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Taken in the chapter house of York Minster. I got some rather strange looks off a coach load of Japanese tourists when I was lying in the middle of the floor with my camera but it was worth it.
I sat looking up at this wonderful piece of vaulting for ages, it's just so beautifully done. Could we even replicate it these days? Some of us atheists like church architecture you know!
According to Wikipedia:-
The chapter house was begun in the late 13th century and built in two stages, completed about 1310. It is a two-storeyed structure with the main chamber raised on an undercroft. It is entered from a staircase which divides and turns, one branch leading through the upper storey of Chain Gate to Vicars' Close. The Decorated interior is described by Alec Clifton-Taylor as "architecturally the most beautiful in England". It is octagonal, with its ribbed vault supported on a central column. The column is surrounded by shafts of Purbeck Marble, rising to a single continuous rippling foliate capital of stylised oak leaves and acorns, quite different in character from the Early English stiff-leaf foliage. Above the moulding spring thirty-two ribs of strong profile, giving an effect generally likened to "a great palm tree". The windows are large with Geometric Decorated tracery that is beginning to show an elongation of form, and ogees in the lesser lights that are characteristic of Flowing Decorated tracery. The tracery lights still contain ancient glass. Beneath the windows are 51 stalls, the canopies of which are enlivened by carvings including many heads carved in a light-hearted manner.
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[ENG] The Chapterhouse is placed in the side east of the cloister, it has the typical configuration of the Cistercians, and it is the architectural space of major singularity, perfection and beauty of the monastic set. The interior of the chapterhouse is a wide piece of an alone nave of square form, covered by a ribbed vault of eight arches, without intermediate columns, unique in the Cistercian abbeys of the Iberian Peninsula. The quality of the working of the corbels and capitals is very similar to what we see in the cloister, coming to a virtuosity in his fretworks to trepan in corbels and the rosette of the key, now broken. The hall is surrounded by a stone pew run, coated on a rough wooden chairs of the 20th century. In the interior they find two sarchofagi, to the right is the Doña Mencia, the first abbess of the monastery, and to another side that of her cousin and second abbess Doña María. Also it includes San Andrés's image of the 13th century (she is not the one that says the legend that was found in the nearby stream) placed on a shaft decorated as the column of the corner southwest of the cloister.
[ESP] La Sala Capitular está situada en la panda este del claustro, tiene la configuración típica del Cister, y es el espacio arquitectónico de mayor singularidad, perfección y belleza del conjunto monacal. El interior de la sala capitular es una amplia pieza de una sola nave de forma cuadrada, cubierta por una bóveda de crucería octopartita, sin columnas intermedias, caso único en las abadías cistercienses de la Península. La calidad de labra de las ménsulas y capiteles es muy similar a la que vemos en el claustro, llegando a un virtuosismo en sus calados a trépano en ménsulas y en el rosetón de la clave, hoy roto. La sala está rodeada por un banco de corrido de piedra, revestido por una tosca sillería capitular de madera del siglo XX. En el interior se encuentran dos sarcófagos, a la derecha está el de doña Mencía, primera abadesa del monasterio, y el de de su prima y segunda abadesa Doña María al otro lado. También incluye una imagen de San Andrés del siglo XIII (no es la que dice la leyenda que se encontró en el arroyo vecino) colocada sobre un fuste decorado como la columna de la esquina suroeste del claustro.
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Work started on the Chapter House in 1260. The Chapter House is where the Dean and Chapter of York administer the cathedral, and as such is the only area not consecrated within the Minster. It is still used today for this purpose. Its design means that no-one is seated in a central position, and so everyone is equal and no-one can assume authority. The Chapter House is in the Decorated Gothic style and is unique as it does not have a central column to support the roof vaulting. The structure was complete by 1286.
This sublime octagonal space, located in the East Cloister of the Abbey, was built under Henry III around 1250. It was originally used as a meeting place for the Benedictine monks who oversaw the running of the abbey and its church. The King’s Great Council, predecessor of the English Parliament, first met here in 1257 and, after its formation in the 14th century, the House of Commons usually met here until the reign of Henry VIII.
By the 18th century the medieval stained glass that originally filled the windows had been lost in the course of various transformations the Chapter House had undergone. New windows that were added in the 19th century were severely damaged during bombing raids in 1941. After the war English stained glass artist, Joan Howson, was commissioned to restore the windows. She set what remained of the Victorian glass into alternate windows (left, right and centre in the photo). In the other two windows seen here she created new designs consisting of coats of arms set into clear glass panes. In the southwest window (to the right of the window on the far right of the photo) she set images relating to the Second World War.
