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A steeple, in architecture, is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components. Steeples are very common on Christian churches and cathedrals and the use of the term generally connotes a religious structure.
A day without Color doesn’t mean the day is without beauty. Beauty is not always because color is present,
Pittsburgh has an area of 58.3 square miles (151 km2), of which 55.6 square miles (144 km2) is land and 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2) (or 4.75%) is water. The 80th meridian west passes directly through the city's downtown. The city is on the Allegheny Plateau, within the ecoregion of the Western Allegheny Plateau The Downtown area (also known as the Golden Triangle) sits where the Allegheny River flowing from the northeast and Monongahela River from the southeast form the Ohio River. The convergence is at Point State Park and is referred to as "the Point." The city extends east to include the Oakland and Shadyside sections, which are home to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham University, Carnegie Museum and Library, and many other educational, medical, and cultural institutions. The southern, western, and northern areas of the city are primarily residential. Many Pittsburgh neighborhoods are steeply sloped with two-lane roads. More than a quarter of neighborhood names make reference to "hills," "heights," or similar features. The steps of Pittsburgh comprise some 712 sets of outdoor public stairways with 44,645 treads and 24,090 vertical feet. They include hundreds of streets composed entirely of stairs, and many other steep streets with stairs for sidewalks. Many provide vistas of the Pittsburgh area while attracting hikers and fitness walkers.
Beds of sedimentary rock dip steeply into the Bighorn Basin along the western margin of the Bighorn mountains near Cottonwood Canyon east of Lovell, Wyoming.
This is the church building where I worship every Sunday morning...
A wonderful place, full of people who love God, care about others, and who want to see the world become a better place through kindness, forgiveness, and faith.
Late afternoon capture...
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Still looking back at photographs from "Just North of Antarctica" trip. Just over that little hill and across the plain were 200,000 pairs of breeding black browed Albatross.
They don't light it. The sun did that, when it finally emerged from an all-day storm just at golden hour.
Sandwich Village. Sandwich, MA The oldest town on Cape Cod.
Fooling around with HDR and enhancers on my Picasa photo storage program. Don't do this a lot but it can be fun to see what you can come up with.
I love the parade of old churches east of Lyndale/Hennepin. The Walker Art Center on the other side really destroyed the ambiance of the neighborhood for me.
The Grade II* Listed Holy Trinity Church, in Swallow a village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
The oldest part of the church dates from the period of the Norman conquest or perhaps slightly earlier. The lower portion of the tower is in Saxo-Norman style; the west door has a rounded Romanesque arch, as has the window above it. The much wider arch dividing the tower from the nave has typically Norman dog-tooth carving, but this may be partly or wholly Victorian restoration.
A carving on the south wall of the tower may be part of the original 14th-century rood, thought to be broken during the Reformation. William Andrew, the rector from 1564 to 1612, supported the reformation and may have been responsible both for this and for the change of dedication from St Salvatoris to Holy Trinity. The remains of the rood were unearthed in the churchyard and placed in the tower early in the 20th century.
In 1553 the church was reported to have three "gert bells" and one sanctus bell. However, the steeple collapsed sometime before 1663, and falling bells destroyed the south aisle. In 1670 both aisles were demolished and the following year the three bells were sold to cover the £140 cost of demolition and restoration, an incident referred to in the local rhyme:
“You must pity poor Swallow people
Who sold the bells to mend the steeple”
Sir Philip Tyrwhitt, who paid the cost initially, reportedly bought one bell and undertook to buy another. The bell was cast by Thomas Warner and Sons of London in 1864. The steeple was again restored in 1868, when the upper part of the tower was built in neo-Norman style.
The nave was originally built in the 13th century, but much of the current construction is Victorian. The carving around the south door dates from the 1880s. The font is genuinely Norman, dating from the late 11th or early 12th century.
Information Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow,_Lincolnshire
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101165346-church-of-holy-tri...
The Yellow Steeple in Trim is aptly named. It takes its name from the colour of the stonework at dusk, enhanced of course by the modern floodlighting. This 40m-high structure was once the bell tower of St. Mary's Abbey, which dates back to 1368. The previous abbey was burned in that year. It was said to have been damaged by Cromwell's soldiers in 1649. The eastern wall of the steeple rises to seven storeys and the building was constructed from squared limestone. St. Mary's Abbey was probably established before the 1140s but had been rededicated by Hugh de Lacy by 1186.