Graveyards, Cemeteries & Burial Places in Scotland. No 30/60 rul
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On this day, Peter Sanchez ashes were set out into the Atlantic Ocean by three of his daughters, his niece, and his son in law. A day at the beach and a celebration of his life. A grand farewell.
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Begun in 1030 under Conrad II, with the east end and high vault of 1090-1103, the imposing triple-aisled vaulted basilica of red sandstone is the "culmination of a design which was extremely influential in the subsequent development of Romanesque architecture during the 11th and 12th centuries". As the burial site for Salian, Staufer and Habsburg emperors and kings the cathedral is regarded as a symbol of imperial power. With the Abbey of Cluny in ruins, it remains the largest Romanesque church. It is considered to be "a turning point in European architecture", one of the most important architectural monuments of its time and one of the finest Romanesque monuments.
In 1981, the cathedral was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List of culturally important sites as "a major monument of Romanesque art in the German Empire".
Submitted: 06/12/2016
Accepted: 27/12/2016
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- ANWB (Netherlands) 31-Mar-2021
- Axel Springer Deutschland GmbH (Germany) 19-Jun-2024
- Axel Springer Deutschland GmbH (Germany) 03-Feb-2025
Burial chapel from 1913 at the Northern Cemetery, Norrköping, Östergötland, Sweden.
Architect Torben Grut
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Tomb from the church of Näshult, which predates the current church (the church is from 1735 - the burial from 1572). And the photo lies a bit - the stone is placed in the floor, not standing up, but I liked the effect from this angle.
The man buried here is Nils Persson from Holma, of the noble Silfversparre family (Silfversparre is a description of the coat of arms which later was used as a family name, so if you look at the stone you can see that coat of arms, but the name Silfversparre isn't actually mentioned). Nils Persson was first mentioned in 1529 and had several important functions in the higher echelons of society - though they are hard to translate to English so I won't try. He died October 19 1572, at six in the afternoon (according to the stone). Nils Persson had acquired a lot of land in his life-time and he seems to have been rather ruthless - and he had actually killed a man in 1551. He had at least three children, including a daughter - who was also accused of murder. She was later executed, but not for that, but for treachery towards the king. You can't help but get the feeling that if you were important enough, back in the day, you really could get away with murder...
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After a lengthy cold journey up the loch in a slow little boat, we eased in under the shelter of the the far side of the island, jumping ashore once the boat could get no closer. We fought up the steep edge, slippery with rain, and tangled in ripping brambles, stumbling over tree stumps and hidden marker stones. And as the summit opened out we were surrounded by lichen encrusted crosses and headstones and other memorials. There were signs of relatively recent human invasion with small, weathered bouquets of plastic flowers laid at one or two graves, but otherwise we might have believed we were the first visitors in hundreds of years. For this was the burial island of St Finnan's, ancient burial ground of the Chiefs of Moidart dating back some 2000 years. Only possible to visit by boat, there were signs indicating some have been buried there since the year 2000, mainly with commemorative plaques (and plastic flowers). But otherwise the island is unspoiled, wild in nature, and extremely atmospheric. Was that dark brown shape I saw a golden eagle swooping from its perch across to another tree on the far side of the island, when we first arrived? Not much seems to be known about it's history, perhaps lying woven into Viking sagas. So isolated and silent was the place I was grateful to find later that our ferryman had waited by the boat for us.
IR shot of a Neolithic burial mound overlooking the village of Avebury in South West England. Avebury itself is a Neolithic henge monument in the South West of England containing three stone circles likley to have been over 3000 years BC. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans.
Constructed over several hundred years in the third millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument.
(3 image HDR)With a little twist of 'olli-ort'..
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INFO 'The Domesday Book records Ringmore as a Devon Manor known then as ‘Ronmore’. Stephen de Haccombe, and his successors are know to have built three chapels in the area, two survive as chapels today, one at Haccombe, and the other is St Nicholas in Ringmore, Shaldon.
The third local chapel is only a ruin. Church Architects are of the opinion the St Nicholas is of 13th Century origins, a fact borne out by the East end Wall with it’s Lancet window-a fact accepted as proof.
Records of various events refer to this church, and the Register of Baptisms was started in 1616, prior to that, Baptisms had taken place at Haccombe. About this time, the Carew family –now Lords of the Manor of Haccombe, carried out repairs to St Nicholas, but the fabric of the building, and it’s architectural features were kept intact. Haccombe Church supplied the Clergy to the Church until 1621 when the first Clergy signed the Baptism register - Elezeus Coke.
Burial and Marriage registers were than started –and in 1671 Lord Clifford bought several local estates including the Manor of Ringmore with St Nicholas Parish. Bishop Keppel visited the church in 1768 and decided that care was needed to restore the Church.
