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...

Comments

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

That last one looks a lot like that other Mary and that other dead guy.

[negothick.livejournal.com]

Atheist provocateur Percy B. would NOT have liked that monument! Mary is "Memorial Guest of Honor" at this summer's Readercon. That image would have been great for the program book.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a powerful image, I think- and should be better known.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The sculptor- chappie called Weekes- will have known what he was doing.