonel Samuel Colt and three of his children who died in infancy. The consecration was January 28, 1869. Its architect was Edward Tuckerman Potter of New York. The style was early English / Gothic with Portland freestone and Ohio sandstone.
This is the Gothic Cathedral in Glasgow. It is the only one still standing after the reformation of Scotland. It is the most beautiful church I have ever been inside of.
Church of Saint Patrick (1864), Akaroa day one on our two day trip away to escape from the earthquake repair/paint on our house. May 22, 2012.
The first mass was celebrated in Akaroa in 1840, and this church was built in the 1860s.
The French clergyman Bishop Pompallier offered the first Mass in the South Island at Akaroa. This pretty church, with its dark backdrop of manuka bush and ornate fret-worked fascia boards, is the third on the site (the first burned down; the second blew away!).
Constructed from rough-sawn totara slabs the interior features an intricate stained glass window behind the altar, various plaster icons and side windows with red crosses and Latin inscriptions. Stand at the front of the nave and look down the rows of pews to the view of French Bay out the front door.
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Akaroa is a village on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand, situated within a harbour of the same name. The name Akaroa is Kāi Tahu Māori for 'Long Harbour'.
Akaroa is 84km by road from Christchurch and is the terminus of State Highway 75. Set on a beautiful, sheltered harbour and overlooked by craggy volcanic hills, Akaroa is a popular resort village and in summer the temporary population can reach 7,000 which places stress on the summer water supply, which is entirely dependent upon rainfall on the hills.
Many Hector's Dolphins may be found within Akaroa harbour, and 'swim with the dolphins' boat tours are a major tourist attraction.
Taken from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaroa
The rose window was installed in 1871 by Samuel West of the Ecclesiastical Stained Glass Works of Boston. The window is 5 feet, 6 inches in diameter with the glass sections surrounded by sandstone pieces.
I will not be putting up many photos after today for a while as I am having a operation .. a Meniscal Repair done on my knee tomorrow, June 20. That is of I am not snowed in as they are predicting a big snow storm for the next few days!
St. John the Baptist's Cathedral Day 10 of our Cosmos tour, October 9, 2012 Lyon France. We did short tour around the city then made our way to Paris.
Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Lyon (English: St. John the Baptist's Cathedral in Lyon) is a Roman Catholic cathedral near the Saone river in Lyon, France, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Lyon.
It was founded by Saint Pothinus and Saint Irenaeus, the first two bishops of Lyon. The cathedral is also known as a "Primatiale" because in 1079 the Pope granted to the archbishop of Lyon the title of Primate of All the Gauls with the legal supremacy over the principal archbishops of the kingdom. It is located in the heart of the old town (Vieux Lyon), less than five minutes away from the banks of the Saone river, with a large plaza in front of it and a metro stop nearby providing easy access to and from the city center.
Begun in the twelfth century on the ruins of a 6th-century church, it was completed in 1476. The building is 80 metres long (internally), 20 metres wide at the choir, and 32.5 metres high in the nave. The cathedral organ was built by Daublaine and Callinet and was installed in 1841 at the end of the apse and had 15 stops. It was rebuilt in 1875 by Merklin-Schütze and given 30 stops, three keyboards of 54 notes and pedals for 27.
Noteworthy are the two crosses to right and left of the altar, preserved since the council of 1274 as a symbol of the union of the churches, and the Bourbon chapel, built by the Cardinal de Bourbon and his brother Pierre de Bourbon, son-in-law of Louis XI, a masterpiece of 15th century sculpture.
The cathedral also has the Lyon Astronomical Clock from the 14th century.
Until the construction of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, it was the pre-eminent church in Lyon.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cath%C3%A9drale_Saint_Jean-Baptiste
Church of Saint Patrick (1864), Akaroa day one on our two day trip away to escape from the earthquake repair/paint on our house. May 22, 2012.
The first mass was celebrated in Akaroa in 1840, and this church was built in the 1860s.
The French clergyman Bishop Pompallier offered the first Mass in the South Island at Akaroa. This pretty church, with its dark backdrop of manuka bush and ornate fret-worked fascia boards, is the third on the site (the first burned down; the second blew away!).
Constructed from rough-sawn totara slabs the interior features an intricate stained glass window behind the altar, various plaster icons and side windows with red crosses and Latin inscriptions. Stand at the front of the nave and look down the rows of pews to the view of French Bay out the front door.
