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Title: St. Peter's
Other title: Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano; St Peter's Basilica
Creator: Bernini, Gianlorenzo, 1598-1680
Creator role: Architect
Date: 1626 (completed)
Current location: Holy See, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Description of work: The historic illustrations included in this project were originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many originally appeared in publications that predated the widespread use of photography for art documentation. These engravings, line drawings, and plans reflect both the technological and aesthetic standards of their time. By their very nature, they often represent subjective interpretations of the monuments and works depicted, and as such they offer fascinating insights into the cultural values of art and architectural history during the formative years of these disciplines. In the context of these images the terms ""reconstruction"" and ""rendering"" have been used to distinguish between the artists' speculative reconstruction of a ruined work from the artists' perspective drawing or rendition of the design.
Description of view: plan of present structure as completed by Bernini
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Manuscripts and Books
Style of work: Baroque
Culture: Italian
Measurements: 9.2H x 6.4W cm
Source: Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Provided courtesy of Allan Kohl.
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG, TIFF archived offline
Image size: 725H X 505W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for all uses as a work in the public domain.
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2007-0813.jpg
Record ID: WB2007-0813
Sub collection: religious buildings: churches
St Peter and St Paul dates from Saxon and Norman times. The door dates from the 13th century. There is a painting of St Christopher dates from the 15th century, and a brass of John Weston who died in 1440.
In 1839 Henry Drummond of Albury Park, began to build two new churches to replace the old parish church. The new Catholic Apostolic Church, near Sherbourne, was to accommodate his fellow Catholic Apostolics. This one, the new Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, was built in the hamlet now known as Albury. The Catholic Apostolic Church was completed in 1840 and this one the following year.
The closure of the old church allowed Drummond to commission Pugin to design a mortuary chapel in its south transept. The old church is now maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust
www.visitchurches.org.uk/findachurch/st-peter-st-paul-alb...
Façade of St. Peter and St. Paul Church in the Vyšehrad Castle lit by the setting sun. A church has stood on this spot since the 11th Century. The current version is a neo-Gothic design by Josef Mocker built in 1895. The towers were completed in 1903.
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.
atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5097005077&a...
www.historicfortworth.org/Home/2013PAwards/tabid/1372/Def...
Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR
St Peter and St Paul, Eye, Suffolk
Magnificent 15th century west tower, one of the finest examples in England. The interior a matter of taste, a largely 20th century restoration with much work by Ninian Comper.
St Peter, Great Totham, Essex
I had long been looking forward to coming back here, remembering this church fondly from my first trawl around the county back at the start of the decade. This is good cycling country, with lots of open churches. The villages of Wickham Bishops, Great Totham, Little Totham and Little Braxted all straggle in to each other in true Essex fashion, and it is sometimes hard to tell where one village ends and the next begins. There are actually two Great Tothams, more than a mile apart, disambiguated on signs as North Great Totham and South Great Totham. I fantasised that the villages might spawn smaller siblings, so you could choose between Great North Great Totham and Little North Great Totham, but this hasn't happened yet. In any case, all three churches are away from their villages in tiny lanes in the middle of nowhere.
Little Totham church sits in an idyllic spot, a gingerbread church with fine Victorian transepts, a stream running through the churchyard and herbaceous borders around the church. The extensions were the work of the great Ernest Geldart. You step into a largely 19th Century interior, but one of great charm, an intelligent restoration. Despite the little tower, there is a ring of six bells and this is considered one of the best rings in Essex. It was lovely to think of such an idyllic spot ringing out with a peal of bells. Inside the church it is the ticking of the clock beside the chancel arch that will be memorable. 'O teach us to number our days' it reminds us.
St Peters Church, Pentre, Rhondda Fawr Valley, South WalesBuilt in 1890 at the height of the coal boom time in the Rhondda Valley.
St Peter's has a magnificent peal of 8 bells with the tenor a heavy 1,366kg.
The tower is over 100ft high
St. Peter's Square, designed and built by Bernini, with the Egyptian obelisk at its center. The square can hold 400,000 people.
The village of Farningham in Kent was a chance discovery on the way back from Lullingstone (see earlier) and Farningham's parish church of St Peter and St Paul is a little stunner. While lacking the old glass of Lullingstone, Farningham compensates with some fine Victorian and modern glass, an Elizabethan monument inside the church and an 18th century mausoleum in the churchyard.
www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157603719055169/ to see the full set.
