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St Peter's south door seen through the trees.
There is evidence of a church building dating from 840 AD, the earliest remains being St Peter holding the keys to Heaven over the south door.
The current building dates from the 12th century.
Church records began in 1538 and are the earliest in the county.
The churchyard was closed in 1915.
Both the south and north doors are Norman, as is the font, thought to be part of the original church.
Along the west wall was once a musicians' gallery on which the organ was installed. It was removed and, in its place, is the so-called 'musicians' window' dedicated to St Cecilia, the patron saint of music.
The north aisle was added in the 13th century. Here lies the 'Avenbury Knight', a 13th century effigy from the now ruined St Mary's Church, Avenbury (one of the oldest churches in England, closed in 1931). Also in the north aisle can be found the 'Bromyard Bushel'. Made in 1670 from cast iron, this was the standard measure for grain.
Near the knight and bushel is a copy of Professor Edward Hull's description of the world's history - measuring 7 metres long! It depicts history from Adam and Eve to Queen Victoria and was published in the 1890s.
The oldest window in the church dates from around 1300. The glass itself is late 19th century and is dedicated to Rev. William Cooke.
The original chancel was extended in the 14th century. To the left is the pulpit, made in 1883 from wood of a much earlier design.
The organ dates from 1839. It was moved from its original position to the chancel in 1875. Modifications were made in 1978 and it was restored in 2013.
The south aisle chapel - not the Lady Chapel! - contains Bromyard's official war memorial. The chapel was dedicated in 1919, just months after the end of World War I.
There are a number of recesses around the walls of the church which once contained the tombs of wealthy or important people, dating to the 14th century.
St Peter, Lindsay
Ash Street in Lindsay, Cooke County, Texas (33°38′9″N 97°13′35″W)
Roman Catholic Church
Neo-Romanesque Church
Frank A Ludewig, architect (Dutch)
Fridolin Fuchs, artist (Swiss)
Arthur Weinman Architects, 2010-2011 Restoration
1892, church organized
1903, previous church constructed
1917-1918, current church constructed
1970, Recored Texas Landmark
1979, National Register of Historic Places
1983, Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR
2010-2011, Restoration
2012, AIA Fort Worth Design Awards
2013, Historic Fort Worth Preservation Award Winner
Texas Historical Commission Marker Text:
Organized 1892. Present church was erected in 1918 to replace structure destroyed by cyclone. Lindsay settlers, Germans whose lives centered in the church, furnished much manual labor for the building and saved old windmill towers to be used as reinforcements in concrete. The interior is lavishly decorated with unusual frescoes, stained-glass windows, and carved altars. Swiss artist was Fridolin Fuchs. Architecture is neo-Romanesque. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark--1970.
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Die Pfarrkirche St. Peter ist ein Werk des berühmten Architekten Balthasar Neumann. Die Kirche wurde bei dem verhehrenden Bombenangriff am 1. März 1945 nicht getroffen. Wilderich von Walderdorff war der letzte Fürstbischof von Speyer.
St. Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri; Italian: Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) is a Late Renaissance church located within Vatican City. Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and remains one of the largest churches in the world. St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic sites.
By Catholic tradition, the basilica is the burial site of its namesake Saint Peter, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus and, also according to tradition, the first Pope and Bishop of Rome. Tradition and strong historical evidence hold that Saint Peter's tomb is directly below the altar of the basilica. For this reason, many Popes have been interred at St. Peter's since the Early Christian period. There has been a church on this site since the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica, replacing the Old St. Peter's Basilica of the 4th century AD, began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626
In the 1970s, when I used to stay at my Grandparent's house when my Mum and Dad went disco dancing, or whatever they called it before disco dancing was a thing, there was a TV series they used to watch called "How Green was my Valley". I remember little of it, except Granddad saying the valley was go green because of all the rain.
So, on Sunday, the rain was due to fall in the valleys, the hills and all else between.
What to do when we had come away without coats and umbrella?
Churchcrawling.
