Christchurch Priory

[poliphilo]

We had a quiet day yesterday. Just pottered around Christchurch then came back to the hotel and put the tennis on- and Ailz did her cross stitch and I edited photos. Christchurch Priory is one of England's greatest churches- mainly Romanesque but with Perpendicular add-ons- and it has a Tree of Jesse which very largely escaped the attention of the little men with hammers.



Also a swoony memorial to Percy and Mary Shelley...

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[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty wonderful Tree of Jesse -- interesting that the trunk leads to a pulpit-like affair rather than branches as in many of the others I know.

That's quite a swoony memorial to Shelley. Are you a fancier of Shelley? If so, you might be interested in this project on Prometheus Unbound, spearheaded by a couple guys from UPenn and including a MOOC (online course) as well as a seminar series and other delights. I heard them present last week and thought I might try it, going so far as to download a copy of the play, but I am finding it heavy going.

https://sites.google.com/site/theunbindingprometheusproject/home

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I had a bit of a thing for Shelley when I was a kid, but it faded. There are things of his I still like a lot- parts of Adonais for instance.