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Proud dad bragging moment. This young lady is in her freshman year of college and playing on the GCU club team.
Rosslyn Chapel, formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew, is a 15th-century chapel located at the village of Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland.
Rosslyn Chapel was founded on a small hill above Roslin Glen as a Catholic collegiate church (with between four and six ordained canons and two boy choristers) in the mid-15th century. The chapel was founded by William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness of the Scoto-Norman Sinclair family. Rosslyn Chapel is the third Sinclair place of worship at Roslin, the first being in Roslin Castle and the second (whose crumbling buttresses can still be seen today) in what is now Roslin Cemetery.
The chapel became the subject of speculation regarding its supposed connection with the Knights Templar or Freemasonry beginning in the 1980s.
The topic entered mainstream pop culture with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (2003), reinforced by the subsequent film of the same name (2006), Numerous books were published after 2003 to cater to the popular interest in supposed connections between Rosslyn Chapel, Freemasonry, the Templars and the Holy Grail generated by Brown's novel. The chapel, built 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar, supposedly has many Templar symbols, such as the "Two riders on a single horse" that appear on the Seal of the Knights Templar. William Sinclair 3rd Earl of Orkney, Baron of Roslin and 1st Earl of Caithness, claimed by novelists to be a hereditary Grand Master of the Scottish stonemasons, built Rosslyn Chapel. A later William Sinclair of Roslin became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and, subsequently, several other members of the Sinclair family have held this position.
In 1837, when the 2nd Earl of Rosslyn died, his wish was to be buried in the original vault. Exhaustive searches over the period of a week were made, but no entrance to the original vault was found and he was buried beside his wife in the Lady Chapel.
The 16th-century Henry VII Lady Chapel,
The collegiate church of St Peter at Westminster, London, England (Westminster Abbey).
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1941 Porterfield Collegiate FP-65 NC37850 on display at the Sun 'n Fun Florida Air Museum located at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in the City of Lakeland Polk County Florida U.S.A.
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The Collegiate is a striking, Grade II listed building, with a facade of pink Woolton sandstone, designed in Tudor Gothic style by the architect of the city's St. George's Hall, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes. The foundation stone was laid in 1840 and the Liverpool Collegiate Institution was opened by William Gladstone on 6 January 1843.
The Building fell into disrepair for many years, finally the front entrance and façade was saved during renovation into 96 apartments. The building was reopened in 2000 and continues in use.
Happy Bench Monday!
I have returned from my week in Seattle, where my daughter-in-law graduated with her Master's degree from the University of Washington. On our first evening there we had a fabulous salmon dinner at Ivar's, right next to one of the bays. Then we went on an impromptu tour of the University. You can imagine my sigh of "how could I have left the camera at the hotel?" I didn't realize the camera didn't get grabbed when we left for dinner. So the phone had to suffice! This bench sits behind the Suzzallo and Allen Library, which opened in 1926. It is built in the Collegiate Gothic Style of architcture. The entire campus is filled with magnificent old buildings and history.
Here's the August watercolor painting :) I painted this after a flyfishing trip on the Arkansas River. It's a touch more impressionistic than most of what I do but I wanted to try capture the essence of the location rather than a true representational image.
This is the view from south of Buena Vista looking across the Arkansas River towards the Collegiate range in central Colorado.
Just over this range is probably my favorite of all Colorado locations, Taylor Park.
Several years ago Dan and I spent a good amount of time in the Taylor Park area. This was taken from the top of a pass in the area. We really enjoyed our tour of the area. In August of that year we packed into the Spring Creek drainage and rode our horses all over that country.
We visited the Cathedrals, Hell's Half Acre, the Almont Triangle and several other well known draws, parks and drainage's. What a great time we had. The best part was that I was able to complete a 21 year dream of drawing a Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep permit. I was successful and that is all I better say about that.
Thanks for taking a look at my photos and I appreciate your comments.
Susan
The Collegiate Peaks, looking out from Mount Yale, the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado.