By 1790 a large extension had been added, and a gallery built, along with various other improvements. Mention of a Church organ was made in 1827, but was then replaced with an early version of the Harmonium called a ‘Seraphine’. 1839 saw a gallery added to the North wall for the Sunday School, and a new roof with a domed skylight and wooden Bell tower added in1841. The original font had been removed, and replaced by the existing font-which is Saxon or early Norman.
Reverend Richard Marsh-Dunn cancelled plans for any more changes to St Nicholas, as he had decided to build a new church on the reclaimed land on Riverside in Shaldon.
This was consecrated and dedicated to St.Peter, and became the new Parish Church of St.Nicholas, South Devon in 1903. St Nicholas was subsequently renovated with funds generated by a generous benefactor, and was given the official title of Chapel of Ease.'
It's not exactly Boot Hill, there are no records of gunfights in the middle of Ross, but some convicts are buried here.
I've chosen a very wide angle here, because that's the sense you get in the Midlands. The wide open spaces of prime sheep country under a looming sky. The sky is actually a very real presence in these Midlands landscapes, especially at night, where the dark skies provide a perfect viewing of the Milky Way, and if one is lucky, the Aurora Australis.
I'll finish today's lot with these amazing words of Emily Dickinson's. Please read it slowly, and perhaps several times over for its impact:
"Of Death I try to think like this —
The Well in which they lay us
Is but the Likeness of the Brook
That menaced not to slay us,
But to invite by that Dismay
Which is the Zest of sweetness
To the same Flower Hesperian,
Decoying but to greet us —
I do remember when a Child
With bolder Playmates straying
To where a Brook that seemed a Sea
Withheld us by its roaring
From just the Purple Flower beyond
Until constrained to clutch it
If Doom itself were the result,
The boldest leaped, and clutched it —" [Poem 1588].
I can hear her voice now.
Canoptic Jar and Cover of Lady Senebtisi,ca.1938-1759 BCE,limestone,pigment
Priests separately mummified the stomach,liver,lungs,and intestines,to be placed in jars.in the most expensive method of mummification described by Herodotus.The practice of removing the organs and packing them separately declined in the Middle Kingdom and later,yet Egyptians still included canopic jars in burials.And while the covers of Middle Kingdom canopic jars all have human heads,by the New Kingdom the jars of the royal scribe of Rameses all,named Tjuli,had human,baboon,jackal,and falcon heads.
Inside the tomb of Ramses V & VI in The Valley of the Kings.
The sarcophagus, which was placed in the center of the burial chamber out of sight here, would have been inside this outer container, which was smashed to pieces by grave robbers. Still, the dark stone, lit from below, makes for a dramatic scene against the light colored walls.
This is the grave of Maria Luisa Montesano, born Levi della Vida in 1882, who died in 1968. And it's like nothing else I've seen. So the grave is rather modern, but it incorporates Roman spolia [Wikipedia definition: a stone taken from an old structure and repurposed for new construction or decorative purposes.]. It's an ancient Roman cinerary urn on top, but with Montesano's name added. The frieze on the front comes from a Roman sarcophagus, and then there are some added elements from at least one statue and parts of columns are used both as decoration and as the lower name plaque.
At the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, as it is popularly known. The name of the cemetery is actually Cimitero Acattolico, which means the Non-Catholic cemetery.
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The Clan McNabb Burial Place lies beside the Dochart River and Falls on the entrance to the village of Killin in Central Scotland. The falls were roaring on the day we arrived in 2013, it was cold and wet and we eventually settled for a meal and Irn Bru in the town pub beside a lovely fire! The weather was kinder in 2015, a day of no wind that provided beautiful reflections in local rivers and lochs!
Another former railway that fascinates me to this day ran here, the beauty of this village that sits under the mountain of Ben Lawers and not far from Loch Tay, both often featured in photographs of the the line. Opened in 1886, it closed in 1965.
Another image of tombs and commemorative slabs in the Tower (belfry) from that fascinating place, Jerpoint Abbey. It is believed that St. Nicholas (the original Santa Claus) was brought by two Crusader knights from Myra, Turkey to Jerpoint. The table tomb and slabs are of the Butler family and other powerful families of the area, who used the ruins as a burial site. The Butler family were leased the monastery after the great Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1542.
It's not on the tourist trail, but I think it should be. Thousands flock to the nearby Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge but very few go to Cille Choirill Church or graveyard beyond. The setting is fantastic, remote, high above the River Spean, main A86 road , and railway, the area is surrounded by snow capped mountains. The small church is old, dating back to the 15th Century. It's a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Kerrill (Cyril) and might have been built by Cameron of Locheil who was a famous Highlander.
The burial ground rises to a summit, Celtic crosses abound, war graves too...........Seaforths, Cameron Highlanders.....1st Lovat Scouts and all manner of deaths of mere mortals: I saw a stone bearing "accidentally drowned". It is really interesting noting names, dates, ages, place of death, and other information cut into the stones. More than I have noticed in other burial grounds the ground is sunken into the graves or humped over old caskets. I certainly wouldn't dare to wander around here at night !