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Akaroa is a village on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand, situated within a harbour of the same name. The name Akaroa is Kāi Tahu Māori for 'Long Harbour'.
Akaroa is 84km by road from Christchurch and is the terminus of State Highway 75. Set on a beautiful, sheltered harbour and overlooked by craggy volcanic hills, Akaroa is a popular resort village and in summer the temporary population can reach 7,000 which places stress on the summer water supply, which is entirely dependent upon rainfall on the hills.
Many Hector's Dolphins may be found within Akaroa harbour, and 'swim with the dolphins' boat tours are a major tourist attraction.
Taken from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaroa
Lawn in front: The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd: Hartford, CT
NRHP #75001925
Good Shepherd Parish was founded in 1868 by Elizabeth Colt, a wealthy Victorian lady with a vision of a church where the owners, management and laborers at the Colt Armory could worship together. Its church was consecrated, the following year. In 1895, Mrs. Colt built a spacious, three-story parish house to be a community center for the parish and its neighborhood. When she died in 1905, she left a trust fund to help provide for the parish’s continuing maintenance and ministry.
The church was built in memorial to Colonel Samuel Colt and three of his children who died in infancy. The consecration was January 28, 1869. Its architect was Edward Tuckerman Potter of New York. The style was early English / Gothic with Portland freestone and Ohio sandstone.
Inside Milan Cathedral, day 6 of our Cosmos tour, October 5, 2012. We arrived late in the afternoon so didn't see all I wanted to see as we left very early the next morning. So not many good shots as it was too late in the day!
Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano; Lombard: Domm de Milan) is the cathedral church of Milan, Italy. Dedicated to Santa Maria Nascente (Saint Mary Nascent), it is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Cardinal Angelo Scola.
The Gothic cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete. It is the fifth largest cathedral in the world and the largest in the Italian state territory.
Milan's layout, with streets either radiating from the Duomo or circling it, reveals that the Duomo occupies what was the most central site in Roman Mediolanum, that of the public basilica facing the forum. Saint Ambrose's 'New Basilica' was built on this site at the beginning of the 5th century, with an adjoining basilica added in 836. The old baptistery (Battistero Paleocristiano, constructed in 335) still can be visited under the Milan Cathedral, it is one of the oldest Christian buildings in Europe. When a fire damaged the cathedral and basilica in 1075, they were later rebuilt as the Duomo.
The cathedral was built over several hundred years in a number of contrasting styles and the quality of the workmanship varies markedly. Reactions to it have ranged from admiration to disfavour. The Guida d’Italia: Milano 1998 points out that the early Romantics tended to praise it in “the first intense enthusiasms for Gothic.” As the Gothic Revival brought in a purer taste, condemnation was often equally intense.
John Ruskin commented acidly that the cathedral steals "from every style in the world: and every style spoiled. The cathedral is a mixture of Perpendicular with Flamboyant, the latter being peculiarly barbarous and angular, owing to its being engrafted, not on a pure, but a very early penetrative Gothic … The rest of the architecture among which this curious Flamboyant is set is a Perpendicular with horizontal bars across: and with the most detestable crocketing, utterly vile. Not a ray of invention in a single form… Finally the statues all over are of the worst possible common stonemasons’ yard species, and look pinned on for show. The only redeeming character about the whole being the frequent use of the sharp gable … which gives lightness, and the crowding of the spiry pinnacles into the sky.” . The plastered ceiling painted to imitate elaborate tracery carved in stone particularly aroused his contempt as a “gross degradation”.
While appreciating the force of Ruskin’s criticisms, Henry James was more appreciative: “A structure not supremely interesting, not logical, not … commandingly beautiful, but grandly curious and superbly rich. … If it had no other distinction it would still have that of impressive, immeasurable achievement … a supreme embodiment of vigorous effort.”
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Cathedral
This was taken inside the chapel of Saint-Hubert where Leonardo da Vinci is buried.
We arrived in Amboise to heavy rain our first stop on our way to Bordeaux, from Paris. Day 12 of our Cosmos tour, October 11, 2012 France.
After France captured Milan, Italy in December of 1515, Leonardo da Vinci, who was living at the Vatican, was commissioned by King Francis I to design and develop a rather interesting, if not bizarre, prototype. It was a mechanical lion that could walk, stop, rear on its hind legs, and open its chest to present a cluster of lilies. I’m not sure how serious this was, because the design never got past one sketch by the master. However, Leonardo da Vinci accepted the job as the philosopher, architect, engineer, and painter, and moved to Amboise in the Loire Valley of central France in 1516.