Das Collegium Jenense im Zentrum der Stadt, einst eine Klosteranlage der Dominikaner, ist der Gründungsort der Jenaer Universität.1548 bezog die Academia Jenesis die Gebäude; zehn Jahre später wurde sie zur Hochschule ernannt. In mehreren Bauabschnitten wurden u. a. Hörsäle sowie Unterkünfte für die Studierenden in der angrenzenden Kollegienkirche angelegt. Das Collegium Jenense blieb bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts die räumliche Grundlage der Universität. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden die Gebäude schwer beschädigt und die Kollegienkirche fast vollständig zerstört. Torgebäude und Innenhof wurden von 1976 bis 1979 restauriert. Heute gehören die Gebäude zu den Kulturdenkmalen in Jena und beherbergen die vorklinischen Institute der Medizinischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (Anatomie) inklusive der Anatomischen Sammlungen. Öffentlich zugänglich ist beispielsweise der Kollegienhof; nicht öffentlich zugänglich sind das Vestibül und der Karzer. Auf dem Gelände stehen inzwischen einige Anbauten, in denen sich die vorklinischen Institute Physiologie, Biochemie, sowie das Theoretikum befinden.
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The Collegium Jenense in the centre of the city, once a Dominican monastery, is the founding site of Jena University. The Academia Jenensis moved into the buildings in 1548; ten years later it became a university. In several construction phases, lecture theatres and accommodation for students were built in the neighbouring Collegiate Church. The Collegium Jenense remained the physical basis of the university until the middle of the 19th century. During the Second World War, the buildings were severely damaged and the Collegiate Church was almost completely destroyed. The gate building and inner courtyard were restored between 1976 and 1979. Today, the buildings are cultural monuments in Jena and house the pre-clinical institutes of the Friedrich Schiller University's Faculty of Medicine (anatomy), including the anatomical collections. The Kollegienhof (Collegian Court), for example, is open to the public; the vestibule and the former student jail are not open to the public. There are now several annexes on the site, which house the pre-clinical institutes of physiology, biochemistry and the theory centre.
Founded in 1449, Crichton is one of Scotland’s oldest Collegiate Churches. It is a fine A-listed medieval Church and has been in continuous use as a place of Christian worship for more than 550 years, during which time it has experienced two radical renovations, in 1720 and 1896.
‘Collegiate’ describes churches where priests and singing boys were recruited to pray daily for the souls of the great families who built and owned them. In the case of Crichton, this was the rich and powerful family of Lord Crichton, who lived a few hundred yards away in Crichton Castle.
In 1994, a Trust was established to care for the building, to undertake a third restoration and to ensure that it continues to play an important role, serving the community in a number of ways. It now plays host to a variety of events, including weddings, funerals, concerts and recording sessions.
From the western side of Cottonwood Pass a trail leads from a picnic area to a ridge with a fine view of the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness.
Derailleur on my wife's old 1960's Schwinn Collegiate.
Photographed with a Leica IIIf using a Summitar 5cm f/2 lens and a Nooky Hesum closeup attachment. The film is Ilford Pan-F 50+ developed in Beerenol (Rainier Beer).
The 42nd Annual California Collegiate Open was held at San Francisco State University on Saturday 26th January 2019.
"The Collegiate Church of St Mary is a Church of England parish church in the town of Warwick, England. It is in the centre of the town just east of the market place. It is a member of the Greater Churches Group.
The church has the status of collegiate church as it had a college of secular canons. In governance and religious observance it was similar to a cathedral (although not the seat of a bishop and without diocesan responsibilities). There is a Bishop of Warwick, but this is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Coventry.
Warwick is a market town and the county town of Warwickshire, England. It lies near the River Avon, 11 miles (18 km) south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash. Its population was 31,345 in 2011. Signs of activity date to the Neolithic period and unbroken habitation to the 6th century AD. It was a Saxon burh in the 9th century; Warwick Castle was built during the Norman conquest of England. Warwick School claims to be the country's oldest boys' school. The earldom of Warwick, created in 1088, controlled the medieval town and built town walls, of which Eastgate and Westgate survive. The castle grew into a fortress, then a country house. The Great Fire of Warwick in 1694 destroyed much of the town. Warwick missed 19th-century industrialisation, but the population has grown almost sixfold since 1801." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Wife's old 1960's Schwinn Collegiate with a what she calls a "beer basket".
Photographed with a Leica IIIf using a Summitar 5cm f/2 lens and a Nooky Hesum closeup attachment. The film is Ilford Pan-F 50+ developed in Beerenol (Rainier Beer).
