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As you walk into All Saints Church, the left hand wall is completely decorated with wall paintings in which Angels feature strongly, while up above - the ceiling is picked out mainly in green, red and white with the name of Christ appearing (HIS) Like the murals designed by the Rev C Gray - the total effect must have helped the local parishoners to understand the meaning of Christianity
Now part of Ottawa City Hall; they call it the Heritage Building.
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The Former Ottawa Teacher’s College National Historic Site of Canada is located on Elgin Street in downtown Ottawa. A fine example of late-19th century eclectic design, the building’s two-and-a-half-storey front block is a balanced composition exhibiting an eclectic interpretation of the Gothic Revival Style. The roof, in the Second Empire style, with a central spired belfry, features a gable and a lively series of turrets. The building is now part of the Ottawa City Hall Complex. Official recognition refers to the former school building on its original lot.
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The Former Ottawa Teacher’s College was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1974 because it is a nationally significant example of the Gothic Revival Style in Canada whose use of disparate architectural details reflects a spirit of eclecticism.
The Ottawa Teacher’s College or Normal School, designed by the architect W.R. Strickland and built in 1874-1875 by J. Forin under supervising architect James Mather, was the second institution of its type to be established in Ontario. The College continued to train teachers for Ontario until 1974. Purchased by the regional government, an office complex was constructed to the rear. After municipal amalgamation, the building became part of Ottawa City Hall.
The rectangular massing with central pavilion of the main block follows an accepted format for 19th century academic institutions, while the use of disparate architectural details including a mix of pointed Gothic-style, semi-circular and flat-headed windows, Romanesque columns, and Second Empire-style roof, reflects a spirit of eclecticism.
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The Heritage Building was formerly the Ottawa Normal School, built in 1875. It was the second Normal School established in Ontario and is the oldest still standing today. In 1879, a model school for 360 pupils was added. As well, an assembly hall and additional classrooms were added in 1892.
The original architect, WR Strickland, chose the Gothic renaissance style to reflect the influence of the parliament buildings. Semi-circular Italiante windows, Romanesque columns and Second Empire roof complete the Victorian structure. The exterior walls are made from limestone quarried in Gloucester Township. The roof is slate and all the decorative trim is made of cast iron.
The building was purchased by the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton (RMOC) in 1987, which built the office complex to the rear. Restoration and renovation work began in early 1988. Renamed the Heritage Building, it officially was reopened as part of Regional Headquarters in May 1990. After municipal amalgamation in 2001, the building became Ottawa City Hall. Today it is the executive block of Ottawa City Hall housing the offices of the Mayor, City Manager and City Clerk.
The Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame, showcasing Ottawa sports legends, is now permanently housed on the first floor of the building.
Doors Open 2023 @ City Hall; Ottawa, Ontario.
An Old photo, this is part of the 1st batch of photo taken with my then new Canon 400D. I could not remember where is this particular building located but is along the Melbourne Heritage Trail..
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this is another of my ceilings series..this a part of the ceiling of the church called ' Marie Reine Du Monde' situated in Montreal, Quebec
The Impressive skylight inside the former Don Jail which is now the administration offices for Bridgepoint Health. If you enjoy my photography please visit www.fulcrumimaging.com Copyright 2014.
Ships hang from the ceiling of this church are a nod to the nickname "Sailor's Church." It's proximity to a port made the church very popular with sailors, who stopped in for a sermon and a prayer before leaving for sometimes dangerous sea voyages.
At the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel in Montreal, Quebec
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Built in 1976 with the US military serial 76-22599
Owned and operated by the Marine Aviation Museum but seen in the hangars of the Lone Star Flight Museum at their previous location in Galveston, Texas, United States.
18th March 2017
The ceiling of the Hypostyle Hall at Dendera Temple is enriched with an incredible amount of figurative detail carved in low relief and painted in subtle shades against a blue background. The subjects include numerous deities and hybrid figures (some familiar, others much less so) and even astrological elements, such as recognisable figures from the zodiac.
Over the centuries the ceiling had become so darkened by dirt and soot to become heavily obscured and hard to read, and this is how I saw it for the first time in the 1990s, when many visitors probably missed it altogether. Now it has been fully cleaned and restored it shines again not only as one of the glories of the temple but one of the most remarkable surviving decorative schemes of ancient Egypt. The contrast with its previous blackened, unrestored condition is dramatic, giving an entirely different impression from our previous visit.
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of Egypt's best preserved and most beautiful ancient shrines. This magnificent edifice dates to the Ptolemaic period, late in Egyptian history, though the site long had been the cult centre for the goddess Hathor for centuries before (the earliest extant remains date to c360BC but a temple is recorded here as far back as c2250BC). Most of the main building dates to the reigns of the last Cleopatras and further decoration and building work within the complex continued in the Roman period up to the reign of Trajan.
