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Des stalles du château de Gaillon sont conservées dans la basilique Saint-Denis près de Paris. Ce château était la résidence de loisir des archevêques de Rouen. Commandées au début du XVIe siècle par Georges d’Amboise, ces stalles ont été construites lorsque cet archevêque, devenu légat du pape et premier conseiller de Louis XII a fait transformer le château médiéval en palais de la Renaissance. Seules stalles en France à présenter de nombreux panneaux de marqueterie et une iconographie inédite, elles forment un mobilier unique, chef-d’œuvre de cette période charnière entre gothique et Renaissance, arborant une grande mixité de styles. Ces stalles sont les chaires qui étaient destinées aux trois chanoines qui officiaient dans la chapelle haute du château de Gaillon, dédiée à saint Georges. Elles étaient ceintes d’une clôture en boiset constituaient ainsi le chœur liturgique de l'édifice.
Les stalles en chêne sont composées de deux rangées disposées côté nord et sud du transept de la basilique de Saint-Denis. La rangée nord présente un ensemble de six stalles, la rangée sud de cinq stalles et une isolée. Seules douze stalles ont été créées au XVIe siècle alors que le programme iconographique en prévoyait quatorze. De 2,83 m de haut, elles composées d’un siège et d’un dorsal, ce dernier comprenant deux registres : un bas-relief surmontant un panneau de marqueterie. Tous les éléments sont sculptés ou marquetés. De manière unique, les dossiers, les dorsaux et les voussures des dais sont galbés. De même les chaires ont des largeurs variées, fixées par celles des bas-reliefs des dorsaux. Pour s’adapter, les largeurs d’autres composants ont été rectifiées. La mixité de style se retrouve dans la globalité, les interdorsaux et deux dais étant gothiques alors que les faibles reliefs sont apparentés aux grotesques de la Renaissance, les bas-reliefs et les marqueteries des dorsaux étant quant à eux à la fois d’inspiration péninsulaire et septentrionale.
Sont illustrées sur les bas-reliefs originaux des dorsaux deux scènes de la vie d’Anne et Joachim, parents de la vierge Marie, cinq scènes de la vie de saint Jean-Baptiste le précurseur et sept scènes de la vie de saint Georges selon les textes d’Évangile ou de la Légende dorée. Nombre d’autres saints sont présentés en pied, sous forme de statuettes sur les interdorsaux ou de bas-reliefs sur les soubassements des jouées, notamment les quatre évangélistes sur ces derniers. Sur les panneaux marquetés des quadrants des parcloses sont figurées les affres des enfers des condamnés selon les sept péchés capitaux, avec les planètes et leurs influences. Les représentations sont inspirées des gravures du Calendrier des bergers imprimé à cette époque.
Les miséricordes figurent des scènes des Métamorphoses d’Ovide ainsi que les arts libéraux selon la Margarita Philosophica de G. Reisch. Les artisans se sont inspirés de gravures d’ouvrages imprimés au début du XVIe siècle, par exemple le soldat romain Caius Mucius Scaevola devant le roi Étrusque Porsenna y étant représenté exposant ainsi des thématiques propres à la culture antique. De manière également tout à fait inédite, les 7 vertus, cardinales et théologales, et 7 sibylles sont figurées et représentées sur les panneaux de marqueterie du premier registre des dorsaux. Les allégories et les prophétesses sont encadrées d’architectures identiques deux à deux qui les mettent en concordance. Les sibylles ont été choisies parmi celles du manuscrit des Heures de Louis de Laval dont les auteurs ont cité les prophéties. Ces dernières proviennent du manuscrit des Institutions divines de Lactance qui était de nouveau traduit et que le cardinal a lui-même fait enluminer. Ce grand rhéteur du IVe siècle ayant quant à lui repris les oracles rédigés dans les Oracles sibyllins.