April 30th 2018 I visited Banff, a fishing town steeped in history less than one hours drive away from my home.
I stayed for over 5 hours capturing the sights that caught my lens, sun was high in the sky providing my favourite light for a day of photography, I had a great visit to Banff , it is a beautiful part of Scotland.
Banff /ˈbænf/ is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Banff is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Macduff across the estuary of the River Deveron. Banff is a former royal burgh, and is the traditional county town of Banffshire.
Etymology
The origin of the name is uncertain. It may be derived from the Scottish Gaelic banbh meaning "piglet"; buinne, a stream; or a contraction of Bean-naomh meaning "holy woman" (as reflected in the burgh's coat of arms which features the Virgin Mary).
William J. Watson writes: "It is true that Banff is Banb in the Book of Deer and Banbh in modern Gaelic — one syllable. On the other hand, banbh, a sucking pig, is not appropriate — one might say it is impossible — as the name of a place or district."
History
Banff's first castle was built to repel Viking invaders and a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there at that time. During this period the town was a busy trading centre in the "free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its own harbour until 1775.
The first recorded Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh status was conferred by King Robert II.
By the 15th century Banff was one of three principal towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, along with Aberdeen and Montrose.
Seventeenth century Scotland was lawless and some of the worst offenders were members of the nobility. According to records kept by historian William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of an altercation between Lord Banff and James Ogilvie, his relative. Reportedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton during a court hearing. Twenty of his friends and followers then attacked Ogilvie with swords before chasing him into the street and finishing him off with a pistol shot.[5]
Banff and Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This unpredictable river was finally tamed by the seven arched bridge completed in 1779[6] by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been built in 1765, but was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was brought back into use, until it was lost in a flood in 1773.
A public meeting was held in 1800 and passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike road between Turiff and Banff as the existing road was in a sad state of repair.
Later 19th century transport improvements included the building of two railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla railway in 1859 which connected to the main Aberdeen to Inverness line.
During the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (comprising the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was important to the herring trade, with production peaking in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which nearly thirty-four thousand were exported,[7] however by 1912 production had declined to just over eight thousand barrels.
Currently, the languages spoken in the town and in its vicinity tend to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and English.
Climate
Banff has an oceanic climate, with mild temperatures year round.
Banff Bay is a coastal embayment in Scotland situated between the towns of Banff, Aberdeenshire and Macduff, Aberdeenshire.
The Burn of Myrehouse is one of the streams draining to Banff Bay.
Banff Bay is a prominent geographical feature along the northern coast of Aberdeenshire, and it is visible from a number of locations along the coastal plain such as Longman Hill situated somewhat distant to the east.
Considerable evidence of prehistoric human habitation exists particularly near the coastal area. For example, the Longman Hill cair and Cairn Lee are situated in the northern portion of Banffshire in the vicinity of the Burn of Myrehouse.
Located in the area are the ruins of several medieval castles and the 12th century kirk of Gamrie.
The region remained largely Roman Catholic after the Reformation (16th century) and suffered greatly in the ensuing struggles.
During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (17th century), Banffshire was a Royalist stronghold.
Cullen Church was known to have existed in 1236. The south aisle was added by Elena Hay in 1536 and dedicated to St Anne. It became a collegiate church in 1543 with six prebendaries and two singing boys to sing mass 'decently and in order every day'.
Cullen Church was the centre of the old kirkton of Cullen until 1820-30 when the township removed to the present 'new town' of Cullen and the manse, which had been close by, was rebuilt in Seafield Place in 1830
"The Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of Scotland parish church in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland.
Building work on the church was started in 1380, and further building and rebuilding has taken place up to the present day. It is the longest church in Scotland, at 206 feet (62.8 metres) from east to west, and is in the early Gothic style.
The cruciform church is located in a large open churchyard, at some distance from the town centre. The church is built on a scale becoming of a cathedral. It is of a uniform and consistent design, that suggests a clear adherence to the original plans. Having been desecrated during the sixteenth century, the nave of the church and the tower were repaired for use by the congregation, this part being subject to various restorations in subsequent centuries. A comprehensive renovation of the whole church was carried out in the 1970s.
