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St Peter, Rockland St Peter, Norfolk
Delightful round-towered church set away from its village. The star of the show here is the 15th Century screen from nearby Tottington in the Battle Training Area. The church is open every day.
More: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rocklandstpeter/rocklandstpeter...
St. Peter's Basilica baldacchino is a pavilion-like structure which stands beneath the dome and above the altar.
After a guided tour of the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, we had some free time to walk around the basilica. The interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City is ornate and full of artwork.
San Pietro in Vincoli was built on the site of an earlier church in the mid 5th century in order to provide a suitable home for a reliquary housing the chains used to bind St. Peter when he was imprisoned in Jerusalem. According to legend the chains were presented to Pope Leo I who compared them to the chains used when Peter was imprisoned in Rome. Miraculously, the two sets of chains fused together and are now housed in a reliquary under the main altar of the church.
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St. Peter's Church
Here at Mendota (where the rivers meet) missionaries ministered to both Indians and settlers, enduring the hardships of a sprawling wilderness that was the Minnesota country. In 1842, Father Lucien Galtier built a small log chapel with only two windows, where the Catholics of St. Peter's Parish worshipped for nearly eleven years.
In 1844 Father Augustin Ravoux, who had already spent three years in the area, arrived at Mendota to assist Father Galtier. When Father Galtier left to serve another parish in the fall of that year, Father Ravousx assumed full responsibility for ministering to the thriving Mendota community, which was the American Fur Company's chief trading center with the Dakota (Sioux) Indians in Minnesota territory.
Father Ravoux had this church constructed in 1853. Built of limestone quarried nearby and roofed with hand-split pine shingles, the entire structure measures only 35 by 75 feet, and the rear portion was originally used as living quarters for the pastor.
The steeple has been twice replaced. The original cross that topped the spire now hands over the inside door. While alterations have changed the interior, the exterior remains much as it was in 1853.
The church still serves St. Peter's Parish and is the oldest church in continuous use in Minnesota. From its vantage point, it commands a spectacular view of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers and of Historic Fort Snelling.
Erected by the Minnesota Historical Society. 1973
(#11 in Minnesota History Along the Highways)
One of the twelve 'Apostle windows' in St Peter's church, Bournemouth, Dorset.
Each Apostle carries a scroll on which is written a quotation from the Apostles' Creed.
Detail: St Bartholomew.
NA6 - 1860 - Alexander Gibbs (probably)
Memorial - Angelina Butler +1860.
Heritage weekend now last two weekend and maybe up to four, or more, weekday, meaning that I had the chance to visit some I missed the week before.
The write up on the heritage website sounded interesting, so we were at the door of St Peter just after ten.
After renovation, required when it was discovered that the white paint used inside was not allowing the bricks to breath, upon its removal, this fantastic brickwork was uncovered, and the decision by English Heritage not to put a new coat of paint on, and allow the multi-coloured bricks to be seen.
The font was pointed out, as this, it had been thought, been rescued from a Norfolk church about to be consumed by the sea. Some research has shown the font to have been from St Peter Southgate in Norwich, after the vicar in 1909 saw it in the porch of St Etheldreda's in the same city.
A true Victorian church, now revealed as it's designer and builders would have seen it.
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High on the East cliff overlooking the harbour is a remarkable group of school and church. St Peter's is a shrine of peace and tranquillity and has a real sense of holiness. Built to serve the growing community of the resort, it was originally designed by Richard Hussey in 1862. For the next few years the church became a centre of controversy as its priests tried to introduce ritualistic worship and furnishings. In 1870 the church was extended by the addition of a north aisle and an enlarged chancel to assist ritualism. The day it re opened vestments were introduced. The wonderful blue Rood Screen is made of wrought iron and dates from 1872. It has the image of Christ on its central cross - a symbol that created much controversy when it was erected. In the north aisle are fragments of early glass by Kempe - the rest having been destroyed in a fire in 1996. Nearby is the octagonal font which is fifteenth century and came from one of the Norfolk churches that was demolished due to the incursion of the sea. In a county full of medieval brasses it is interesting to record three small Victorian examples here, to a priest, a sacristan and a nun.
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 abandoned since the end of the 1980s, and is currently in a ruinous state. (Wikipedia)
The Moomin family had a glorious day out in Swaffham at half term.
A walk round the inside of the church is a must.
Its the weekend again, and with the orchid season racing towards its finale, it was time to go to Maidstone to see the BLH there, as I had received reports that the site is recovering well after a few fallow years from site clearance.