The dominant structure in the complex is the Temple of Hathor, an enormous structure with a rectangular facade punctuated by the Hathor-headed columns of the hypostyle hall within. This hall is an architectural wonder, a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian design and decoration, which covers every surface and has been recently cleaned, revealing a superb astrological ceiling in all its original vibrant colours.
Sadly there was much iconoclasm here during the early Christian period and most of the reliefs of the walls and pillars have been defaced. Worse still is the damage to the 24 Hathor-head capitals: not one of the nearly a hundred huge faces of the goddess that once smiled down on this hall has been left unblemished, most with their features cruelly chiselled away.
The main temple building is otherwise structurally intact, and extends into further halls and chapels beyond, again with much relief decoration (much of which is again defaced). In one corner is an entrance to a crypt below, an unusual feature in Egyptian temple architecture consisting of several narrow passages adorned with carved relief decoration in good condition.
There are further sanctuaries and chapels above on the roof of the temple, accessed by a decorated staircase and including the room where the famous Dendera Zodiac was formerly located (today its place in the ceiling taken by a cast of the original, now displayed in Paris). The highest part of the roof complex is no longer accessible to tourists, but I can still recall making the ascent there on our first visit in 1992.
Several other buildings surround the main temple, the most impressive of which is the mammisi or 'birth-house'. This consists of a large rectangluar hall surrounded by a colonnade near the entrance to the site and has some well preserved relief decoration on its exterior. Most of this structure dates to the Roman period, but the ruins of its predecessor built under Nectanebo II (Egypt's last native pharoah) stand nearby.
Dendera temple is one of the most rewarding in Egypt and shouldn't be missed. It is one of the most complete and evocative ancient monuments in the country and its recent restoration has revealed a surprisingly extensive amount of colour surviving within (we were amazed by the dramatic contrast with the soot-blackened ceiling we'd beheld on our previous visit in the 1990s). Despite its relative youth (in Egyptian terms at least!) it is easily one of my favourite sites in Egypt.
The Loretto Chapel was built in the 1870s. The chapel is mostly famous for its helix-shaped spiral staircase that some people claim to be a miracle. A hotel, spa, restaurant, and a small mall corridor have been built connected to the chapel over the years...
Loretto Chapel - Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Straight up... the view in one ot the smaller onion domes of the church.
Interior view of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is one of the main sights of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is also variously called the Church on Spilt Blood and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, its official name. The name refers to the blood of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, who was assassinated on that site in 1881. The Church is prominently situated along the Griboedov Canal.
Construction began in 1883 under Alexander III, as a memorial to his father, Alexander II. Work progressed slowly and was finally completed during the reign of Nicholas II in 1907. The Church contains over 7500 square metres of mosaics—according to its restorers, more than any other church in the world. Nothing is painted here all are mosaics!
Der Blick nach oben in das Innere eines der kleineren Zwiebeltürme der Kirche. Die Kirche ist innen über und über mit Mosaiken bestückt - nichts ist hier gemalt! Die Kirche wurde in den letzten Jahren restauriert und so erstrahlen die wunderbaren Mosaike in den schönsten Farben.
Die Auferstehungskirche, auch als Blutkirche, Erlöserkirche und Bluterlöser-Kirche bekannt, ist eine Kathedrale in Sankt Petersburg. Die Kirche ist nach dem Vorbild der Moskauer Basilius-Kathedrale im so genannten „Neuen Stil“ (entspricht dem Jugendstil) gestaltet und als einziges Gebäude der Petersburger Innenstadt, das sich nicht an den italienischen und klassizistischen westlichen Baustilen orientiert, entsprechend auffällig. Erbaut wurde sie von 1883 bis 1912 an der Stelle, an der Alexander II. einem Attentat zum Opfer fiel.
Die Kirche steht in der Nähe des Newski-Prospektes am Gribojedow-Kanal. Die an altrussischen Vorbildern angelehnte Gestaltung des Gebäudes bedeckt eine Fläche von etwa 7000 Quadratmetern; die innere flächendeckende Ausgestaltung mit russischen Mosaiken im Ikonenstil und äußere Verzierung besteht vor allem aus Mosaiken. Die Kathedrale dient heute als Museum.
This being the oldest part of the hospital, it has some lovely architectural features. I was particularly taken by this skylight and its accompanying painted panels. While I was lying on my back taking this picture, a passer-bye offered to give me the kiss of life. I felt obliged to decline his offer.
Again, hard to get the light right. Love all those tiny moons and stars though - I'm sure those have been fashionable motifs for clothing sometime in the last 10 years or so, but the ceiling obviously predates those by a few centuries!