The choir is aisled and is made up of four bays, intersected by buttresses with a mixture of gabled and pinnacled terminals. The windows between have simple curvilinear tracery dividing two main lights. The cornice below the eaves has foliate carving. The clerestory is unbuttressed and has double-lighted windows beneath two mouchettes. The window at the east end of the choir was built in 1877, and consists of four lights with contemporary tracery. One of the finials shows an angel playing the bagpipe. On the north side of the choir there is a medieval sacristy, which is now an ecumenical chapel and mausoleum of the Maitland family dedicated to the Three Kings.
The transepts are aisleless, with windows at the gables and to the west, the gable windows are triple lighted with mouchettes above. The north transept contains modern toilets and stairs to the north gallery. The south transept contains a memorial to George Seton and a stained glass window by Edward Burne-Jones donated by the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the restoration. to the east of the north transept lies the Lauderdale Aisle, a small Scottish Episcopal chapel that commemorates John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane and others of the Maitland family. There is a stair turret in the east angle of the north transept which gives access to the tower. The tower is cubic in form and has triple lancet windows on each elevation. There are single figure niches on either side of the openings. The wall heads terminate in a decorative cornice with gargoyles. The corbelling at this level suggests that there were plans to erect a crown spire similar to that of St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh and St. Michael's Parish Church, Linlithgow. It is not known whether or not this decorative structure was ever built.
The nave is similar to the choir, in that it has four bays on the north and south aspects, buttressed in between. The windows, however, are similar to those on the transept gables. The side aisles were raised by some 10 feet in 1811 and were finished with castellation and pinnacles. The clerestory windows are similar to those of the aisles and the wall heads finished with cornicing. The position of the pre-1811 vaults are still visible on the sides of the nave.
The western front of the building has a large window divided into six main lights in groups of three divided by a 'Y' shaped central mullion. These are each surmounted by double mouchettes and vesica piscis windows. The capital is formed of double "dagger" and single quatrefoil windows. Below is the main door, with round headed arch composed of several filleted shafts, the door is divided into two by a trumeau shaft topped with two semi-circular arches; the capital here bears a representation of the Arma Christi.
The interior of the church is notable for the extensive sexpartite vaulting. The pulpit and font were both designed by Glaswegian sculptor, William Birnie Rhind in 1891. In the north choir aisle there is an ancient sculpture of Haddington Burgh arms, discovered in the north transept, during the 1970s restoration. The east wall of the south transept houses a memorial to William Seton, Provost of Haddington, erected in 1682. In the late 1980s a new pipe organ was commissioned, and installed in 1990 on a gallery within the north transept. The tower of St Mary's had been silent since 1548, when the English army removed the three bells extant. In 1999 the church acquired a set of eight bells, cast to celebrate the coronation of George V in 1911, and originally hung as a chime in Dunecht House. These were installed between March and May 1999 and were dedicated by The Very Rev Dr John B. Cairns, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, on the 6th of June.
The Royal Burgh of Haddington (Scots: Haidintoun) is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the main administrative, cultural and geographical centre for East Lothian, which as a result of late-nineteenth century Scottish local government reforms took the form of the county of Haddingtonshire for the period from 1889 to 1921. It lies about 17 miles (27 km) east of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the sixth or seventh century AD when the area was incorporated into the kingdom of Bernicia. The town, like the rest of the Lothian region, was ceded by King Edgar of England and became part of Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington received burghal status, one of the earliest to do so, during the reign of David I (1124–1153), giving it trading rights which encouraged its growth into a market town.
Today Haddington is a small town with a population of fewer than 10,000 people; although during the High Middle Ages, it was the fourth-biggest city in Scotland after Aberdeen, Roxburgh and Edinburgh. In the middle of the town is the Town House, built in 1748 according to a plan by William Adam. When first built, it inheld a council chamber, jail and sheriff court, to which assembly rooms were added in 1788, and a new clock in 1835. Nearby is the Corn Exchange (1854) and the County Courthouse (1833). Other nearby notable sites include the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close and the birthplace of author and government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, marked by a commemorative plaque.
Haddington is located predominantly on the north-east bank of the River Tyne, and was once famous for its mills. It developed into the fourth-largest town in Scotland during the High Middle Ages, and later was at the centre of the mid-eighteenth century Scottish Agricultural Revolution.
