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Flow of the Ebb Tide

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:21 +0000

North Pier St. Andrews Harbour (1 x PiP)

The North Pier is a classic example of Scottish vernacular harbour work. It comprises a pier of rubble construction, with a substantial bulwark on its seaward face, to protect the wide quay from overtopping seas in heavy weather. The course of the pier is somewhat crooked, reflecting the strategy of the builders to construct it from strong point to strong point along the natural rock skerry which forms its foundation. The dry-stone, rubble construction of this pier gives it great character and the surfaces reveal many examples of repairs to the pier, using a variety of different strategies for placing the stones. The outer, seaward face of this pier contains in places re-used stone with rolled moulded margins, presumably coming from the ruined castle or cathedral in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The North Pier has a number of important features along is length, including cyclopean stone mooring pawls, stone stairs leading to the bulwark and a stone slipway in the harbour where the pier joins the Shorehead quay. The outer, seaward end of the North pier is of 19th and 20th century date, reflecting efforts to improve the access to the harbour in heavy weather.It is of typical Victorian and later cement construction, much more rectilinear than the earlier work at the shoreward end. This later extension is fitted with cast-iron mooring pawls.

(Source: St. Andrews Harbour Trust)

18th/20th Century Demarcation Line

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:29:47 +0000

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North Pier St. Andrews Harbour

The outer, seaward end of the North Pier is of 19th and 20th century date, reflecting efforts to improve the access to the harbour in heavy weather. It is of typical Victorian and later cement construction, much more rectilinear than the earlier work at the shoreward end. This later extension is fitted with cast-iron mooring pawls.

(Source: St. Andrews Harbour Trust)

Lifesaver

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:35:00 +0000

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North Pier St. Andrews Harbour, Fife - Scotland

Medieval art in wood and stone

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 12:24:46 +0000

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Saint Mary's Church, Beverly - East Yorkshire

View east from the West Front & Nave towards North Transept and Presbytery

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:15:18 +0000

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Much of the nave of the Abbey collapsed in 1762, although enough remains standing to demonstrate its scale and plan. This Gothic building replaced an earlier Romanesque nave from the early 12th century. The north wall of the nave (shown here) has three simple 13th century lancet windows, the two remaining windows date from the 14th century and are much larger with elaborate tracery.

The nave at Whitby is not exactly aligned with the presbytery and transepts, in fact, it is misaligned by about four degrees. There is no parallel to this in any other major English medieval church.

Autumn walk by Helmsley Castle - North Yorkshire

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:40:34 +0000

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This path completes a loop around the outer defences of Helmsly Castle.

West Tower interior - Helmsley Castle (2 x PiPs)

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 06:28:59 +0000

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When first built, it comprised a basement with two floors above, providing views over the extensive parkland to the west and south. In the 14th century the tower was heightened, another floor being added. A third floor was added in the 16th century, and at the same time new windows and fireplaces were inserted. The rooms were probably divided subdivided into at least two chambers per floor.

In the 14th century the tower was heightened, another floor being added. A third floor was added in the 16th century, and at the same time new windows and fireplaces were inserted. A latrine was inserted on each floor in the southern corner. A doorway in the west corner led onto the curtain wall at the second-floor level. The third floor was added in the 16th century, and at the same time new windows and fireplaces were inserted. The fireplaces blocking the 14th century windows in the southwest wall.

Elizabethan era fireplace (AD 1582) Helmsley Castle (1 x PiP)

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:41:56 +0000

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The impressive Elizabethan fireplace is decorated with polygonal panels with knots and roses.

Basement of the West Tower - Helmsley Castle

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:05:00 +0000

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The basement which was used for storage has a window in the southwest wall overlooking the wall and ditch. This window has seats, and there are peacocks and the de Ros emblem carved at either end of the window arch. These date from around 1300, when the castle was enlarged. This impressive window suggests that an accounting officer might have worked here, taking advantage of the natural daylight, when auditing goods as they came and went.

In the ceiling of the basement can be seen the impression of hazel wicker shuttering, the framed used to support the plaster between the vault ribs.

Autumn by the Drygrange Old Bridge, Scottish Boarders

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:47:38 +0000

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The Drygrange Old Bridge is a disused road bridge over the River Tweed near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.

It was built between 1776 and 1780 to a design by Scottish architect and engineer Alexander Stevens. It replaced a ferry as part of an improvement to a turnpike road. It was listed as a Category A listed building in 1970.

It carried the A68 over the Tweed until 1974 when it was replaced by a box girder bridge to the east, engineered by Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners.The old bridge is not open to vehicles, but can be crossed by pedestrians and bicycles.

The Old Bridge has a central span of 105 feet (32 m), with two side spans of 55 feet (17 m), and a smaller arch in the south abutment. The central arch has a rise of 34 feet (10 m).The rounded cutwaters are carried up to the level of the roadway and are topped with angular pedestrian refuges.

Hollow spandrels reduce the weight of the structure, an innovation by Thomas Telford. The bridge has been modified by raising the level of the roadway on the approaches to make it more level, but the level of the original roadway can be seen in the string course on the exterior of the bridge.

