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I have a thing for pretty church steeples. Of the pics I got today, this is the one my husband liked best, so it's my POTD.
"Holloway Church, Belleville" by William James Topley (original at Library and Archives Canada. This church was originally the Holloway Street Methodist Church but is now known as St. Matthew's United Church, Belleville, Ontario.
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The Cox Warehouse from the 1800s., Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. The steeple was added for the movie “A Scarlet Letter”. This is one of the largest wooden buildings in the Canadian maritime provinces, was built for the Cox family in 1902. The Town of Shelburne has numerous 18th century buildings and has been the location for a number of movies, including the Scarlet Letter.
One of the Town of Shelburne’s most recognizable landmarks along the historic waterfront could someday be considered for demolition.
While no major decisions have been made at this time for the future of the Cox Warehouse, the Shelburne Historical Society has submitted an application to demolish or have substantial alterations done to the building. The Shelburne Historic Society does not have the capacity or capability of looking after the huge, 16,000 square foot structure and as it further deteriorates it becomes less safe.
Scarborough is a seaside town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the North Sea coastline. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town lies between 10 and 230 feet (3–70 m) above sea level, from the harbour rising steeply north and west towards limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by a rocky headland.
With a population of 61,749, Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire Coast and largest seaside town in North Yorkshire. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. Residents of the town are known as Scarborians.
The town is claimed to have been founded around 966 AD as Skarðaborg by Thorgils Skarthi, a Viking raider. There is no archaeological evidence to support this claim, which was made during the 1960s as part of a pageant of Scarborough events. The claim is based on a fragment of an Icelandic Saga. In the 4th century, there was briefly a Roman signal station on Scarborough headland, and there is evidence of earlier settlements, during the Stone Age and Bronze Age. Any settlement between the fifth and ninth centuries would have been burned to the ground by a band of Vikings under Tostig Godwinson (a rival of Thorgils Skarthi), Lord of Falsgrave, or Harald III of Norway. These periodic episodes of destruction and massacre means that very little evidence of settlement during this period remained to be recorded in the Domesday survey of 1085. (The original inland village of Falsgrave was Anglo-Saxon rather than Viking.)
A Roman signal station was built on a cliff-top location overlooking the North Sea. It was one of a chain of signal stations, built to warn of sea-raiders. Coins found at the site show that it was occupied from c. AD 370 until the early fifth century.
In 2021 an excavation at a housing development in Eastfield, Scarborough, revealed a Roman luxury villa, religious sanctuary, or combination of both. The building layout is unique in Britain and extends over an area of about the size of two tennis courts. It included a bathhouse and a cylindrical tower with rooms radiating from it. The buildings were “designed by the highest-quality architects in northern Europe in the era and constructed by the finest craftsmen.” Historic England described the finds as “one of the most important Roman discoveries in the past decade.” There are plans to revise the housing development layout, recover the remains and incorporate them in a public green area. Historic England is to recommend the remains be protected as a scheduled monument.
Scarborough recovered under King Henry II, who built an Angevin stone castle on the headland and granted the town charters in 1155 and 1163, permitting a market on the sands and establishing rule by burgesses.
Edward II granted Scarborough Castle to his favourite, Piers Gaveston. The castle was subsequently besieged by forces led by the barons Percy, Warenne, Clifford and Pembroke. Gaveston was captured and taken to Oxford and thence to Warwick Castle for execution.
In 1318, the town was burnt by the Scots, under Sir James Douglas following the Capture of Berwick upon Tweed.
In the Middle Ages, Scarborough Fair, permitted in a royal charter of 1253, held a six-week trading festival attracting merchants from all over Europe. It ran from Assumption Day, 15 August, until Michaelmas Day, 29 September. The fair continued to be held for 500 years, from the 13th to the 18th century, and is commemorated in the song Scarborough Fair:
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
—parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme...
Scarborough and its castle changed hands seven times between Royalists and Parliamentarians during the English Civil War of the 1640s, enduring two lengthy and violent sieges. Following the civil war, much of the town lay in ruins.
