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...I'll stand up with you forever. I'll be there through it all, even if saving you sends me to Heaven.
A Crop of Calvary Hill Angel in HDR
Calvary Hill Cemetery
Cemeteries. I've loved visiting them for so many years. As a young child from the age of around 10, I'd spend a large amount of time in a local cemetery situated a close walk from my home. I'd take a novel or a drawing pad and pencils and spend many happy hours walking around.
Undisturbed, untroubled, a place of peace to enjoy the flora and fauna and especially to ponder the lives and history of those gone before, the world they left behind. In awe of the artistry and poetry of gravestones, mausolea.
And as the years have passed, I've found myself drawn to spending time in cemeteries across the globe, three favourites being Père Lachaise in Paris, Isola di San Michele in Venice and Highgate back home in London.
So I found myself in Rookwood recently, Sydney's largest cemetery, opened in 1867. I spent a while visiting friends, family and others now departed.
'Respect, reflect, remember'.
(Rookwood is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere).
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Grave monument for the Stewart Family in Lexington Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Lexington, Georgia
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Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery has a few large older grave markers.
This one has a story to tell - courtesy of Vancouver archives.
About Robert Clark:
Robert Clark was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1845 (a discrepancy with the grave marker date of 1843). A prominent Vancouver merchant, he died 05 May 1909 at 65 years old.
Clark had an important influence on the business life in Vancouver.
Clark's first job was in a grocery store, but then he learned the ship-builder’s trade. 01 May 1871, at age 25, Clark left Scotland for Canada.
Clark built the first steamer that sailed on Lake Manitoba. “Going into the forest,” the 1906 B.C. Illustrated News relates, “he picked out the trees, hewed the lumber and with help whip-sawed the lumber. He then built and launched the boat and delivered her to the owners, a craft one hundred feet in length.”
Clark then moved to the US and worked in various cities until he came to Victoria in 1875.
In 1880 Clark opened a men’s wear store in Nanaimo, and moved it to Yale a year later.
Then his Yale store burned down. “He remained at Yale until the spring of 1886,” the Illustrated News continues, “when owing to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad he returned to Vancouver.
Clark then opened his haberdashery store on Hastings and ran a large and successful business.
Clark also assisted in building the first Presbyterian church in Vancouver, and topped the Vancouver aldermanic polls in 1887, ’88 and ’89.
This excerpt from the web site of the Vancouver Board of Trade indicates the key role Clark played in the early business life of Vancouver:
“Following the disastrous fire of June 13, 1886, when all but one of Vancouver’s buildings were destroyed, Vancouver businessmen held a number of meetings to discuss the need for some kind of business organization that could help to rebuild the young city.
22 September, 1887, such a meeting was held under the chairmanship of Alderman Robert Clark and the decision was made to form a Board of Trade . . . On November 24, 1887, a Charter was issued which made the new organization official and gave it its name—The Vancouver Board of Trade.”
Robert Clark is one of 576 Clarks found in Mountain View. The cemetery web site offers a useful tool to find grave sites by name.
The inscription across the base reads "Tho Lost to Sight to Memory Dear".
Since our Thanksgiving plans were curtailed this year, my wife and I decided to do a backroad trip to at least enjoy the fall colours.
We came across this church with a spectucular view of the valley and escarpement. We needed to stretch our legs and decided to stroll the church's Cemetery. (The ultimate in “social distancing”.)
For the most part the grounds are well kept, except for a portion on a hill, where the grounds crews have let it go. I found this scene haunting, looking at the grave monuments amongst the weeds allowed to grow. I began to wondered what the resting Scotish settlers from the early 1800's would have faced back in their day of some 200+ years ago.
Look at all those spears in the cealing of Herman Wrangel's crypt. I wonder if he has any use of them in the afterlife?
See also: The Wrangel Crypt.
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Sandford's Walk to the left of the funerary monument to Sheffield steel manufacturer and benefactor, Mark Firth in Sheffield General Cenetery.
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Detail of the funereal sculpture for the tomb of Louise de Timbrune-Valence, countess of Celles (✝1828), by Matthias Kessels [Maastricht (Netherlands) 1784 - Rome (Italy) 1836].
This photograph was published in the Winter 2011-2012 edition of Sufi Magazine, illustrating an article on XIIIth century mystical poetess Hadewijch of Antwerp, Belgium. Click link below.
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Greek grave monuments often resembled small buildings with columns supporting a triangular pediment above. Here, we see the deceased Archippus accompanied by two servants, their status indicated by their small size. In the background can be seen a vase, probably silver.
Probably from Smyrna, 3rd to 2nd century BCE.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Ex Cook Collection (AN 1947.271)
Abbaye de Fontevraud, Maine-et-Loire, France.
View of the nave with the the tomb of King Henry II of England, Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine, King Richard I of England and Queen Isabella of Angoulême. Richard I was known as Richard Cœur de Lion or Richard the Lionheart.