By this time, Mr. da Vinci was 64 years old, and had lived a fulfilling life with the creation of many notable works of art, design, inventions, and writings. He was paid handsomely and was given the residence, Clos-Lucé, which was nearby the Royal Château of Amboise. If you haven’t seen it yet, please read my first post from this part of France, Finding Leonardo Da Vinci, My Visit to the Château d’Amboise.
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The royal Château at Amboise is a château located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in the 15th century, it became a favoured royal residence and was extensively rebuilt. King Charles VIII died at the château in 1498 after hitting his head on a door lintel. It has been recognised as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1840.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27Amboise
These are some more shots of my Tour to Europe in Sept - Nov 2012. I has been a while since I last saw them.. great to be able to catch up on them at last!
This was my last day of the Cosmos Tour Oct 17, 2012 Spain. I took a morning trip to Toledo from Madrid.
One of the most outstanding features of the Cathedral is the Baroque altarpiece called El Transparente. Its name refers to the unique illumination provided by a large skylight cut very high up into the thick wall across the ambulatory behind the high altar, and another hole cut into the back of the altarpiece itself to allow shafts of sunlight to strike the tabernacle. This lower hole also allows persons in the ambulatory to see through the altarpiece to the tabernacle, so that they are seeing though its transparency, so to speak. The work was commissioned by Diego de Astorga y Céspedes, Archbishop of Toledo, who wished to mark the presence of the Holy Sacrament with a glorious monument. El Transparente is several storeys high and is extraordinarily well-executed with fantastic figures done in stucco, painting, bronze castings, and multiple colors of marble; it is a masterpiece of Baroque mixed media by Narciso Tomé and his four sons (two architects, one painter and one sculptor). The illumination is enhanced when the Mass is being said in the mornings and the sun shines from the east, shafts of sunlight from the appropriately oriented skylight striking the tabernacle through the hole in the back of the retable, giving the impression that the whole altar is rising to heaven. The fully Baroque display contrasts strongly with the predominant Gothic style of the cathedral. The cathedral is also illuminated through more than 750 stained glass windows from the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, the work of some of the greatest masters of the times.
The windows of Multyfarnham Abbey, contain some marvellous stain glass artwork. One of them concerns that most famous of Irish legends, "The Children Of Lir" Very appropiate locally, as the legend is centred on Lake Derravagh, only a short distance from the Abbey, just north of Mullingar.
As always the ever useful "wikipedia" extract tell us:
Bodb Dearg (the red) was elected king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, much to the annoyance of Lir. In order to appease Lir, Bodb gave one of his daughters to marry him, Aoibh. She bore him four children, one girl, Fionnuala, and three sons, Aodh and twins, Fiachra and Conn.
Their mother Aoibh died and the children missed their mother terribly and Bodb, wanting to keep Lear happy, sent another of his daughters, Aoife , to marry Lear.
Aoife grew jealous of the children's love for each other and their father so she plotted to get rid of the children. On a journey with the children to Bodb's house, she ordered her servant to kill them but the servant refused. In anger, she tried to do it herself, but didn't have the courage. Instead, she used her magic to turn the children into swans. When Bodb heard of this, he transformed Aoife into an air demon for eternity.
As swans, the children had to spend 300 years on Lough Derravaragh (a lake near their father's castle), 300 years in the Sea of Moyle, and 300 years on the waters of Irrus Domnann. To end the spell, they would have to be blessed by a monk. While the children were swans, Saint Patrick converted Ireland to Christianity.
Work lunch hour walk
Tanworth In Arden is a small village located in the county of Warwickshire England. It is located south east of Birmingham. The population of the parish was 3017.
Tanworth was the childhood home of folk musician Nick Drake and his sister the actress Gabrielle Drake. Nick Drakes gravestone. The epitaph reads "Now we rise/ and we are everywhere" from his song "From the morning"
The grave of nine times world motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood MBE, Gm and his daughter Michelle, who were both killed in a car accident at Portway in 1981, are also to be found here. An annual motorcycle run is held every March from the former Norton Motorcycle factory in Tanworth.
The boxer "Gentleman" Jack Hood was the licensee of the Bell public house, displaying above the bar the Lonsdale Belt that he won on the 31st May 1926. (The belt was sold by his daughter in 2011)
The village was also the filming location for the fictional village Kings Oak from the British television series Crossroads between 1970 and 1988.
