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All Saints, Shirburn, Oxfordshire.
Grade ll listed.
The Earls of Macclesfield have owned Shirburn Castle since 1716. The north transept of All Saints' Church contains their family pew and the north chapel is the Macclesfield family mausoleum. - See more at: www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurch...
Shirburn Castle is a fortress - even today. I understand even Dr Pevsner was unable to gain access for the Oxfordshire volume of his Buildings of England books.
I have read the church is also difficult of access despite it being a Churched Conservation Trust church, but I have to say the people in the Shirburn Estate office were very accommodating.
Consider the sharp blade of the seed
within the bound solidity of silk----
how can we trust
such succulence, so mortal?
---Margaret Gibson
I decided to visit this National Trust run, place on the 3rd August 2018. Take the A3057 out of Romsey you will see a sign for Mottisfont about 3½ miles out of Romsey. They had a large car park which was free to visitors. It was in the middle of the heat wave we were having in Britain at the time and so many people were there with the kids because it was, school holidays also. Mottisfont Abbey and with the house is a historical priory and country estate in Hampshire, England. The Abbey sections were like a cellar building below the main part of the house and was so cool in the strong heat of summer outside. Sheltering in the valley of the River Test, the property is now operated by the National Trust. About 350,000 people visit each year. The site includes the house museum, regularly changing art exhibitions, gardens and a river walk. It is a Grade I listed building and next to the house is a fantastic Cafe area.
Mottisfont Abbey has wonderful grounds to complement the house itself. There are areas of wooded shade, a walk along the River Test, enough lawned area for many picnics and magnificent and pungent rose gardens, particularly on early summer evenings. On visiting Mottisfont you will be just as likely to encounter families with small children as you will a coach party or two of tourists. On a summer's day, Mottisfont is a relaxing retreat from the hustle and bustle of the busy city of Southampton and market town of Romsey, both nearby and with their own attractions to occupy your time..
In the summer months they often hold theatre productions outside, and at different times of the year, there are specific trails, mainly but not totally aimed at children, for example at Easter, Halloween, Christmas etc. There are several places around the grounds where you can buy refreshments and drinks, a modern National Trust shop has been built here along with an ice cream parlour and exhibition space. A new Visitor Centre was finally finished in early 2016. If you are walking The Test Way, which passes through Mottisfont and around the Abbey grounds, you will see the main house from the rear as you pass through fields along the northern boundary. While walking along this river walk I managed to see a Grass snake or water snake swimming in the very clear waters of the River Test.
The Black Death struck this initially prosperous priory and so it suffered from the mid - 14th century onwards as many places did when this terrible disease attacked so many people. During the Dissolution of the Monasteries under the then King Henry VIII, the priory was dissolved and the king gave Mottisfont and its grounds to a favoured statesman, Sir William Sandys a Knight of the Garter, who turned it into a country home. Sections of the original medieval church may still be seen, with the later additions built around them. This feels uneasily spooky in here being so old, damp, and a feeling of nostalgia so to speak by being in such a marvellous building that has stood the test of time.
L-R: Deputy Head-teacher of Woolwich Poly Gwen Ward, Teresa, CEO of Trust Thamesmead Mick Hayes, Head-teacher of Windrush Primary School Jo Marchant, Mark Blundell, Centre Manager at The Link Thamesmead and Head-teacher of Discovery Primary School Jane Perry.
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Two of the forty two seats from the Trust Hall. The room was specially designed to accomodate the forty two trustess of the original Clyde Navigation Trust.
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The Crane Trust near Grand Island, Nebraska offers customized prairie and Platte River excursions ranging from bicycling to kayaking to flying.
Free to use with the following attribution: "Courtesy of Grand Island Tourism"
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, 1590-97.
Probably by Robert Smythson (1535-1614).
For Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury - Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608).
Grade l listed.
The High Great Chamber.
The chairs and stools are copies of the originals. They were made in the 6th Duke's time, c1845.
The 6th Duke also re-mounted the great embroidered canopy, bearing the arms of Countess Christian and her husband the 2nd Earl of Devonshire.
This is the most individually Elizabethan room in Hardwick, and the most magnificent. The decoration was not completed until 1599, two years after Bess had moved into the house. The room was designed as a unity, with freeze, tapestry and chimney peace fitted together into a whole glowing with incident and rich colour. The colours have faded and the contrast between the sophistication of the tapestry and the crude but immensely provocative realism of the freeze is less strong that must once have been.
Hardwick was home to Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), one of the most formidable women of Elizabethan England. She was the matriarch of the Cavendish family, building Chatsworth with her second husband and returning to build the two great halls at Hardwick after her separation from her fourth husband the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
On September 3, 2012, I took this photo looking south from St. Pancras Lock towards King's Cross. Behind the wall on the left is the huge King's Cross Central development, where three giant gas holders used to stand, which are currently in storage, and will be re-erected around a new mixed-use development called the Gasholder Triplet. On the right, the abundant greenery is part of Camley Street Natural Park, a wonderful two-acre site created from an old coal yard in 1984, and run by the London Wildlife Trust.
See: www.wildlondon.org.uk/Pages/Category.aspx?IDCategory=4fd5...
