25 Friday Nov 2016
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Bradford Cathedral, Cathedrals, church, Church of England., Churches, St Hilda of Whitby, stained glass., window, windows
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Church Gazette.
03 Thursday Nov 2016
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Cathedrals, glass, Gloucester Cathedral, Jesus Christ., Madonna and Child, St Mary, stained glass., The Blessed Virgin Mother
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Church Gazette.
01 Sunday Mar 2015
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Adam, Adam and Eve, apple, Beverley, Cathedrals, Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, Garden of Eden, Genesis, Lincoln Cathedral, stone carving, temptation, West Front Lincoln Cathedral
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Church Gazette.
01 Sunday Mar 2015
Posted in Church Gazette.
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Bishop Remigius, Cathedrals, Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, Lincoln Cathedral, medieval, Medieval England, Middle Ages, Norman, Romanesque, stone, stone carving, West Front Lincoln Cathedral
According to “Harris’s Guide to Churches & Cathedrals“, “The West front was built 1075 – 92 by Bishop Remigius and has been partially covered by a later Gothic screen”. Lincoln Cathedral’s website informs me that Bishop Remigius was a Benedictine monk and the first Norman Bishop of Lincoln, the largest Diocese in Medieval England.
15 Sunday Feb 2015
Posted in Church Gazette.
15 Sunday Feb 2015
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Bury St Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, Cathedrals, Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, Miriam, Music, stained glass., The Bible, window
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Church Gazette.
23 Friday Jan 2015
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architecture, Cathedrals, Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, dark, dog walkers, Gothic, Gothic architure, light, Minstergate York, snow, York, York Minster
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Photo Archive.
22 Thursday Jan 2015
Posted in Souvenirs.
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bag, Biblical quotes, Cathedrals, Church architecture, Churches, Jeremiah, Jeremiah 1:9, paper bag, Souvenirs, The Bible, The Winchester Bible, Winchester, Winchester Cathedral
The bag.
This is a surprisingly interesting paper bag (honestly). The illuminated manuscript letter W in the centre takes its inspiration from The Winchester Bible, “the largest and perhaps finest of all surviving 12th-century English bibles“. I believe the two figures entwined within the letter depict God addressing Jeremiah and giving him the gift of prophecy:
“Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth“. Jeremiah 1:9.
In the original the two figures are much closer together, with God actually touching the lips of Jeremiah inside an illuminated letter, which you can see if you follow the link above.
10 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Church Gazette.
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alcoves, architecture, Cathedrals, Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, cloister, fan vaulting, Gloucester, Gloucester Cathedral, Gothic Architecture, Monastries, Monks, niches, stone carving
The eighteenth point of interest relating to Gloucester Cathedral in Harris’s “Guide To Churches & Cathedrals” reads, “On the North side of the nave (an unusual position) are the beautiful fan-vaulted cloisters, which were built from c.1360 onwards, commencing with the east cloister walk. These are the oldest fan-vaulted roofs in existence. Notice the 20 alcoves where monks sat to read and write and the places where they washed, with miniature fan vaulting above“. Batsford and Fry in their book “The Cathedrals of England” describe the cloisters as “the finest in England” and they refer to the alcoves as the Carrels or Study-Niches.
07 Wednesday Jan 2015
Posted in Church Gazette.
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Cathedrals, Church architecture, Churches, Madonna and Child, St Mary, The Blessed Virgin Mother, Winchester, Winchester Cathedral
The remains of this charming Madonna and Child can be found in The Triforium Gallery.
The Antics Roadshow blog 