Welsh church uncovers stunning medieval wall paintings
Built on the site of a 7th century monastery and founded around 1200, St Cadoc's in Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan is, from the outside, just another beautiful small Welsh village church.
But inside, conservators have uncovered some stunning 15th century wall paintings to the delight of locals, visitors and experts alike.
After the discovery of a thin red line of paint on the wall, a team of experts were brought in to investigate what else was lurking behind the 20 layers of limewash added over five centuries.
Now, after five years of restoration work, the church is revealing its treasures: startlingly bold images of the seven deadly sins, a royal family, a ghoulish death figure - and what has been described as one of the largest and most spectacular tableaux of St George and the Dragon ever seen in a British church.
The work was funded by local trusts, Wales's heritage body Cadw and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
St Cadoc Caerleon
The church of St. Cadoc, Caerleon. Built on the site of the Roman Military HQ. Possibly the oldest 'solid' building erected in Wales
St Marys Church Kempley.wmv
Anglo Saxon Church with Medevial & 17th Century wall paintings
Wedding Photographer Cardiff - Ann Lewis Photography at St Cadoc's Church, Raglan
A wonderful couple on their wedding day. They were married at St Cadoc's Church, Raglan. The photography commenced at Raglan Castle and continued onto Raglan Golf Club. - created by Ann Lewis Photography
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Walking KIng Arthur's Trail
There are many mysterious places in Wales but none more so than the ancient church of St Peters-super-Montem in Glamorgan. Once it was at a great political centre, close to the walls of the fabled Caer Caradoc–Castle of Caradoc, and just to the east lays a township and trading centre known as Por-tref = The Supreme Town, which today is only visible as a place name on a map and as outlines of buildings and enclosures on infra-red photographs taken from the air above. During the course of the 1990 excavations at St Peters a metal cross was found in the area where a Sixth century beehive hermitage had been erected at the east of the earlier church following the destruction of the church in the devastations of Britain by cometary debris in c AD 562.
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St Stephen's Church, Copley, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Copley, West Yorkshire, England). It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2]
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1 History
2 Architecture
2.1 Exterior
2.2 Interior
3 See also
4 References
[edit]History
The church was built in 1863 for the industrialist Edward Akroyd, and designed by W. H. Crossland.[1] It stands on a wooded hillside in the Calder Valley opposite a model village built by Akroyd for his employees.[2]
[edit]Architecture
[edit]Exterior
St Stephen's is constructed in stone and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a five-sided apse, a south porch, and a north chapel acting as a transept. In the clerestory are two lancet windows in each bay, and at the west end is a four-light window over which is a round window. Along the aisle walls are three cinquefoil wondows in each bay; the bays are separated by buttresses surmounted by pinnacles. In the transept are two lancet windows, over which is a quatrefoil window. The apse also contains lancets. Above the walls of the aisles are pierced trefoil parapets. Over the join between the nave and the chancel is a double bellcote.[1]
[edit]Interior
Inside the church, the nave has a waggon roof, while the chancel is tunnel vaulted. The arcades are of different design, one is supported by cylindrical piers, the other is on clustered colonnettes. The transept is occupied by the organ. The interior of the church is decorated with wall paintings. These include depictions of saints on the south wall of the chancel, and stencilled designs on the ceilings of the aisles. The pulpit is also highly decorated, with mosaic panels, and there is also mosiac in the reredos. The west window and in the windows of the apse contain stained glass.[1] The glass in the apse was designed by Hardman & Co.[2]
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Little Kimble is near the hill on which Cymberline's castle was located. The walls inside the church were completely covered by paintings, done in the early 14th Century. I am not sure why they were not covered over with whitewash, as such paintings were in most churches.
Medieval Realms 04 The Welsh Border
Join Gerald on his journey around medieval Wales. Learn about curious customs and the everyday lives of Welsh people in the twelfth century. In part one .
Built on the site of a 7th century monastery and founded around 1200, St Cadoc's in Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan is, from the outside, just another beautiful .
The Lady Chapel, St. Thomas' church, Salisbury
Look out for the three magnificent mediaeval wall paintings of the Virgin Mary high on the wall.
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Saint Cadoc or Cadog was a 5th-6th century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, South Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learning, where Illtud spent the first period of his religious life under Cadoc's tutelage.Cadoc is credited with the establishment of many churches in Cornwall, Brittany Dyfed and Scotland.He is known as Cattwg Ddoeth, the Wise, and a large collection of his maxims and moral sayings were included in Volume III of the Myvyrian Archaiology.He is listed in the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology under 21 September.
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Professor Paul Binski - The female saints of Little Wenham
Professor Paul Binski, Professor of the History of Medieval Art at the University of Cambridge, explores the wall paintings of All Saints' Church at Little Wenham in Suffolk.
Chalgrove :Stunning Mediaeval Wall Paintings of St Marys Chalgrove
The Five Joyful, the five Sorrowful, the five Glorious Mysteries and the Doom. How these wall paintings must have fascinated & terrified the people of the middle ages when they had practically no access to any other visual media.