And thanks to the Church Conservation Trust, you ban fairly reply on those under their care to be open. I made a list of their churches in Shropshire, and after breakfast we set off for the first one, passing through the village of Knockin.
I kid ye not.
Where the village shop is called, of course, The Knockin Shop.
I also kid ye not.
Rain fell, roads were nearly flooded, so we splish-splashed our way across the county, down valley and up hills until we came to the entrance of an estate.
Here be a church.
Not sure if we could drive to it, I got out and walked, getting damp as the rain fell through the trees.
But the church was there, and open, if poorly lit inside. And I was able to get shots before walking up the hill to the car.
Two more churches tried, but they were locked and no keyholder about. So onto Wroxter, where a large and imposing church towered over the road. And to get there we passed through a former Roman settlement from which the modern town too its name. Most impressive was a reconstruction of a villa.
But we did not stop.
The church was open, light and airy even on a gloomy and wet day. I got loads of shots, especially of the fine tombs.
The final church was one not under the CCC, but one I had seen shots of online earlier in the week.
It took half an hour to drive to Diddlebury.
I kid ye not. Again.
And up the hill was the church, with a huge squat Saxon, or early Norman tower, and insode both the north and west walls were Saxon, with the north wall being made of dressed stone laid in a herringbone style.
It is an incredible survivor, and glad that I made the effort to come, as the church is amazing.
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St. Peter’s church, known by this dedication since at least 1322, is one of four churches in Shropshire with substantial Anglo-Saxon remains. The original building consisted of a nave with a west tower which was subsequently rebuilt in Norman times. The north wall, with its characteristic small double-splayed window and blocked door is the most visible surviving feature and dates from the eleventh century. The combination of dressed square ashlar masonry on the outside with herringbone work on the interior is most unusual, and has been the subject of much academic controversy.
Other Anglo-Saxon work includes some herringbone work in the North West corner, and fragments of sculpture, one of which predates the building by a century.
The chancel was added in the twelfth century, and some of the original windows survive. The tower was rebuilt in Norman times, and the later buttresses show that the structure had been unstable from an early date. The large blocked western arch is unusual, and its original purpose is unclear. The tower also features animal heads on the west face, and two sheila-na-gigs (obscene female figures) on the south side.
The south aisle originally dated from the fourteenth century, but was rebuilt in 1860. Inside the church, few furnishings survived Nicholson’s restoration in 1883, but the Royal Arms of William III on the west wall, painted in 1700, are worthy of note, as are the Jacobean corbels retained when the old ceiling was replaced in 1860.
Monuments in the church are mostly small mural tablets commemorating local gentry families of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Note the two
fourteenth century tomb recesses in the chancel, one of which contains a later heraldic brass to Charles Baldwyn (1674), and also the small brass high on the north wall of the Vestry (formerly the Baldwyn family aisle of 1609). This commemorates Thomas Baldwyn (1614), who had earlier been imprisoned in the Tower of London for involvement with Mary Queen of Scots. There is good Victorian glass in the chancel.
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DIDDLEBURY
SO58NW Church of St Peter
1943-1/2/35
12/11/54
GV II*
Parish church. Saxon, restored C19. Dressed and rubble
sandstone; plain tile roofs. Nave, chancel, west tower, south
aisle and north transept.
EXTERIOR: long and short quoins to base of chancel; Decorated
east window; mid C19 south wall and porch; restored tower with
Norman superstructure over infilled Saxon arch; weather-vane.
Tall narrow north doorway, blocked C19, with semi-circular
arch on chamfered impost blocks.
INTERIOR: good herringbone masonry to north wall; fragments of
interlacing sculpture and piscina; 2 canopies with ballflower
ornament; font; tablets: Cornwall, d.1756; Powell, d.1769;
Fleming, d.1650; Bawdewyn, d.1674; Fleming, d.1761; some early
wood figure-head corbels to roof; funeral hatchments.
