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Looking out from Downhill Demesne and Hezlett House, Castlerock, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
The round arch is the trademark of Roman architecture. This breakthrough design sets it apart from that of its preceptor the Greeks. Here in the Yale University Art Gallery, the oldest college museum in the country, windows of this Romanesque building give purview to the world of antiquity...and the various cultures that shaped dreams and aspirations over the course of human history.
Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.
Across the ocean of roofs I can see a middle-aged woman, her face already lined, who is forever bending over something and who never goes out. Out of her face, her dress, and her gestures, out of practically nothing at all, I have made up this woman's story, or rather legend, and sometimes I tell it to myself and weep.
If it had been an old man I could have made up his just as well.
And I go to bed proud to have lived and to have suffered in some one besides myself.
Perhaps you will say "Are you sure that your story is the real one?" But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?
Windows/Charles Baudelaire ~ Translated/Louise Varèse ('Paris Spleen', New Directions Paperbacks,1970)
Stained glass and purple glass globs on vintage window, wine bottle cut in half using tile wet saw. This also hangs on my from porch.
Poor Kim had to clean the windows of my ' Dancing Lily " studio since alittle birdie told him they were dirty...That's what happens when your creations nest on the window sills.
The Quay Merchant’s Bar of The Star Hotel on Hall Quay in Great Yarmouth
In ABCs and 123s: W is for Window
Sitting on window sill, will probably paint the frame black , hard to get a good photo as it is quite large. Done in recycled window frame.
An echo to another "echo" (the original danish design"
Through the windows of an old deserted hotel in S'Chanf, Engadine, Switzerland The trees in the white part are actually showing through the window of the other side of the hotel... I wanted to get a picture of them but this was the best view of them I could find.
Showing The Council at Jerusalem, surrounded by various other scenes from The Acts of the Apostles.
In memory of Jacob Clements, (1820-98) sometime SubDean at the Cathedral.
Glass by Clayton & Bell.
This window display allowed people to walk up, write their secret, and post it anonymously. Sort of like a Grouphug.us IRL.
I am a BIG fan of window lighting. It softens everything, and adds a warm glow. Here, there are 3 different windows one looks through.
Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is unusual as an English county in having not one but two major medieval cathedrals, and unique in that neither is in the county town. Peterborough Cathedral's setting in the heart of the busy city is quite different to that of its neighbour Ely Cathedral, which dominates a small, beautiful market town. There is something special about stepping out of Peterborough's Bridge Street, with its department stores, and Cathedral Square, with its chain restaurants, into the peaceful precinct below the superb Early English west front, a match for the spectacular frontages of both Wells and Lincoln.
Peterborough cathedral is dedicated as the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and these Saints images appear in statue and stained glass form several times. Originally the church of a Benedictine Abbey, the current structure was begun in the spring of 1118, and was largely complete by about 1250. The vast wooden roof of the nave is, amazingly, the original, one of only four such roofs in Europe. The fire of 22nd November 2001 came within minutes of destroying it. As it was, the painstaking and expensive process of cleaning the roof, which had just been completed, had to be immediately repeated. The most spectacular part of the cathedral is not Early English at all, but the late medieval retrochoir with its fan-vaulting of 1496-1508, by John Wastell who used the same trick at Kings College Chapel across the Fen in Cambridge.
That Cambridgeshire can claim Peterborough Cathedral is an accident of history, of course, because Peterborough only became a part of the much enlarged county of Cambridgeshire in 1974. In fact, almost all of the county of Cambridgeshire is in the Diocese of Ely, including much of the city of Peterborough. All of the city south and east of the River Nene is in the Diocese of Ely, not Peterborough. And yet, the Cathedral close has a frontage that is almost on the Nene. Because of this, Peterborough Cathedral is closer to the edge of its Diocese than any other English cathedral, including both St Paul's Cathedral and Southwark Cathedral, separated as they are by just a few hundred yards and the River Thames.
North nave window at Burton Hastings, installed in 2001 and designed by local artist Roger Fifield.
Fifiled's work makes a very attractive contemporary adition to this ancient building, and is beautifully painted and stylised, echoing his earliest work from the 1960s, without looking backwards.
The subject appears to be a celebration of village life, with various landmark buildings and elements of the village featured without any obvious religious theme (beyond the small dove in the tracery light above).
This formula for stained glass seems to be popular with certain congregations, who prefer to commemorate 'down-to-earth' subjects of mainly local, secular relevance, than convey a spiritual message. The artist is then given a 'shopping list' of relevant features to include in the design at all cost!