The chancel is mid-13th century (Early English) while the nave is 13th to 14th century. The tower was probably added in the 15th century. Exterior alterations in the 19th century saw the flat-topped tower raised seven feet to incorporate battlements and a turret. The red brick external repairs had been carried out earlier, around 1790.
Internally the church has featured various galleries in the nave which have all now been removed. The gallery in the base of the church tower survived until 1900. The eight-sided font is 15th century with sides carved to represent Baptism, Holy Matrimony, Ordination, Extreme Unction, Holy Communion, Mass, Penance and Confirmation.
The Roper memorial on the north wall is dated 1597 and represents Antony Roper with his wife and some of his children. The sons are there but some of the daughters broke away and are now lost. The church also has some good brasses hidden under the carpets. One is dated 1451 and represents a former vicar. Some of the glass is by Charles Winston, later a noted authority on stained glass. His father was vicar of Farningham and one window may be an apprentice piece of Charles'.
In the churchyard there is a handsome mausoleum to Thomas Nash, merchant citizen of London and a Justice of the Peace for Kent and Surrey. He died in Paris in 1778 and is buried here.
Rendcombe Church (St. Peter), Gloucestershire, 22 September 2022. Present church largely early 16th Century Perpendicular (c.1517) built by Sir Edmund Tame, Lord of the Manor of Rendcomb. Restored 1895 by F R Kempson. Pictured is a window incorporating some 16th Century stained glass.
The first church on the site was a Norman one, built in the 11th Century, and was one of forty-nine churches in Lincoln!
St Peter in Eastgate todayThis building was so badly damaged in the Civil War during the siege of 1643 that it became almost a ruin. In 1776 the church was pulled down, and a small “mean” church took its place in 1781. This proved inadequate for the larger congregations of Victoria’s reign, and in 1870 the present church was built. The East Window was designed by Ward and Hughes who were responsible for the Victorian glass in the North Aisle of the Cathedral Nave. The entire cost was £2,500. The architect was Sir Arthur Blomfield (to whom the famous novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy, was an architectural assistant until 1869).
In 1914 the south aisle was added to enlarge the church still more. This work has enhanced the architectural interest of St. Peter’s with magnificent stained glass windows. The Rood Screen was added at this time.
The three oldest survivals from the Tudor period are the Parish Registers begun in 1538 (now in the County Archives), an Elizabethan chalice of c. 1569 and the tombstone of a medieval mayor of the city.
St. Peter, Wickham Bishops, Essex, UK (Disused Church)
www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/CMSMS/index.php?pa...
Of all Wren's City of London churches St Peter Cornhill is one of the least visited, being almost always locked outside services and only accessible by appointment. Fortunately a friend organised exactly that as part of a Flickrmeet in the heart of London, and the church was revealed to be a bit of an Aladdin's Cave of glass and furnishings.
The exterior is difficult to appreciate being tucked away in a courtyard beyond the street, whilst inside many furnishings survive despite the loss of the pews. One of the special qualities of this church is that it escaped the Blitz unscathed (unlike so many of its brethren) and even retains its Victorian glass (for good or for bad) which being so heavy and dark makes one realise how differently many of Wren's better known interiors must have looked prior to the almost wholesale removal of pre-war glass by wartime bombing elsewhere in the city.
St Peter, Harrogate. Window by Burlison & Grylls. Memorial window to Private Aubrey Cecil James Coombes, Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action in France, 28 Dec 1915, aged 24.
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.
Title: (Old) Basilica of St. Peter
Other title: Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Date: circa 320–333
Current location: Holy See, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Description of work: The historic illustrations included in this project were originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many originally appeared in publications that predated the widespread use of photography for art documentation. These engravings, line drawings, and plans reflect both the technological and aesthetic standards of their time. By their very nature, they often represent subjective interpretations of the monuments and works depicted, and as such they offer fascinating insights into the cultural values of art and architectural history during the formative years of these disciplines. In the context of these images the terms ""reconstruction"" and ""rendering"" have been used to distinguish between the artists' speculative reconstruction of a ruined work from the artists' perspective drawing or rendition of the design.
Description of view: interior view down the nave
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Manuscripts and Books
Style of work: Early Christian
Culture: Italian
Measurements: 9.35H X 13.25W cm
Source: Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879, Series II, plate 42, fig. 4. Provided courtesy of Allan Kohl.
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG, TIFF archived offline
Image size: 737H X 1042W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for all uses as a work in the public domain.