Inside St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide, September 5, 2013 Australia.
St Peter's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is the seat of the archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide.[1] The cathedral is situated on approximately one acre (4,000 m²) of land at the corner of Pennington Terrace and King William Road in the suburb of North Adelaide.
The south face has similar features to the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, including an ornate rose window above the main entrance which depicts stories of South Australia and the Bible.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Cathedral,_Adelaide
The Church of the Holy Rude is the second oldest building in Stirling after the castle. Founded in 1129 during the reign of David I (1124 - 1153) as the parish church of Stirling.
Robert II, during his reign (1371-1390), founded an altar to the Holy Rude and thereafter the Church of Stirling became known as the Parish Church of The Holy Rude of the Burgh of Stirling. "Holy Rude" means Holy Cross, giving it the same origin as Holyrood in Edinburgh. David I's church was destroyed with much of Stirling by a catastrophic fire in March 1405. Shortly afterwards a grant was made by the Lord Chamberlain of Scotland to have a new church built. The Nave, South Aisle with rounded Scots pillars, Gothic arches and original oak-timbered roof and the Tower were completed about 1414.
Tradition says that King James IV may have helped masons build the later eastern end during the early 16th century. In 1567 the infant King James VI was crowned here, by which time the church was a reformed place of worship. Bullet marks on the tower may date from a siege of Stirling Castle by Cromwell's troops in 1651.
Because of its close links with the castle, the church always had the support and patronage of the Stuart kings, especially in the 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries, and is the only church in the United Kingdom other than Westminster Abbey to have held a coronation and still be a living church today.
Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year.
Little Akaloa....Out and about with my Flickr and blip friend on Banks Peninsula. February 20, 2016, New Zealand.
It was warm and wonderful so we packed up a lunch and headed for the hills and bays around the banks peninsula. It reached will over 30c today.. a bit too hot at times and there was no wind at all.
The historic gem of Little Akaloa is a church hidden away among old trees, commanding a fine view down the bay. The present St Luke's replaced an earlier wooden church and was completed in November 1906. It has an "old world" English-looking exterior, with walls of pebble dash on concrete, a slate roof and a small well-proportioned bell tower.
The surprise is the interior, which is embellished with carvings of predominantly Maori motifs, many delicately executed on white stone. The rafters are decorated with Maori patterns and support an imitation raupo rush ceiling. The windows have stylised Maori designs in coloured glass.
The church was built (and partly paid for) by a local resident, J.H. Menzies, who was "an amateur carver of the very highest order". It is one of the country's early examples of the incorporation of Maori decorative motifs in a European building.
For More Info: dayout.co.nz/attractions/attraction.aspx?attractionId=2216
Stain glaas window in the Church of St. John the Baptist, Parnell, day two of our trip away to Auckalnd and Northland and the sun may shine! March 2012, New Zealand.
As far as can be ascertained, St. John's is the oldest surviving Catholic church in the Auckland Diocese and one of the oldest in New Zealand. It was founded by the first Bishop of Auckland, Jean Baptiste Francois Pompallier, and formally instituted by his Lordship on Sunday 12th. of May 1861. This was a decade after Governor Hobson's establishment (short-lived) of Auckland as the political capital of New Zealand.
St. John's was for its first year a dependency on Auckland's proCathedral, the first St. Patricks. St. John's first priest, the Rev. M. O'Hara, was a priest of the Cathedral.
For some years before the church was built there was a Catholic primary school on an adjoining site - first with a lay staff, later conducted by the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters kept the school for more than a hundred years until the Order withdrew from Parnell in 1964. The school was then regretfully closed, and the numerous ministrations of the Sisters were sadly lost to the parish.
In 1862 St. John's became a parish church, and was given to the care of the Franciscans. The Friars were mostly Italian, recruited by Pompallier from Rome. They worked in the parish for eleven years, then dispersed and went on to other missions overseas.
For the following one hundred and seven years St. John's had Diocesan clergy as parish priests. Many were men of distinguished parts. Two were raised from Parnell to the episcopal dignity. One, at the beginning of the 20th. Century, was a vigorous builder. He enlarged the old church by the present wider extension to the rear, built the present presbytery, and erected a new convent (now converted to secular uses).
In 1980 the Marist Fathers assumed responsibility for the parish. In the capable hands, first of the Rev. J. Sloane S.M. and then the Rev. T. Fitzpatrick S.M., the aggiornamento prescribed by the Second Vatican Council was introduced gradually in the liturgy, and lay participation became the order of the day.