Needless to say, we went to Tesco, having to check the traffic radar both there and back, as school holidays have begin, and this was going to be the busiest day of the year.
It was fine going to Tesco, and half an hour later, we also got back without trouble, but by quarter to nine, Jubilee Way was jammed halfway down, so we went via the town through Castle Street, where we only just got to the London-bound carriageway of the A20.
But from there it was easy going. Though Operation Brock is back in place to keep queuing lorries and trucks from Dover, getting them to wait in line on half the motorway. All in all there must have been ten miles of queues before Ashford heading to the port, then all of the A20 from The Roundhill Tunnels was closed too because of waiting traffic.
Getting back would be a challenge.
But first there was the orchids.
We waited at Jade's Crossing for the others to arrive, just tree this time, but that's fine.
We set off up the lane and into the reserve, along the path beside the meadow, where we found no plants.
But inside it was a different matter, spikes everywhere, including a very small but pale one that Jools found.
Noice.
We walked to the lone tree which once again was surrounded by dozens of spikes, many quite dark.
Finally, from the lower path we spotted some large clumps of dark BLH, so we went back in, and strode through vegetation that came up to my shoulders in some places. Round some scrub to where the orchids were, and were just about worth the effort.
One last thing to see were the Yellow Birsdnest in another part of the reserve, just four small spikes seen, but better than last year when the drought meant they failed here and at Barham.
We bid the others goodbye, and from there it was a short drive to Bredhurst where there was a church I had yet to snap.
Luckily for me, it was open and preparing for a wedding, meaning I rattled around and got my shots in ten minutes, not as good as I wanted, but it'll do for now.
I had seen the pub on the way to the church, so we stopped. They were only serving bookings, odd as they seemed to have close to 200 tables and hardly anyone yet sitting down to eat. Maybe the wedding receptions was to be here?
So we left, and decided to stop at the services on the motorway for Burger King. Just as well we did, as I found the motorway was closed just beyond the next junction, so once we had eater our whoppers, we drove back down the A249, past the orchid site agan, and onto the M20 to the coast.
But our troubles were not over. The A20 from Folkestone was closed, Jubilee Way was closed, so it took some creative directions from Jools to get us home.
We turned off at the Channel Tunnel, but took the slip road out onto the M20, then up the Elham Valley road, before cutting across the down via Acrise and Swingfield.
Once in Dover, up to the Castle, then along Reach Road on the cliff road back to St Maggies, and back in time to see the last 100km of Le Tour.
I sat with Scully to watch, Jools made brews and we could relax.
The Tour was magnificent again, and more thrilling than we deserved.
Just the last day left now, tour round Paris and the sprint to find out who will win the very last stage. We already know who had won, Vingegaard has over seven minutes of a lead.
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An endearing little church tucked away from its village at the end of a lane. Originally Norman, it has a reset window in the north chancel wall, but really the character is given by the thirteenth century work given a lovely makeover in the 19th century. The south chapel, now a vestry, has some excellent lancet windows with rere-arches whilst good stained glass by Kempe may be found in the nave. The reredos, high Victorian work of the 1860s, has recently been uncovered and stuns with its complexity of colour. The flint walling may be a little harsh to some, but this is a tiny church not to be missed.
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BREDHURST.
THE last parish undescribed in this hundred is that of Bredhurst, which lies at the north-west corner of it, adjoining to the parish of Rainham northward, being wholly in the division of West Kent.
This place takes its name from its situation among the woods, Brade, in old English, signifying broad, and burst a wood, i. e. the broad extended wood.
The manor of Hollingborne claims over a part of this parish. Bredhurst lies about two miles northward from the summit of the chalk hills, and joins that part of Boxley which lies above them; to the northward it joins Rainham, the churches being about two miles and a half apart. The parish is surrounded by an extensive range of woods, in it and the different adjoining parishes, the north-east part of this parish being almost covered with them. It is situated in so unfrequented a part of this county, that it is hardly known to any one, it lies mostly on high ground, and very cold and bleak. The hills here are very frequent and steep, the lands very poor and hungry, and the flint stones very numerous. The village is built round a green, with the church at a small distance eastward from it.
Almost adjoining to the church-yard northward, there is a wood, where the inhabitants have a report, that there was once a village, called Bredhurst town. Several wells are yet remaining in it.
