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From the visitpewseyvale.co.uk website:
“This “Victorian gem” of a church serves a scattered community in Savernake Forest.
“It was built in 1861 by the Marchioness of Ailesbury in memory of her mother, to serve the family estate and their household in Tottenham House.
“The church was severely damaged in an accidental explosion at the end of the Second World War, and was restored to use in 1952 by sealing in the arches of the north aisle, which is now a pleasant meeting room.”
The church is in a beautifully quiet location, almost 3 km from the nearest settlement, Great Bedwyn. It has a parish primary school next door and a faithful congregation, with services being held every Sunday.
This is the other side of the screen I showed you in my first upload today. The light is more subdued because the direct sunlight which we saw in my previous photograph was almost completely shaded from this beautiful wall. Now this is a place to lift your spirits!
I mentioned today that I believe the influence of Muslim architecture is present here. The screen in particular is quite a move away from the typical Gothic revival arches of the Victoria era. This is no Alhambra, but you get a similar sense of sacredness of space. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra
I wish we could recapture the vision that once existed in Andalusia, when under Moorish rule, Muslims, Jews and Christians created a beautiful expression of a tolerant world. It began in 750 and ended in 1492. While Christopher Columbus was claiming the Americas for the Spanish crown, Jews and the Moors were being driven out of Spain by the Catholics from the north.
This beautiful and tragic story is magnificently told by historian Maria Rosa Menocal in her book aptly named, "The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain" (Back Bay Books, 2002).
This exciting book has now been made into a superb film. theornamentoftheworld.com/
Here is a short preview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaodAP-i-sg
One of my favorite Victorian homes on Carroll Ave. in Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA.
From the L.A. Conservancy website: This remarkable home was designed by architect Joseph Cather Newsom. Built in 1889, it features complex textures and shapes, as well as a pair of carved bearded dogs guarding the front steps.
297 Pine Street
Built for Emma Kirkland, widow of Dr. Archibald Sinclair Kirkland, this home was one of many constructed during a local building boom.Later owner included Clare Trott, an undertaker and member of Collingwood’s venerable furniture manufacturing family. The house is one of several “Trott houses”.
Born in Scotland in 1845 to Samuel Kirkland and Isabella McLachlan. Archibald Sinclair /St Clair/ Kirkland married Emma Louisa Watson and had 6 children. He passed away in 1905 in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.
I found out that Archibald is somehow related to my ex-husband, through a line that goes back to the Czech Republic to Hungary to Austria and forward to Ireland to Australia to the USA to Canada.
The other two houses: Stoutenburg Houses 1904
291/293 Pine Street
Local sawmill owner Peter Stoutenburg built this multi-unit dwelling to provide a home for two of his many daughters.
Peter Stoutenburg is my very very distant relative, through a line that goes back from Brazil, to Madeira Island (Portugal) to Brugges (Belgium) and forward to France to England to Canada.
I wasn't looking for our relationships, I was only looking for information on the guys. But GENI kindly gave me them. Isn't it amazing that a site does that for you without been asked?
Now abandoned, the "East House" or Century Manor was a grand three story mansion built in the 1800's and a part of the Hamilton Asylum for the Insane.
Fall is here at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.
The house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter, an architect from New York City. When it was being built, the Hartford Daily Times noted, "The novelty displayed in the architecture of the building, the oddity of its internal arrangement and the fame of its owner will all conspire to make it a house of note for a long time to come."
What was once the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard’s headquarters and drawing office now hosts the Titanic Hotel. The entire White Star Line fleet was designed in this collection of buildings and constructed on the slipways outside, including the legendary liners Olympic, Titanic and Oceanic and naval warship HMS Belfast. The drawing offices, with their three-storey high barrel-vaulted ceilings, are the only surviving example of this type of shipyard architecture in the world, and were built between 1886 and 1917.
The buildings were empty after 1989, although occasionally used as a shooting location for television programmes. The Titanic Hotel opened on the site in 2017, and was initially a great success, although like much else its future must be threatened by the coronavirus crisis.
When I first saw this beautiful building my first reaction was that it was the village school. But in fact it is the village hall. However, I wasn't far out. The Grade II-listed building, which is located in the heart of the old village adjacent to the church, was established in 1864 as the original Sywell village school. The former Master's house is on the right. A tablet on the wall records, "This school house was erected under the care, and at the expense of the good Lady Overstone by whom also the village of Sywell was rebuilt AD 1860-64".
After the school had relocated, and following a refurbishment programme, the building became used by the community as a village hall in the 1980s. Apparently it has served the village well.
378 Deansgate, Manchester, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Steam locomotive 43106, the Flying Pig, on Victoria Bridge with a Severn Valley Railway Footplate Experience train on the morning of Friday 26th August 2016. The river had risen quite a bit after overnight rain. The train was heading northwards from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth at about 10.10 a.m.
