#old church
Killare
After last Wednesday’s entry about the mausoleum at Fore, County Westmeath (To the Fore « The Irish Aesthete), here is the burial site of another branch of the same family. Located in Killare, this one holds the remains of the Nugents of Ballinacor, a property they acquired in the first half of the 17th century. Although confiscated by the Cromwellian government, Ballinacor was subsequently…
Just Plain Cross
More High Crosses, these ones found in the graveyard of St John’s church in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare. The first stands to the immediate north of the early 19th century church. Standing 3.4 metres high, it is composed of three elements: head, shaft and pyramidal base. Rather than the usual elaborate carving customary on these crosses, it is relatively plain, perhaps because carved from…
All Ornament should Consist of Enrichment
All Ornament should Consist of Enrichment
In October 1962 Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council, summoned in order to initiate aggiornamento (or modernisation) within the Roman Catholic Church. One of the council’s decisions concerned the manner in which religious services were held. During mass, for example, the clergy were to use the local vernacular instead of Latin and the celebrant was to face members of the…
The Drunken Man of Genius
The Drunken Man of Genius
Described by William Butler Yeats as ‘the drunken man of genius’, architect William Alphonsus Scott was mentioned here earlier this year, with regard to his designs for the model village of Talbot’s Inch, County Kilkenny (see An Act of Philanthropy « The Irish Aesthete). Born in 1871, Scott was the son of an architect who established his own practice in Drogheda, County Louth; after finishing at…
Gone but not Forgotten
Gone but not Forgotten
After Wednesday’s post, here is a somewhat larger memorial, found at Cregaclare, County Galway. This little Gothic mausoleum commemorates John Charles Robert Bingham, fourth Baron Clanmorris who lived in nearby Cregaclare House (since demolished) and who died in 1876. Dating from 1890 and set within the ruins of a late-mediaeval church, the mausoleum was erected by Lord Clanmorris’s widow, Sarah…
Here Lieth Intered
For lovers of old funerary monuments: this one now set into the wall of St Mary’s Church in Magheraculmoney, County Fermanagh. The inscription reads as follows:’
Here lieth intered James Johnston late of Banagh Esq.
Who died April 15, 1757 aged 66 Years’
Originally from Scotland, the Johnston family had settled in this part of the country at the start of the 17th century and came to own over…
A Transitional Church
The surviving walls of a church at Derrygonnelly, County Fermanagh. It dates from 1627 when built by Sir John Dunbar, originally from Scotland who had settled in this part of Ireland in the early years of the 17th century; his arms, along with those of his wife Katherine Graham, can be seen on the north side of the building above the doorway. The latter, regularly studded with diamond-cut…
Højerup Church, Denmark.
The first records date back from the year 1250.
In 1928 the church collapsed and fall into the shore, but it has been restored since then, and looks beautiful.
Photos by me.
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The Old Kirk
Grandiose comission for @snikker-doooo!
Their young MC with twin sister.
That’s my first experience with hard background!
Syria | Sednaya
Αγία Σοφία,Μονεμβασιά
“The Agia Sofia church, which is located on the top of the Monemvasia rock, overlooking the Myrtoo Sea.“
Photo by:Theodore Terzopoulos
Tequila Centro - Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico
It’s getting dark at 3pm, but this building is still gorgeous. It’s now a nursing home, wonder how the conversion worked out internally. Regardless it’s a beautiful place to retire.
Adventures of a Fox
I definitely wasn’t slacking off on drawing all month to play Persona 5 nonono. But here’s a fox doing thangs. He’s very busy.
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