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Funny, George. It seems like only yesterday.  Ron - magnificent! One of your photos, I take it? |
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« Reply #46 on: 12:40:31, 28-03-2008 » |
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And now a popular concert venue where you can enjoy local choirs and orchestras in an evening of reverberation  The story goes that St Bart's had the highest free-standing nave of any church in England - it was the brainchild of a rich and eccentric High Anglican priest, the Rev Arthur Wagner (no, I'm not making this up) who was determined that it should be taller than Westminster Abbey. Local tradition also has it that its dimensions were intended to match those of Noah's Ark. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #47 on: 12:42:17, 28-03-2008 » |
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Ron, if the rain wasn't pelting down and, er, if the church was a little nearer, I'd be heading off to investigate it now. There's some lovely features there, inside and out. Beautiful simplicity in the Chancel and Apse.
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« Reply #48 on: 12:46:44, 28-03-2008 » |
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Yes indeedy, martle, it's another Ron picture. I'm looking for more: there's one I particularly want to post, but there are over 31000 photos on this computer and I'm not convinced it's actually here: certainly not in the 8000 or so I've checked so far this morning.  |
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« Reply #49 on: 13:00:21, 28-03-2008 » |
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Liverpool, always over the top, has massive turn-of-the-century (1903) Edwardian Gothic at one end of Hope Street, and Paddy's Wigwam, 1960s concrete, at the other.   The latter has some wonderful John Piper glass. Difficult to get the right impression from a photo.  I love this thread, and don't want to have to tear myself away occasionally to do something else. I've so enjoyed all your pictures. |
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« Reply #50 on: 13:06:12, 28-03-2008 » |
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Well for me it's off to Lichfield tomorrow to do visiting choir duty - first time I'll have been there. Music list (currently only includes Saturday) here. The Feast of the Annunciation has been translated to Monday (since it cannot fall in Easter Week), so Sunday's evensong includes Grieg Ave Maris Stella, Bruckner Ave Maria and Stanford Mag for unaccompanied double choir in Bb. Sunday morning will be a bit of a shout since it includes (some of the) Langlais Mass, and Widor's Surexit a mortuis, which may prove a bit of a struggle sicne we'll be losing an hour overnight. |
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« Reply #51 on: 13:24:10, 28-03-2008 » |
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Still haven't found the one I'm searching for, but here's one from earlier this year, right next to the copse of snowdrops at Welford in Berks. Round-towered churches aren't that common away from East Anglia. |
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« Reply #52 on: 13:43:09, 28-03-2008 » |
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Liverpool, always over the top, has massive turn-of-the-century (1903) Edwardian Gothic at one end of Hope Street, and Paddy's Wigwam, 1960s concrete, at the other.
Well, if you call that ott, Mary, what about the edifice that was originally proposed to cover what is now the Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt? http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/cathedral/history/design.asp |
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« Reply #53 on: 13:48:54, 28-03-2008 » |
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All this is making me want to spend the coming weekend pottering about awestruck in old churches. I shall be going in a Norwichly direction the following weekend however.
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« Reply #54 on: 14:00:31, 28-03-2008 » |
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I too am thoroughly enjoying this thread. That's really funny, I was talking to someone last weekend about that site that had been mentioned here ages ago, Mary, but had totally forgotten its name, and I had resolved to trawl through R3OK to to track it down, so thanks for the brilliantly timed re-mention. I remember (I hope not off-topically) a while ago, Don B talking of the contrast how, even in a busy city with all the sounds of traffic audible, he could walk into to a church and be aware of the silence of the space inside. I bring it up again just because I thought it was a wonderful comment. |
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« Reply #55 on: 14:09:03, 28-03-2008 » |
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The church of "St Flares" in Broad Street, Birmingham in 2004. Think it's still called Flares but can't find what it was called when it was a church.  [cotitsalv] |
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« Reply #56 on: 14:13:57, 28-03-2008 » |
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That looks very familiar, Andy. Is it just round the corner from the CBSO Centre??
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #57 on: 14:29:36, 28-03-2008 » |
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Ah, here we are; St. Botolph's at Swyncombe in the Chilterns: I have earlier pictures on film which show the painting inside, but it was locked this time, so I've had to rely on an external site to give a monochrome glimpse of its interior. If the view seems familiar, it may be because it has been used occasionally as a location for films: one of Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence movies ( The Rainbow, IIRC) had a wedding sequence shot there.  Detail of inside view here. |
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« Reply #58 on: 14:30:15, 28-03-2008 » |
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This is not the best photograph but I can't seem to find any others of the interior. Hampstead Parish Church. I have a rather soft spot for it - the interior (when you can see it) is rather lovely, although Georgian is not my favourite architectural style. I've been to christenings, weddings (including my own), funerals and recitals there. There's a lovely churchyard with a woodland feel and some very interesting 'residents', Constable and family are probably the best known, although a singer in the first performance of Haydn's Creation is there somewhere.  |
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« Reply #59 on: 14:30:55, 28-03-2008 » |
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That looks very familiar, Andy. Is it just round the corner from the CBSO Centre??
Correct tinners! It's almost directly opposite the end of Berkley St where the CBSO Centre is. |
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