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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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The church dates from the 14th century onwards, and is built in redbrick with ashlar dressings and a slate roof.
There is a western tower, nave, chancel, and vestry. The three stage tower was built in 1606 and set in the wall of the second stage are stones inscribed with the names of the church wardens and builders.
The west door consists of a medieval double arch in a brick surround. Just below the second stage of the tower is a date stone inscribed "1606 Anthone swell".
The nave dates from 1842, and the chancel from 1941.
The chancel arch has late 14th century octagonal imposts but is otherwise 20th century. At the west end of the nave is a timber gallery supported on two turned pillars. All fittings are 19th or 20th century.
The octagonal font is about 1400 with panelled stem and cusped ogee panel tracery to the sites.
In the tower is a rectangular stone plaque bearing the inscription of the construction of the porch in 1522.
This is the most attractive of the Ampney group of churches for worship, combined with archaeological interest, dating from the 12th century. That first building consisted of a small nave and tower, with no chancel. This explains why there is a piscina at the east end of the nave on the south wall close to the pulpit, where the original altar would have stood. The chancel and chancel arch were added in the late 12th century, when the font was crafted. The nave is late Saxon with a Saxon tower arch, wholly built of through-stones. The light and spacious north aisle was added by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1878 soon after the Rev T Daubeney succeeded the Rev E A Daubeney at the close of his 55-year incumbency. The sanctuary has a sumptuous alabaster reredos (1887) given in memory of the former, and a floor with a combination of stone and tile. There is a small carved figure of a Sheela-na-gig set on the wall beside the medieval font. Sheela-na-gigs are a relic of pagan folk customs, bawdy carvings of females, relatively rare inside churches. They are often a product of the Romanesque period, and probably reference an ancient fertility custom. In St Peter's church the figure is less grotesquely over-the-top as most similar carvings. It has been defaced at some point, possibly during the Puritan era following the English Reformation, when such images would have been considered indecent and immoral at the very least.
In the north window is a peculiar carving of a seated king with an orb. This odd figure was found in Iveson Place, opposite the church, in 1908. It is not thought to be old, but no one is quite sure what it is supposed to represent.
In the churchyard is a 14th century cross with a modern head.
There are two bells: one by Edward Neale of Burford, 1677, the other by Thomas Rudhall, 1776. Neale's bell bears the Royal Arms of Charles II.
South wall memorial
St Peter, Creeting St Peter, Suffolk
A fascinating and little-known church in the woods beside the busy A14.
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 stands above the small village green on a sloping hillside above a small ford. There may have been a church here in the Saxon period, but the current church of St Peter was begun in the 12th century. The oldest part of the church is the lower section of the tower, where you can clearly see a small narrow window common in the early Norman period. The top of the tower is a saddleback design, common to the area near Cirencester.
The tower arch may also be early Norman. The two-bay nave arcade is late Norman, and a good example of Transitional Gothic style. The north aisle is also late Norman, with Early English windows in the west and north-east corner. The porch is also Early English, though it was moved to its current position during a sweeping restoration in 1872. The goblet-shaped font is late Norman, with very attractive foliated decoration around a circular bowl.
Tucked into a corner is a worn stone coffin, dating to the 13th or 14th century. It was discovered built into the churchyard wall and brought inside for preservation. There is a Norman piscina in the chancel, projecting from the south window embrasure. There are good examples of Victorian stained glass throughout the church.
St. Peter's Seminary is a disused Roman Catholic seminary near Cardross, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Designed by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, it has been described by the international architecture conservation organisation DOCOMOMO as a modern "building of world significance". It is one of only 42 post-war buildings in Scotland to be listed at Category A, the highest level of protection for a building of "special architectural or historic interest". It has been abandoned since the end of the 1980s, and is currently in a ruinous state. Despite a number of proposals for reuse or renovation of the building, its future remains insecure.
St.Peter's, South Weald, is a large parish church which seems out of place in the small village that is South Weald today. It was formerly the parish church of nearby Brentwood and also formerly served the Harold Hill area.
www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157594283793202/ is a whole set about this church,
A principal landowner is the area in Saxon times was King Harold, killed at Hastings in 1066. The present church dates from the 12th century at least when it had a nave and chancel on the site of the present south aisle. The north aisle was added in the 13th century and the tower was built at the beginning of the 16th century. An extensive rebuilding took place in 1868 to the plans of architect S. S. Teulon. The north aisle was converted into the nave and chancel.
The font dates to 1662 and has a finely carved cover of later date. From 1868 until 1946 the Tower family of nearby Weald Hall [now demolished] had a private chapel in the church but this was converted into a war memorial and marks the death [among others] of two members of the Tower family in WW1.
The family kept a deer park from which the deer escaped in WW2 and took up residence in the area. The Tower family's interest in deer is marked by a stained glass window dedicated to the hunter saint, St Hubert. There is some 15th century Flemish glass high up in the tower but the rest is Victorian or later.
