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Mells (pop. 628), 3½ miles/6 km west of Frome, is one of the prettiest villages in Somerset, and its parish church, St Andrew's, is perhaps its finest feature. This Grade I listed Perpendicular Gothic church predominantly dates from the late 15th Century, although a previous church stood on the site for centuries, as still attested to by a Norman font and 14th Century sanctus bell. The tower dates to 1446. The late 15th Century fan vaulting is particularly impressive. St Mary's was restored in the mid-19th Century.
The church has close connections with the local Asquith family and the Horners who lived at Mells Manor.
A number of notable individuals are buried at the church, or have commemorative memorials within it. Interments include: the poet Siegfried Sassoon; the priest, Ronald Knox; politicians Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith, Christopher Hollis, and Reginald McKenna (in the McKenna family grave); the novelist George A. Birmingham aka James Owen Hannay, and Katharine Asquith, widow of Raymond Asquith.
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Mdina the ancient capital city of Malta. The Silent City with St Paul's Cathedral as its centre of worship. Mdina is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Holy Cross is the parish church in the Wiltshire village of Seend (pop. 1,132), just outside Devizes. It is part of the Church of England Diocese of Salisbury. The west tower dates to the 14th Century (with a 15th Century bell stage), most of the church dates slightly later, to around 1450, with the North Aisle rebuilt in 1498, and the chancel much more modern, being largely the product of an 1876 ‘restoration’ by A.J. Style.
The church has a rich collection of Georgian and Victorian memorials, and some pleasant Victorian and Edwardian glass.
The organ console, dizzyingly located, offers a fine vantage for photographing the clerestory and indeed the interior of the church as a whole.
I took this shot before-and-after I celebrated Mass and preached here on a Sunday morning.
St. Stanislaus (the Bishop) Church
Above the entrance to the temple are 19th century bodies of the Friedrich Ladegast project from Weissenfels
Holy Trinity Church, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, is a Grade I listed church which is part of the Church of England’s Diocese of Salisbury. The parish of Holy Trinity has been a part of the benefice of Bradford on Avon Holy Trinity, Westwood and Wingfield since 2013.
The present church was built around 1150 and originally consisted of a chancel and nave. The chancel was lengthened around the beginning of the 13th century, and a section of the south east wall rebuilt in 1707.
In 2016 the sale of a Flemish masterpiece by Quentin Matsys funded a £2m refurbishment of the church. A squint near the altar is claimed to be England's longest. The tower with spire was built around 1480, replacing an older one, and the south wall was largely rebuilt in the 19th Century.
Bradford-on-Avon is an almost impossibly pretty little town in Wiltshire with a population of just over 10,000. Located just 8 miles or 13 km on a direct train line east of Bath, it resembles it closely: a mini-Bath without the crowds.
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One of scenic spots in Old Town is the view to Jauniela street when looking from Krāmu street. The restaurant on Jauniela 16 is called "1221".
Restaurant 1221 is probably the most photographed facade in Riga. Located in a pleasant blue medieval building, it beautifully serves traditional food.
Copyright © Phil Dodd 2016, All Rights Reserved. This shot ( as you can see ) looks centrally down the Nave towards the main doors at the front of the Cathedral. I liked the symmetry here...
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A Igreja de São João de Almedina é um monumento nacional que integra o conjunto do Palácio Episcopal de Coimbra, onde funciona o Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro. A igreja tem origem no século XI, mas foi reconstruída nos séculos XVII e XVIII, adquirindo um estilo barroco. A igreja tem uma fachada com duas torres sineiras e um portal com uma imagem de São João Batista. Está situada na antiga freguesia da Sé Nova, no centro histórico de Coimbra.
The Church of São João de Almedina is a national monument that forms part of the Episcopal Palace of Coimbra, which houses the Machado de Castro National Museum. The church dates back to the 11th century, but was rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries, acquiring a Baroque style. The church has a façade with two bell towers and a portal with an image of St. John the Baptist. It is located in the former parish of Sé Nova, in the historic center of Coimbra.
House with typical eyes windows in Sighisoara.
The gothic style buildings reflect the Hungarian-German influence and many carry a common feature in their heavy tiled roof top: small attic windows that appear as eyelids looking down upon you.
Casa con ventanas de ojos típicos en Sighisoara.
Los edificios de estilo gótico reflejan la influencia húngaro-alemana y muchos tienen una característica común en su techo de tejas pesadas: pequeñas ventanas en el ático que aparecen como párpados mirando hacia abajo.
Sighisoara. Romania Europe
This is one of my favourite photos from Hampi. Its grand period came at the end of the medieval era, roughly from 1330- 1565. It is situated in what is today northern Karnataka and became the capital of a quickly growing empire. Already in 1370 this empire stretched all the way down to southern India, where the sultanate of Madurai had to give way for Hindu rulers once again.
In those days, another name of the city was Vijayanagara, which means "City of Victory". This name is more than reflected by the fantastic architecture, of which a lot is still there or restored to old glory.