In 1626, Mrs Thomasin Farrer discovered a stream of acidic water running from one of the cliffs to the south of the town. This gave birth to Scarborough Spa, and Dr Robert Wittie's book about the spa waters published in 1660 attracted a flood of visitors to the town. Scarborough Spa became Britain's first seaside resort, though the first rolling bathing machines were not reported on the sands until 1735. It was a popular getaway destination for the wealthy of London, such as the bookseller Andrew Millar and his family. Their son Andrew junior died there in 1750.
The coming of the Scarborough–York railway in 1845 increased the tide of visitors. Scarborough railway station claims a record for the world's longest platform seat. From the 1880s until the First World War, Scarborough was one of the regular destinations for The Bass Excursions, when fifteen trains would take between 8,000 and 9,000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.
During the First World War, the town was bombarded by German warships of the High Seas Fleet, an act which shocked the British (see Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby). Scarborough Pier Lighthouse, built in 1806, was damaged in the attack. A U-boat assault on the town, on 25 September 1916 saw three people killed and a further five injured. Eleven of Scarborough's trawler fleet were sunk at sea in another U-boat attack, on 4 September 1917.
In 1929, the steam drifter Ascendent caught a 560 lb (250 kg) tunny (Atlantic bluefin tuna) and a Scarborough showman awarded the crew 50 shillings so he could exhibit it as a tourist attraction. Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough effectively started in 1930 when Lorenzo "Lawrie" Mitchell–Henry, landed a tunny caught on rod and line weighing 560 lb (250 kg). A gentlemen's club, the British Tunny Club, was founded in 1933 and set up its headquarters in the town at the place which is now a restaurant with the same name. Scarborough became a resort for high society. A women's world tuna challenge cup was held for many years.
Colonel (and, later, Sir) Edward Peel landed a world-record tunny of 798 lb (362 kg), capturing the record by 40 lb (18.1 kg) from one caught off Nova Scotia by American champion Zane Grey. The British record which still stands is for a fish weighing 851 lb (386 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Laurie Mitchell-Henry.
On 5 June 1993, Scarborough made international headlines when a landslip caused part of the Holbeck Hall Hotel, along with its gardens, to fall into the sea. Although the slip was shored up with rocks and the land has long since grassed over, evidence of the cliff's collapse remains clearly visible from The Esplanade, near Shuttleworth Gardens.
Scarborough has been affiliated with a number of Royal Navy vessels, including HMS Apollo, HMS Fearless and HMS Duncan.
The town has an Anglican church, St Martin-on-the-Hill, built in 1862–63 as the parish church of South Cliff. It contains works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown. A young Malton architect, John Gibson, designed the Crown Spa Hotel, Scarborough's first purpose-built hotel. Notable Georgian structures include the Rotunda Museum, Cliff Bridge and Scarborough Pier Lighthouse. Victorian buildings include the Classical Public Library and Market Hall, the Town Hall, Scarborough Spa, the Art Gallery, the South Cliff Methodist Church, and Scarborough railway station. The architecture of Scarborough generally consists of small, low, orange pantile-roofed buildings in the historic old town, and larger Classical and late Victorian buildings reflecting the time during the 19th century as it expanded away from its historic centre into a coastal spa resort.
A notable landmark in the town is the Grand Hotel on St Nicholas Cliff. Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick of Hull, it was completed in 1867; at the time of its opening, it was the largest hotel and the largest brick structure in Europe. It uses local yellow brickwork with red detailing and is based around a theme of time: four towers represent the seasons, 12 floors the months, 52 chimneys the weeks and the original 365 bedrooms represented the days of the year. A blue plaque outside the hotel marks where the novelist Anne Brontë died in 1849. She was buried in the graveyard of St Mary's Church by the castle.
An amount of 20th century architecture exists within the main shopping district and in the form of surrounding suburbs. Buildings from this century include the Futurist Theatre (1914), Stephen Joseph Theatre, Brunswick Shopping Centre (1990), and GCHQ Scarborough, a satellite station on the outskirts of the town.