Georges Ier d’Amboise n’a pas manqué de faire valoir qu’il était le commanditaire des stalles en demandant à ce que ses armes et sa devise y figurent à de nombreuses reprises. Le légat a donné pour modèles aux artisans des stalles des enluminures ou gravures de manuscrits faisant partie de sa splendide bibliothèque, digne d'un grand érudit humaniste. Il fit venir l’Italie en choisissant la marqueterie figurative en sus de la sculpture, seule technique utilisée à l'époque en France. Sans renier la tradition en faisant figurer les saints, il a fait représenter de manière inédite leur cycle de vie, dont il a choisi des événements bien spécifiques. De plus, il a incité les fidèles à s’instruire et à étudier les auteurs antiques en faisant sculpter des allégories des arts libéraux et des personnages mythiques ou héroïques. Enfin, par le dialogue des sibylles et des vertus, il a montré que la rhétorique de Lactance était convaincante. Il a ainsi non seulement introduit en France la mode italienne dans le mobilier, le décor et les ornements du château de Gaillon, mais surtout donné corps à l’esprit humaniste en faisant de ses stalles les messagères qui appellent à une vie vertueuse, dans la foi au Christ annoncé à tous les hommes (cf. wikipédia, merci Glass Angel pour la photo).
A large conserved ruin of a late 13th Century castle. It was besieged for nine weeks in 1339, captured and devastated, and the owner killed. King Charles IV. purchased the castle from his heirs in 1356, and restored it. It was used by the wealthiest families as a strongpoint, and was often besieged. It´s importance vanished in the 17th Century, many objects were damaged in the 18th Century when the new owners searched for a treasure. Extensive conservation was done after WW2, the chapel was completely restored and roofed. The area was opened to public in 1994, and is a very nice weekend trip target.
From the Queensland Heritage Register.
"Yungaba" is a two-storey brick institutional building designed as an immigrant depot in 1885 by John James Clark, colonial architect for Queensland. Following his dismissal shortly after, the plan was developed by Edward Henry Alder and Robert Henry Mills. Constructed by William Peter Clark, the building is described as being of Italianate/Queensland/ Institutional style.
Following the subdivision of Kangaroo Point in 1843-44, lots 21 and 22 were purchased by Judah and Isaac Solomon and Thomas Adams. Some time later John "Tinker" Campbell, a neighbouring land-owner, purchased a share in both lots and transferred his boiling-down works to that location to gain the benefit of the small stream which crossed the properties. Following a series of financial transactions, the land was eventually purchased by Robert Douglas in 1853 for £400. Douglas constructed a house on lot 21 which he named "The Willows". Douglas was a prominent and popular person in Brisbane society at that time although some scandal arose when it was revealed that he had sold his Kangaroo Point property to the government for £14,000 in 1884.
The government had been aware for some time that the immigration facilities at William Street were inadequate for their needs. The decision to acquire the land at Kangaroo Point was justified by the need to provide 'pleasant surroundings' for those who were recently arrived in the colony. The pattern of immigration fluctuated wildly over the years and the period immediately preceding the construction of the Kangaroo Point depot, immigration had been at an all time high.
William Peter Clark, the successful tenderer for the work, ran into a series of difficulties with the construction which resulted in almost a year's delay in the completion. The interior layout was designed by William Hodgen and arranged in a manner typical of institutional buildings of the time. Married quarters were in the form of separate cubicles on the ground level, and single quarters (segregated by gender, and in dormitory form) on the upper level. Symmetrical pairs of laundry and privy facilities were ranged to the rear of the building.
The first administrator was William Edward Parry-Okeden. Parry-Okeden was already a highly competent and practical man with a reputation for fair-dealing and vigorous commitment to his occupation. He and his family moved to Brisbane from Blackall to take up his appointment at the Immigration Depot. Later in life he was to be appointed Under Colonial Secretary and to play an active role in both the management of Aborigines, the organisation of the Native Police and the resolution of the shearers' strikes. Following the floods of 1887, Parry-Okeden and his wife refurbished "The Willows" which continued as their residence during his four years as immigration agent.
From the outset Parry Okeden saw that a number of critical issues needed to be addressed before the depot could operate efficiently. Problems dogged the project throughout its early years. From the start, difficulties were experienced due to poor drainage resulting from the re-direction of the natural drainage into a stormwater drain. Subsequent drainage works had varying degrees of success but the building soon showed signs of rising damp which was exacerbated by the poor quality bricks used during construction. Gas and water connections were either very basic or completely absent from vital parts of the building, there was no wharf facility at which to disembark the immigrants and, once landed, there was no facility for isolating those suspected of suffering contagious disease.