The Old Bridge over the River Boyne in Trim, County Meath, Ireland, has been, and continues to be a working bridge since 1393.
This bridge is one of Ireland's oldest complete and unaltered working bridges.
Medieval Stronghold, built over Samnite outpost, on highrock outcropping over looking Antica via Appia and Ansanto valley. Below north 3 km, is the famous Mefite a fumarole that since the time of the Samnite was a main shrine at the volcano Ampsanctus in Ansanto vally Samnium. It is the place that Virgil described 2,000 years ago in the Aeneid, when he wrote: “Est locus Italiae medio sub montibus altis, nobilis et fame multis memoratus in oris, Amsancti valles”...
There is a place in the middle of Italia beneath high mountains, noble and celebrated for fame in many places, the Ansanto Valley.” (Verses 563-565, VII book, The Aeneid)
With the view enhanced by rowan trees in their autumn finery, the Church of England parish church of All Saints’ in Faringdon, in the Diocese of Oxford. It may date from the 12th century, and the clerestory and possibly the west end of the nave survive from this period. A Norman doorway survives, although not in its original position, in the baptistery. The chancel and north transept are 13th century and the west chapel is 14th century. The north chapel is a late medieval Perpendicular Gothic addition with 15th-century windows.
All Saints’ has a central bell tower, which was reduced in height in 1645 after it was damaged by a cannonball in the English Civil War. Faringdon was fought over because it commanded the road to the Radcot Bridge over the River Thames. The tower now has a ring of eight bells. The three oldest bells were cast in 1708. James Wells of Aldbourne, Wiltshire, cast the tenor bell in 1779 and another bell in 1803. The three youngest bells, including the treble, were cast in 1874 by Mears and Stainbank.
Faringdon in Oxfordshire’s Vale of White Horse is a market town with a population of 8,260, growing quite rapidly.
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Bryggen is one of Bergen's and Norway's main attractions. Bryggen was built after the great fire in 1702 and is included on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
The very first buildings in Bergen were situated at Bryggen, which has been a vibrant and important area of the city for many centuries.
Bryggen has been ravaged by many fires, the great fire of 1702 in particular. It reduced the whole of the city to ashes. The area was rebuilt on the foundations that had been there since the 12th century, which means that Bryggen is basically unchanged despite the passing centuries.
Bryggen is now part of our common heritage and has a place on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, and the city of Bergen is a designated World Heritage City. The world heritage site consists of the old Hanseatic wharf and buildings, and one of the best known urban areas from the Middle Ages in all of Norway.
In 1360, the German Hanseatic League set up one of its import and export offices at Bryggen, dominating trade for almost 400 years. To stroll through the narrow alleyways and overhanging galleries is to step back into the mists of time and a bygone era.
The West Front of Tewkesbury Abbey, with the central tower just visible behind and to the left. This is not an easy building to get a good exterior shot of from the west, even in winter.
The Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury – commonly known as Tewkesbury Abbey – is located in the English county of Gloucestershire. A former Benedictine monastery, it is now a parish church. Considered one of the finest examples of Norman architecture in Britain, it has the largest Romanesque crossing tower in Europe. Tewkesbury had been a centre for worship since the 7th Century. A priory was established there in the 10th Century. The present building was started in the early 12th Century. It was unsuccessfully used as a sanctuary in the Wars of the Roses. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it became the parish church for the town. George Gilbert Scott led the Restoration of the building in the late 19th Century.
The churchmanship of the Abbey is strongly Anglo-Catholic.
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The George and Dragon is a pub in Potterne (pop. 1,550), just outside Devizes and Wiltshire.
It is a late late 18th or early 19th Century recasing of a 15th Century timber-framed hall house, thatched roof over red brick.
According to the official listing, an inn called the ‘George’ is recorded from the mid-17th Century. It was probably built for the Bishops of Salisbury, who once kept a residence in the village, around c1450-1500 as an open hall, and floored over in the early 16th Century.
It is also a very good pub – at the end of my street!
Cheltenham Minster, St Mary’s is the only surviving medieval building in Cheltenham, in continuous use for 850 years. It is believed to have replaced a Saxon church erected on this site in the 8th century. In the Domesday Book the church and its land (the rectory) were recorded as belonging to William the Conqueror's Chancellor, Regenbald also known as Reinbald, who then bequeathed it to Cirencester Abbey. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII it became crown property during the English Reformation. The crown property was sold by James I & VI and went through a succession of different owners (lay rectors) until 1863 when Edward Walker took possession of the chancel and the title of rector.
Parts of the church represent the Early English style of architecture, but thanks to later extensions it is the decorated style which predominates. The upper part of the tower dates from around 1200 and the broach spire was added early in the 14th Century. The tracery of the windows is reflects architectural developments between 1250 and 1350, while the stained glass (not well displayed in these shots) is late Victorian and regarded as of particularly high quality.
