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This rooms doesn't appear to have ever had a ceiling/roof -- it is under an overhang. In the niche on the side are some very old corn husks knotted into bundles - they can almost be seen in larger sizes.
Taken on 6 July 2015, taken with Hanimex 35es. I was basically just trying to finish off the remaining frames of film...
Just as you come out of the Great Hall, there it is - this wonderful fan vaulted ceiling, built in the 17th century.
silver chandelier and detail of ceiling molding - retail store on powell street -downtown san francisco, california
Bean bags are supplied to provide a comfortable view of the ceiling
Banqueting House
London, England, UK
Ceiling of the Ancient Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, now the nave of Aachen Cathedral. The mosaic ceiling is a nineteenth century creation.
After such an intriguing exterior the interior of Aachen Cathedral is no less perplexing, particularly in regard to it's confusing layout.
In place of the usual long nave here we are confronted with the ancient, byzantine inspired octagonal space at that forms the heart of the cathedral and was the chapel of Charlemagne's Royal Palace built in the ninth century.
Beyond this early, Romanesque looking space can be glimpsed the high Gothic of the choir, a complete stylistic contrast, which makes this cathedral seem more a collection of remarkable rooms cobbled together rather than a unified church building, like some sort of full scale architectural history lesson!
Aachen Cathedral can only be described as perhaps one of the most uniquely bizarre, fascinating and liturgically difficult churches in Christendom, no other church has a profile or ground plan quite like it!
The nucleus of the building is the octagonal nave (crowned today by a dome) which is the surviving chapel of Charlemagne's palace built in c805, somewhat Byzantine in appearance, and one of the oldest complete sections of any cathedral in Europe.
As a result the cathedral is a fairly compact building, with no long central aisle, just a round central space. The western entrance was once through an atrium, on the site of the present courtyard, but the simple bulk of the entrance / lower part of the west tower survives from this time, though now carrying gothic additions, a baroque entrance porch and a neo-gothic belfry dating from 1884..
The Cathedral has grown somewhat organically since Charlemagne's time, with a delicate choir in French gothic style added to the east of the ninth century octagonal nave and consecrated in 1414. Various chapels were also added around this time, which now sprout from the ancient nave in all directions on both sides, in richly ornamented late gothic style with one baroque exception. These contrast heavily with the simplicity of the oldest parts of the church and make this exterior perhaps the most bizarre, cluttered and eccentric cathedral anywhere!
The ceiling of All Saints church in Cambridge, with one of the lights.
The church was bulit in the 1860s by GF Bodley and is a wonder of Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts design, including work by WIlliam Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown. It is now in the care of the Church Conservation Trust. See the CCT website
Tenuous Link: pattern of lines
I had been planning to visit St Thomas More's Catholic church in Sheldon for some time;. It is built of concrete in a kind of semi-circular 'fan' layout crowned by two fins forming a central fleche. It is the work of Richard Gilbert Scott and opened in 1967.
I found the interior quite stunning, covered by a sweeping layered roof and enclosed by walls of coloured glass (by John Chrestien) in rich blues and oranges throwing strips of coloured light onto the floor. On the rear wall is an odd sequence of symbolic applique windows with coloured glass granules (some coming apart) and two separate chapels with further abstract glazing. I really liked this church, a little known modernist gem.
A shot of the cupola roof in one of the Buildings of the Schloßgarten in Schwetzingen, Germany (the mosque)
Quinta da Regaleira
Sintra, Portugal
Quinta da Regaleira is an estate located near the historic center of Sintra, Portugal. It is classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO within the "Cultural Landscape of Sintra". Along with other palaces in this area (such as the Pena, Monserrate and Seteais palaces), it is one of the principal tourist attractions of Sintra. It consists of a romantic palace and chapel, and a luxurious park featuring lakes, grottoes, wells, benches, fountains, and a vast array of exquisite constructions. The palace is also known as "Palace of Monteiro the Millionaire", from the nickname of its first owner, António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro.
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O Palácio da Regaleira é o edifício principal e o nome mais comum da Quinta da Regaleira. Também é designado Palácio do Monteiro dos Milhões, denominação esta associada à alcunha do seu primeiro proprietário, António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro. O palácio está situado na encosta da serra e a escassa distância do Centro Histórico de Sintra estando classificado como Imóvel de Interesse Público desde 2002.
Carvalho Monteiro, pelo traço do arquitecto italiano Luigi Manini, dá à quinta de 4 hectares, o palácio, rodeado de luxuriantes jardins, lagos, grutas e construções enigmáticas, lugares estes que ocultam significados alquímicos, como os evocados pela Maçonaria, Templários e Rosa-cruz. Modela o espaço em traçados mistos, que evocam a arquitectura românica, gótica, renascentista e manuelina.
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