Listing NGR: SO5084385372
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St. Peter's was founded in 1804 as an outreach of Christ Reformed Church of Indian Creek. With German immigrants coming to Southeastern Pennsylvania in the late 1700's and early 1800's many new churches sprang up as "union Churches" - as Reformed and Lutheran congregations shared one building, but each congregation having their own pastor. St. Peter's was a union church.
In 1874 St. Peter's original stone building was razed, and the current building was built. St. Peter's has met at the same location since its founding in 1804
The new memorial upon the traditional House of St. Peter was built by the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in order to shelter the archaeological remains of the Insula Sacra, and to make the same ruins more accessible to the visitors. The inside of the edifice is primarily reserved to religious services.
The main bulk of the building, which is hovering over the remains of the House of Simon Peter the fisherman, conveys in some way the image of a boat. The same idea is suggested by the wall decorations made up of stylized fish, waves and nets.
The four wooden panels inside the church are the work of the artists Raoul Vistoli (The Blessed Virgin entering the House of Peter, and St. Peter on a boat). And of Giovanni Dragoni (The Crucifixion and Jesus in the House of Peter). More panels are expected to embellish the interior surfaces of the Memorial. The mosaic of the altar (of Enzo Rossi) combines the biblical theme of the manna in the desert and of the multiplication of loaves. Some passages of the fourth Gospel relating the famous speech on the bread of life, mad by Jesus in the synagogue of Capharnaum, are engraved on the walls of the presbytery. The central tabernacle (of Igino Legnaghi) reproduce the biblical law later. The artistic bronze railing (of Tavani) around the central oculus of the Memorial and along the entrance staircase, is a combination of Christian symbols.
The Memorial was dedicated by Cardinal Lourdusami on June 29, 1990. That date was engraved on the plinths of the façade. In that memorial occasion the Holy Father John Paul II sent a special message, part of which has been engraved on both sides of the entrance.
The ancient texts of Egeria and of the Placentinus, together with the new dedicatory inscription, stress the continuity of the Christian tradition on this holy place which was at the same time the house of Peter, the house of Jesus, and the cradle of Christianity.
Coughton is a real treat for the church crawler; not only is it's fine medieval church situated next to the impressive facade of Coughton Court it is also has an attractive Victorian RC church as it's neighbour to the south (built for the Court's owners, the Throckmortons, who being Catholic needed another church!). Best of all both churches are kept open for visitors (and unlike the Court don't charge hefty entrances fees!).
St Peter's is easily one of the most rewarding churches in the area, a late medieval building with much of interest within. The monuments are not of the finest quality but worth seeing, but my favourite pieces here were the fragments of late medieval/early Renaissance stained glass in the traceries of the chancel windows, fine quality and obviously the work of Flemish glaziers, tantalising tiny glimpses of what we've lost. The east window has more substantial remains with three female figures in lavish costume, but all their heads look like Victorian replacements by Hardman's. There are earlier fragments in some nave windows and by contrast little Victorian glass (keeping the interior light), a dull Hardmans piece on the north side and a much finer Powells window sadly difficult to see in the tower.
There are substantial elements of late medieval woodwork in the chancel, fairly plain and easily missed, but the four figure carvings are worth seeking out.The large Throckmorton tomb beside the altar tempts one to step over the altar rails for a closer look, though this can be tricky as with a steady flow of visitors to the neighbouring Court one is rarely entirely alone in here!
St Peter's church at Yoxall is a grand affair, a large building of three aisles set back from the road with the green expanse of its churchyard to the north (with by contrast a more narrow strip to the south). Externally nearly everything apart from the west tower is the result of Victorian rebuilding (by Henry Woodyer 1865-8).
Inside this is an impressive space, though again mostly dating from the 19th century rebuilding, with just the 14th century nave arcades remaining from the old building. The light nave gives way to the gloom of the chancel beyond which is richly furnished, as also is the chapel to the south with its ornate altar. There is attractive glass by Burlison & Grylls in several windows though the main items of interest here are the monuments with effigies in the nave aisles (an alabaster Tudor couple to the north, a white marble Victorian admiral to the south).