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2007-0773.jpg
Record ID: WB2007-0773
Sub collection: religious buildings: churches
Heavily restored Norman octagonal font in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton.
"Belton House[…]has been described as a compilation of all that is finest of Carolean architecture, the only truly vernacular style of architecture that England had produced since the Tudor period. The house has also been described as the most complete example of a typical English country house; the claim has even been made that Belton's principal facade was the inspiration for the modern British motorway signs which give directions to stately homes.
"For three hundred years, Belton House was the seat of the Brownlow and Cust family, who had first acquired land in the area in the late 16th century. Between 1685 and 1688 Sir John Brownlow and his wife had the present mansion built. Despite great wealth they chose to build a modest country house rather than a grand contemporary Baroque palace. The contemporary, if provincial, Carolean style was the selected choice of design. However, the new house was fitted with the latest innovations such as sash windows for the principal rooms, and more importantly completely separate areas for the staff. As the Brownlows rose from baronets to barons upward to earls and then once again became barons, successive generations made changes to the interior of the house which reflected their changing social position and tastes, yet the fabric and design of the house changed little.
"Following World War I (a period when the Machine Gun Corps was based in the park), the Brownlows, like many of their peers, were faced with mounting financial problems. In 1984 they gave the house away [to the National Trust] complete with most of its contents."
Source: Wikipedia
A miniature version of the panoramic i did for St Peter Port, Guernsey. Zoom into the largest version to see the detail in full: www.flickr.com/photos/kylewood/4821464502/sizes/o/
St. Peter's Square & Basilica at night. Rainy conditions suck to walk around in, but it makes for some fun reflections for pictures!
Nikon D300s
Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8
St.-Peter-Ording, Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 17-40mm/4.0 L USM, Schwarzweiß-Konvertierung mit Lightroom-Vorgabe 'Orange-Filter'
The Peterskirche is the second-oldest church in Vienna and a fine example of Baroque church architecture.
Brass to Lord of Stockerston John de Boyville (d.1467) and his wife Isabella Cheney. Formerly on the floor of a chantry in the south aisle but now wall-mounted at the west end of the nave.
Stockerston church lies some distance to the west of the village, approached by a long lane and situated on high ground next to the privately owned Hall. It is a handsome late medieval building, having reached its present form in the 15th and early 16th centuries.The church consists of chancel and nave flanked by aisles (both being a bay shorter than the nave itself) and a west tower with generously sized belfry windows, all finished in local ironstone that has grown attractively silvery with lichen.
The light interior has much of interest, it has not been too heavily restored and retains many antique features with various monuments and memorials (including a pair of fine brasses now displayed at the west end) and remains of ancient woodwork (though the original screen has gone, however there is an unusual stair-turret that once led to its loft in the south aisle). The outstanding survivals here however are in glass, with isolated panels of 15th century stained glass surviving in several windows, the most complete being the St Christopher at the west end, and a sainted bishop and scene from Christ's passion in the north aisle. Usually one is lucky to find mere fragments of the lost medieval glazing, but here at least those fragments are substantial with several complete panels and images.
Stockerston church was easily my favourite of our day exploring Leicestershire (18 churches visited of which we found 11 open) and is one I thoroughly recommend. Sadly visiting isn't normally so easy as it is generally kept locked outside of service times and I'm not sure if there is a keyholder so it may be necessary to make prior arrangements to visit the interior.
For more on this gem of a church see its entry on the Leicestershire Churches site below:-
www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/stockerston-church-st-pe...
St. Peter's Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro), Catholicism's largest and most important Church and the focal point of the Vatican, is architecture on an epic scale. Built on the site of the Roman Emperor Nero's Stadium, the Ager Vaticanus, it is where St. Peter is supposed to have been buried, and the site was first consecrated in AD 326. The current masterpiece dates from the time of Pope Julius II, with a dome designed by Michelangelo (who died before it was completed), and a facade by Carlo Maderno, which is 48 metres high and 118 metres wide. The Basilica is viewed here from Piazza San Pietro, the great public square in front of the Basilica, with its two semi-circular colonnades, each consisting of four rows of towering Doric columns. It was laid out by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1656 and 1667. This photo of the Basilica from the centre of the piazza was taken on August 12, 2012.
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
St Peter's church in Barford is a mainly 19th century building with a 14th century tower, having been another recipient of the generosity of Mrs Louisa Ann Ryland (who rebuilt nearby Sherbourne church) who funded the rebuilding of all but the medieval tower in 1844 by R.C.Hussey. It has as much of a late Georgian as early Victorian feel to it.