In 1641, an Act was passed by the Parliament of Scotland to encourage the production of fine cloth, and in 1645 an amendment went through stating that the masters and workers of manufactories would be exempt from military service. As a result of this, more factories were established; these included the New Mills. This factory suffered during the Civil War with the loss of its cloth to General Monck. A new charter was drawn up in May 1681, and major capital invested in new machinery, but the New Mills had mixed fortunes, inevitably affected by the lack of protectionism for Scottish manufactured cloth. The Scots Courant reported in 1712 that New Mills was to be "rouped" (auctioned). The property was sold on 16 February 1713 and the machinery and plant on 20 March. The lands of New Mills were purchased by Colonel Francis Charteris and he changed their name to Amisfield.
As the county town of East Lothian, Haddington is the seat of East Lothian Council with offices located at John Muir House behind Court Street. This building occupies the site of Haddington's twelfth century royal palace and adjoins the former Sheriff Court complex. The town centre is home to a wide range of independent retailers including: a bookshop, two sports shops, a saddlery and country goods specialist, two butchers, a hardware shop, cookware shop and several gift shops alongside several pubs, restaurants and cafés. Nationwide retailers with a presence in Haddington include: Tesco, M&Co, Boots, Aldi and Co-op Food. Besides retail and administration, the town is also home to various law firms and has industrial capacity in the works beside the Tyne at the Victoria Bridge (PureMalt), and around the site of the old station (Lemac), and various smaller industrial units and garages. Haddington is also home to the offices of the local newspaper the East Lothian Courier. There is a farmers' market held on the last Saturday of the month in Court Street.
The town centre largely retains its historic street plan with Court Street, High Street, Market Street and Hardgate defining the edges of the original open triangular medieval market place, divided by a central island of buildings developed from the 16th century onwards on the site of market stalls. To the north and south the medieval rigg pattern of burgage plots can still be observed with narrow buildings fronting the main streets and long plots behind stretching back, originally to the line of the old town walls, accessed by small closes and pends. The historic importance of the town's relatively unaltered medieval plan and significant survival of historic buildings was recognised as early as the 1950s, with Haddington subject to an Improvement Scheme, Scotland's earliest, which saw many period properties rehabilitated by the Town Council (under the leadership of Frank Tindall as Director of Planning) and a pioneering town colour scheme developed, resulting in the distinctive and colourful townscape seen today. Some comprehensive redevelopment did occur, chiefly around Newton Port and Hardgate to allow for widening of these narrow streets to improve motor traffic flow. This included the demolition of Bothwell Castle and its dovecote in 1955, the land now forming part of Hardgate Park. Today the whole town centre is a conservation area with a high proportion of listed buildings, some dating back to the C16th, and the redevelopment and infill schemes undertaken since the 1950s have largely been in a sympathetic vernacular style which has maintained the town's historic character." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Looking to the south ... I *think* from left to right, Mt. Shavano, Mt. White, Mt Antero, then Chalk Creek Canyon and the very edge of Mt Princeton ... all over 14,000 feet ... shrouded in late day sun and wildfire smoke ...
Now sitting alone on a private estate, this is all that remains of the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Dunglass. It was founded in the 1440s by the Home family as a private chapel, and as such is quite large. In 1451 it was promoted to collegiate status and a college of priests looked after it, offering prayers on behalf of Sir Alexander Home and his family.
As well as the family, James IV attended Mass in the church several times, and James VI spent his last night on Scottish soil at Dunglass before arriving in England for his Coronation as James I. Charles I also spent the night here before his Coronation in 1633.
Although it was downgraded during the Reformation in 1560, the Provost and 12 canons probably stayed here for the rest of their lives, then it fell into disrepair.
When the Hall family moved in, in 1710, they converted it into a stable and coach house. Although now a ruin it is used for weddings. It’s maintained by Historic Environment Scotland.
Now sitting alone on a private estate, this is all that remains of the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Dunglass. It was founded in the 1440s by the Home family as a private chapel, and as such is quite large. In 1451 it was promoted to collegiate status and a college of priests looked after it, offering prayers on behalf of Sir Alexander Home and his family.