Last night I spent most all my time looking down at the gleaming wet pavement... it was raining with a heavy cloud covering. But when I saw the church steeple silhouetted against the golden sky, I was mesmerized. I have not retouched this in any way. it is as close to what was there as I can possibly make it. I wanted, for once, to recreate the stillness of the city at night in the rain.. I stood and just stared up for the longest time. I feel happy I was able to capture the light of the night in this shot.
The parish church
Design and construction
Machegg is documented have been founded in 1268 by Bohemian King Ottokar. Only ten years later, he fell in the battle against Rudolf of Habsburg in Dürnkrut. The city was therefore never fully developed. The Gothic parish church, dedicated to the Holy Margaretha, was not completed. To execution came just the choir - and as georradar measurments in 1998 resulted - the foundations of the long house. It was also determined by this deep investigations, that the portapoint (line between the portal) of the planned nave is over 7 meters outside the entrance of today's church (tower). The choir meets in the floor plan to that of the Dome of Wiener Neustadt, a mighty cathedral was Ottokar's plan!
This portalpoint (after DI . Dr. E. Reidinger) is als urban planning point of reference. The church is in the axle geometry of the city involved, and therefore the key to the entire system concept and founding date .
At that time, living and belief are a unit, such as state and church. The planning of the city is closely linked with that of the church. Eastern to Marchegg is the holy day, by which the town was entrusted to the divine protection and blessings.
In 1268 fell the green thursday, standding at the beginning of the passion, death and finally the resurrection of jesus christ on the 5th april. On that day, so reveals the bent axis of our parish, the long house was oriented in the direction of sunrise. 8 april 1268 (Easter Sunday ) was then the orientation of the choir as part of a sacred act.
Reidinger: "The reconstructed construction plan of the city and the orientation of the church with the bent axis give the answer to the date of the founding of the city.
What great importance does this mean to the churchbuilding! in the resurrection liturgy (long time on Easter Sunday early in the morning hours celebrated) shines the rising sun through the middle window into the dark church interior! Christ is risen!
As Rudolf I in the year 1278 achieved the mighty victory over King Ottokar, he gave in grateful remembrance of the fact that God, "not far from the church to marche field (Marchfeld)e", him rescued from the deadly danger, including the space along with bridge in front of the mill. In the donation letter issued by him he takes the church with their possessions under his special protection.
Later, the exact date and reason on which legal situation is unknown, Marchegg figures as vicariate of the parish parish of melk Weikendorf and the abbey of melk was holding the patronage.
From the year 1410 is a legal decision is available that the parish priest of Marchegg, the then called Wernherus, as mother gift to the church of Weikendorf every year for pennies pound as sign of filial dependence has to pay.
In the year 1429 was Johann Ströbein from Grossenzersdorf rector of the filial church santa Margaret of Marchegg.
In the same year figures Marchegg in a directory of the parishes and benefices of the diocese of Passau.
On 23 July 1465 asked the owner of dominion of Marchegg, earl Rüdiger von Starhemberg, the abbot of melk to give the vacant parish church of Marchegg to the Mert Putner (Martinus Pertner).
In the year 1506 came the former parish priest of Stillfried, Johannes Syndel as pastor to Marchegg.
In the Protestant Reformation protestant estate owner salm and landau monopolized the patronage and put in preacher.
The transfer of the reign earl Paul Pálffy took place on 26 May 1621 and in the course of the Counter-Reformation the condition take care of the parish and abolish the preachers in said place. Pallfy vowed further only to allow the Catholic religion in Marchegg.
Probably the parish from the end of the fifteenth century has been administrated by the former P. Paulinern of Mariathal (marianka - Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit) in Slovakia. From there came a priest all months for pastoral work to Marchegg. Because due to the floods often no priest appeared, Pálffy 1632 war looking for a world-priest. However, because of the poor pay and the many damage to the church and the parsonage, he could not get one for some time until Pater Sebastian Kempf finally in the year 1634 here was delegated by by the order of Saint Paul.
Before 1663 the erection of John Chapel next to the church.
1689 the parish was robbed during the kuruc fightings.
On 10 March 1697 received in the local parish church a turkish woman the holy sacrament of baptism. Probably she was left behind from the entourage of the turkish war.