I found Yoxall church open and welcoming like most I encountered on this trip (a refreshing experience in Staffordshire, which is not normally the best of places to seek out open churches).
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Learning center offers Native American students new technology
By J.D. Long-García, jdlgarcia@catholicsun.org
November 20, 2008
BAPCHULE — There was only one member of St. Peter Mission School community who was unsure about the name of the new Joe Garagiola Learning Center — Joe Garagiola himself.
“Joe fussed about it,” Franciscan Sister Martha Carpenter said. “He said, ‘Nothing is named after me except my oldest son.’”
Garagiola — a former Major League Baseball player who’s known as “Awesome Fox” by the school community — eventually agreed on the condition that “Where every child is a gift” be included in the center’s name.
More than 300 people were on hand for the Nov. 2 blessing of the new facility. Led by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, the community gathered for prayer and thanksgiving.
“This center is a real homerun, Joe,” the bishop said during the blessing ceremony.
St. Peter students joined in thanking Garagiola, singing “This Man is Our Joe” to the melody of Woody Guthrie’s classic “This Land is Your Land.”
But the former ball player wasn’t the only one honored.
“We have never said as often as we should how thankful we are for the Franciscan sisters,” said Fr. Edward Meulmans, a retired priest who serves Native American missions in the diocese.
He said the students pick up the Franciscans’ loving spirit of service when they come to the school. The sisters create an environment that marries prayer with education, he said.
“The learning center, along with the church, will be an important building for us for years to come,” Fr. Meulmans said.
The five-year project replaced the school’s tiny library with the 5,125-square-foot learning center featuring a lab with 30 computers and a 12,000-volume library.
More: www.catholicsun.org/2008/nov20/local/stpeters-library.html
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St Peter's Church, Heysham Village.
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Learning center offers Native American students new technology
By J.D. Long-García, jdlgarcia@catholicsun.org
November 20, 2008
BAPCHULE — There was only one member of St. Peter Mission School community who was unsure about the name of the new Joe Garagiola Learning Center — Joe Garagiola himself.
“Joe fussed about it,” Franciscan Sister Martha Carpenter said. “He said, ‘Nothing is named after me except my oldest son.’”
Garagiola — a former Major League Baseball player who’s known as “Awesome Fox” by the school community — eventually agreed on the condition that “Where every child is a gift” be included in the center’s name.
More than 300 people were on hand for the Nov. 2 blessing of the new facility. Led by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, the community gathered for prayer and thanksgiving.
“This center is a real homerun, Joe,” the bishop said during the blessing ceremony.
St. Peter students joined in thanking Garagiola, singing “This Man is Our Joe” to the melody of Woody Guthrie’s classic “This Land is Your Land.”
But the former ball player wasn’t the only one honored.
“We have never said as often as we should how thankful we are for the Franciscan sisters,” said Fr. Edward Meulmans, a retired priest who serves Native American missions in the diocese.
He said the students pick up the Franciscans’ loving spirit of service when they come to the school. The sisters create an environment that marries prayer with education, he said.
“The learning center, along with the church, will be an important building for us for years to come,” Fr. Meulmans said.
The five-year project replaced the school’s tiny library with the 5,125-square-foot learning center featuring a lab with 30 computers and a 12,000-volume library.
More: www.catholicsun.org/2008/nov20/local/stpeters-library.html
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St Peter, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Set in the 19th Century terraces just to the west of the town centre near to the famous Greene King brewery sits the church of St Peter. It was built as a mission outstation of the vast church of St Mary, and until recently still had a sign saying 'St Peter's District Church' outside. It is a surprisingly large church, yellow banded brick and Suffolk flint of the 1850s, with a tower that serves as a south porch in the Ipswich manner, surmounted by a sturdy spire that is more from the Midlands. I rather liked it - on this grim day of heavy rain it looked very dramatic in the drizzle beneath the black clouds.