There are a few monuments from the old church, most notably the badly defaced 14th century effigy of a woman under the tower (originally in the churchyard) and the Dugard memorial of 1683 in the chancel. The remainder are tablets and urns roughly contemporary with the rebuilding of the church.
The glass is of 1845 by William Holland of Warwick, and only the east window with it's Evangelist figures is fully pictoral, the remainder being in decorative quarries (except in the south aisle where the main lights have been removed c1950).
St. Peter's was until recently the largest church ever built and it remains one of the holiest sites in Christendom. Contrary to what one might reasonably assume, St. Peter's is not a cathedral - that honour in Rome goes to the Basilica of St John Lateran.
For the innocent tourist, you will see the famous dome of St Peter ( designed by Michelangelo, who became chief architect in 1546) from far off, so its a natural landmark to head for.
The Via Della Conciliazione is a wide avenue that runs from the River Tiber and the centre of Rome from St Angelo Fort up to St Peter's Square.
If you arrive by Metro, you are about 5 minutes walk through typical Rome streets until you come into St Peter's Square.
Once you arrive at the square, things start to click. This is the square you've seen on the news, and yes there is the balcony the Pope is seen at.
Once you've got the mandatory photographs, its time to think about visiting. The Vatican Museums where the Sistine Chapel is, is a 5/10 minute walk around the Vatican walls. If you think the queues in front of you snaking into St Peter's are long, odds are the Vatican Museums are longer and slower moving. So do read our Vatican logistics page and have an informed strategy in place for one of the main reasons you come all this way to Rome.
St Peter's at Widmerpool is an elusive building hidden away down a leafy path beyond a cul de sac (with no signs to direct, but if you follow the public footpath you should find it). What we see today is the result of an ambitious Victorian rebuilding (leaving only the medieval tower) with a richly ornamented exterior and gloriously vaulted chancel.
Inside the chancel draws the eye as the liturgical and architectural climax of the building, a beautifully flamboyant piece of Victorian architecture which greatly enlivens the interior the nave by contrast feels rather more serious). There are some rich furnishings and details, though the most notable piece within is the effigy of Harriet Robertson (d.1891), which is very difficult to photograph in the gloomy north-west corner.
I was pleased to find this church open and welcoming on my visit (if initially a little tricky to find!).
We all grew up surrounded by churches, I mean they were always there, but I for one took them for granted.
The parish church I christened in, St Michael's, Oulton, was an unremarkable church, but it was my parish church. I don't think I really noticed it had a dedication, or that the main church in Lowestoft had a different dedication, St Margaret's.
It has only been since I have photographing the churches of Kent, have I begun to really appreciate churches. I even notice churches when I travel, and love the churches of East Anglia. I wish I lived there now so I could visit all the nooks and crannies that were unknown to me and still are. It is only thanks to the internet and my contacts on Flickr that I now know that many churches exist.
St Peter mancroft s a church that I have always known was there, but I never entered it. I did snap it on one record hunting trip, at dusk as it towered over the old market place.
We received a wonderfully warm welcome inside. The churchwardens were just clearing up after 'messy church' but spared me the time to explain various memorials and interesting features. I was also lucky enough to have my good friend, mira66, with me, who pointed out so many wonderfully interesting features, not just inside here of the RC cathedral, but all over the city centre.
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A six shot stitch of the east window.
St Peter's church at Cowleigh sits on high ground at the north west corner of Great Malvern's suburbs. It is a simple, unpretentious building with a humble bellcote instead of a tower, and was built in 1863-6 to the designs of G.E.Street. There is much stained glass within by Clayton & Bell.
The church is normally kept open and welcoming to visitors, for more details see below:-
www.worcesteranddudleyhistoricchurches.org.uk/index.php?p...
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 the Apostle Catholic School
2012 White Settlement Settlers Day Parade
Saturday October 13, 2012
White Settlement, Texas
St Peter's Church, Tiverton, Devon.
Alongside my other subjects, Churches and Historic Buildings have always been a source of great interest to me. One such building which is local to me and a particular favourite is St Peter's Church.
A wonderful building with some lovely carvings in the stonework.
Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as "a gorgeously ostentatious display of civic pride", in my eyes he was spot-on with that description.
St Peter's is noted as the location for the first performance of Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March', it was performed by organist Samuel Reay at the wedding of Dorothy Carew & Tom Daniel on 2nd June 1847.
In 1952 the Church was Grade I listed.