1748 Maria-Lauretta chapel was built next to the parish church on an old tomb.
1776 In the church was erected to the holy Leonhard and Wendelin a new constructed side altar.
1784 The branch site Breiteseen was separtend from the parish of Marchegg and raised to an independent "Lokalkaplay".
1784 The parish of Marchegg was incorporated into the archdiocese of Vienna.
1786 26the march was abandoned cemetery location around the church.
Because of the danger of collapsing bell tower (roof rider) was demolished in 1787 and the roof is covered the same.
1786 - 1789 church annex
1790 worship was once again celebrated in the church and the church bells newly transferred to the new tower.
1850, as the bell tower threatened to collapse, it was removed, the main entrance of the church locked and the ship supported.
1853 Prince Pálffy let begin the construction of the church tower. The tower rests on 170 oak trunks.
In 1855 the cross was placed on the newly constructed tower. The cross made of of iron has been galvanically gildened, was picked up in a solemn procession from the castle and consecrated by Dechant Simon Schwarz.
Renovation of the church interior: a woman from Vienna, Magdalena Schineder, a marcheggerin (born to Marchegg), gave 350 fl, mister notary dionys Klemer 40 fl, for acquisition of new altarpiece for the high altar, which dates from the school of the famous painter Kupelwieser. The remaining contributions came from the community, from Vienna, Prague, Brno, Malacka and Baumgarten.
Termination of the church renovation in 1856.
1878 600 year anniversary of the church.
1890 New stained glass windows. Donors. Prince Palffy, Earl Apponyi, Vicar Rohrwasser (born Marchegger):
1895 Prince Liechtenstein donated two stained glass windows
1897 Flood. Parsonage and church were under water. In the church, the water reached up to the kneeling benches.
1899 17th september round 5:15 early in the morning reached the high water church and main square. Church services took place till 23nd september in the castle chapel.
1899 Princess Palffy donated a white alb, which she had embroidered herself.
1910 12th november inserting of the figural windows was completed. In the night were broken parts and robbed the offertory. The pastor prompted to remove all offertories.
1911 King Ferdinand of Bulgaria visited the parish on the journey through.
1917 The copper and the skirts of the windows of the church tower were removed and replaced by zinc sheet.
In january 1918 the organ pipes were requisitioned for war purposes.
1930 18.9. Laying of the foundation stone of a makeshift church at the railway station.
1931 7.10. Construction of the temporary church and nursery was completed. Financing by pastor Kowanda and the club "Catholic action in Marchegg".
1938 On 15th march came SA-men from Marchegg and took money, cash book and passbook of Catholic young folk. Amount of 45 shillings. Catholic young folk was dissolved.
Since 7th april on the steeple blew the swastika flag.
In 1940 cardinal Innitzer came for visitation to Marchegg. Teenagers rampaged and scolded the cardinal.
1945 Shelling of Marchegg - city church received 7 strikes. Above the presbyterium in the stone window frames, front under the base of the church. 4 shots hit the tower and the roof of the new part of the church. Between church and kindergarten 2 strikes, 5 strikes in the parish garden.
In 1953, the statue of Holy Elisabeth was erected.
In 1954, the statue of Saints Michael, Barbara and Katharina that were destroyed in the bomb hit came back restored. 9th may blessing of the bells.
1958 Completion of the extention of the church Christ the King at Marchegg station.
1960 At the renovation of the ceiling several frescoes were found, two of which were saved.
Consecration the statue of St. Elizabeth, gift of the Federal Monuments Office.
1967 Lightning struck during a funeral in the church tower. Thanks to the lightning protection system, no damage has been produced.
In 1970 the albhon organ was blessed by archbishop Dr. Josef Schoiswohl. Donation of Kommerzialrat Josef Durry.
1989 Consecration of altar and organ of the church of Christ the King by auxiliary bishop DDr. Helmut Krätzl.
1992 Consecration ot the new altar of the city church by Bishop Florian Kuntner.
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Photographed from the adjacent Council Tower in the old quarter of Sibiu, one of two churches that dominate the skyline.