For a long time it was argued that the damp problem was a result of rain beating on the sides of the building, rather than due to poor site drainage. In 1891 the verandahs on the eastern end of the northern side of the building were extended to shelter the walls from the rain. A matching verandah extension at the western end was not constructed until 1899 as the expense was considered too great when the source of the damp had not been proven. The later extension was made to regain the symmetry of the facade, rather than as a means of protecting the walls from the rain.
Wharf facilities were provided at the river bank in 1887 with a large luggage shed on the river bank. Parry-Okeden pointed out that the design was less than practical since a wide gap had been left between the two structures. At high tide the wharf was cut off from land by a twelve foot expanse of water. At low water the wharf was inaccessible from the river due to the shallow water at this point. Repeated requests were necessary before the problems were rectified.
An outbreak of scarlet fever in 1889 lent urgency to the already noted need for isolation wards in which to treat sick immigrants. The same year a facility was constructed, but, due to an oversight in the plans, it had no facilities for the provision of gas or water or for the disposal of waste and storm water. Similar problems dogged the long awaited 'disinfecting plant' which was first vandalised and later inundated due to faulty drainage.
When immigration levels were low, the building was used for a variety of purposes. In 1900 it served as temporary accommodation for the inmates of the Dunwich Asylum which had been appropriated as an isolation ward for plague victims. In 1904-'06 it was again appropriated as accommodation for South Sea Islanders being repatriated under the new Commonwealth laws. The arrival of an immigrant ship led to the re-location of the Islanders to rented accommodation nearby as it was considered inappropriate to expect the "two races" to co-habit.
The outbreak of World War I led to another change in use, the building being requisitioned for use as a military hospital. Few alterations to the fabric occurred as a consequence, although two single-storey wards were constructed to the southeast of the building. At the end of the war, the building provided an ideal reception area for returning servicemen who, with their wives, were feted at public receptions. Most of the building activity associated with this phase was removed at the end of the war.
From the end of WWI and throughout the '20s, immigration swelled. The Great Depression of the 1930s led to a rapid fall in numbers, exacerbated by the cancellation of the assisted passage schemes. In 1938 the assistance scheme was reinstated and numbers rapidly climbed, only to fall again with the commencement of WWII.
During the period of inactivity in the 1930s, the building was used to house the team working on the construction of the Story Bridge. Accommodation for the superintendent of works, J. J. C. Bradfield, was provided in the eastern room on the ground floor of the north wing. The entire upper floor of the north wing was devoted to offices and drafting rooms for the works in progress. Four dormer windows were inserted into the roof of the North wing dormitory to provide additional light for the draftsmen. The team for the concurrent Stanley River Dam project were relegated to a large room on the lower floor
The bridge construction was undertaken by Evans Deakin, who converted the immigration depot's grounds into an industrial site with workshops and storehouses. A row of three open sheds cut off the connection between the hostel and the river, remaining in place until some time after the works were completed. The bridge is carried on tall stone pylons across the site to the rear of the principal building. The danger from falling debris and intentionally thrown objects has resulted in the need to identify an easement across the property on which no buildings can be constructed.
With the commencement of WWII the hostel was used to accommodated a hundred women and children evacuated from Hong Kong in 1940. In 1941 the depot was once again converted into a hospital, treating general patients. In 1942 it was devoted to 'special' cases - those soldiers suffering the effects of venereal diseases. The buildings along the river frontage continued to be occupied by Evans Deakin, however most of the other structures on the site were used for the treatment of patients. Most of these buildings are now demolished.
The post-war immigration boom led to a renewed life for the building which was now named Yungaba State Immigration Office and Reception Centre. The name "Yungaba" derives from the Gubbi Gubbi Aboriginal language from the Maroochy area and means "place of sunshine". The volume of post-war immigration was such that the hostel was unable to cope with more than a small proportion of new arrivals, and the bulk were re-directed to the many empty military camps around the city. Of these, Camp Columbia at Wacol was perhaps the best known.