A vintage late 1800s home in the West Adams Historical district of University Park in Los Angeles, CA.
Shot from the ferry from Belfast as it was about to dock at Birkenhead, Liverpool Cathedral towers above the buildings of the Royal Albert Dock on the River Mersey. The distance to the Cathedral is about 2.5 kilometres.
Liverpool Cathedral is the Cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool, built on St James’s Mount. This totemic example of 20th Century church architecture is the largest cathedral and religious building in Britain, and the eighth largest church in the world.
The cathedral is based on a design by Giles Gilbert Scott and was constructed between 1904 and 1978, and was eventually completed to a much simpler design for the west front than in Scott’s original plans. The total external length of the building, including the Lady Chapel is 189 metres, making it the longest cathedral in the world; its internal length is 150 metres. In terms of overall volume, Liverpool Cathedral ranks as the fifth-largest cathedral in the world and contests with the incomplete Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City for the title of largest Anglican church building. With a height of 101 metres it is also one of the world’s tallest non-spired church buildings and the third-tallest structure in the city of Liverpool. The cathedral is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, as one might expect. Public worship takes place in the cathedral every day.
The Royal Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. As a result, it was the first non-combustible warehouse system in the world. The Dock was already struggling with declining traffic as early as 1870, however, and after decades of financial struggles and serious bomb damage during World War Two, in 1972 the dock was finally closed. Having lain derelict for nearly ten years, the redevelopment of the dock began in 1981, when the Merseyside Development Corporation was set up, with the Albert Dock being officially re-opened in 1984 as a shopping and later also entertainment complex. Today the Royal Albert Dock is a major tourist attraction in the city and the most visited multi-use attraction in the United Kingdom, outside London.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Westcott House, a theological college training men and women as priests in the Church of England, is a smorgasbord of Grade II listed buildings built between 1899-1929 with work by Hartwell Simpson, Grayson and Ould, Temple Moore. The scene is overlooked by GF Bodley's 1860s All Saints Church, which is no longer an active place of worship but looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust.
Tower Bridge in London on a beautiful July day. Photos taken with my Samsung phone camera from Butlers Wharf looking back into central London. London remains heavily effected by lack of tourists due to Covid-19
Olive green to be exact . . .
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera with a Kowa 1:4/40mm lens and Asahi Pentax ø100 Skylight filter + adapter using Kodak Portra 160 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Dating to 1878, these towers were once the ornate entrance to Withernsea Pier. The pier kept getting hit by boats and it was finally removed in 1905. East Yorkshire, UK
The tower of St Nicholas Cathedral next to St Nicholas' Chambers, an 1881 red brick building named for the cathedral about which I can sadly find little more information.
This area is known as Amen Corner.
The Cathedral Church of St Nicholas is the seat of the Church of England Bishop of Newcastle. Founded in 1091 during the same period as the nearby castle, the Norman church was destroyed by fire in 1216 and the current building was completed in 1350, so is mostly of the Perpendicular style of the 14th century. Its tower is noted for its 15th-century lantern spire. Heavily restored in 1777, the building was raised to cathedral status in 1882, when it became known as the Cathedral Church of St Nicholas.
This description incorporates text from the English WIkipedia.
This old eye infirmary must be one of the best examples of Victorian architecture to survive the bombing of Plymouth during WW2
These buildings are in one of the oldest residential areas of Launceston. If you can imagine taking away all the modern innovations from powerlines to the cars and paved road, this scene looks much like it would have in the 1860s. Perhaps with the addition of a few horses and carriages.
York Mansions, which we see in the centre of this picture, was built in 1840, making it one of the oldest existing residential buildings in the city.
Kingsbury Street in the Wiltshire market town of Marlborough - Georgian houses left and in front, the Victorian town hall on the right, the medieval parish church of St Mary's overlooking the scene.
Designed by Jesse Hartley, Stanley Dock opened on 4 August 1848. The dock is the only one in Liverpool which was built inland, all the others being built out from the foreshore. The original quay warehouses are of a similar design to those at Albert Dock and are grade II* listed buildings. The warehouses were built to five storeys, covering an area of 12,000 sq yd (10,000 m2). Between 1897-1901, the southern part of the dock was filled in to build the large Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse by Anthony George Lyster. The northern warehouse has since been developed in to a hotel devoted to the White Star Line's RMS Titanic liner, which has strong links to the area's history of docks and shipping.
A lone, lost traveler in the vortex of the vanishing point at St. Pancras Station in London. Like the marriage of contemporary and Victorian with a morning sun casting great shadows
Looking back down towards St Davids Cathedral, in the city of St Davids (Pembrokeshire, in southwesternmost Wales), on a morning in late October 2024.