Due to reopen on Sunday 3rd of April with a talk on Monday 4th April 19:15.
Renovation starts today 01 June 15. The church will be closed The until February 2016, and all the furniture and fittings have been removed (as reported by the Oxford mail)
The Church has received a £544,000 Lottery Grant to restore and preserve the church and its wall paintings.
The chancel of St. Mary’s is decorated on three walls with a nearly complete set of medieval wall paintings, which is of national importance. It is believed that they were painted around 1320AD probably at the behest of the de Barantyn family who lived in one of the two manors in Chalgrove at the time. They were lime washed over at the time of the Reformation and then rediscovered in 1858 during a period of renovation work being carried out on the instructions of the then Vicar, the Rev’d Robert French Lawrence. Some of the paintings on the north wall are a little indistinct now due to their age and two of the paintings on the south wall were covered by marble memorials while the paintings lay hidden under the lime wash.
The whole scheme is dedicated to St. Mary-the-Virgin, the patron of the church, and can be divided into four main sections as follows.
On the north wall is the story of the Birth and Passion of Jesus, ending in his resurrection and ascension shown on the north side of the east wall.
On the south wall is the apocryphal story of the death and assumption of Mary, ending on the south side of the east wall depicting her crowning as Queen of Heaven.
Also on the south wall at the west end is a picture of the Day of Judgement, or “Doom”.
And finally in the window splays are pictures of Saints, all of whom are associated in some way with Mary.
Hailes church
The wonderful wall paintings in Hailes Church near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Early music sung by Les Canards Chantants at their concert in Hailes Church.
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Advertising the Ermine Street Guards appearance at Caerleon in South Wales UK in July 2007
English Medieval Wall Paintings
Medieval Wall Paintings in English Churches
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The Longhouse in Wales: Fact and fantasy - Richard Suggett
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Celtic Christianity or Insular Christianity refers broadly to certain features of Christianity that were common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages. Celtic Christianity has been conceived of with differing levels of specificity: some writers have described a distinct Celtic Church uniting the Celtic peoples and distinguishing them from the Roman Catholic Church, while others classify it as simply a set of distinctive practices occurring in those areas. Some scholars now reject the former notion, but note that there were certain traditions and practices used in both the Irish and British churches but not in the wider Christian world. These include a distinctive system for determining the dating of Easter, a style of monastic tonsure, a unique system of penance, and the popularity of going into exile for Christ. Additionally, there were other practices that developed in certain parts of Britain or Ireland, but which are not known to have spread beyond a particular region. The term therefore denotes regional practices among the insular churches and their associates, rather than actual theological differences.
The term Celtic Church is deprecated by some historians as it implies a unified and identifiable entity entirely separate from the mainstream of Western Christendom. Others prefer the term Insular Christianity. As Patrick Wormald explained, One of the common misconceptions is that there was a 'Roman Church' to which the 'Celtic' was nationally opposed. In German, the term Iroschottisch is used, with Lutz von Padberg placing the same caveat about a supposed dichotomy between Irish-Scottish and Roman Christianity. Celtic-speaking areas were part of Latin Christendom as a whole at a time in which there was significant regional variation of liturgy and structure with a general collective veneration of the Bishop of Rome that was no less intense in Celtic-speaking areas.Nonetheless, some distinctive traditions developed and spread to both Ireland and Great Britain, especially in the 6th and 7th centuries. Some elements may have been introduced to Ireland by the Briton St. Patrick, and later others spread from Ireland to Britain with the Irish mission system of Saint Columba. The histories of the Irish, Welsh, Scots, Breton, Cornish, and Manx Churches diverge significantly after the 8th century (resulting in a great difference between even rival Irish traditions). Later interest in the subject has led to a series of Celtic Christian revival movements, which have shaped popular perceptions of the Celts and their religious practices.
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Christian monasticism is the devotional practice of individuals who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship. It began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church, modeled upon scriptural examples and ideals, including those in the Old Testament, but not mandated as an institution in the scriptures. It has come to be regulated by religious rules (e.g. the Rule of Saint Augustine, Anthony the Great, St Pachomius, the Rule of St Basil, the Rule of St Benedict,) and, in modern times, the Canon law of the respective Christian denominations that have forms of monastic living. Those living the monastic life are known by the generic terms monks (men) and nuns (women). The word monk originated from the Greek monachos monk, itself from monos meaning alone.Monks did not live in monasteries at first, rather, they began by living alone, as the word monos might suggest. As more people took on the lives of monks, living alone in the wilderness, they started to come together and model themselves after the original monks nearby. Quickly, the monks formed communities to further their ability to observe an ascetic life. According to Christianity historian Robert Louis Wilken, By creating an alternate social structure within the Church they laid the foundations for one of the most enduring Christian institutions . . . Monastics generally dwell in a monastery, whether they live there in community (cenobites), or in seclusion (recluses).