The architect was John Hakewill, brother of the more famous Edward. John's major moment in Suffolk is the rebuilding of Thurston, but I prefer this one, despite the fact that it isn't particularly in the Suffolk style, apart from the flint. It has a wide grass area which can never have been used for burials. At one time it formed the playing fields for the adjacent St Mary's School, but this has now closed.
The interior underwent a considerable reordering in the first decade of the 21st Century, but surviving highlights include a surprisingly good Hugh Easton Window of the 1950s depicting the Annunciation in front of St Edmundsbury Abbey and the Norman bell tower. The church is invariably locked, but the exterior alone is worth a look, a quiet and perhaps a little surprising Victorian moment in a town full of surprises, lots of interesting areas, fascinating churches, and the feel of a town far larger and more important than it is.
St Peter of East Stockwith, or pronounced locally as Stock'eth, was quite badly damaged through an earthquake.
It was a magnitude of 5.2 with the epicenter being Market Rasen in North Lincolnshire on 27th Feb 2008.
The church developed a large bulge in the bell tower, then on the Fri 29th the tower blew down in severely high winds.
The bell tower fell through on to the alter in the church, it was closed until extensive repairs were carried out.
It's even said that the English writer Daniel Defoe possibly stayed in East Stockwith, he certainly passed through and wrote about it.
A dome in St Peter's Basilica in Rome. This is an older picture I took while there last summer. This was on the same day we got blessed by the Pope.
St Peter Mancroft is Norwich's largest and finest parish church, a superb example of late 15th/early 16th century Perpendicular gothic. It's elaborately panelled west tower is a major landmark in the heart of the city.
Inside the huge, elegant space is flooded with light from it's large windows and above the sweeping arcades is a fine hammerbeam roof (with unusual false vaulting at it's edges).
The focal point inside is the church's greatest treasure, the enormous 7-light east window mostly filled with original 15th century stained glass in a series of narrative panels on the subject of the life of Christ. It is one of the most significant survivals of the period. Below is a richly carved and gilded early 20th century reredos.
There are good examples of late Victorian/early 20th century glass here too, most notably Herbert Hendrie's superb Lady Chapel east window from the 1920s. There is also a fine and unusual medieval font canopy in the north west corner.
As befits Norwich's most impotrant parish church it is also one of it's most accessible ones and is generally open daily.
For more see Simon Knott's excellent Norfolk Churches website below:-
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichstpetermancroft/norwichs...
Above the alter hangs the Crucifix which was designed by the architects for the 2005 restoration of the Cathedral and was made in the same studio in Madrid as the Tabernacle. The design of the Crucifix is reflected in the panel above the Bishop's chair, or Cathedra. This is the symbol of the unity of the Diocese under the pastoral care of the Bishop and it's from this that the word Cathedral comes from. This "chair" in St.Peter's was first used by Bishop Patrick Dorrian who was Bishop of Down & Connor from 1865-1885.
The Altar and the Ambo are both of limestone and were carved by Ken Thompson of Cork. The front of the Altar depicts Christ with the Apostles at the Last Supper, but unusually the artist has carved Christ with pierced hands in anticipation of the crucifixion. To mark the dedication of this Altar and the reopening of the Cathedral after restoration on 6-2-05 a chalice was presented on behalf of Pope John Paul II as a sign of his pastoral affection and unity with the Diocese of Down & Connor. The floor of the sanctuary is of artistic mosaic created by Sergio Bendetti.
St.Peter's Church, Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire was our last port of call. The sun was setting in the west and this lit the church favourably from the road.
I can't tell you much about this church as our visit was somewhat cut short by the churchwarden's attempt to lock us in. It does help if people check the church is empty BEFORE locking the door! Luckily we heard the rattle of the keys in the door lock and we moved fast!
www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157594513923052/ to see the full 'Four Oxfordshire churches' set.
However I am reliably informed that the church dates back to Norman times and has at least one Norman doorway. Internally it is somewhat unusual in having a nave and chancel with a tower in the middle of the south side and a small chapel or chantry matching it on the north side. Possibly a Lady Chapel?