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The Abbey of Fontenay is a former Cistercian abbey located in the commune of Marmagne, near Montbard, in the département of Côte-d'Or in France.
It was founded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118, only a few years after he left Cîteaux Abbey to found Clairvaux Abbey. Located in a small forested valley 60 kilometres northwest of Dijon, it achieved great prosperity in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Fontenay enjoyed the protection of the Kings of France but was plundered in the Hundred Year's War and the Wars of Religion. Later, its fortunes declined, and the refectory was demolished by the monks in 1745. The abbey was closed in the French Revolution, and became a paper mill until 1902, owned for most of its period of operation by the Montgolfier family.
The abbey was bought by Édouard Aynard in 1905 and restored. Apart from the demolished refectory, it retains almost all of its original buildings: church, dormitory, cloister, chapter house, caldarium or "heating room", dovecote and forge, all built in Romanesque style, with later abbot's lodgings and infirmary. Today the abbey buildings are set in modern manicured parterres of lawn and gravel. It is one of the oldest and most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe, and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981.
The church of the abbey was built from 1139 to 1147, and was dedicated by Pope Eugene III in 1147. It has a cruciform plan, with a nave 66 metres long and 8 metres wide, with two aisles, and a transept measuring 19 metres. The cloister measures 36×38 metres. The chapterhouse is vaulted, with heavy ribs. The large dormitory is roofed with fifteenth-century chestnut timbers.
...from the bishop chair with some cosmic touch.
This is a view of one amongs the best acoustic rooms I've never seen .Such that is than it is possible just wispering speak with another person seated 30 yards away on the another side of this magic chamber.
it is a probe of the very skillful knoledge of architecture of these old masons.
Construite au XIIIe siècle, cette salle qui servait aux réunions quotidiennes de l'abbé et de ses moines garde des traces de polychromie du XVe siècle.
A shot I took a while ago but was never very happy with the way the 18mm "saw" the perspective... so I've attacked the vertical distortion slider to make the horizontal line of sight as square as I can. As a result, I lost a lot of the floor and the ceiling stretched. I've also had a slide of contrast, colour and shadow. (The original is in my albums.)
Die 1124 - 1242 erbaute Kathedrale wurde im Volksmund „The Lantern of the North“ – die Leuchte des Nordens – genannt und war damals die größte Kathedrale Schottlands. Sie wurde durch mehrere Brände und in den Wirren der Reformation zerstört. Das dazugehörige Kapitelhaus wurde nach einem Brand 1270 erbaut und zwischen 1482 und 1501 erneuert. Es ist größtenteils erhalten.
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The cathedral—dedicated to the Holy Trinity—was established in 1224. After a damaging fire in 1270, a rebuilding programme greatly enlarged the building, but again destroyed by an extensive fire damage in 1390. By the time of the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the cathedral was abandoned.
A mostly intact octagonal chapter house dates from the major enlargement after the fire of 1270. Probably the last important rebuilding feature was the major restructuring of the chapterhouse between 1482 and 1501.
Chapter House
A chapter house or chapterhouse is a building or room that is part of a cathedral, monastery or collegiate church in which larger meetings are held. When attached to a cathedral, the cathedral chapter meets there. In monasteries, the whole community often met there on a daily basis for readings and to hear the abbot or senior monks talk. When attached to a collegiate church, the dean, prebendaries and canons of the college meet there. The rooms may also be used for other meetings of various sorts; in medieval times monarchs on tour in their territory would often take them over for their meetings and audiences. Synods, ecclesiastical courts and similar meetings often took place in chapter houses.
Das Kapitelhaus (Chapter House) war früher ein Versammlungsort für Mönche.
The Cloister at the Grade I Listed Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Lincoln Cathedral (in full The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, or sometimes St. Mary's Cathedral) the seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England. Building commenced in 1088 and continued in several phases throughout the medieval period. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 238 years (1311–1549) before the central spire collapsed in an Earthquake in 1549 and was not rebuilt. It is highly regarded by architectural scholars; the eminent Victorian writer John Ruskin declared: "I have always held... that the cathedral of Lincoln is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and roughly speaking worth any two other cathedrals we have."
To-date, they have been cited as notable influences by such diverse artists as Prince, Madonna, Annie Lennox and Perfect Circle, not to mention bands such as Slowdive, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse and Curve (just to name a few), who all worked in musical territory pioneered by Cocteau Twins...
Cocteau Twins / Musette And Drums...