[The south porch, visible here, is a late Victorian addition.]
The bell tower currently contains a peal of twelve bells which were cast by John Taylor & Co in 2018 as part of a major restoration project.
Its most famous incumbent was Francis Close, a keen Evangelical, who was a follower of Charles Simeon. Close was perpetual curate of the church for thirty years and a founder of two teacher training colleges which later became the University of Gloucestershire. He moved on to become Dean of Carlisle in 1856.
For most of its history St Mary's Church served a population of less than 1,500 and was a prominent feature of the landscape. But extensive building occurred during the Regency period in the early 19th Century and as a result the church is now hidden behind shops and offices. In Victorian times a number of new churches were built to cope with Cheltenham's rapidly expanding population.
The church is, unsurprisingly, a Grade I listed building.
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Leaving this beautiful spot in the evening. We still had some 800 km to drive. Eventually arrived early this morning, got some sleep and went to work...
Gloucester Cathedral Nave Ceiling iPhone shot seen through the eye of my latest lens, a Zeiss ExoLens Wide-Angle working together with a Manfrotto tripod, Shoulderpod S1, Hisy remote, post processing in Apple 'Photos' on iMac, then Snapseed on iPad Pro.
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The Church of St Giles in Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset, is a Grade I listed building, with an unusual faceless clock. It is part of the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells.
A church in Leigh was first recorded in the 13th Century, as a chapel of ease connected to St Andrew’s, a larger church in the parish of Mells. In the late 14th Century, the current parish of Leigh-on-Mendip was established and the first church, as we would recognise the building today, was built between 1350 and 1390.
The 28.5-metre tower dates from around 1464, and contains six bells, five of which date from the 1750s. A scratch sundial can be seen on one of the buttress at the foot of the tower.
During a series of renovations in the 19th and 20th centuries the historical and artistic value of various features was fully recognised. These include a nearly complete set of medieval pews that is now considered to be of national importance, fragments of medieval stained glass and original woodwork.
The Quinquennial report of 2016 identified that urgent repairs were needed to the church, particularly the 300-year-old roof lead, which was leaking badly. A substantial restoration project for the magnificent nave roof was therefore completed in 2018-19.
I am indebted to the Friends of Leigh Church for this description.
iPhone shot of Peterborough Cathedral mirror viewing table with explanation plaque referring to the Chancel Ceiling, handheld, Shoulderpod S1, remote, this photo needed extensive healing in Snapseed on iPad Pro to remove scratches on the mirror surface.
A scene that the artist Sir Stanley Spencer must have seen countless times—a boat speeding down the River Thames just by its bridge, passing the ancient parish church of Holy Trinity. He painted it once—and there was only one scene he ever painted twice.
Holy Trinity is the parish church for the Berkshire village of Cookham, and is particularly associated with the artist Sir Stanley Spencer. It is part of the Church of England’s Diocese of Oxford.
Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building containing several significant monuments. Although the earliest stone church building may have existed from 750, and there was a Saxon monastery here by the 8th Century, the earliest identifiable part of the current church is the Lady Chapel, built in the late 12th Century on the site of the cell of a female anchorite who lived next to the church. It was extended and improved several times between then and the reformation, with the tower added around 1500. It was “restored” by our Victorian friends in 1860.
Cookham (pop. 5,200) is located between Maidenhead and High Wycombe in the outer reaches of London's commuter belt. It is particularly famous as the home of artist Sir Stanley Spencer; the village and its people were the predominant subjects of his work, often transmogrified into Biblical themes and scenes. Kenneth Grahame, who lived in one of the village's sub-hamlets as a child, is said to have been inspired by the River Thames at Cookham to write The Wind in the Willows. In 2011, The Daily Telegraph deemed Cookham Britain's second richest village.
This detailed shot is of the tomb of Sir Baptist Hicks, Lord Campden and his wife, which is to be found in the Gainsborough Chapel of St James's Church, Chipping Campden. It dates from the 17th century and is attributed to Nicholas Stone.
This was taken with Judy's i-Phone.
The visitor to this unusual and very imposing church immediately gets the impression that here are two churches built side by side, with the one on the north side being older than the one on the south. There was once a priory here, stripped of its chancel after the Dissolution. The interior is the nave of the old priory church. In the days of the priory the south aisle served as the parish church.
The large east window was inserted after the collapse of the disused chancel in 1592. According to Simon Jenkins, St Germanus' Church has two treasures - the glass in this ten light east window, which is a masterpiece by Sir Edward Burne-Jones - and a monument by the leading 18th century sculptor John Michael Rysbrack in the north-west corner of the church to Edward Elliot MP (see below).
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Within these walls at Raby dwelt knights clad in armor, gleaming under the flickering torchlight. Amidst this splendor, beyond the polished armor, lay a solemn duty woven into the fabric of their existence. All was not the fairytale it seems today, for beyond the castle walls, the realm teemed with treachery and the ever-looming threat of darkness.
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