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This ancient parish church for the then village of Preston (now part of Brighton and Hove) was built in the 13th Century. It is not used much as a church, but it is a beautiful building and well worth a visit. website.lineone.net/~sussex-photos/preston.htm
The origins of St Peter's Kirk date back to the establishment of Duffus Castle, on a site 1¼ miles to the south east, in the mid 1100s. Castles were often accompanied by churches, and by 1226 a church dedicated to St Peter stood on the location of the church you see today. Around the church grew a village which today is known as Old Duffus. Some time later a tower was built at the west end of the church, which probably reached a height of three storeys.
In 1524 the rector, Alexander Sutherland, oversaw the building of a rather fine porch on the south side of the church: his initials and coat of arms are engraved on the keystone at the centre of the vaulting in its ceiling. The outer door of the porch is surrounded by a strikingly pointed and highly decorated arch. The church seems to have continued to function as a place of worship through the disruption cased by the Reformation of 1560.
In the 1650s it is said that Cromwellian troops based in the area built a paved road around the church, in what at the time would have been the village of Old Duffus. No trace of this has been found in modern times. Some time in the 1700s it was decided to rebuild what by this time was a 500 year old church. This was something that happened to many medieval Scottish churches when funds became available: sometimes to give the congregation something more weathertight, but more usually to provide a space more suitable to the needs of Presbyterian worship.
At St Peter's Kirk much of the earlier church was removed, with the stone presumably being recycled for use in the replacement church you see today. The main elements retained from the earlier church were the porch on the south wall (which perhaps implies that parts of the south wall were also retained), and the lower part of the tower, which became a burial vault.
The new church retained the basic rectangular shape of its predecessor, but was arranged very differently. Whereas the original church would have had its focus at the eastern end, in the new church, everything revolved around the pulpit. This was placed, as is often the case in Presbyterian churches, mid way along the south wall. The pews on the ground floor would have faced in towards the pulpit from the east and west ends, and across the church from the north side. Meanwhile, galleries were inserted at both ends and on the north side of the church. Today the external stairs that gave access to the north and east galleries still remain, and climbing them gives an excellent impression of the space available within the church. The church fell out of use after a new parish church was built in the "new village" of Duffus. in 1869.
The surrounding churchyard is fascinating and is heavily covered by grave markers. Just to the south of the church stands a stone shaft which, together with its massive stone plinth, measures some 14ft in height. This is the mercat cross (or market cross) of Old Duffus and is believed to date back to the 1300s. Its presence here is a reminder of an age in which it was common to hold markets in the churchyard if that happened to be the largest available space in the village or town.
Many of the grave markers carry the traditional emblems of mortality often found on Scottish gravestones from the 1600s and 1700s. The Christian cross was considered too "papist" by the post-Reformation Scottish Kirk, so until the 1800s, skulls, crossbones, angels, egg timers and other emblems stood in instead. Equally interesting are the emblems often used to represent the trades of those interred below.
In the churchyard here, some of the most poignant memorials are those carrying text. An especially interesting touch is the presence on some stones of engraved "guidelines", faint straight lines above and below each line of text to ensure the mason kept his letters of even height and his lines straight. This has not prevented all error, however. A stone commemorating 7 year old Thomas Watson who died in September 1796, is carved in capital letters, and every "N" is carved backwards: while the "DID" on his stone has a small "e" superimposed to turn it into "DIeD".
In one corner of the churchyard stands a watch house, with a date of 1830 inscribed above the door. In the early 1800s body-snatchers or "resurrectionists", who stole freshly-buried corpses for sale to medical schools, were a serious problem in Scotland. A number of countermeasures were used, including buildings in which to store bodies until they were no longer fresh enough to be of interest to body-snatchers; mortsafes placed over graves to prevent them being dug up; and watch houses in which a watchman would guard the churchyard when there were fresh burials. The watch house here is unlikely to have see much use: the Anatomy Act of 1832 opened up a legitimate supply of corpses for medical study and research and body-snatching simply ceased.
Panel 72
Information from the CWGC database:
Commander Erlysman Patrick Hamilton Pinckney, Royal Navy (H.M.S. Hannibal); died 23 October 1943, aged 41; awards: Mentioned in Despatches; name recorded on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial (Panel 72, Column 3.); son of Erlysman Charles and Agnes Ponsonby Pinckney, of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire; [HMS Hannibal was a shore establishment (naval base), commissioned at Algiers in 1943, paid off in 1945]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2495407/PINCKNEY,%20E...
According to an online genealogy, Commander Pinckney was born in London on 3rd June 1902, the son of Captain Erlysman Charles Pinckney and Agnes Ponsonby Adair. According to that, he died at Gibraltar and is also commemorated on a wall plaque in St Peter's Church, Charlton St Peter, Wiltshire. For more information, see: www.john-pinckney.co.uk/family/g0/p241.htm
St. Peter’s played host to Pevensey in a first team match in the East Sussex Cricket League on 23 July 2011. The visitors won the toss and elected to bowl first. St. Peter’s scored 190 and then succeeded in bowling out Pevensey for 138 in 38.3 overs.