The interior is well cared for and there is some colourful glass but I think our enduring memories of the visit will be the setting sun which we sat and watched afterwards.
St Peter's Church is in the village of Swettenham, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton. Its benefice is combined with that of Marton, Siddington, Eaton and Hulme Walfield.
There has been a church at Southease for over a thousand years: in 966 King Edgar granted the church to Hyde Abbey in Winchester. The original charter is in the British Museum.
Southease must have been quite a flourishing church and village with a thriving herring fishing industry, recorded in the Doomsday book as being one of the largest in the area.
In the church you can see Norman windows, a 14th century door, a 16th century porch, an Elizabethan altar table, and Jacobean altar rail, pulpit and pews. The tower houses two bells, one dated 1280 and is the third oldest in Sussex.
The important remains of early 13th century wall paintings on the north and west walls were uncovered in 1934-35 and are now less distinct than when first revealed. The fragments on the chancel arch are from a century later.
101 things in 1001 days #67. Visit places beginning with each letter of the alphabet – in order!
S is for St Peter's Seminary, Cardross.
St Peters Seminary is a 20th-century category-A listed building in Cardross, built i the 1960's. Determinedly modernist, brutalist and owing a huge debt to Le Corbusier, the building is often considered one of the most important modernist buildings in Scotland.
It was commissioned by the Archbishop of Glasgow in 1958 and completed in 1966 serving time as a teaching college for the catholic church before being closed in 1980. It was designed by architects Isi Metzstein and Andy McMillan, who ran Gillespie, Kidd and Coia. It is a modular concrete structure, and is considered to be a good example of collegiate buildings from the 1960s. It was awarded the Riba architecture award in 1967 but as Historic Scotland notes: “It has been systematically vandalised and is now reduced to a ruinous skeleton.”
We have been planning to go there for a while and finally went this afternoon and I'm so glad I did. It is a ruin, but it is a stunning building. I never expected to fall in love with a concrete ruin, but I did. i could have happily explored for hours and I think we'll be going back again. I can't wait to see it when it is restored.
It has been the subject of much debate and anger that it has been let to rot, but now for some good news...
Glasgow based environmental arts charity NVA has received an award from the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery - Public Art Fund to proceed with the development of a commission plan for the creation of significant temporary and permanent artworks at St Peter's Seminary and Kilmahew Woodlands, Cardross.It will mark the starting point in the dramatic recovery and restoration of an invaluable heritage asset.
St. Peter's Church (Peterskirche), Vienna. Petersplatz 6, 1010 Wien, Austria
The oldest church building (of which nothing remains today) dates back to the Early Middle Ages, and there is speculation that it could be the oldest church in Vienna (See Ruprechtskirche). That Roman church was built on the site of a Roman encampment. A church of Saint Peter in Vienna is first mentioned in 1137. The construction of the new Baroque church was begun around 1701 under Gabriele Montani, who was replaced by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt in 1703. Around the end of the 12th century, the church became part of the Schottenstift.
St Peter's at Church Lawford is a mostly Victorian structure by Slater & Carpenter 1872 and quite a handsome building. The only medieval part is the north arcade inside and a plain blocked Norman south door.
I'd got into this church many years ago by luckily stumbling across a keyholder. It is still kept locked now, but this time I decided to save it for another occasion and move on, rather than bother the wardens whose numbers were posted.
This ancient statue of St. Peter, portrayed as he gives a blessing and preaches, while holding the keys to the kingdom of heaven is famous throughout the world. Some scholars have attributed it to Arnolfo di Cambio (1245-1302), but others believe that it is a V century casting.
Pilgrims who come to the Basilica traditionally touch and kiss its foot, so that it is literally worn thin. In the Middle Ages pilgrims who reached Rome, touched and kissed the foot of the statue and prayed to St. Peter asking that he be merciful and open the gates of heaven for them if they died during the pilgrimage.