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You must go back and this time hide the chimney stacks!
The wooden memorial plaque to Richard Butterwick.Spoiler alert !
There are three carvings of a very small mouse inside Saint Mary's Church in Thirsk, North Yorkshire - where are the other two
… and at the base of the huge candle holder by the altar.The wooden memorial plaque to Richard Butterwick.
A church rising from Bristol's medieval walls
St John's is part of the very fabric of Bristol - it was built into the city walls in the fourteenth century as a place for travellers to offer prayers before a journey. In the twelfth century there were five churches built into Bristol's city walls, acting both as part of the city's defences, and as places for travellers to offer prayers before a journey. St John's is the only one that remains.
As you walk down the slope of Broad Street, the view of the Gothic city gate with the elegant perpendicular spire of St John's rising above, is stunning. The building of St John's coincided with a period of great prosperity for Bristol. Walter Frampton (died 1388), who was mayor of the city three times, founded the church, and his splendid monument stands in the chancel. His effigy lies on a tombchest decorated with heraldic shields, with a long-tailed dog at his feet.
Other monuments in the chancel, and in the early fourteenth century vaulted crypt beneath, testify to the wealth and business activity of the city in medieval times and later. See, for example, the alabaster tomb in the crypt of a merchant and his wife, with their ten children represented in panels below.
The interior of the church is impressively tall and graceful, with fine fittings dating mostly from the seventeenth century. On the north side of the church built into the city wall is a fountain, a branch of a conduit installed to bring water to the Carmelite Friary 700 years ago. It is said that at election times in the past it was sometimes made to run with wine.
Nicely handledAnd a few random images from three Bedfordshire churches that are now in the Church Conservation Trust.
The first : st Mary’s, Lower Gravenhurst
Second: St Margaret Of Antioch, Knotting Green
last: St Deny’s, Little Barford
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Interesting archway feature in #5We spent a week in Scotland recently and stopped at St Conan's Kirk in the village of Loch Awe. Originally built as a Chapel of Ease by the Campbells of Innis Chonan in the 1880s it was extended in the early 1900s. There are three chapels within the Kirk. On a clear day the views from the back of the Kirk is quite spectacular (or so I was assured) but unfortunately it was grey and gloomy on the day we visited
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Actually I meant the architectural design with the columns and archways, which is very interesting and unusual.I take it you're referring to the white "thing"? I've never seen anything like it before and for some reason I didn't get a picture of it from the front
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Ah, okay, yes an interesting part of the Kirk, with granite pillars and beautifully sculpted "Dolphin" chairs.Actually I meant the architectural design with the columns and archways, which is very interesting and unusual.
I guess the 'white thing' is someone's 'creative' idea of something theological ... but then again!