Lets See Some Ecclesiastical Snippets

[MakisM1]

Perhaps I should start a thread about Gaudi. I am amazed with his genius! Other artists would be happy to make two sculptures like this in their lifetime. He created so many, just in Sagrada Familia!

 

[fotoi]

Oppenheim, Germany.

 

[Jack Dawe]

Lawrence of Arabia. The sculptor of this effigy, Eric Kennington, originally intended it for St Paul’s Cathedral, but due to political controversy it was not accepted. It was then offered to Westminster Abbey and Salisbury Cathedral, but they did not want it either. It ended up in the small, Saxon church of St Martin's, Wareham, Dorset, which Lawrence would often visit.

 

[fotoi]

Bayeux Cathedral, Normandy, France.

 

[Tounis]

The organ of the Valère Basilica in Sion, Switzerland.
It's the oldest playable organ in the world, built between 1430 and 1437.

 

[sparker1]

Our Lady of Health, Las Cruces, New Mexico

 

[MakisM1]

Decullon Monastery, Mani, Greece

 

[MakisM1]

The monastery is dated back to the 14th century. Details from the dome of the church

 

[MakisM1]

...and the snippets...

 

[Jack Dawe]

A miner in Wirksworth parish church, Derbyshire.

 

[sparker1]

Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona

 

[Jack Dawe]

Sagrada Familia: the passion façade - Peter's denial.

 

[Lubos-PM]

Tin baptismal font in the Church of St. Anne in Boží Dar from 1612

 

[Cygnus]

Duomo, Milano

 

[fotoi]

Nurnberg, Germany.

 

[Lester Wareham]

General Salisbury Cathedral 010 240907 by Lester W, on Flickr

 

[Cygnus]

San Cristoforo, Isola di San Michele, Venezia

 

[Jack Dawe]

Tomb, Wirksworth Parish Church, Derbyshire

 

[Ltdave]

Roskilde Dom Kirche, Roskilde Denmark

 

[Jack Dawe]

Tewkesbury Abbey