Church of St George, Dittisham Devon is sited at the heart of the village close to the main junction of lanes where the lane arriving from the main road splits to go either to the foot ferry or onward towards Cornworthy.
Together with the village it is built on a steeply sloping site and comprises of an aisled nave, chancel, south porch, vestry & western tower which is a landmark for boat traffic and was undoubtedly used as a navigational aid. The stone walls keep in the raised graveyard at the Lower Street end.
In 1086 Domesday times Dittisham was held by Baldwin the Sheriff and supported 12 ploughs as well possessing pasture and woodland with a lengthy list of livestock held.
It is assumed that there was an earlier Saxon building though no trace of it now remains. (In the year 755 Devon was conquered by the Saxons and a Saxon Chief settled on the banks of the River Dart. This settlement was part of the manor given by Edward the Confessor to Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, who is certain to have made sure there was a church in the settlement).
This church was replaced by a Norman one consisting of only a chancel and nave; the line of this roof can still be seen on the east wall of the tower. The list of rectors begins in 1224
In 1328 Bishop Grandisson of Exeter ordered an enquiry into the neglect of duties and of the church, which was now a ruin, by the rector, Sir Richard de Inkpenne who died soon afterwards.
The church was later restored and reconstructed between 1328 and 1333 by the next rector, Sir Richard de Gormersale and dedicated to St George by Bishop Grandisson on 4th October 1333. The bottom stage of the tower was built & the chancel enlarged and the side aisles added in late 14c / early 15c. when a two story porch was built on to the south wall with a priest’s chamber above which has a window into the church over the south door. The top stage of the west tower was also rebuilt about this time with a polygonal stair turret in the west angle. What is now the vestry on the north side of the chancel in the angle with the north aisle appears to be later than the chancel but possibly earlier than the north aisle.
Above the south door is the Royal Coat of Arms of Charles ll, granted at the time of his 1660 Restoration in gratitude to the people for their loyalty. The 12c font is Norman standing on a modern stone shaft and base. It is a solid, red sandstone bowl thought to have been buried to save it from destruction at that time, however the font cover is modern and was given by the children of the parish in 1928. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/S418yn95VL
The beautiful carved and painted stone wineglass pulpit dates from the 15c. The figures carved on it are thought to be of the saints, including St. John the Baptist.
The chancel screen is also 15c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9SW0D6894N – the groining and canopy were beautifully restored in 1954-55 by workmen in Exeter. The painted figures were damaged by Cromwell’s men who also burnt down the rectory destroying all the books and early church registers.
The windows in the north aisle were inserted c1846, they are a memorial to two former rectors, John Hutchings (1768 to 1802) and his son, Robert Sparke Hutchings (1805 to 1827). The windows in the South Aisle are of pressed glass which is now not made. The small, richly coloured window in the north side chapel may consist of remains from the original East Window.
On the outside of the west window can be seen the heads of Elizabeth ll & her son then Prince Charles
In 1830 it was noted that remains of the rood loft had been destroyed in 1810 when the church was repaired. Also in the early 19c there was said to be a gallery under the tower arch. In 1828 the pinnacles of the tower were removed and replaced with new pinnacles in about 1846 when the church was restored and the aisle windows were replaced under the direction of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. The church was restored again in 1883 and again in 1924-5.
The tower clock was presented in 1879. The five bells were cast in 1802 by Thomas Mears of London (bells were reported in 1553).