Chalfont St Peter 1 - 1 Westfield
Isthmian League South Central Division
Saturday 8th February 2020
Mill Meadow
Att: 56
Colonnade lining the Piazza leading up to St Peter's basilica in the Vatican. Taken with Leica M2 with a Carl Zeiss Biogon 35/2 ZM lens on Agfa APX 100 film developed in Xtol 1:1.
St. Peter Church, Dunchurch, Warwickshire.
A church has stood on the present site for about 1000 years.
St Peter's at Church Knowle, Isle of Purbeck in Dorset is a dainty 13th century church but it is likely the site dates back much further as 'Cnolle' is Saxon for a hill. I found it during my holiday in 2010 but I only rediscovered the church guidebook tonight while clearing out tons of old documents. I could thus write a reasonable caption story at last.
www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157631444014958/ to see the full set.
The surviving list of rectors dates back to Robert Michel in 1327 but two of these had remarkable records of service - Isaak Chapman was rector of 65 years in the 18th century while John Richards was rector for 52 years from 1781.
Until the 19th century the church was a perfect cruciform plan with a chancel, nave, western tower plus north and south transepts but between 1833 and 1841 the north wall of the nave was demolished and moved out to the line of the end of the north transept. This area was also adapted to take a first storey gallery with box pews.
The nave and the chancel are divided by a stone mural screen, one of eight known to remain in Dorset. In the south transept are parts of two stone coffins thought to be 13th or 14th century.
A substantial monument with brasses remains in what was once the north transept to John Clavell Esq who died in 1609 and his two wives, Myllicent who died in 1571 and his second wife Susan who died in 1618. The actual tomb was ordered and built the year after Myllicent died.
Chalfont St Peter 5-3 Gloucester City
FA Cup First Qualifying Round
13 September 2008
Mill Meadow, Chalfont
Taken and originally posted in 2015.
St Peter's, the largest church in Bacharach, seen from the Werner Chapel ruins as the sun was going down.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, also known as St. Peter's Church, in Albany, New York, is a church built in 1859 that was designed by Richard Upjohn and his son Richard M. Upjohn. The architecture is French-style decorated Gothic.
One of the three west-facing windows by Burlison & Grylls which fortunately survived the 2012 vandal attack unscathed.
St Peter's at Knossington is a fairly small building in attractive honey-coloured ironstone, mostly of 14th century date but rather thoroughly restored in the Victorian period.
Inside are several windows by Burlison & Grylls of early 20th century date which were my main point of interest in coming here on two separate occasions, the first visit being with work in 2012 in the aftermath of a violent attack on the church by two young thugs who smashed much of the glass, mostly targeting the two larger windows in the aisles which I thought wrecked almost beyond repair when I first saw them (I visited with Norgrove Studios with a view to being tasked with repainting the windows should they have got the job of repairing them, but alas it went to someone else with a lower quote).
It was interesting to return now and see the windows restored, from a distance they work very well, though some of the new painting doesn't match the quality of the original pieces in my opinion (never an easy task it should be added). I will add some images of the glass in its damaged state for comparison in due course, perhaps the worst case of vandalism against glass I've had the misfortune to encounter.
This church may normally be kept locked outside of services.
A large church in one of the most beautiful churchyards I have visited, with some superb mature trees. Aisleless nave with west tower and lower narrower chancel. The tower looks late medieval, in fact nothing seems earlier than the C16 here apart from one lancet window in the chancel perhaps. Inside the nave is remarkably wide. Good modern east window by Geoffrey Robertson, abstract design but spoilt somewhat by a near traditional central figure of The Good Shepherd.
Standing amidst historic homes and commercial structures along Wardensville's Main Street is St. Peter's Lutheran Church. This congregation was organized just a few years after the chartering of the town, begun as a mission of Hebron Lutheran Church in 1840. Early on, the Lutherans worshiped with other congregations in Wardensville's Union Church. During the Civil War, the congregation was served by Rev. Peter Miller, who during one Union occupation of the village voluntarily gave himself as a hostage to the Union Army. Many in his congregation followed suit, and according to church history, appeased the occupying forces and saved it from destruction. Rev. Miller was still serving this congregation when a new Lutheran Church was erected in 1870. This building, constructed of brick, was built in Italianate Style. This church served the congregation until it collapsed from inadequate bricks used in its construction. The present house of worship was completed in 1934-1935. Designed by A. Hensel Fink of Philadelphia, St. Peters is a great example of late Gothic Revival style. The nave is surmounted by a cathedral ceiling and lined with stained glass windows. The chancel, features elegant furnishings and paneled walls behind the choir pews. Above the altar is a small round window, containing the Luther Rose. St. Peters is today part of a 4 church parish, one of which is Hebron Church, its mother congregation.
St. Peter's Seminary is an abandoned Roman-Catholic seminary. It was designed by the architect firm Gillespie, Kidd and Coia in 1960. The site was abandoned in the late 1980's and there are continuous discussions regarding the restoration of the building, however there seems to be no sign of any construction work near the building at all.