Archive for the 'Heritage' Category
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, York 2011
100 Photos 94 :: History and Heritage
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 27th 2011
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100 Photos 93 :: Craftsmen
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 26th 2011
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The Dragon’s Head
On all my visits to the Minster I had thought that the Dragon’s head was a recent addition, until I looked into it further on my recent visit…
It is thought to be part of a medieval mechanism that raised a font cover that has long since disappeared.
This is almost certainly the remains of an elaborate [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Dec 13th 2011
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St Cuthbert’s Vision of Heaven
This tester by Graeme Wilson is above St Cuthbert’s Chapel. It dates from 1982 and depicts St Cuthbert’s Vision of Heaven with Christ in Glory.
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 12th 2011
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
PhotoHunt – Ripped
This is an exhibit from La Coupole, which is a fascinating and humbling place to visit. It is very interesting from a historical point of view and at the same time quite shocking that such a place existed. The time when I visited there was a temporary exhibition entitled “Deportation and genocide, a European tragedy”. [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Dec 2nd 2011
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St Mary’s Abbey
The ruins of St Mary’s Abbey are situated in the Yorkshire Museum gardens. This is all that remains of the Benedictine monastery that was once one of the most wealthy and powerful in England.
The abbey estate occupied the entire site of the Museum Garden and the abbot was one of the most powerful clergymen [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 2nd 2011