This period saw what were probably the most extensive alterations to the building that have occurred to date. Cubicles were provided in the downstairs dormitories, toilet facilities were re-modelled or re-built, the kitchen was enlarged and refurbished and the exterior brickwork was limewashed. In the period since, the building has been subjected to various minor intrusions and alterations, with the removal of the verandahs and their reconstruction in 1990 being a major impact on the original fabric. Poor management and an inadequate maintenance program have contributed to loss of fabric, and the various internal subdivisions have had a negative impact on the effectiveness of the internal ventilation designed into the building by William Hodgen. In 1993 the building was refitted to provide office accommodation for the Department of Family Services. This refit involved the demolition of the partitions in the North wing. The access to the river was regained following the demolition of the sheds occupied by Evans Deakin and the new accommodation facilities erected in the 1970s respected this important axis.
In 1988 Yungaba became the first building to entered on the Queensland Estate Register maintained under the Cultural Record (Landscapes Queensland and Queensland Estate) Act 1987. The entry was a result of community concern over the impact of the re-development of Kangaroo Point and the need to conserve significant elements of the community's heritage.
Land Rover 2A Station Wagon Restoration, Designed by Border Rovers and Built by Retroworks.
Classic period interior and dash.
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Roasted asparagus, cranberry conserve, salad, dressing, turkey, and mashed potatoes.
Thanksgiving 2007.
Flies and ants visit blooming hollow joe-pye weed at a restored grassland in Loudoun County, Va., on Sept. 9, 2020. The Piedmont Environmental Council conserved and restored the seven-acre property along Howsers Branch, which is near Gilberts Corner and the nonprofit's Roundabout Meadows farm. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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88 " Land Rover 2A Station Wagon Restoration, Designed by Border Rovers and Built by Retroworks.
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This image forms part of the digitised photographs of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection. Ross Craig (1926-2012) was a local historian born in Stockton and dedicated much of his life promoting and conserving the history of Stockton, NSW. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about the suburb and was a founding member of the Stockton Historical Society and co-editor of its magazine. Pat Craig supported her husband’s passion for history, and together they made a great contribution to the Stockton and Newcastle communities. We thank the Craig Family and Stockton Historical Society who have kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to the collection and allowed us to publish the images. Thanks also to Vera Deacon for her liaison in attaining this important collection.
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With weather conditions expected to remain dry in the coming week, water users on Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Haida Gwaii are being urged to reduce water consumption.
Leanr more: news.gov.bc.ca/stories/islanders-urged-to-conserve-water-1
L'hôtel Ambos Mundos (hôtel des deux mondes en espagnol) est un hôtel quatre étoiles de style colonial de 1923 de La Habana Vieja (centre historique de La Havane) à Cuba. Il devient un des hôtels les plus célèbres du monde lorsque l'écrivain américain Ernest Hemingway s'y installe à l'année entre 1932 et 1939.
En 1923 cet hôtel est construit puis agrandi en 1930, à l’angle des rues Obispo et Mercaderes, principales artères animées de La Habana Vieja, centre historique de La Havane. Il se situe à quelques pas de la plaza de Armas, proche des principaux monuments historiques et touristiques du centre ville.
L'hôtel gagne une renommée internationale à la suite du coup de cœur pour La Havane d'Ernest Hemingway en 1928. La vie cubaine lui procure une grande énergie créatrice. Il est habitué à écrire dans des chambres d'hôtel, des bars, des lieux improbables, trimbalant partout avec lui sa machine à écrire portative. En 1932 il s'y installe à l'année dans la chambre 511, pour 1,50 dollars par jour, avec vue sur la mer, sur la cathédrale de La Havane et sur les toits de La Habana Vieja historique (inscrite au Patrimoine mondial en 1982), tout proche de ses bars de prédilections La Floridita et La Bodeguita del Medio. Il s'adonne intensivement à sa passion pour la pêche au gros avec son bateau de pêche Pilar, acheté en 1934 et amarré à Cojimar à 10 km de l'hôtel, avec les deux capitaine de navire Carlos Gutierrez, puis Gregorio Fuentes ... Entre 1932 et 1939, durant sept années entre coupées de voyages dans le monde, il vit, compose et publie dans cet hôtel ses œuvres à succès Pour qui sonne le glas, En avoir ou pas, Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro, Les Vertes Collines d'Afrique ... Entre 1939 et 1960 il quitte l’hôtel pour emménager à la Finca La Vigía à 25 km de La Havane, sa maison cubaine devenue depuis musée Ernest Hemingway de Cuba ..