A second recent change at St. John's was the welcome influx of youth, many of them students from South East Asia who have come to New Zealand to complete their higher studies. Young and old assimilate happily together. With an organ and choir St. John's now vibrates with new life.
In 1989 the Marists withdrew from Parnell. The parish reverted to diocesan status under the pastoral care of Fr. Kevin Hackett. In 1997 a complete refurbishment of the church was completed and a new gas heating system installed.
(From The Church of St. John the Baptist, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand: a Note for Visitors)
Cimetière Montparnasse
for my sweet Delaville who learnt me how to arrange bad pictures ! Stain Glasses are very difficult to take (I already have told you) ! I'll try hard to learn more :-)
Surrounding area: The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd: Hartford, CT
NRHP #75001925
Good Shepherd Parish was founded in 1868 by Elizabeth Colt, a wealthy Victorian lady with a vision of a church where the owners, management and laborers at the Colt Armory could worship together. Its church was consecrated, the following year. In 1895, Mrs. Colt built a spacious, three-story parish house to be a community center for the parish and its neighborhood. When she died in 1905, she left a trust fund to help provide for the parish’s continuing maintenance and ministry.
The church was built in memorial to Colonel Samuel Colt and three of his children who died in infancy. The consecration was January 28, 1869. Its architect was Edward Tuckerman Potter of New York. The style was early English / Gothic with Portland freestone and Ohio sandstone.
The “Emmanuel’s Land” window is in the north transept of the main church. The window is one of the artist Frederic Crowninshield’s largest works. It is comprised of 15 panels of leaded glass with 17 smaller sections of tracery above, not including the tiny lights, or openings filled with just a few pieces of glass. The larger panels are representative of windows typical of the American Opalescent Style of John LaFarge, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Crowninshield.
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 England.
On a walk around Salisbury Cathedral. Making our way from Winchester to Sidmouth where we are staying the night.
Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England. The cathedral is regarded as one of the leading examples of Early English architecture: its main body was completed in 38 years, from 1220 to 1258.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Cathedral
Russell Memorial Window: Faith
Window Text: WHEN I CALL TO REMEMBRANCE THE VNFEIGNED FAITH THAT IS IN THEE // IN MEMORY OF / SARAH ELIZABETH RVSSELL
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Day 1 started at 2 am in order to wake up, pick up and get to Luton Airport for the 7 am flight. We finally flew at 9 am due to a passenger having medical issues on the runway.
Having booked the rest of the day was spent at La Segrada Familia Church. Impressive, modern but old if that makes sense. After a paella meal, Tim Hortons doughnuts and hot chocolate were consumed before falling asleep at 8 pm!
These are some more shots of my Tour to Europe in Sept - Nov 2012. I has been a while since I last saw them.. great to be able to catch up on them at last!
In the Saint Rita of Casia chapel in the Cloister of the Cathedral on our Cosmos tour, October 14, 2012. We didn't go inside.. wish we could have!
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia (Catalan: Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia, Spanish: Catedral de la Santa Cruz y Santa Eulalia), also known as Barcelona Cathedral, is the Gothic cathedral and seat of the Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain. The cathedral was constructed from the 13th to 15th centuries, with the principal work done in the 14th century. The cloister, which encloses the Well of the Geese (Font de les Oques) was completed in 1448. In the late 19th century, the neo-Gothic façade was constructed over the nondescript exterior that was common to Catalan churches. The roof is notable for its gargoyles, featuring a wide range of animals, both domestic and mythical.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Cathedral
Hungary, Zsennye Mansion of Bezerédj family. Stainglass window above the bed, I guess from the 1800s.
The first mention says it was a manor-house in the Middle Ages, then it was rebuilt in1867 from renessaince and baroque styles in a romantic style. Still renessaince window remains can be seen on some walls. Today it's a workshop for artists - mainly for painters and musicians, with ateliers and instruments like pianos, though also used of authors.
A Bezerédj-kastély középkori udvarházból épült ki (ezt késő reneszánsz részletek is tanúsítják) barokk stílusban a XVIII. században. Romantikus stílusban 1867-ben alakították át. Kertje védett. A falu szélén, mintegy 14 hektáros park közepén álló kastély tulajdonosa a XIX. század elejéig a Sennyei, azt követően a Bezerédj, majd a századfordulón a Békássy család volt. Ma a Magyar Alkotóművészeti Közalapítvány Alkotóháza.
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