At about a mile's distance from the church, is Kemsley-street, so called from a family who once resided at it; one of them, Isabella Kymsley, widow, of this place, by her will, in 1595, devised to her son John, the elder, two pieces of woodland in this parish, on condition, that he should yearly keep a drinking on All Saints day at night, to the value of a bushel and an half of wheat, and two bushels of malt, and sixteenpence in cheese, till 46s. 8d. should be yearly laid out and expended.
The Kemsleys were buried in a chapel on the south side of this church, in which there was formerly a brass plate over Thomas Kemsley, esq. of Kemsley-street, who died in 1586.
THE MANOR of Bredhurst was antiently part of the possessions of the eminent family of Northwood, of Northwood Castenors, in Middleton; one of whom, John de Northwood, died possessed of it in the second year of king Richard II. as appears by the escheat-rolls of that year. And in this church was once a brass plate for William Northwood, and four of his sons, who lie buried here.
Soon after which, this manor, with that of Merecourt, in the adjoining parish of Rainham, and the estates called Merethorne, now Meresbarrow, was purchased, among others, by John, duke of Lancaster, and others, feoffees in trust, for the performance of certain religious bequests in the last will of king Edward III.
That king, by his letters patent in his 22d year, had endowed and completed the chapel which had been begun by his predecessor king Stephen, in his palace at Westminster, (fn. 1) and made it a collegiate chapel, to consist of a dean and twelve secular canons, and other ministers, to pray for his soul and those of his ancestors and successors; and he granted, that they should receive at his treasury as much as would supply them with food, and support the burthens incumbent on them, until he could give them as much in lands and rents as amounted to five hundred pounds yearly income, to the performance of which he bound himself and his heirs, kings of this realm, and by his will enjoined the duke of Lancaster, and others his feoffees. They, in compliance with the king's will, purchased the manors of Bredhurst and Mere, among other premises in this county and elsewhere, in the beginning of king Richard II.'s reign, and then, in the 5th year of it, demised them to the dean and canons before-mentioned, for forty years, to the intent that the king might grant them in mortmain for ever. After which, by means of some false representations made by Sir Simon de Burley, the king granted these manors to him, but he having forfeited them, with his life, for high treason, in the 10th year of that reign, that prince, by his letters patent, in his 12th year, at the petition of the dean and canons, granted to them the rents and profits of these manors, among others, to hold to them as a sufficient endowment until he should otherwise alter it, or provide for them. And then, by his letters patent, in his 21st year, granted these premises to them for ever, for the performance of those services before-mentioned, and in part of the exoneration of the sum of five hundred pounds to be taken at his treasury as aforesaid. (fn. 2)
In which situation these manors continued in the 1st year of king Edward VI. when an act of parliament having passed, as well anno 37 Henry VIII. as that year, for the surrendry of all free chapels, chantries, &c. this, among others, was soon afterwards dissolved, and the lands and possessions of it were surrendered up into the king's hands, who afterwards, by his letters patent, in the 3d year of his reign, granted, among other premises, these manors of Bradhurst and Merecourt, with their appurtenances, late in the tenure nure of Sir Christopher Hales, to Sir Thomas Cheney, treasurer of his houshold, &c. He died in the 1st year of queen Elizabeth, and was succeeded in them by his son Henry Cheney, esq. of Todington, in Bedfordshire, who, together with Jane his wife, in the 12th year of that reign, alienated this estate, then held in capite, by the description of the manors of Merecourt, alias Merescourt, Merethorne, and Bradhurst, with their appurtenances, to Richard Thornhill, grocer, and Wolstan Dyke Skinner, citizens of London, which by fines afterwards levied, were declared to be to the use of the said Richard Thornehill, and his heirs for ever.
After which, Sir Henry Cheney, then lord Cheney, of Todington, granted and made over to him all and singular liberties, franchises, royalties, assize of bread, wine, and ale, green-wax, and all other privileges whatsoever, within the above manors, which he had ever possessed, or had in any shape a right to, which liberties were claimed by Richard Thornhill, esq. and judgement was given in his favor by the barons of the exchequer, on a trial had in Michaelmas term in the 17th year of that reign, from him they descended to his son and heir Samuel Thornhill, esq. who gave them by his will to his second son Sir John Thornhill, of Bromley, and his son and heir Charles Thornhill, esq. in the reign of king Charles II. alienated these manors of Breadhurst and Merecourt to Sir John Banks, bart. on whose death in 1699, without male issue, Elizabeth his daughter and coheir, then married to the Hon. Heneage Finch, second son of Heneage, earl of Nottingham, entitled her husband to them. He was afterwards created baron of Guernsey, and earl of Aylesford, and died possessed of these manors in 1719, and his descendant, the right hon. Heneage, earl of Aylesford, is the present proprietor of them. (fn. 3)
There are no parochial charities. The poor relieved constantly are about eight, casually seven.