As well as the family, James IV attended Mass in the church several times, and James VI spent his last night on Scottish soil at Dunglass before arriving in England for his Coronation as James I. Charles I also spent the night here before his Coronation in 1633.
Although it was downgraded during the Reformation in 1560, the Provost and 12 canons probably stayed here for the rest of their lives, then it fell into disrepair.
When the Hall family moved in, in 1710, they converted it into a stable and coach house. Although now a ruin it is used for weddings. It’s maintained by Historic Environment Scotland.
The 42nd Annual California Collegiate Open was held at San Francisco State University on Saturday 26th January 2019.
Haddington was the fourth largest town in Scotland in the High Middle Ages, and the first chartered Royal Burgh. There is record of the church here in a charter of David I of Scotland dated 1139, giving the monks of St Andrews Cathedral Priory the benefits of its revenues.
In the late 12th century the great Abbey of Haddington was founded by Ada de Warenne, Countess of Northumbria, for a community of Cistercian Nuns. In addition to the Cistercians and the Franciscans, there was a house of the Dominican Order.
In recognition of Haddington's strategic importance, it was burnt twice in the 13th century by the English. In 1356, Edward III of England. Edward spent ten days at Haddington, where he sacked the town, and destroyed most of the buildings.
John Knox trained as a priest in St Mary's but never held the parish. Instead, he became a notary. Knox then became a guide to George Wishart as he travelled in the Lothians. In 1547, Wishart preached at two services in St Mary's with Knox standing guard, below the pulpit bearing a two handed sword.
Building work on the current church was started in 1380, and further building and rebuilding has taken place up to the present day. It is the longest church in Scotland, at 62.8 metres from east to west, and is in the early Gothic style.
The nave
I had unfinished business here.
Jools and I were here at the end of October, since then I have regretted leaving early before having taken more shots. So, when Jools said she had a course in Deal, rather than kick my heels at home, I said I would like to go back to London. I asked a fellow Flickrite, Graham, if he fancied meeting up.
He did.
So, just before ten we meet outside, and once inside we split up as it was his firs time, and I wanted to go straight to the Lady Chapel.
Not many people about, so I could get the shots I wanted, making my way all the time further east.
Its funny, I thought I'd recorded it well on my first visit, but I see many more details and views opening up.
Into the Lady Chapel, the light is glorious, pouting in through plain and stained glass, ranks of banners hanging down, and seats in the quire adorned with figures of brightly coloured animals, castles and bolts of lightning.
Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots slumber on still, separated by the steps leading to the Lady Chapel, surrounded by the tombs of their courtiers.
After going round with the 50mm lens, I went round the other way with the big lens, snapping details unseen for the most part.
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Some three months ago, Jools and I went up to London to visit Westminster Abbey, where I took a lots of shots, but got "curched out". Two weeks ago we were to meet a friend, Graham when we went to the Tate, then he tested positive for COVID the morning of the trip, so couldn't go.
I promised him we would return soon, to London.
Sooner than I thought, as it turned out. As Jools had a class in Deal on Saturday afternoon, so I could go up to London on the train, go tot he Abbey, take another load of shots, meet Graham and then we could go to the pub.
Brilliant.
Even better when Graham said he could make it, so the plan was made; meet outside the Abbey at ten. Take shots. Walk to pub. Drink beer. Come home.
Simple plan with clear goals.
Jools did shopping on Friday afternoon so all we had to do was get up and be at the station for ten to eight.
We got up, had a coffee, fed the cats and so on. I dodged breakfast planning on getting something out.
Jools dropped me off at half seven, just before sunrise. Frosty but clear, so I went onto the platform to take some shots before mine was due at ten to.
Not many people about, most waiting to go to Ramsgate, or stations between there and Dover, I snapped their train come in, pause to pick them up, then wait for the road to be clear.
The train doesn't really fill up that much, I guess about 50%, for a train getting into London at about nine on a Saturday, should be packed. Still early days, I guess.
Anyway, it was light so I could look out of the large windows, andmark our progress through Folkestone, Ashford to Ebbsfleet then under the river into Essex. Away on the left, Canary Wharf stand bathed in warm sunlight, still 15 miles away, like some 21st century version of Mordor.