The descent of Jesus into hell - Spanish Chapel - Andrea Bonaiuto (Andrea da Firenze) (1365-1367) - Santa Maria Novella Florence
Costruita tra il 1343 e il 1355 dall’architetto Fra Iacopo Talenti, a spese del mercante Buonamico (detto Mico) Guidalotti, l’ampia aula anticamente era la Sala Capitolare del convento di Santa Maria Novella. Prese definitivamente il nome di Cappellone degli Spagnoli nel 1566, quando venne ceduta alla colonia spagnola di Firenze che era solita radunarsi in questo luogo dal tempo in cui Eleonora di Toledo, divenuta moglie del duca Cosimo I de’ Medici (1539), ne aveva ottenuto l’uso per le funzioni religiose dei suoi connazionali.
Mico Guidalotti, alla sua morte, lasciò anche una somma per dipingere e ornare l’interno del Capitolo che, tuttavia, venne affrescato dal pittore Andrea di Bonaiuto, detto Andrea da Firenze, solo dieci anni più tardi, tra il 1365 e il 1367.
Built between 1343 and 1355 by the architect Fra Iacopo Talenti and paid for by the merchant Buonamico (called Mico) Guidalotti, the vast hall, in the past was the Sala Capitolare (The Chapterhouse) of the convent of Santa Maria Novella. It finally and definitely took the name of The Spanish Chapel in 1566 when it was given over to the Spanish colony in Florence who used to meet in this very place since when Eleonora di Toledo, wife of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (1539), had been granted use of it for the religious services of her fellow countrymen.
When he died, Mico Guidalotti also bequeathed a sum of money in order to paint and decorate the interior of the Chapterhouse which, nevertheless, was frescoed by the painter Andrea di Bonaiuto, called Andrea da Firenze, only ten years later, between 1365 and 1367.
How about that ceiling? I managed to shoot it handheld, inside the chapterhouse of Sevilla Cathedral.
To capture this shot I used a 10 - 20mm Sigma zoom lens, set the self timer and placed the camera on the floor below the central decoration. It is quite difficult to judge the exact centre and some experimentation was required. It would have been nice to show all eight sides equally, but this would have required a large format camera with it's square frame.
The chapter house was completed and in use by 1286. The octagonal room is unusual in not having a central column to support the great roof. The weight of the roof is instead suspended from the exterior dome.
I am thrilled to have this platinum print chosen to be shown at the PNW 40 show at LightBox Gallery in Astoria, Oregon, beginning April 13th.
Lacock Abbey is the home of Henry Fox Talbot, considered to be the Father of Photography. he invented the process of using salt to fix an image to paper, in 1839. I was excited to make a pilgrimage to his home. Who wouldn't be inspired living in an Abbey.
camera: hasselblad 500 CM
print: platinum/palladium
The slender central pillar and ceiling of Salisbury Cathedral's octagonal Chapter House
This is my entry for the 15. Building category in the 52 in 2017 Challenge Group.
“What does a mirror look at?”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
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Franklin Patrick "Frank" Herbert Jr. was an American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer.
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Chapterhouse: Dune is a 1985 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the last in his Dune series of six novels. It rose to No. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
The Chapter House, Fontevraud Abbey, Paye de la Loire, France
Reconstructed in the 16th century,
Wall paintings by Thomas Pot, 1563, of scenes from the Gospels
The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter (York Minster), begun 1220, consecrated 1472; Chapter House completed by 1296; Great West Window, 1338–39; Great East Window, 1405–1408
Ship of the Apostle Peter - ceiling of the Spanish Chapel - Andrea Bonaiuto (Andrea da Firenze) (1365-1367) - Santa Maria Novella Florence
Costruita tra il 1343 e il 1355 dall’architetto Fra Iacopo Talenti, a spese del mercante Buonamico (detto Mico) Guidalotti, l’ampia aula anticamente era la Sala Capitolare del convento di Santa Maria Novella. Prese definitivamente il nome di Cappellone degli Spagnoli nel 1566, quando venne ceduta alla colonia spagnola di Firenze che era solita radunarsi in questo luogo dal tempo in cui Eleonora di Toledo, divenuta moglie del duca Cosimo I de’ Medici (1539), ne aveva ottenuto l’uso per le funzioni religiose dei suoi connazionali.
Mico Guidalotti, alla sua morte, lasciò anche una somma per dipingere e ornare l’interno del Capitolo che, tuttavia, venne affrescato dal pittore Andrea di Bonaiuto, detto Andrea da Firenze, solo dieci anni più tardi, tra il 1365 e il 1367.