À ce jour, l’hôtel a conservé en partie son cachet initial, avec entre autres son hall en marbre, son bar, son restaurant-terrasse sur le toit avec vue panoramique sur la vielle Havane, sur le port et la baie de La Havane, son vieil ascenseur historique Otis des années 1930, la chambre 511 d'Hemingway « conservée en l'état depuis son départ », des photographies d'Hemingway, des expositions d’art cubain et sa scène de piano bar animée par des jazzmens et autres musiciens de musique cubaine ...
The Hotel Ambos Mundos (Spanish pronunciation: [oˈtel ˈambos ˈmundos], Both Worlds Hotel) is a hotel of square form with five floors, built with an eclectic set of characteristics of 20th-century style architecture. It was built in 1924 on a site that previously had been occupied by an old family house on the corner of Calle Obispo and Mercaderes (Bishop and Merchants Streets) in La Habana Vieja (Old Havana), Cuba. It is a frequent tourist destination because it was home to the popular writer Ernest Hemingway for seven years in the 1930s
From colonial times the zone of Old Havana in which the building is now sited was populated by a diverse collection of family houses. At the beginning of the 20th century the Spanish retailer Antolín Blanco Arias bought a family house on the site, from his office colleague Manuel Llerandi y Tomé. The new owner demolished the very old house to construct the hotel, the work being in charge of the architect Luis Wise Hernandez.
In the 1930s this hotel was the property of the Asper family. Hotel Ambos Mundos was a family hotel, that attracted writers, actor and actresses and many Americans.
This hotel since has gained international note from its most famous long-time tenant: in 1932 a room on the upper (5th) floor became the “first home” in Cuba of writer Ernest Hemingway, who enjoyed the views of Old Havana, and the harbor sea in which he fished frequently in his yacht Pilar. Hemingway rented the room for $1.50 per night ($1.75 for double occupancy) until mid-1939, when he transferred his winter residence from Key West (a U.S. island 90 miles from Cuba) to a house in the hills near Havana, Finca Vigia, which he shared with Martha Gellhorn (they were married in 1940). Hemingway began his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, a novel of the Spanish Civil War which he had witnessed over the previous several years, in the room in the Ambos Mundos, on March 1, 1939.
Today, his hotel room, No. 511, is presented as if the author might have left it, and is a small museum in the middle of the establishment, with tours given regularly in the daytime. The corner of the ground floor hotel lobby also has two walls of framed photographs dedicated to Hemingway,
In 1987, the hotel underwent some small restoration, with more complete work finalized in 1997 to turn it once again into a luxurious hotel reminiscent of its time. Between 2004–2005, further maintenance as carried out, cleaning and painting the Hotel's facades.
Conserve water!!
STOP
Close your tap while washing your hand or face or while brushing or shaving....
It Saves a lot of water :)
[In one series I talk about a how water can take our lives away by increasing and then comes this where by which if we don't get it we die]
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Conserved ruins of a late 13th Century castle on a hill in a long and tight valley. The builders formerly colonized western Bohemia, and when they secured eastern Bohemia, they built new castles which they named after those in the West, there is also another Litice Castle (almost non-existent today). This castle mas a major strongpoint in the area for the next centuries, besieged and damaged in 1421, rebuilt and extended after 1450. It lost importance in the 16th Century, only the most basic personal maintained it, it´s seen as half demolished on a 1657 illustration, and last repairs were made in 1681. The northern palace was saved when it got a new roof in 1776, but the southern palace was left to it´s faith. Conservations of the remaining buildings and walls were done between 1890 and 1935, the preserved remains show that it was indeed a well built and durable fortress. The ruin was closed for some years due bad statics in the 1980´s, and reopened only after basic stabilization, a palace wall partially collapsed in 2015 and the castle still needs rescue efforts.