For the development, see: www.kingscrosscentral.com/gasholdertriplet
For the gas holders prior to their dismantling, see: www.angelainglis.org/kx2.htm
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
Cliveden (pronounced Klivd'n) is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire. The Italianate mansion, also known as Cliveden House, crowns an outlying ridge of the Chiltern Hills close to the South Bucks villages of Burnham and Taplow. The main house sits 40 metres (130 ft) above the banks of the River Thames, and its grounds slope down to the river. Cliveden has become one of the National Trust's most popular pay-for-entry visitor attractions, hosting 524,807 visitors in 2019.
Cliveden has been the home to a Prince of Wales, two Dukes, an Earl, and finally the Viscounts Astor. As the home of Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the 'Cliveden Set' of the 1920s and 30s—a group of political intellectuals.
Later, during the early 1960s when it was the home of the 3rd Viscount Astor, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo affair.
After the Astor family stopped living there, by the 1970s it was leased to Stanford University, which used it as an overseas campus. Today the house is leased to a company that runs it as a five-star hotel.
Diocese of Phoenix ordains first auxiliary bishop
By Andrew Junker | July 20, 2010 | The Catholic Sun
AVONDALE — Eduardo Alanís Nevares was ordained a bishop July 19 during a three-hour long Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish. He will assist Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and serve the Diocese of Phoenix as its first auxiliary bishop.
“I come with great faith and great trust,” Bishop Nevares said after the Mass. “I’m going to go around preaching the Gospel to everyone.”
The day was historic for the diocese not only because Bishop Nevares is its first auxiliary bishop, but also because he is its first Hispanic bishop. In light of the recent immigration law SB 1070, many have seen the bishop’s appointment as heaven-sent — a fact he alluded to after Mass.
Describing himself as a “bridge person” who can draw people together, Bishop Nevares said the timing of his new assignment is something “providential.”
“I will help Bishop Olmsted,”Bishop Nevares said. “He has asked especially that I animate the Hispanic community and raise up men and women to the priesthood and religious life.”
At the same time, the newly ordained bishop stressed that he will not just be a bishop for Hispanic Catholics.
“He’s here to serve everybody,” said Jose Robles, director of Hispanic Ministry for the diocese.
During the Mass, Bishop Nevares was greeted by a number of different local ethnic groups, including Chinese, Korean, Sudanese, Tongan, Native American and more.
“I must admit that now I know I am not in Tyler,” the bishop joked about his previous diocese in east Texas after the procession ended. “I’ve never been greeted by so many beautiful ethnic groups.”
During his homily, Bishop Olmsted encouraged his new auxiliary to view his office as one of service, not of prestige.
“It is our privilege and our duty to serve and not to be served, to put others’ needs ahead of our own, and to resist all temptations to lord it over anyone,” Bishop Olmsted said.
“This is the example that the Lord Jesus left for us, when he washed the feet of the Apostles, and then said to them, ‘What I just did was to give you an example: as I have done, so you must do,’” he said.
Bishop Olmsted also emphasized the need for a bishop to live without fear, and quoted the famous Polish Cardinal Wyszynski who said, “Lack of courage in a bishop is the beginning of a disaster.”
“It is our honor and privilege, as well as our first obligation, to make known the Gospel of Christ in all its purity and integrity,” he said.
After the homily, Bishop Nevares knelt before Bishop Olmsted while two deacons held the Book of Gospels over his head. Bishop Olmsted then anointed Bishop Nevares’ forehead with oil. Finally, more than 20 visiting bishops — including Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles — laid their hands on the new bishop’s head and prayed for him.
At one part during the Mass, the soon to be ordained bishop lay prostrate in front of the altar while the congregation chanted the Litany of Saints, an emotional and profound moment for him.
“God, here’s my life. It’s for you,” Bishop Nevares described his thoughts during the liturgy.
A number of priests, friends and family from Texas attended the ordination. Bishop Olmsted credited the Nevares family a number of times during Mass for supporting Bishop Nevares’ vocation. He said he looked forward to their future visits to the Valley.
“Nuestra casa es su casa,” the bishop said.
Bishop Nevares’ parents were Mexican immigrants who came to the United States while he was in the womb. Born and raised in Houston, the 11-year-old future bishop was inspired by a visiting missionary who talked of his work in Madagascar.
As a teenager, he attended a junior seminary for the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, into whose order he was ordained a priest in 1981. In 2007, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Tyler, where he had been serving for years.
Known for his outreach to Hispanics, Bishop Nevares formed the area’s first Spanish-speaking program to train men to be permanent deacons.
It’s this reputation that has excited so many local Hispanics since learning of his appointment in Phoenix.
“We have someone like ourselves in this position. We can identify with him,” said Manuel Torres Caballero, a parishioner at St. Martin de Porres. “We feel that also with our Bishop Olmsted, because he speaks Spanish, but with Bishop Nevares, we get something else. I don’t know how to describe it.”
Caballero said it’s a difficult and fraught time for Hispanics locally and Bishop Nevares’ ordination provides some joy and hope.
“We feel hope in a difficult time, joy and happiness,” he said. “We feel supported."
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Chris Gruber, Davidson Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid, is interviewed by CNBC for a feature on the Davidson Trust. View the final video feature here bit.ly/PU1p3u