Built between 1343 and 1355 by the architect Fra Iacopo Talenti and paid for by the merchant Buonamico (called Mico) Guidalotti, the vast hall, in the past was the Sala Capitolare (The Chapterhouse) of the convent of Santa Maria Novella. It finally and definitely took the name of The Spanish Chapel in 1566 when it was given over to the Spanish colony in Florence who used to meet in this very place since when Eleonora di Toledo, wife of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (1539), had been granted use of it for the religious services of her fellow countrymen.
When he died, Mico Guidalotti also bequeathed a sum of money in order to paint and decorate the interior of the Chapterhouse which, nevertheless, was frescoed by the painter Andrea di Bonaiuto, called Andrea da Firenze, only ten years later, between 1365 and 1367.
The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter (York Minster), begun 1220, consecrated 1472; Chapter House completed by 1296; Great West Window, 1338–39; Great East Window, 1405–1408
The Grade I Listed Bristol Cathedral, in Bristol, Avon.
Bristol Cathedral was founded as St Augustine's Abbey in 1140 by Robert Fitzharding, a wealthy local landowner and royal official. As the name suggests, the monastic precinct housed Augustinian canons. The original abbey church, of which only fragments remain, was constructed between 1140 and 1148 in the Romanesque style, known in England as Norman. The dedication ceremony was held on 11 April 1148, and was conducted by the Bishops of Worcester, Exeter, Llandaff, and St Asaph.
Further stone buildings were erected on the site between 1148 and 1164. Three examples of this phase survive, the chapterhouse and the abbey gatehouse, now the diocesan office, together with a second Romanesque gateway, which originally led into the abbot's quarters. T.H.B. Burrough, a local architectural historian, describes the former as "the finest Norman chapter house still standing today".
Under Abbot David there was a new phase of building, notably the construction in around 1220 of a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, abutting the northern side of the choir. This building, which still stands, was to become known as the "Elder Lady Chapel". The architect, referred to in a letter as 'L', is thought to have been Adam Lock, master mason of Wells Cathedral. The stonework of the eastern window of this chapel is by William the Geometer, of about 1280.
Under Abbot Edward Knowle, a major rebuilding of the Abbey church began despite financial problems. Between 1298 and 1332 the eastern part of the abbey church was rebuilt in the English Decorated Gothic style. The Black Death is likely to have affected the monastery and when William Coke became abbot in 1353, he obtained a papal bull from Pope Urban V to allow him ordain priests at a younger age to replace those who had died. Soon after the election of his successor, Henry Shellingford, in 1365 Edward III took control of the monastery and made Maurice de Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley its commissioner to resolve the financial problems.
Financial difficulties meant that little building work took place for nearly 100 years, however in the mid-15th century, the number of Canons increased, and the transept and central tower were constructed. Abbot John Newland began the rebuilding of the nave, but it was incomplete at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.
The partly built nave was demolished and the remaining eastern part of the church closed until it reopened as a cathedral under the secular clergy. In an edict dated June 1542, Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer raised the building to rank of Cathedral of a new Diocese of Bristol. The new diocese was created from parts of the Diocese of Gloucester and the Diocese of Bath and Wells. Paul Bush, a former royal household chaplain, was created the first Bishop of Bristol.
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...taken by the gothic medieval building - Chapter House -, used as Saraba Restaurant...
Nicosia, Cyprus...
Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated just across the main railway station which shares its name. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church.
The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a store of art treasures and funerary monuments. Especially famous are frescoes by masters of Gothic and early Renaissance.
Source: Santa Maria Novella
Florence, Italy
Friday, October 13, 1307. Agents of King Philip move to arrest scores of French Templars. But - they were forewarned. The majority of Christian forces being at war in the Holy Land, the Templars used their vast wealth to take control of France and Western Europe, joining with the german Teutonic Knights to form a united, solid holy powerhouse.
Centuries later, with new worlds to conquer, Templar warriors continue to fight to bring wealth to their masters.
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Entry for SHIPtember 2015!
Stats:
Length: 120 studs (not including terrain)
Time: 7 days (have been working nights...)