It is near to the Roman settlement of Trimontium, which is to the south-west of the viaduct. To the west of the bridge is the Leaderfoot Viaduct, a disused railway viaduct, and to the east of the Old Bridge is its modern successor. This group of three bridges is sometimes known as Tripontium.

(Would certainly have passed over this bridge in a car in the 60's/70's)

Ancient cruciform font at Panagia Ekatontapiliani in Parikia

nobody@ipernity.com (John Sheldon) — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:23:37 +0000

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Parikia is the main town in the island of Paros in the Cyclades. The church in which this ancient font is preserved is one of the most important Christian monuments in Greece.
The original church was constructed in the 4th century A.D. Many reformations were performed through centuries and today the church is a complex of Paleochristian, Byzantine and post-Byzantine elements. The name Ekatontapiliani means 'the Church with the hundred doors'. According to tradition, the church has 99 doors and a secret door will open when the church of Hagia Sofia in Constantinople becomes Orthodox Christian again.
The ancient Baptistery in which the cruciform font is situated dates back to the 4th century. It is said to be the most ancient and the best preserved baptistery of the orthodox Christian East. It was, obviously, designed for the use of adults wishing to be baptised as Christians.

The Palace of Marco Sanudo

nobody@ipernity.com (John Sheldon) — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:16:54 +0000

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The Palace of Marco Sanudo, the Venetian conqueror of Naxos.
Marco Sanudo captured the entire island of Naxos as well as other Cycladic islands by 1209 and pronounced himself as the Duke of the Archipelago in 1210. Naxos (Chora) was his chosen capital city.

All Saints Church, Wykeham, North Yorkshire

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Sun, 27 May 2018 18:37:39 +0000

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Built by William Butterfield in 1853 All Saints Church is in the medieval style of the late 13th century. It is unusual in as much as the Tower, dedicated to St Helen, stands separated from the church. This was part of the older 14th century tower of an earlier medieval church. The spire was added by Butterfield and the tower is effectively a majestic gateway to the present Victorian church.

Arches, towers and walls, St Andrews Cathedral Ruins, Fife, Scotland

nobody@ipernity.com (Doug Shepherd) — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 19:14:14 +0000

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The Cathedral of St Andrew (often referred to as St Andrews Cathedral) is a ruined Roman Catholic cathedral in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It was built in 1158 and became the centre of the Medieval Catholic Church in Scotland as the seat of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and the Bishops and Archbishops of St Andrews. It fell into disuse and ruin after Catholic mass was outlawed during the 16th-century Scottish Reformation. It is currently a monument in the custody of Historic Scotland. The ruins indicate that the building was approximately 119m (391 feet) long, and is the largest church to have been built in Scotland.

Founding and development

The cathedral was founded to supply more accommodation than the older church of St. Regulus (St. Rule) afforded. This older church, located on what became the cathedral grounds, had been built in the Romanesque style. Today, there remains the square tower, 33 metres (108 feet) high, and the quire, of very diminutive proportions. On a plan of the town from about 1530, a chancel appears, and seals affixed to the city and college charters bear representations of other buildings attached. To the east is an even older religious site, the Church of St Mary on the Rock, the Culdee house that became a Collegiate Church.

Work began on the new cathedral in 1158 and continued for over a century. The west end was blown down in a storm and rebuilt between 1272 and 1279. It was dedicated on 5 July 1318, in a ceremony before King Robert I . When intact it had, besides a central tower, six turrets; of these remain two at the east and one of the two at the western extremity, rising to a height of 30 metres (100 feet).

A fire partly destroyed the building in 1378; restoration and further embellishment were completed in 1440.

The cathedral was served by a community of Augustinian Canons, the St Andrews Cathedral Priory, which were successors to the Culdees of the Celtic church. Greyfriar (Franciscan) and Blackfriar (Dominican) friars had properties in the town by the late 15th century and possibly as late as 1518.

Abandonment and ruin

In 1559, during the Scottish reformation, the building was stripped of its altars and images; and by 1561 it had been abandoned and left to fall into ruin.

At about the end of the sixteenth century the central tower apparently gave way, carrying with it the north wall. Afterwards large portions of the ruins were taken away for building purposes, and nothing was done to preserve them until 1826. Since then it has been tended with scrupulous care, an interesting feature being the cutting out of the ground-plan in the turf. The principal portions extant, partly Norman and partly Early Scottish, are the east and west gables, the greater part of the south wall of the nave and the west wall of the south transept.

At the end of the seventeenth century some of the priory buildings remained entire and considerable remains of others existed, but nearly all traces have now disappeared except portions of the priory wall and the archways, known as The Pends.

Stonework Fence.

nobody@ipernity.com (Eunice Perkins) — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:25:18 +0000

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HFF.

Stonework on Rosslyn Chapel

nobody@ipernity.com (David York) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:42:55 +0000

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While Rosslyn Chapel continues to be renovated, there's not a lot of good views of it which dont have scaffolding/boarding. Also its pretty hard to get a shot without tourists in it!

1001 - stonework

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:26:23 +0000

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Found this curious stonework, which seems to need a little tlc, not far from Hexham. I think it might be a horse trough,although it is dry at present.