In celebration of Earth Day, 300 Kimball's landscaper donated a crab apple tree, which was planted in the front of the building. In addition, an Earth Day event for tenants was held in the employee lobby. Tenants received handouts about the information from Waste Management, an Earth Day trivia quiz and also an Earth Day flyer, which outlined tips tenants could do in their homes to conserve energy. Tenants also received free giveaways from Waste Management that were distributed, and four gardening baskets were raffled off.
Quelques photos avec le téléphone de la dernière marche de l'année dans les Farallones de Cali, des forêts très conservées pleines d'impressionante biodiversité ! Venez visiter la région avec moi comme guide. Département du Valle del Cauca, Colombie.
Algunas fotos con el celular de la ultima caminata del año en los Farallones de Cali, bosques muy conservados llenos de una biodiversidad impresionante ! Ven a visitar la región conmigo como guía. Departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Conserving an endangered species of plant isn't easy. It takes partners to help grow and propagate the seedlings, volunteers to help plant and care for them, and people like you to support and believe that every species is worth saving.
We spent this Endangered Species Day helping to ensure a future for native Hawaiian species by outplanting endangered seedlings at Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. Mahalo to the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii Department of Fish and Wildlife for supporting native and endangered species!
Coventry Transport Museum opened in 1980, after it became clear that the road transport collection was outgrowing the space it occupied in the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. The Museum’s current collection of vehicles is acknowledged as being one of the finest in the world, and the largest in public ownership.
The Museum’s collection consists of motor cars, commercial vehicles, cycles and motorcycles. In addition, extensive collections of automobilia, books, photographs and a wealth of other archive material is held and conserved at the Coventry History Centre at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.
This cab driver in NYC was making a sign to complain about the price of gas. See the Flickrskin: Ubiquitous New York: by Ace Starry
330-CFD-DN-ST-93-01086: A port bow view of the salvage ships USS Conserver (ARS-39) underway off Luzon, Philippines, 1/1/1993. (OPA-NARA II-2015/12/04).
An ailanthus webworm moth visits wingstem blooming at a restored grassland in Loudoun County, Va., on Sept. 9, 2020. The Piedmont Environmental Council conserved and restored the seven-acre property along Howsers Branch, which is near Gilberts Corner and the nonprofit's Roundabout Meadows farm. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Scupltures anciennes conservées à l'intérieur dans un petit musée lapidaire.
Scupltures old preserved inside a small lapidary.
Ancienne cathédrale Saint-Vincent. La partie occidentale de l'édifice est commencée au XIème siècle sur l'emplacement de fondations du VIème siècle.
Achevée au début du XIVème siècle, cette église a été partiellement détruite en 1799 (nefs et transept). La base des tours est du XIème siècle, le narthex du XIIème siècle. Les étages supérieurs sont gothiques.
Old Cathedral of St. Vincent. Occientale part of the building was begun in X8ème century on the site foundations of the sixth century.
Completed early in the fourteenth century, this church was partially destroyed in 1799 (nave and transept).The base of the towers is the eleventh century, the narthex of the twelfth century.The upper floors are Gothic.
Water is essential to life on earth. We need water to grow food, keep clean, provide power, control fire, and last but not least, we need it to stay alive!
If water is constantly being cleaned and recycled through the earth’s water cycle, why do we need to conserve it? The answer is that people use up our planet’s fresh water faster than it can naturally be replenished.
Conserved and Reconstructed 88" Land Rover Series IIA Station Wagon.
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07515899390
Conserved and Reconstructed 88" Land Rover Series IIA Station Wagon.
Owned and operated by Border Rovers
07515899390
La partie la mieux conservée des ruines est de style gothique et date vraisemblablement de la fin du XIIIe-début du XIVe siècle, Elle relève peut-être de la campagne de reconstruction consécutive au saccage anglais de 1294. L'église est à nef unique de deux travées, dont les voûtes sur croisée d'ogives se sont effondrées. Cependant les murs gouttereaux et la façade occidentale sont presque intacts.
