The past couple of weeks have been a bit hectic. Last weekend I spent Saturday in London, an annual trip arranged by a former colleague. This was followed by a long round trip into Yorkshire on Sunday to help relocate someone at short notice. This weekend I spent in York with family and a good [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Holidays, York 2011
A Weekend Away
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 8th 2011
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, York 2010
Illumination
23 Comments CherryPie on Nov 7th 2011
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Thirteenth Century Cope Chests
A cope (cloak) is a processional garment used in the church. It is semi-circular in shape and would have been folded “sides to middle” and laid flat in these chests.
The splendid iron strap work on the lids is similar to the Chapter House doors, dating the chests as original furniture of circa 1290.*
*Taken from information [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 18th 2011
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, York 2010
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ernest Dimnet
19 Comments CherryPie on Sep 12th 2010
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PhotoHunt – Numerical
This is the Hindley clock which is located in York Minster. It is complete with sixteenth-century moving figures ‘Gog’ and ‘Magog’.
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
24 Comments CherryPie on Aug 20th 2010
Filed under Art, Holidays, York 2010
York Minster – New Stonework
An area at the back of the minster was displaying some new stonework and a board near to the carvings informed that:
New stonework copies the original stone and this is carried out by our 24 Masons, Carvers and Apprentices.
Occasionally the removed carving is too decayed to see what it used to be. When this [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Jul 22nd 2010
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York Minster – The Chapter House
The Chapter House is tucked away, hiding behind it’s vestibule and on first view it is both a surprise and delight. The octagonal room was completed in 1286 and is unusual in that it does not have a central column to support the vaulted roof.
From the guidebook:
Used from the 1290s onwards for parliaments by [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 21st 2010
