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probably the only one i like. idk what it is about this one tht speaks to me the most, but i really like it :) its pretty much the story of my life; living behind bars.
Gloucester Cathedral.
At the time of its installation in the 1350s, the Great East Window was the largest window in the world. It is still largely intact, and is one of the great landmarks of English medieval glass painting. It was created as part of the reconstruction of the Quire following the burial of King Edward II, and fills the entire wall behind the high altar.
This window has been made by my little 5 year old friend amnd myself. We made it for her Mom who has breast cancer . She has a beasutiful garden so I thought that this would really compliment it. She hung it from her porch ceiling.
In this barn sits one of the ruins of one of Ford's early car competitors...amazing farm upstate NYC
Coming in to land at LaGuardia in a Dash 8 (my favorite). Unfortunately, my boy wasn't flying the plane this time.
The west window of the rebuilt naved, installed in 1918 and the work of Jersey-based artist Henry Thomas Bosdet.
Hexham Abbey started life as a Benedictine monastery founded by St Wilfrid in 674, building his church from recycled Roman stonework. The building would have been significantly smaller than that which we see today though a small part of it remains in the Abbey's famous Anglo Saxon crypt, a four-chambered space (one of the most ancient Christian structures still in use in Britain) concealed beneath the present nave. Most of the present church however is the result of 13th century rebuilding in the Early English style.
Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537 the Abbey church was retained for use as the town's parish church of St Andrew, which it has remained ever since. Most of the monastic buildings and the medieval nave were abandoned and quarried away around this time, leaving just the choir and transepts in use. The Victorian period saw major restoration of the church which included the rebuilding of the eastern bay of the choir in 1858, whilst ongoing work to improve the state of the abbey culminated in the early years of the 20th century with the rebuilding of the ruined nave (reusing the original foundations and lower parts of the walls) to the designs of Temple Moore, which was consecrated in 1908.
The Abbey is a delight to explore and retains much of interest from the medieval period, including many original furnishings and a surprisingly rich collection of 15th century paintings on wood, incorporated into the choir screen and stalls, and yet further in the two chantry chapels flanking the high altar. One of the chapels, the chantry of Prior Leschman, is famous for its primitive stone carvings. The oldest item in the church however is the 'Frith Stool' in the centre of the choir, an ancient bishop's throne from St Wilfrid's time which would have been in use when the previous church was briefly designated as a cathedral.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexham_Abbey
Hexham Abbey is a church I'd wanted to see for many years and finally getting to see it was no disappointment. I was also made very welcome here by everyone I met and would happily return. The church is currently closed to the public for renovation (Jan-March 2019) but is normally open and welcoming on a daily basis.