The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, France.
The abbey was founded in 1101 by the itinerant preacher Robert of Arbrissel. The first permanent structures were built between 1110 and 1119.
The area where the Abbey is located was then part of what is sometimes referred to as the Angevin Empire. The King of England, Henry II, his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and son, King Richard the Lionheart were all buried here at the end of the 12th century.
It was disestablished as a monastery during the French Revolution.
The complex of monastic buildings served as a prison from 1804 to 1963. Since 1975, it has hosted a cultural centre, the Centre Culturel de l'Ouest.
A major restoration was completed in 2006. The abbey is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a historic monument of France.
One more from Glenwood. Really, you would love the place if you went. It is one of the most beautiful spots in Houston. Seriously.
This is a new monument in the cemetery that I rather like because it is stylized like its older neighbors. All of it is marble - polished and unpolished. While the statue is impressive, I prefer my angels a little more tough and battle hardened. No cupidy angels for me. Is cupidy a word? It is now.
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Parray le Monnial, France, Region Burgundy . Graveyard with Graveyard chapel and the graves of the families Janiaud, Guittat and
Potignon
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24 - Statue, for 116 pictures in 2016
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Read more about this famous French racing driver of the early 20th Century here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Th%C3%A9ry
136 of 365 pictures in 2014
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Effigy (c. 1199) on the tomb of King Richard I of England, known as Richard Cœur de Lion or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior.
The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, France.
The abbey was founded in 1101 by the itinerant preacher Robert of Arbrissel. The first permanent structures were built between 1110 and 1119.
The area where the Abbey is located was then part of what is sometimes referred to as the Angevin Empire. The King of England, Henry II, his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and son, King Richard the Lionheart were all buried here at the end of the 12th century.
It was disestablished as a monastery during the French Revolution.
The complex of monastic buildings served as a prison from 1804 to 1963. Since 1975, it has hosted a cultural centre, the Centre Culturel de l'Ouest.
A major restoration was completed in 2006. The abbey is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a historic monument of France.
Effigy (c. 1199) on the tomb of King Richard I of England (front) and Queen Isabella of Angoulême (back). Richard I was known as Richard Cœur de Lion or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior.
The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, France.
The abbey was founded in 1101 by the itinerant preacher Robert of Arbrissel. The first permanent structures were built between 1110 and 1119.
The area where the Abbey is located was then part of what is sometimes referred to as the Angevin Empire. The King of England, Henry II, his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and son, King Richard the Lionheart were all buried here at the end of the 12th century.
It was disestablished as a monastery during the French Revolution.
The complex of monastic buildings served as a prison from 1804 to 1963. Since 1975, it has hosted a cultural centre, the Centre Culturel de l'Ouest.
A major restoration was completed in 2006. The abbey is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a historic monument of France.
St Michael's church is full of impressive monuments, including some double deckers.
This one holds two generations of the Littleton family. On top is Sir Edward, who died in 1629. His wife Mary is hidden behind him. On the bottom is Sir Edward Senior who died in 1610, together with his wife Margaret.
Mount Olivet Cemetery - Nashville, TN.
Yeah, that's right - I put lipstick on the statue but did so only in editing. I LOVE it though and am glad that I thought to do it. Ha, I may put lipstick on all my statue shots.
TEXTURE: *Salmon Grunge* by pareeerica
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TEXTURE: "Doriath" by Max F. Williams
Mount Olivet Cemetery - Nashville, TN.
I went to get some sunrise photos but the sunrise was quite disappointing. As I was leaving the cemetery I noticed a fog down below. It soon thickened and enveloped the cemetery. I had waited nearly two years for this.
Color my world daily - Friday: blue
19 - The Blues, for 52 in 2019
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The previous part in the series got over two thousand hits,making it my most viewed photo within a couple of days. Here's a shot of a grave monument, belonging to king Johan III who lived and reigned in the sixteenth century. You may compare it to this one I took about a year and a half earlier.
Part I – Part II – Part III – Part IV – Part V – Part VI – Part VII – Part VIII
Part IX – Part X – Part XI – Part XII – Part XIII – Part XIV – Part XV
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According to a museum plaque: This marble capital and Sphinx are thought to come from Attica circa 530 B.C. and originally crowned the tall grave marker of a youth and a little girl. The sphinx, a mythological creature with a lion's body and a human head, was known in various forms throughout the eastern Mediterranean region from the Bronze Age onward. The Greeks represented it as a winged female and often placed its image on grave monuments as guardians of the dead. This sphinx, which retains abundant traces of red, black, and blue pigment, was carved separately from the capital on which it stands. Its plinth was led into a socket at the top of the capital and secured by a metal dowel and a bed of molten lead. The capital is in the form of two double volutes (spiral scrolls) designed like a lyre. The front face of the capital also had a painted design of palmettes and volutes.