BREDHURST is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sutton. It is exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter, is a small mean building, consisting of one isle and one chancel, having a low pointed steeple at the west end of it, in which hang two bells; adjoining to it on the south side there is a small chapel, now shut out from the church, on the pavement of which are two gravestones, which have been long since robbed of their brasses, and are said to have been placed in memory of the Kemsleys, of Kemsley-street before mentioned, the whole of it is now in a ruinous state, without door or windows, and the pavement of it, which is much sunk, is falling into the vault underneath, and covered with filth and nastiness.
This church of Bredhurst was antiently esteemed as a chapel annexed to the church of Hollingborne, the rector of which is patron of it. It is of the clear yearly certified value of 37l. 17s. 6d. and is a discharged living in the king's books.
In 1640 it was valued at fifty pounds. Communicants seventy.
¶This church is frequently mentioned as a perpetual curacy, but it is called a vicarage in the several sequestrations of it, as well as in the books of presentation and induction in the prerogative-office in Canterbury, and in the several wills of the incumbents of it, registered there, they constantly stile themselves vicars of Bredhurst.
I came across Repps with its fine church, but as there was no dedication board outside I was unsure of which church it was. Made even more confused by a notice in the porch claiming that the dedication for Repps was Ss. peter and Paul. The two banners inside confirmed it was indeed Repps.
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At first sight, Repps is a large and rather ordinary village in the heart of the Norfolk Broads - but this is in itself an unusual thing, of course, and suggests that here is a village of ordinary Norfolk people leading ordinary Norfolk lives, which comes as something of a relief after to the tourist clamour of Wroxham and Hoveton. The church is set a little way out of the village, down towards the river, but is open every day, as they virtually all seem to be in the Broads (except for nearby Potter Heigham, where the eccentric churchwarden 'likes to know who's going into his church'). The parish has been a joint one with neighbouring Bastwick for centuries. The former Bastwick church tower still stands near the road to Ludham, proclaiming itself, somewhat surreally, a 'Cats Hotel'.
The flint tower of St Peter, with its13th Century bell stage crown, is a handsome one, and the red brick south porch offsets it nicely. Externally, this is still a pretty and rustic medieval church, but the interior is almost entirely the work of the 1890s. In fact, this is not a bad decade for church restorations; the heavy-handed enthusiasms of the previous few decades were now frowned upon, and the Church of England had not yet reached that mawkish apotheosis which the years immediately after the First World War would bring.
You step into a simple, lightly furnished space, with steps mounting into the chancel beyond the chancel arch. Turning back, the west end is plain and unadorned, a fitting setting for the font. It felt very loved and looked after. Best of all, I liked a pretty survival of the early 20th Century, the banner carried by the St Peter's Sunday School when processions were still a regular feature of the life of the Church of England.
Simon Knott, November 2008
One of ten angels supporting the main roof trusses at St Peter's.
Sorry, guys but whoever did the whitewashing, here, needs to go back to night-school. It took me the best part of an hour to remove most of the 1,000+ splashes of whitewash from this good lady and her surrounding timbers!
Salem House of Corrections, now closed. Taken from St. Peter St., Salem Mass. Four days prior to Halloween, 2004. On the eve of a total lunar eclipse and the final victory of the Boston Red Sox over the National League Champion, St. Louis Cardinals.
St. Peter by James Tellen
Commissioned by Cornelius Schin for the Riverdale Springs Trout Farm, Sheboygan. Subsequently moved from the site, gifted to Kohler Foundation, Inc. by Arthur and Kathy Schnur and installed at the James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden (Wisconsin), 2004.
Christ as the Good Shepherd / Light of the World - Stained glass window in memory of Elizabeth Cooper, who died May 23rd 1897, and of Ann Cooper, who died February 18th 1908.- Church of St Peter Farndon Nottinghamshire
Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, on 27th August 2024. Much of the building dates from the 13th and 15th centuries, but the round tower was originally built in the 11th century.
As part of the Heritage Open Day Weekend, St Peter's Maney Church and Vicarage were open to the public.
The Church is a Grade 2 Listed Building, consecrated in 1905. The vicarage is slightly newer, dating back to 1912