The mid 19c lychgate has revolving doors
Tony Atkin CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2354651
Mostly late C15, one of the finest Perpendicular churches in the country. Steeple being blown down in 1670 resulted in some rebuilding. Chancel rebuilt by Clutton 1853. Nave roof looking east, with unusual wooden lierne vault with carved pendants and bosses, originally intended to be stone
What the heck. You liked my last skyline view so much I might as well share this slightly different one, with the steeples of Louis Sullivan's Holy Trinity Cathedral in the foreground.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church, which stands on busy Chapel Street in St Kilda East, is a well known and loved local landmark, not least of all because of its strikingly tall (33.5 metre or 110 foot) banded bell tower which can be spotted from far away. In the Nineteenth Century when it was built, it would have been even more striking for its great height and domineering presence. Designed by architect Albert Purchas, the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is often referred to as his ecclesiastical tour-de-force, and it is most certainly one of his most dramatic and memorable churches.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was constructed on a plot of land reserved in Chapel Street for the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1866. Initially services were held in a small hall whilst fundraising efforts advanced the erection of a church. The architect Albert Purchas was commissioned to design the church and the foundation stone for the western portion of the nave was finally laid in April 1877 by Sir James McCulloch. The first service was held in the church on the 1st of October 1877. The first clergyman of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was the Reverend John Laurence Rentoul (father to world renown and much loved Australian children's book illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite). However, the swelling Presbyterian congregation of St Kilda and its surrounding districts quickly outgrew the initial Saint George's Presbyterian Church building, so Albert Purchas was obliged to re-design and enlarge the church to allow a doubling in capacity. Robert S. Ekins was the contractor and his tender was £3000.00. It is this imposing church building, reopened in 1880, that we see today. The "Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil" noted that the total length of the building was 118 feet and 6 inches (36 metres), by 40 foot (12 metres) wide and that the striking octagonal tower to the north-west was 110ft 6 in high. It perhaps reflected better the wealth and aspirations of the congregation.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is constructed on bluestone foundations and is built in an ornate polychromatic Gothic Revival style in the tradition of English designers like William Butterfield and John L. Pearson. Built of red brick building, it is decorated in contrasting cream bricks and Waurn Ponds freestone dressings. It features a slate roof with prominent roof vents, iron ridge cresting and fleche at the intersection of the nave and transepts. The front facade of the church is dominated by the slender, banded octagonal tower topped by a narrow spire. The entrance features a double arched portal portico. The facade also features a dominant triangular epitrochoidal (curved triangular form) rose window. The church, like its bluestone neighbour All Saints Church of England, is built to a T-shaped plan, with an aisleless nave, broad transepts and internal walls of cream brick, relieved with coloured brickwork. The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was one of the first major church design in Melbourne in which polychrome brickwork was lavishly employed both externally and internally.
The inside of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is equally as grand as the exterior, with ornamental Gothic Revival polychromatic brickwork, a lofty vaulted ceiling, deal and kauri pine joinery and pulpit and reredos of Keene's cement. The building originally contained a complete set of Victorian stained glass windows by well known and successful Melbourne manufacturers Ferguson and Urie, all of which remain intact today except for one of the non-figurative windows which was replaced by a memorial window to Samuel Lyons McKenzie, the congregation’s beloved minister, who served from 1930 to 1948, in 1949. The earliest of the Ferguson and Urie windows are non-figurative windows which feature the distinctive diaper pattern and floral motifs of Fergus and Urie's work, and are often argued to be amongst the finest of their non-figurative designs. The large triple window in the chancel was presented by Lady McCulloch in memory of the ‘loved and dead’. Another, in memory of John Kane Smyth, the Vice-Consul for the United States of America in Melbourne, has the American Stars and Stripes on the top ventilator above it. An organ by Thomas C. Lewis of London, one of the leading 19th century English organ builders, was installed in the south transept in 1882. It was designed to blend with its architectural setting, with pipework styled to avoid the obstruction of windows. The action of this organ was altered in 1935, but the pipework, and the original sound, have been retained.
Over the years many spiritual and social activities were instituted at Saint George’s, Presbyterian Church some of short duration such as the Ladies’ Reading Club which operated between 1888 and 1893. There were segregated Bible classes for young men and women, the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union, formed in 1892, a cricket club and a floral guild. Guilds teaching physical culture for girls, boys and young men began in 1904. They were entirely financed by John Maclellan and the idea extended to other denominations throughout Victoria. John Maclellan died in 1936 and the guilds ceased at Saint George’s Presbyterian church through lack of funds although in 1977 the members of the girls’ guild were still holding bi-annual reunions and raising money for charity. Sadly, the Presbyterian congregations may have been large in the Nineteenth Century, but by St George's Presbyterian Church's 110th centenary, its doors had already closed during the week due to dwindling numbers and an ageing congregation as a result of the general decline in church attendances after the Second World War exacerbated by the changing nature of St Kilda and the decrease in numbers of residents living in the vicinity of the church. So it stood, forlorn and empty and seemingly nothing more than a relic of a glorious but bygone religious past. However in 1990, Saint Michael's Grammar School across the road leased the Victorian Heritage listed building during weekdays, and it was eventually sold to them in 2015. It now forms part of the school's performing-arts complex, and it has a wonderful new lease of life.