La nef s'ouvre sur un transept dont les deux croisillons présentaient chacun de petites chapelles rectangulaires orientées, dont ne restent que les fondations, relativement épierrées. Dans le prolongement de la nef et du transept se dresse le chœur, d'une travée autrefois voûtée sur croisée d'ogives dont ne restent que les arrachements sur les murs, renforcés à leur extrémité par des maçonneries plus récentes. Le mur oriental est percé d'une immense baie privée de son remplage, depuis longtemps disparu. Cette partie date vraisemblablement du XVe siècle et de reconstructions après la guerre de Cent Ans), et donc postérieure au reste de l'édifice.
Il ne reste pratiquement plus rien des anciens locaux conventuels, plusieurs fois détruits et finalement démantelés au XVIIe siècle pour construire le fort de la Prée situé plus loin. Le carré du cloître, au nord de l'église, est cependant visible, le mur-bahut le délimitant autrefois ayant été rétabli, de même que le dallage des galeries avec un petit jardin en son centre. De la salle capitulaire, située contre le croisillon nord du transept et jouxtant la sacristie, ne subsistent, tout comme cette dernière, que des murs arasés et un sol épierré. Au nord du cloître s'élevait le réfectoire dont il ne reste qu'un pan de mur présentant encore trois anciens chapiteaux et départs de voûte, dans le même style que celui de l'abbatiale. C'est d'ailleurs le seul vestige en élévation des bâtiments claustraux.
Les éléments mis au jour lors des fouilles archéologiques sont visibles à la Maison du Platin à La Flotte, à proximité immédiate du port, sur le front de mer (cf. wikipédia).
Une des villes anciennes les mieux conservées de la région. Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO.
Fondée par les Grecs, conquise par Alexandre le Grand puis par les Romains et occupée par les Byzantins. Elle a connu son apogée au II ème siècle mais a commencé à décliner avec les invasions Arabes.
Perge possédait 2 voies à Portiques : le Cardo Nord-Sud et le Décumanus Est-Ouest. Elles datent du II ème siècle (Empereur Hadrien).
Le Cardo mesure 480 m de long sur 22 m de large. Il était séparé au milieu par un canal (2 m de large sur 0,80 à 1,20 m de profondeur) qui était alimenté par une source qui se trouvait au pied de l'Acropole.
Au premier plan, le canal avec des passages pour les piétons.
Tintern railway station served the village of Tintern on the Wye Valley Railway. It was opened in 1876 and closed for passengers in 1959 and freight in 1964, when the line was closed completely. It was the second largest station on the line, the most substantial being Monmouth Troy railway station.
The station was opened on 1 November 1876 and was one of the four original stations along the line. It consisted of a signal box, sidings, goods shed, station building, three platforms (two of which were island platforms), and a section of double track to allow trains to pass each other. It was a large station because the railway company hoped to generate much income from tourist traffic visiting the famous Tintern Abbey.
The Old Station Tintern was bought by the local county council for £1,500 It was then refurbished and opened as a visitor attraction. There is a cafe and exhibition on site as well as a movie about the railway in one of the old carriages moved to the station.
Monmouthshire County Council replaced the old railway carriages with two refurbished carriages in Spring 2010. The carriages provide a new shop, tourism information and the Destination Wye Valley exhibition as part of the £2.8m Heritage Lottery funded "Overlooking the Wye" scheme which is conserving various sites in the lower Wye Valley.
In the morning assembly all the students along with staff took a pledge to conserve water. One of the teachers, Varkha Singh (Punjabi teacher) delivered a speech on the topic. After the pledge the students of 5th, 6th and 7th class were sent to nearby village named Ugrahan. They marched in the village with banners in their hands in the form of a Chetna March; they reached the Dharmsala of the village. There they performed a stage programme which started with a Shabad followed by a religious song. Then the students of 7th class played a skit which conveyed a message to conserve water. Hardeep Kaur of 10th class made a speech touching different aspects of water. Mr. Balbir Singh (S.St teacher) and Mr. Jaspal Das (S.St teacher) also delivered speeches and told the farmers gathered there to adopt crop rotation and save water for future and they shed light on keeping the environment neat and clean.