Wikipedia: Westminster Abbey is a large and famous Anglican church in Westminster, London. It is the shrine of Edward the Confessor and the burial place of many kings and queens. Since it was built it has been the place where the coronations of Kings and Queens of England have been held. The present structure dates from 1245, when it was started by Henry III.
The status of the Abbey is that of a Royal Peculiar. This means it is place of worship that falls directly under the jurisdiction of the British monarch, rather than under a bishop. The concept dates from Anglo-Saxon times, when a church could ally itself with the monarch and therefore not be subject to the bishop of the area. Technically speaking, it is not a cathedral, though it is regarded as one in practice.
One of the most famous tombs at Westminster Abbey is that of the Unknown Warrior.
Westminster Abbey and its small parish church, St Margaret's, form a UNESCO World Heritage site, which also includes Westminster Palace.
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What happens when a cemetery with a deteriorating mausoleum is sold because of delinquent taxes? You can learn all about what is being described as the saddest and strangest situation that one community has ever had to deal with in Death and Taxes (Part 2): The Crumbling Burial Chamber .
This is the biggest of them all, here on Norway's largest beach of rolling stones; Mølen.
The place takes its name from the Old Norse word "mol", meaning a stone mound or bank of stones.
The cultural landscape of Mølen, with its total of 230 cairns, is one of the most notable in Norway. The area has 16 large cairns, many up to 35 metres (115 ft) in diameter, with almost 200 small cairns in rows parallel to the shoreline. In one of the cairns, burnt stones were found; this could be the result of a cremation dating back to the 5th century A.D. The small cairns may symbolize warriors who fell in battle or were shipwrecked together with their captain.
The cairns closest to the sea are from the late Iron Age and Viking times.
It is not clear why some graves are mounded, while others are of simpler form. It is unknown what ceremonies were linked to the burials, but it is likely that the most powerful members of society were given the most impressive grave sites, while ordinary people received simpler types of graves or were buried without any mound, cairn or bauta stones as grave markers.
(Wikipedia)
It's quite an impressive sight!
Olympus OM-2n [From the archives 1986].
Robert Frost is buried in the Old First Church burial ground.
I was at the Native Reserve today...I was gonna do some floral shots...something drew me to the old burial grounds...It was so powerful that I openly wept ......
I love emotion... It means I'm alive...
Vienna's Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof) covers 590 acres; starting in 1874, about 3 million burials took place here
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This is inside the Nether Largie Burial Cairn in Kilmartin Glen. Thousands of years ago it where the Celts and the Picts would have buried their dead. Men, women and children would all have been buried in the feotal position.
Innisidgen Upper Burial Chamber, an 'entrance grave' from the Bronze Age. Of the 80 prehistoric chambered tombs on the Isles of Scilly this one on St Mary's is the best preserved. It is also known as 'The Giant's Grave'. 'Entrance graves' - named after their shape - are unique to the Isles of Scilly and West Cornwall.
The former Radford United Church (1906) in Clarendon, Quebec, Canada.
On June 10, 1925, 70% of Presbyterian churches in Canada, the Methodist Church (of) Canada, and the Congregational Union of Canada entered into a union to form the United Church of Canada.
Prior to the formation of the United Church of Canada, this church was known as the Ebenezer Methodist Church (aka: Old Ebenezer Methodist Church).
See: www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode...
And here: www.lieuxdeculte.qc.ca/fiche.php?LIEU_CULTE_ID=46165&...
That being said, my research indicates that there was a church with this very same name in Clarendon, in Radford, bearing the name Ebenezer Methodist Church, that was built around the mid 1900s. So perhaps the former once existed at this very location.
I have found no indications that this church is active, save for burials and funeral services.
St Patrick’s Chapel, Whitesands Bay, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Extract from the BBC website “ Hundreds of medieval bodies have been saved from sands eroding into the sea at Whitesands Beach in Pembrokeshire.
The bodies, which have been preserved in the sand, are being excavated at a burial site at St Patrick's Chapel.
The remains from the site, which was a medieval trading post with Ireland, will be stored at the National Museum of Wales.”
On our hike we came across a lone burial site. Back in the day this is how it was done. We respected the area and continued on our hike. You never know what you may find in the deep woods.
IC #1021 rounds the curve at 35th Street near the site of the tomb of Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois Senator and lobbyist for the Illinois Central Railroad. The infamous Union prisoner-of-war camp, Camp Douglas, was located just north of here on land that Douglas sold to the State of Illinois in 1861. Dubbed "Andersonville of the North", it is estimated that over 6,000 Confederate prisoners died in the camp and are buried in Oak Woods Cemetery off 67th Street.