St Peter, Carleton St Peter, Norfolk
I spent a pleasant day in the company of my friend Peter Stephens exploring the churches between Norwich and Loddon. Apart from a couple to the south of the Beccles road they were all open, and it was a pleasure to explore a succession of small, unassuming but welcoming churches. I last visited them about ten years ago, and although not much has changed it was pleasing to see that a couple of them were in safer hands than had seemed on my previous visit.
I came back through Norwich and caught the train back to Ipswich with dozens of disconsolate Norwich City fans who had just seen their team lose at home to West Bromwich Albion, leaving them perilously close to the drop. On the way back on the train I took part in a three-way conversation with my son in Amsterdam and my daughter in Madrid. Ten years ago, when they were little and I first explored these churches, I don't think I would have thought such a thing likely, or even possible.
The following day, Norwich City sacked their manager Chris Hughton.
The Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman in Revelstoke, Noss Mayo, Devon, England, was built in 1226.
It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant on 6 April 1971, and was vested in the Trust on 28 June 1972.
The mediaeval church has Saxon origins with portions being built in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. The aisle and the porch still have their carved wagon roofs however the roofs have fallen down over the rest of the building.
Around 1870 a new church, also dedicated to St Peter, was built nearby and this church fell into disrepair. It is still consecrated and occasional services are held in the church during the summer.
St. Peter Port has a fine harbour which caters for Ro-Ro passenger and cargo vessels, small inter-island ferries, fishing boats and pleasure craft, the latter being catered for in marinas and 'the Pool'. It wasn't always so. Until the 19th Century visiting vessels lay to anchor in what could sometimes become an uncomfortable offshore anchorage, access to shore being via small rowing boats.
This congregation was organized in 1894 by German and Swiss immigrants, originally known as St. Peters Deutsche Evangelische Gemeinde (St. Peters German Evangelical Church), the congregation built this vernacular Gothic revival sanctuary in 1905-1906. The meeting hall was added in 1925, and the two structures were connected in 1953, by 1955 English language services, introduced in 1929, had replaced the worship originally conducted in German. (1979) (Marker No. 9335)
Stourhead Estate, Somerset.
St. Peter’s Pump was erected in the valley in 1768 over the first springs and source of the River Stour. The pump formerly stood near St. Peter’s Church in Bristol. It dates from the 15th century.
Church of St. Peter - Heswall Parish Church. Village Road.
When the present church was rebuilt and dedicated in 1878, it was dedicated to St. Peter. The previous church of 1739, known as Heswall Parish Church, had been destroyed by lightening during a severe storm in 1875. The first church of Heswall Parish was built about 1275. Nothing of that church remains. The tower is the oldest part of the present church, dating to the mid-16th century.
"Church. Tower C14, bell stage late C15; rest of church, 1879, south chapel 1893. By J.F. Doyle. Stone with slate roof. Nave with aisles, south-west tower, chancel, north vestry and south chapel. Tower has diagonal west buttresses..."
Grade II listed building. List entry Number: 1320306.
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The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply St. Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), is an Italian Renaissance church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome.
Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom".
Catholic tradition holds that the Basilica is the burial site of Saint Peter, one of Jesus's Apostles and also the first Pope. Saint Peter's tomb is supposedly directly below the high altar of the Basilica. For this reason, many Popes have been interred at St. Peter's since the Early Christian period, and there has been a church on this site since the time of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica, which would replace Old St. Peter's Basilica from the 4th century CE, began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.
St Peter's church in Copt Oak is rather well hidden, invisible from the main road up a track leading from it, and thus easily missed. The building dates from 1837 with a new chancel added in 1889. It is a simple building that won't delay a visitor long, but it is obviously well loved and cared for. I believe it is normally locked outside of services an events.
St Peter's Archabbey, otherwise St Peter's Abbey (Stift Sankt Peter) in Salzburg is a Benedictine monastery.
Salzburg,
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St. Peter square, Vatican, VA
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A visit to the Vatican Museums on 09.30.16. Love the painted ceilings along the hallways.
Before going to the museums, we took some pics outside St Peter's Basilica
The foundation stone for St. Peter's Church was laid in 1834. It was completed in 1837 and consecrated by Bishop Broughton, the only Bishop of Australia, on 8th May, 1838. It is worth noting that the church has only one door. The reason for this was almost certainly to prevent the congregation, which in the early days was about 50% convicts, from attempting to escape. The original church was a simple stone building and there were plans to add a spire to the tower in the 1920s but they never eventuated.
The headstones around the church date back to the 1830s. One of particular interest is that of Sarah Lane who died at the age of 8 years in 1844. The inscription on the headstone reads:
This little inoffensive child
To Sunday school had trod
But sad to tell was burnt to deat
h
Within the house of God.
The dropped 'h' is the result of the stonemason getting his measurements wrong whilst the untimely death of the child as a result of a Sunday school fire seems extraordinary.