The cathedral, known in Welsh as Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, is located on the site of a monastic community established during the 6th century by Dewi Sant – the Welsh name of St David – who became the patron saint of Wales. Unlike many such churches, instead of being on a prominent height, it is tucked into a hollow, which would have made it less visible from the nearby sea, providing some (although not sufficient) protection from Viking raids and other piracy during the early medieval period. The local stone is a characteristic grey with pink-to-purple tints.
Bishop Peter de Leia began the construction of the current building in 1181, during the reign of Henry II. By then, the place had official papal privilege as an important pilgrimage destination. Repairs, redesign, and expansion continued through 1540, but pillaging and destruction resulted from periods of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the (so-called “English”) Civil War. Noted church architect George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) restored most of the building, including a redesigned tower; the building and its decorations thus incorporate Victorian elements. St Davids continues to be active as an Anglican cathedral as well as a historic site welcoming visitors.
The cathedral city of St Davids (also spelled St David’s, based on the Welsh Tyddewi, or House of David) has the official status of a city, the UK’s smallest city by population and urban area, even though its size corresponds to that of many a large village. In addition to the cathedral and other listed historic structures, the Oriel y Parc Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Visitor Centre is located in St Davids. Some of the Park’s varied landscapes are visible in the background.
(Historical information from panels in the cathedral church as well as the official website of St Davids Cathedral and Wikipedia, both last consulted 24 December 2024).
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George Prentiss was a wealthy lumberman and landowner. The neighborhood went into decline during the Great Depression, but by the 1960s it was on the rise as the first designated historic district in Detroit.
Beau Sejour, a farmhouse-style dwelling constructed in 1870 on the island of Sark. It is currently a guesthouse.
Originally called Accomac Station, Tasley was established when the RR came through in 1884 and a station. It was the first town in the Accomack County to have an electric power plant and a paved road, and it had the first volunteer fire company as well. The town began to decline when the RR ceased serving passenger traffic in 1958, a decline continued when a US Route 13 bypass was built (US 13 originally went straight through Tasley). In 2020, there were 222 reidents in Tasley.
It's the first day of December, so it is time to put up some festive cheer!
This beautiful and tall Christmas tree, decked out in beautiful gold and silver baubles stands in Melbourne's Royal Arcade.
Let the festive season begin!
Built between1869 and 1870, the Royal Arcade, designed by Charles Webb (1821 - 1898) has acted as an opulent shopping hub in Melbourne's city centre since it was first opened by Melbourne's Lord Mayor of the time, Charles Amess.
As one of Melbourne's most beautiful arcades, the Royal Arcade is built in a classical Renaissance Revival style featuring Baroque elements to demark the main entrance of the arcade on the facade itself. The glass feature also serves to allow light from the street into the arcade, adding to its brilliance. Pillasters and aedicules make a fine composition, with a coat of arms forming the central feature of a balustraded roofline.
Originally running between Bourke Street, Little Collins Street, the Royal Arcade has always been a place for elegant shopping expeditions for Melburnians with money to spend. In 1902, a decision was made to link the arcade to Elizabeth street, so an annex was added, allowing for the opening of further businesses and a throughway to Elizabeth street from the arcade.
Around this time it was also used for luncheon concerts, where shoppers and music lovers alike could sit beneath its glassed in roof and enjoy the entertainment. Today it houses some of the most well-known and beautiful shops in Melbourne.
Charles Webb also designed Melbourne landmarks such as the Church of Christ on Swanston Street in 1863, Burlington Terrace in East Melbourne in 1866, Mandeville Hall in Toorak in 1868, and the Grand Hotel (now known as the Windsor Hotel) in 1883.
19th Century glasshouses were popular throughout California's early history. The Conservatory of Flowers is the oldest surviving municipal wood and glass greenhouse in the United States with the central dome of this elaborate Victorian architecture rising close to 60 feet. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake did little damage to the elegant structure and its white countenance is something to behold as it sits overlooking Conservatory Valley.
If you have some spare cash (and lots of it these days) you can restore this house to its former glory. Mind you, whatever it costs to buy this property, you'll have to spend equally as much in the restoration.
P.S. As someone who doesn't own a smart phone and prefers to leave the world behind on my walks, I'm always fascinated to observe that 98% of people can't walk without looking at their device. Perhaps its a fear this world will leave them behind if they do. I look at it the other way. This is merely a world of convenience. The way to peace lies inwards. As C.S. Lewis wrote in the final book of his Narnia Chronicles, "Further up, and further in." That requires reflection, and some inner restoration..
1 Park Villas is one half of an oddly shaped semi-detached house on New Park Road in Devizes town centre. Sold for only £165,000 in 2021, to my surprise - I suppose it needed a lot of work and probably difficult parking too. It is unlisted, perhaps surprisingly as a stone relief on number 2 indicates the date of construction is 1851.