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37412 'Driver John Elliot' crosses Dolemeads Viaduct on the approach to Bath Spa Station with 2V87, the 1655 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads Regional Railways service on 6 July, 1996. Private operator Wales and West (part of Prism Rail) would take over these services in October that year.
Bath architecture, the Royal Crescent, the famous row of buildings has been used as the back drop in many TV shows and films especially adaptations of Jane Austin novels
66850 and 66849 pass Hampton Row, on the eastern edge of Bath, powering the Hereford-Swindon RHTT on 3 December, 2022. There was a halt here between 1907 and 1917, with staggered platforms linked by a footbridge that still exists. The lead loco is passing the site of the former up platform; the down one was behind the camera. The retaining wall on the left holds back the Kennet and Avon Canal, which was re-routed at this point when the railway was built.
Omizuya (holy water bath), today can be found in all shrines in Japan. Visitors here purify their hands and mouth before entering the shrine. In the old days, however, temple visitors washed their hands and mouth with natural water from the river and the spring. The omizuya of the Toshogu shrine was built for the purpose of purifying the visitors. The basin is 1.2 meters wide, 2.6 meters deep and 1 meter high. The basin was consecrated in 1618 by Nabeshima Katsushige, feudal lord of Kyushu-Saga. The omizuya has remained completely unchanged except for the repair of a few structural elements.
The omizuya introduced a few important architectural techniques. One of them is the use of stone pillars. The other is the water supply system. An aqueduct had been constructed that ran from a water source near the takino-o-jinja to the water basin of Omizuya. A siphon mechanism was also added. Today the water is supplied with a modern metal pipe system.
Sculptures of the flying dragon have been placed under the roof of the omizuya. This one has wings and is treated like the spiritual beast that controls water. A part was cut in the west corner of the roof to place an amulet there
The Church of St Michael's Without is Grade II*-listed and was designed in 1835 by George Phillips Manners (1789 –1866), Bath's City Architect from 1823 to 1862. It is the fourth church to have stood on this spot, just outside the former city walls, where it dominates Bath's skyline. The present building replaced a much smaller classical church of 1741-43 by John Harvey.
According to British Listed Buildings, "St Michael's is a notable example of a pre-Pugin Gothic Revival church, erected before the preoccupation with archaeological correctness took hold of ecclesiastical architects. It possesses great townscape value externally, by dint of its scale, its siting, its lofty proportions, its decorative consistency and its overall Romantic conception. The interior is of very high quality and survives in fine condition."
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is an Anglican parish church and a former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, Bath Abbey was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. ww.muttiah.com
67021 passes Freshford with a Belmond British Pullman 'Historic Bath' luxury tour from London Victoria on 4 October, 2023.
… another shot from our Bath trip, very enjoyable - just not enough time to see & enjoy it all.…..
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Bath Abbey is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries.
A boat exits the Cleveland Tunnel on the Kennet and Avon Canal as it runs through Sydney Gardens, Bath.
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