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Nearly 400 people took the Plunge on Feb. 12, 2011 as part of law enforcement's St. Peter Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. Photo by Michelle Lindstedt.
Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 21st March 2018. The building mainly dates back to the 15th century.
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)
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's Roman Catholic church in Dormer Place, Leamington Spa is an eye-catching essay in brick and stone, distinguished by it's tall slender tower (originally crowned by a tapering pyramid-like spire) which is a prominent feature of Leamington's skyline. The church was built in 1861-5 to the designs of Henry Clutton.
The interior is bright and has a slightly continental feel. It is cheerfully adorned with a richly decorated sanctuary and stained glass by Hardman's of Birmingham, most noticeably in the apse and the two transept chapels with their charming rose-windows.
The church is usually open during much of the day for private prayer.
More than 320 brave souls took the Plunge in St. Peter on February 3, 2018 to support Special Olympics Minnesota. These Plungers raised $62,000! Photos taken by Ruth Klossner.
St Peter's Kirk (also known as Skail Kirk) is a rare surviving example of an unaltered Church of Scotland Parish Kirk of 1836. Designated a Category A listed building by Historic Scotland, the current kirk is built partly on the foundations of its predecessor built in 1670. The dedication to St Peter has probably been given to all previous chapels on the site.
Situated on an exposed site near the Bay of Skaill and overlooking Skara Brae, it is a large harled church, with two tall windows in the centre, a bellcote and a slate roof; the interior evokes the experience of Presbyterian worship in the 19th century when over 500 people attended the church. It was acquired by the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust in 1998 and restored between 2002-3.
Nearly 400 people took the Plunge on Feb. 12, 2011 as part of law enforcement's St. Peter Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. Photo by Michelle Lindstedt.
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.
Nearly 400 people took the Plunge on Feb. 12, 2011 as part of law enforcement's St. Peter Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. Photo by Michelle Lindstedt.
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St Peter's Archabbey, otherwise St Peter's Abbey (Stift Sankt Peter) in Salzburg is a Benedictine monastery in Austria. It is considered one of the oldest monasteries in the German-speaking area, if not in fact the oldest. St Peter's Abbey was founded in 696 by Saint Rupert.
From NY architecture (http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM074.htm):
This was the first Catholic church in New York, and sadly I found it
locked. It is one block away from Ground Zero [...] and survived the
collapse of the towers. The church roof was damaged by the landing gear
from one of the planes which hit the World Trade Centre's twin towers
and the body of the Fire Chaplain Fr. Mychal Judge was brought here
from the north tower to rest in front of the altar.
The building dates from 1836-38, the second church on this site
(purchased from Trinity Parish in 1785) and was designed by John
Haggerty and Thomas Thomas. It has an impressive granite portico with
six Ionic columns.
Took this shot on my Italian trip.. Went to Vatican that day.. First we went to the Vatican Museum and visited Sistine Chapel. The line was SUPER long, but glad that we had a reservation. We got to bypass at least a thousand people.
In the afternoon, we went to St. Peter. The cathedral was huge. Got a good shot as the sun was at just the right angel. It was a cloudy day and the sun was coming in and out, so I was lucky to get this shot.
This is the time when I wished my camera had better low-ISO support (can someone sponsor me a d700? :)) Most sights prohibit tripod and flashes inside.
This is a very small church, tucked away in the corner of a pretty square dominated by a building which was once used as a prison during the Hapsburg era.
Detail: St Peter and St John the Evangelist.
Our beautiful church is known as Barnsley’s “hidden gem” (as described by John Betjeman). The church was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Temple Moore, architect, and was completed in 1911, although Christians have worshipped on the site since 1872. The church was built as part of the Catholic Revival of Victorian England and to this day the church continues to follow the catholic tradition. The money to build the church was raised by miners’ families donating pennies each week and it is built to match the surrounding terraced streets. But step inside and the beautiful interior will delight you; there are uninterrupted views to the high altar from all parts of the nave with arches of different widths along the side aisles.
Come along and find the mice carved on the high altar which was made on commission by Robert Thompson, also known as the ‘Mouseman of Kilburn’. Look at our stained glass windows and, if you are fit enough, lay down in the centre aisle and look up at the roof bosses (a popular activity for our young church goers!).
Visit our two side chapels and see the fine examples of Temple Moore’s work, especially in the Lady Chapel, which has been described as the most beautiful Lady Chapel in the Wakefield Diocese, high praise indeed.
Outside the church, take time to look at our statue of St Peter the fisherman, which local artist Steve West was commissioned to produce as part of the centenary celebrations of the church.
Part of our visit to Rome.
For more images and information on St Peter's, please read my blog posting below:
leonefabre.blogspot.com/2011/05/our-visit-to-st-peters-ba...
1 of 11 windows by John Hayward. West, northernmost, 1972 - First Prior, Bernard, with below, the last prior, Gervase Markham : detail