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Archive for the tag 'Wenlock Priory'
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Cherie’s Place -Thought for the Week
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 26th 2010
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100 Photos 40 :: The Countryside
This is the view from the Lady Chapel at Wenlock Priory, it gives you and idea how peaceful the place is.
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 24th 2010
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Always Remember to Look Up
When visiting historical buildings it is always worth remembering to look up so you don’t miss some of the best features which can be found on the ceilings. On this occasion however it was a good job that I remembered to look down when I sat on that bench on the right hand side [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 20th 2010
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Wenlock Priory – South Transept
The church was built on a traditional cruciform plan, so if you walk up the nave of the church you will come to the point where where the two arms of the cross (transepts) meet. The south transept is very imposing at over 70 feet high.
In the second photo to the left of the photograph [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 16th 2010
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Wenlock Priory – The Infirmary
The infirmary was built in the twelfth-century and was originally a single storey. It was the place where the sick, old and infirm monks and lay brothers were housed. The second storey was added later and formed part of a quadrangle of buildings, not all of which survive:
In the fifteenth century, Prior Richard [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 2010
The chapter house was built in around 1140, this is the place where the monks and the prior met each morning to discuss priory business and to issue punishments for disobedience. Inside the guidebook is a lovely reconstruction of how the inside may have looked in the fourteenth century. All the arcading and [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2010
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100 Photos 38 :: Photo Editing Programs
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 13th 2010
