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St Philip's Cathedral in Brum taken on a gloomy day in December 2006. I haven't got any photos of St Chad's, really ought to remedy that one day.  [cotitsalv] Edit: woops, messed that cotitsalv up! Should be OK now. |
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« Reply #61 on: 14:43:18, 28-03-2008 » |
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A very important building for Mr Dough: it was here that his op.1 had its first performance.  |
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This is the Church where my direct ancestors (documented from 1600s) were all baptised, married and buried, St. Georges, Preshute. The tower is 12th century, the rest of the exterior remodelled in 1845.  And here are some of their gravestones dating from 1740 to 1790 - now sadly removed and laid flat due to Health & Safety rules  Two of them were Parish Clerks during the late 1700s  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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It's a shame when they do that to graveyards. They should be wild mysterious places.  (This is Mettingham in Suffolk.) |
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A very important building for Mr Dough: it was here that his op.1 had its first performance. Here Ron?  Didn't have you down as a maestro of the dancefloor beats.  |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #65 on: 15:16:48, 28-03-2008 » |
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Ron, those are some of the most beautifully judged photographs of church buildings I have ever seen. Do feel free to post some more choice items from the 8,000 in the Dough Archive. Would you happen to have photographed St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen? It's one of my favourites north of the border but the pictures on the web don't seem to do it justice at all. Has it had the benefit of the Dough treatment? Just to be going on with:  |
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« Reply #66 on: 15:19:50, 28-03-2008 » |
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No, Andy.  This one: |
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« Reply #67 on: 15:37:57, 28-03-2008 » |
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Why, thank you GG.
I've not taken all that many of kirks or cathedrals hereabouts, though I can see that it may well become one of this year's projects, once it's warmer and brighter simultaneously, rather than one or t'other.
There are a few more that I'll need to search for, mainly from Darn Sarf.
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« Reply #68 on: 17:13:32, 28-03-2008 » |
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Here are the Kelmscott wall paintings I mentioned earlier.  They portray the expulsion from the Garden of Eden - and you can see where the more recent plaster has been stripped back. The picture doesn't really do them justice - standing looking at them, even in their denuded state, seems to bring the medieval period incredibly close. |
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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 #69 on: 19:23:49, 28-03-2008 » |
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All this is making me want to spend the coming weekend pottering about awestruck in old churches. Some years ago an American friend visited the UK for a week or so with the express purpose of 'doing' the major cathedrals of Southern England, about which he'd developed a strange obsession. At the last minute I decided to join him on his tour, largely because I knew many of them and could do the driving. It was fab. We did Winchester, Salisbury, Canterbury, Exeter, Guildford, the Londons, Chichester, Arundel, Wells - and no doubt others I can't remember. But not Snorebens, for some reason.  The great thing is, you can do almost any of them as day trips from a base. And all these places (with the exception of Guildford) have great pubs, too.  |
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We did Winchester, Salisbury, Canterbury, Exeter, Guildford, the Londons, Chichester, Arundel, Wells - and no doubt others I can't remember. But not Snorebens, for some reason. The great thing is, you can do almost any of them as day trips from a base. And all these places (with the exception of Guildford) have great pubs, too.  I'll have you know, Marters, that Snorebens has a 'Cathedral' pub which can boast it's very own historic wall painting. It's not just the Cathedral which has 'em. They're everywhere. Where else offers that, eh? It's a painting of the last scene of Venus and Adonis and is The Only Contemporary Painting Depicting A Work Of Shakespeare In The Whole Known Universe. Put it on the itinerary for next time.   |
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« Reply #71 on: 19:52:06, 28-03-2008 » |
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George, is that really a 'Gammon, Chips and Peas with a grilled tomato for £4.50' sign I see in front? Tsk. Tsk tsk, I say.
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That's England for you. Gammon, chips, peas, historic wall paintings, all in the same place.
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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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'THAT'! martle is an early 16th century wall painting of Gammon, Chips and Peas with a Grilled Tomato, a time when £4.50 was a King's Ransom. I shouldn't be at all surprised if you got a pineapple ring on top as well if you asked the serving wench nicely. [Alternatively: What sign? What apostrophe?] And now back to Kelmscott. That really is a very beautiful thing, PW. I've never been there. It's now on the list. |
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