Praxiteles

More on Chartres Cathedral:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16zh6zPlX98

@ake wrote:

Here is the modern stained glass in the aisle lights in Tagoat;
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This one in particular is interesting;

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large version here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/2474657772/sizes/l/in/set-72157604940388425/

The text at the bottom reads;

‘”There is nothing worth living for but Christian architecture and a boat.”
-Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Presented by the people of Tagoat parish to commemorate the architectural Talent of Pugin.’

Ake!

Any idea of who made these windows?

@ake wrote:

Here is the modern stained glass in the aisle lights in Tagoat;
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This one in particular is interesting;

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large version here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/2474657772/sizes/l/in/set-72157604940388425/

The text at the bottom reads;

‘”There is nothing worth living for but Christian architecture and a boat.”
-Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Presented by the people of Tagoat parish to commemorate the architectural Talent of Pugin.’

“Talent” is a bit on the weak side. I would have used the word “Genius”.

The West Rose at Cobh Cathedral

In relation to the trumphal arches on the west facades of Lincoln Cathedral and of Cobh Cathedral,it is interesting to note that both have diamond headed stone-work in the attic above the arch.

And here we have E W Pugin’s version of the triumphal arch on the west facade oft he Basilica of Our Lady at Danazele in Belgium.

@DaveSweeney wrote:

Hi – Great thread – I was hoping that one of viewers maight throw some light on a question that has been tasking a few like minds in Galway. With regard to the keystone on the top of a 16th, 17th century castle, tower house or church doorway – why is the right side of the keystone longer than the left. It is always the right side which is longer as you walk in.

If anyone could assist us in this – it would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dave!

Do you have a photograph to illustrate one of these?

Lincoln Cathedral

And here is a Western example, Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloustershire:

Thanks Graham for a very interesting study of this church -which is very fine especially in its decoration and fittings.

Fortunately, most of its is still more or less intact. The losses can be made up easily enoughn but the disappearance of the altar rail and, apparently, of the mensa from both side altars is most unfortunate.

I am sure that were you scrape away that red colour on the vault of the sanctuary you would probably find some nice stencil work carrying the decorative work of the walls up into the ceiling thereby eliminating the present disjointed look of the decorated walls and the harsh red ceiling. A better solution should be found tot he heating of the sanctuary than those terrible radiators which obscure the patterns of the ,moasic.

A bit more imagination might have helped in the rebuilding of the organ so as not to obscure the west window.

The arch in the main facade is interesting and here, as in JJ MCCarthy’s shortened versions (Maynooth, Monaghan, St. Saviours), it has been equipped with a gallery without the Saints. The origin of the fukll arch running from ground to attic would be useful to identify. AWN Pugin used it in Barntown, Co. Wexford. EW Pugin used it in his principal churches: Barton, Dadizell in Belgium, and Cobh. It has bee suggested that the medieval prototype for this is Lincoln Minster or Peterborough Cathedral. However, curiously, this feature also occurs in earlier Byzantine architecture, a notable example being the Church of Hagios Loukas on the foothills of Mount Hellikon near Thebes in Greece built in the early 11th century.

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Greece/Central_Greece/Viotia/Osios_Loukas/page2.htm