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Tag Archives: Norman architecture
Little gems – All Saints, Burton Dassett III
The paintings of the north transept with their beheaded saint and crowned figures would have been enough and well worth the visit. On this wall alone there are layers of decative themes, from figures to foliage, curlicues and stars. There … Continue reading
Posted in Art, mankind, Spirituality
Tagged ancient sites, art, churches, England, English saints, history, medieval church, medieval wall paintings, Norman architecture, painting, Photography, sacred sites, travel, warwickshire
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Little gems – All Saints, Burton Dassett II
There is a calm, clean feeling to the church of All Saints in Burton Dassett. It isn’t just the limewashed walls or the plain glass in the windows… not the stone flagged floor or the mefdieval tiles. It is something … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Sacred sites
Tagged ancient sites, art, churches, England, English saints, history, medieval church, medieval wall paintings, Norman architecture, painting, travel, warwickshire
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Little gems – All Saints, Burton Dassett I
Frankly, this is another where I don’t know where to begin. I suppose I ought to begin at the beginning. Monday I was back from the north, Tuesday I was driving northwards again… not as far this time, just an … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient sites, Art, Churches, England, History, painting, Photography, travel
Tagged English saints, medieval church, medieval wall paintings, Norman architecture, warwickshire
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A country church
If the only way I can get out and play at the moment is to revisit old haunts, then so be it, Four years ago, I stumbled across a little gem of a church… very unexpectedly… For once, I had … Continue reading
Discovering Albion – day 7: St Andrews… the Abbey
We didn’t go to the Roman Catholic Cathedral where the relics of St Andrew are now housed. We were here to see the ancient places where they had once been… lost now to time, buried perhaps somewhere in the vast … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, Ancient sites, Photography, scotland road trip, travel
Tagged Abbey, cathedral, celtic cross, Norman architecture, Robert the Bruce, St Andrew, St Rule
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On the Doorstep ~ Opening Doors
As we could not, due to COVID, gain access to visit Holy Trinity at Bledlow on our recent sortie, I will tell you about our previous visit… what we found… and what we missed… The door that has served Holy … Continue reading
Going West – The Kilpeck Corbels
Kilpeck’s bellcote reminded me of the first church we had visited, where our adventures had begun, though this one is a nineteenth century addition, carved and decorated in keeping with the rest of the building; restorations have been gentle here. … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Egypt, Ancient sites, Art, Churches, Don and Wen, Goddess, Grief, History, mystery, Photography, Sacred sites, Wales
Tagged carvings, Norman architecture, sheela na gig, symbolism
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Going West – An Extraordinary Place
“What are those? ” The bumps in the fields as we drove down the narrow lane looked suspiciously like the remnants of early occupation. “They look like earthworks…” It would make sense, the little church we were heading for was … Continue reading
Posted in ancient mound, Ancient sites, Art, Churches, Don and Wen, History, Photography, Wales
Tagged carvings, conical mound, Kilpeck church, Norman architecture, norman church, Silbury
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IndieAni Bones and the Squeaky Hobbit
It was the day they took me looking for the Ent and the Thunder Stone… they’d promised me three sites and they only ended up finding two. That’s all well and good, ‘cause it means we’ll have to trot back … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, albion, Art, Churches, Dogs, Don and Wen, Photography
Tagged Enstone, mosaic, Norman architecture, St Kenelm, stained glass, symbolism
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A Thousand Miles of History XXXVII: Toeing the Line
One of our main aims in taking the Cornwall trip, quite apart from the sheer beauty of the place and the fact that it is strewn with more ancient and sacred places than you could visit in a lifetime, had … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, albion, Ancestors, Ancient sites, archaeology, Books, Photography, road trip, travel
Tagged Cornwall, dragon lines, Knights Hosptaller, ley, Michael and Mary Line, Norman architecture, St Cleer
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