Pieces: 9,394 (not including terrain)
Processed with Silver Efex Pro 2
My version of ‘A Sea of Steps – Stairs to Chapter House – Wells Cathedral’, which was taken in 1903 by one of my very favourite "classic' photographers, Frederick H Evans - please check it out by clicking here
Wells Cathedral, Somerset, UK
The descent of Jesus into hell - Spanish Chapel - Andrea Bonaiuto (Andrea da Firenze) (1365-1367) - Santa Maria Novella Florence
Costruita tra il 1343 e il 1355 dall’architetto Fra Iacopo Talenti, a spese del mercante Buonamico (detto Mico) Guidalotti, l’ampia aula anticamente era la Sala Capitolare del convento di Santa Maria Novella. Prese definitivamente il nome di Cappellone degli Spagnoli nel 1566, quando venne ceduta alla colonia spagnola di Firenze che era solita radunarsi in questo luogo dal tempo in cui Eleonora di Toledo, divenuta moglie del duca Cosimo I de’ Medici (1539), ne aveva ottenuto l’uso per le funzioni religiose dei suoi connazionali.
Mico Guidalotti, alla sua morte, lasciò anche una somma per dipingere e ornare l’interno del Capitolo che, tuttavia, venne affrescato dal pittore Andrea di Bonaiuto, detto Andrea da Firenze, solo dieci anni più tardi, tra il 1365 e il 1367.
Built between 1343 and 1355 by the architect Fra Iacopo Talenti and paid for by the merchant Buonamico (called Mico) Guidalotti, the vast hall, in the past was the Sala Capitolare (The Chapterhouse) of the convent of Santa Maria Novella. It finally and definitely took the name of The Spanish Chapel in 1566 when it was given over to the Spanish colony in Florence who used to meet in this very place since when Eleonora di Toledo, wife of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (1539), had been granted use of it for the religious services of her fellow countrymen.
When he died, Mico Guidalotti also bequeathed a sum of money in order to paint and decorate the interior of the Chapterhouse which, nevertheless, was frescoed by the painter Andrea di Bonaiuto, called Andrea da Firenze, only ten years later, between 1365 and 1367.
The C13th chapter-house of thestructure hidden from teh public gase in private grounds. Cisterciam abbey at Hinton Charterhouse is an extraordinary space. Empty and decaying it is a poetic and beautiful
As I've got older I think I have got more cynical but occasionally you realise how nice people can be.
Since I got my hands on a Zeiss 15mm I've been thinking I need to go photograph the Chapter House ceiling at York Minster.
So with the weather looking awful today I headed to York. Made my way to the Minster, paid in and then headed straight to the Chapter House. When I got there it was shut. There where a couple of older ladies who were sorting out an area with sandwiches etc so I asked them it it was shut for the day. They explained it was as a number of important services where being held in the room. But they wanted to know why I wanted to go in as I explained on of them said well we shall have to get you special permission! Off she went and ten minutes later came back removed the barrier and said I would be ok for 15 minutes. Great when someone helps like that :)
Have to say I love this spot it's one of those places which feeds the soul!
While staying with family in Bath over Christmas I got in a day trip to Wells. This is the size of a small market town but with a large Cathedral in its centre making it a City. The Cathedral was built between 1175 and 1490, replacing an earlier church built on the same site in 705.. Each Cathedral is different in its attitude to Photographers and Wells is one of the friendly ones. Their Website said they welcomed Photography outside service times and the only restriction was on flash in one part of the building. No mention of Tripods so I ended up taking all my shots with a Tripod and nobody objected.
This is a view of the stairs to Wells Cathedral Chapter House. It has been done many times before and indeed is said to be the most photographed interior view of any Cathedral. The Chapter House was finished by 1306 and was the meeting place for Cathedral affairs. The stairs to it have thus been worn by many centuries of use. I tried something a little different from the usual by going for a very low POV and focusing on the steps. Many pictures of this view are done in mono but I wanted to keep the warmth through the Archway.
The picture was taken with a tripod with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle zoom at 10 mm. I took 3 shots for HDR processed in Photomatix using fusion Real Estate for a natural look. I copied the minus 2 image in as a new layer after reducing the exposure some more in RAW and used a layer mask to apply that only to bring down highlights. Further processing using Topaz Clarity for more detail. In Photoshop I straightened the drastically converging verticals using Transform-Skew and also Filter-Lens Correction- Custom- Vertical Perspective.
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Explore #2
View on black please!
While on a photowalk around Westminster with Siany, we walk around the back of Westminster Abbey and she found this little entrance. We wandered in and found this fantastic little cloister and many other churchy-type things. We also found the oldest door in England, dating back to around 1050.
The interior of this, I believe it's called a chapter house, is modelled on the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. I loved the sense of perspective that this corridor gave, plus the wonderful ceiling and the bright sunlight shining in through the cloister windows.
This looks much more lovely large on black. I've also just realised that my Flickr stream has just passed over a million views, so thank you everyone who as visited and continues to visit my photos!
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/16 / 17-40mm @ 17mm / HDR