St George's Presbyterian Church is sometimes hired out for performances, and I had the pleasure of receiving an invitation to hear Handel's Messiah performed there in 2009. The ecclesiastical acoustics made the performance all the more magnificent. I remember as I sat on one of the original (hard) kauri pine pews, I looked around me and admired the stained glass and ornamental brickwork. I tried without success over several subsequent years to gain access to the church's interior, settling for photographs of the exterior instead, but it wasn't until 2018 that I was fortunate enough to gain entry to photograph the church's interior. The former St George's Presbyterian Church was opened up to the public for one Sunday morning only as part of Open House Melbourne in July 2018. It was a fantastic morning, and I am very grateful to the staff who manned the church for the day and watched bemused as I photographed the stained glass extensively and in such detail.
Albert Purchas, born in 1825 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, was a prominent Nineteenth Century architect who achieved great success for himself in Melbourne. Born to parents Robert Whittlesey Purchas and Marianne Guyon, he migrated to Australia in 1851 to establish himself in the then quickly expanding city of Melbourne, where he set up a small architect's firm in Little Collins Street. He also offered surveying services. His first major building was constructing the mansion "Berkeley Hall" in St Kilda on Princes Street in 1854. The house still exists today. Two years after migrating, Albert designed the layout of the Melbourne General Cemetery in Carlton. It was the first "garden cemetery" in Victoria, and his curvilinear design is still in existence, unaltered, today. In 1854, Albert married Eliza Anne Sawyer (1825 - 1869) in St Kilda. The couple had ten children over their marriage, including a son, Robert, who followed in his father's footsteps as an architect. Albert's brother-in-law, Charles Sawyer joined him in the partnership of Purchas and Sawyer, which existed from 1856 until 1862 in Queens Street. The firm produced more than 140 houses, churches, offices and cemetery buildings including: the nave and transepts of Christ Church St Kilda between 1854 and 1857, "Glenara Homestead"in Bulla in 1857, the Melbourne Savings Bank on the corner of Flinders Lane and Market Street (now demolished) between 1857 and 1858, the Geelong branch of the Bank of Australasia in Malop Street between 1859 and 1860, and Beck's Imperial Hotel in Castlemaine in 1861. When the firm broke up, Albert returned to Little Collins Street, and the best known building he designed during this period was Saint. George's Presbyterian Church in St Kilda East between 1877 and 1880. The church's tall polychomatic brick bell tower is still a local landmark, even in the times of high rise architecture and development, and Saint, George's itself is said to be one of his most striking church designs. Socially, Albert was vice president of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects for many years, before becoming president in 1887. He was also an inventor and philanthropist. Albert died in 1909 at his home in Kew, a wealthy widower and much loved father.
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Twisted branches reach across a dusky sky, framing a tranquil sunset over a quaint town. A church steeple rises prominently, offering a sense of calm and serenity.
Looking up at the steeple of the old New Monmouth Baptist Church, built around 1855. They recently built a much larger church right next to this. I hope they keep the original building.
There are European-styled cathedrals all around Quebec City, and the steeples stick up over the city-scape.
This was one of my favorites.
L40 LNT (ex SN08 BYT)
2008 Volvo B9TL/Wrightbus Eclipse Gemini H44/29F
Langston & Tasker, Steeple Claydon
Buckingham, 28 March 2022
New to Lothian
Langston & Tasker have built up quite a fleet of double-deckers, all of which run in plain white and have never been given fleetnames. This is L40 LNT operating service 831, and the third of the ex-Lothian trio is L60 LNT, formerly SN08 BYR.