I leave the train at Stratford, and instead of walking through Westfield, I take the DLR to Stratford. Or would have done only to see on pull out of the station as I come down the escalator, leaving me with ten minutes to wait. No matter, I have time.
I get out at Stratford and cross to the Jubilee Line, where in the train, most are wearing masks, and people keeping their distances.
A half hour run across the East End to London Bridge, Waterloo and into Westminster, where I get out and go to street level, taking off my mask once safely outside and breath in the fresh air.
I walk round Parliament Square, past the Houses of Parliament with Big Ben (I know not its real name) now partially revealed having had its scaffolding removed, the repainted face and new guilding glistened in the sunlight, though the west face was ten minutes behind the north one.
As I walked towards the entrance to the Abbey, I saw my friend, Graham on the other side fo the road waiting to cross, I hail him and once he's safely over we shake hands.
After taking some exterior shots, we go in and spit up, as its his first time and my second.
I have a list of targets, mainly redoing Henry VII's Lady Chapel as I only did that with the wide angle last time, then going around with the big lens for details of the windows and tombs.
After an hours and a half, we were both done. On the way out I point out some other details, including the Chapter House and pass what we see i s labelled "the oldest door in Brit dating to AD1060!
What shall we do?
Walk along the river to the Black Friar.
Good idea.
Though we stop for a coffee at the van outside, and was really good coffee indeed.
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
The building itself was originally a Catholic Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral and seat of the catholic bishop. After 1560 the building was no longer an abbey or a cathedral, after the Catholics had been driven out by King Henry VIII, having instead was granted the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign—by Queen Elizabeth I.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of King Henry III.[4]
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.[4][5] Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100.[6]
The Abbey is the burial site of more than 3300 persons, usually of prominence in British history: at least 16 monarchs, 8 Prime Ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior. As such, Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as "Britain's Valhalla", after the iconic hall of the chosen heroes in Norse mythology.
Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on 5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the church; and, nine years later, his wife Edith was buried alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year.[11]
The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept, survive in the Norman Undercroft of the Great School, including a door said to come from the previous Saxon abbey. Increased endowments supported a community that increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty monks.
The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 13th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-10th century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, "the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.[13]
The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order. The abbot remained Lord of the Manor of Westminster as a town of two to three thousand persons grew around it: as a consumer and employer on a grand scale the monastery helped fuel the town economy, and relations with the town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising charter was issued during the Middle Ages.[14]
The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The Confessor's shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonization.
The following English, Scottish and British monarchs and their consorts are buried in the Abbey:
Sæberht of Essex (d. c. 616) [possibly]
Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) and Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
Henry III of England (d. 1272) [his wife, Eleanor of Provence, is buried at Amesbury Priory]
Edward I of England (d. 1307) and Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290)
Edward III of England (d. 1377) and Philippa of Hainault (d. 1369)
Richard II of England (d. 1400) and Anne of Bohemia (d. 1394)
Henry V of England (d. 1422) and Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
Edward V of England (d. c. 1483) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. c. 1483) [possibly]
Also known as the Princes in the Tower. In 1674, the remains of two boys were exhumed from the Tower of London and at the orders of Charles II, they were interred in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel.
Anne Neville (d. 1485), wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales [m. 1470–71; buried at Tewkesbury Abbey] and of Richard III [m. 1472–85; buried at Leicester Cathedral]
Henry VII of England (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503)
Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
Anne of Cleves (d. 1557), former wife of Henry VIII [buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]
Mary I of England (d. 1558)
Elizabeth I of England as shown on her tomb
Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1542), mother of James VI & I of England and Scotland [brought from Peterborough Cathedral in 1612]
Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
In the 19th century, researchers looking for the tomb of James I partially opened the underground vault containing the remains of Elizabeth I and Mary I of England. The lead coffins were stacked, with Elizabeth's resting on top of her half-sister's.[9]
James VI & I of England and Scotland (d. 1625) and Anne of Denmark (d. 1619)
The position of the tomb of King James was lost for two and a half centuries. In the 19th century, following an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor, the lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault.[9]
Charles II of England and Scotland (d. 1685)
Mary II of England and Scotland (d. 1694) and William III of England and II of Scotland (d. 1702)
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714) and Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland (d. 1708)
George II of Great Britain (d. 1760) and Caroline of Ansbach (d. 1737)
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