... I've just arrived back from a week near London. I see no-one has responded to your query (perhaps they got stopped for speeding). There are a number of...
Was this the church destroyed by an arson attack 15 or so years ago John? Best wishes Phil Bristol UK www.churchcrawler.co.uk Owner of ChurchCrawling and...
The other church I visited on Friday was St Paul, Brentwood, Mx TW8 Still has its spire, but inside it is 1990's. This is by Michael Blee Design. A far cry...
All Saints, Isleworth, TW7 More exteriors. There is also a plague pit in the churchyard. -- John Salmon www.saintsilas.org.uk [Non-text portions of this...
What an extraordinary building, John. It reminds me of the fate of my gt grandparents' church in Hunslet (that is to say, they got married there) which started...
To avoid any confusion, can I just point out that in his messages to CC and CP, John has mistakenly typed Brentwood, instead of Brentford, Middlesex. Michael G...
What do you expect them to do? Rebuild it as a 12th C church? Awfully expensive, if possible. If you build a modern church you use modern materials and...
Hi It's not just churches. Lead was recently stolen from the roof of a Tower Hamlets museum, an old Victorian school for poor children, which is preserved as a...
One theory is that gargoyles were supposed to represent the evil spirits that were imagined to inhabit the earth - or perhaps the demons that would torment...
I like these modern churches. Especially the interiors and the entrance of All Saints'. Thanks for sending the organs, John. Marcel. ... From: "John Salmon"...
I agree totally Stanley. I believe that, whatever the real reasons for Gargoyles and Grotesques being produced in the first place, there was a definite element...
I agree.I really liked these two. Not keen on 'from scratch' modern churches, but I found these extremely interesting in the way that they retained parts of...
The interior is dreadful Les. The church was burnt down during WW2. Nothing to do with the war itself though. It was the work of an arsonist. Unfortunately,...
Please would someone translate the part referring to the altarpiece with, I think, dolls on it. http://www.wihcc.nl/index.php?pageId=110&lang=nl Thank you. ...
The section with the altarpiece has this text: Museum Schepenhuis [literal translation: Magistrates' House Museum] The oldest stone city hall of Flanders (pre...
Scroll down the left hand column, there is a choice of 'English version' Naturally having seen the word dolls I went to have a quick look.... Doris><> ...
Very many thanks, Jeremy. ... I was looking for hortus conclusus(es) and a flickr file appeared showing a close up of what was said to be a 'cabinet' made by...
Hello Doris, I missed that facility. But am glad I asked for help, as Jeremy's message has told me far more than the museum site would've done. In the art...
Hello Marion Jo would know more about those kinds of dolls. There are occasionally some beautiful antique baby Jesus dolls listed on ebay. I also found it...
My reference to "evil spirits" was of course in relation to the earlier periods of Christianity, in effect during the Dark Ages and early Medieval period. In...
I can't help you with Hussey, but Rickman should be pretty easy to research: he was one of the first architects to make a systematic study of Gothic...
St George, Tufnell Park Road, Tufnell Park, London N7 Built 1865 by Truefitt. Became a theatre in 1973-6, now being restored for, I believe, the Pentecostals. ...
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