Archive for August, 2016
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Wells 2016
Pilgrim
This sculpture is by David Backhouse, a Somerset artist who also created Memorial to Animals in War in London.
‘This sculpture is inspiring in its own right, and also changes the way you look at the setting. The pilgrim seems to both belong here, and to be passing through’ (Dee Price)*
*From a signboard next to the [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2016
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Wells 2016
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
True beauty must come, must be grown, from within…
Ralph W. Trine
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2016
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Wells 2016
The Moat & Ramparts
The moat around the Bishops’s Palace was designed to divert water from low lying ground around that caused flooding around the palace:
Ralph of Shrewsbury saw through an ambitious building project to transform this damp, unstable site. He channeled the water from the wells into a moat surrounding the Palace, which acted as a reservoir. It [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 20th 2016
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Wells 2016
Vestments
This cope is part of a High Mass set which includes: a chasuble, stole, maniple, burse and a veil. It was made by Watts & Co. for Downside Abbey.
Silver (Japanese) metal threads have been used and couched in double rows using grey thread and surface couching. The tips of the petals have been raised using [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 19th 2016
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Wells 2016
Orphrey and Hood
The orphrey and hood were made by the Benedictine Nuns of the Convent Of Our Lady Blessed Assumption, Brussels, for the silver jubilee of its foundress, Lady Mary Percy. The ophrey and hood have been added to a 19th century cope. The embroidered hood depicts a scene worked in silver and gold metal threads, using [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 18th 2016