The students of 4th and 5th classes presented poems related to water.
Kids waiting to run into the river, at the "Keep Winter Cold" Polar Bear Plunge. National Harbor, MD.
Ces quatre statues d’anges, ainsi que trois autres conservées au musée national du Moyen Âge, ont été découvertes à des dates diverses dans des collections privées. On peut supposer que ces sculptures ornaient le porche du transept de la prieurale dominicaine Saint-Louis à Poissy, Celle-ci comportait un décor sculpté important composé du saint roi et de sa famille. Une assemblée d'anges participant à une scène du jugement dernier devait aussi prendre place au portail ou au porche de l'église. Fondée par le roi Philippe IV le Bel en l’honneur et sur le lieu de naissance de son grand-père, Louis IX, canonisé en 1297. Parmi les statues conservées, deux anges sonnent la trompette pour annoncer le Jugement dernier, un autre tient les clous de la Crucifixion, d’autres s’apprêtent à distribuer des couronnes aux élus.
La priorale Saint-Louis de Poissy fut fondée par Philippe IV le Bel en mémoire de son grand-père, Louis IX (saint Louis), peu après sa canonisation en 1297. Les deux figures d'anges portent des instruments de la Passion du Christ, la trompette (dont il ne reste qu'une partie) et la couronne d'épines.
Le traitement sensible des silhouettes aux drapés élégants, associant volutes complexes et cassures adoucies, comme celui des visages ronds aux traits menus encadrés de boucles savamment enroulées, est caractéristique de l'art parisien de l'époque de Philippe le Bel. Ce style qui se diffuse au cours du XIVe siècle est parfois dénommé « style courtois ».
Île-de-France
début du XIVe siècle
Ange tenant une couronne
Pierre
H. : 1,04 m. ; L. : 0,31 m. ; Pr. : 0,26 m.
Acquis en 1852
Département des Sculptures
M.L. 115
In the morning assembly all the students along with staff took a pledge to conserve water. One of the teachers, Varkha Singh (Punjabi teacher) delivered a speech on the topic. After the pledge the students of 5th, 6th and 7th class were sent to nearby village named Ugrahan. They marched in the village with banners in their hands in the form of a Chetna March; they reached the Dharmsala of the village. There they performed a stage programme which started with a Shabad followed by a religious song. Then the students of 7th class played a skit which conveyed a message to conserve water. Hardeep Kaur of 10th class made a speech touching different aspects of water. Mr. Balbir Singh (S.St teacher) and Mr. Jaspal Das (S.St teacher) also delivered speeches and told the farmers gathered there to adopt crop rotation and save water for future and they shed light on keeping the environment neat and clean.
The students of 4th and 5th classes presented poems related to water.
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Oakland Plantation is situated on a bend on the Cane River Lake off Highway 119 in the Bermuda Community near Natchitoches, Louisiana. In 1997, the National Park Service acquired the main buildings and surrounding land of Oakland. Since then, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park has progressed to advanced stages to preserve and conserve the buildings, furniture, oil paintings, textiles, and history of the home as it was at the end of the plantation era in the 1960s. The plantation includes interpretation of the history of free blacks and Creoles of color who lived and worked on the plantation for nearly 100 years after the American Civil War and Emancipation. They were all integral to the region's community life. The community has strongly associated the plantation with the Prud'homme family.
The original owners, Jean-Pierre Emanuel Prud'homme and his wife Marie Catherine Lambre Prud'homme, completed building Oakland in 1821. The family tradition claims that Oakland was one of the first plantations to grow cotton on a large scale. They also had farm animals (made evident by extant buildings such as the dipping vat, the turkey shed, the mule barn, two pigeonniers and several chicken coops) and other crops. The Prudhommes also owned and operated a store on the property, which was the site of the Bermuda US Post Office for many years. The farm flourished in the late 1800s. J. Alphonse Prudhomme I won the gold medal at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis for growing the highest-grade cotton in the South.
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