Gosh, that's quite a strange-looking building. There is something about the shape of the roofs on the two spires which makes it look unreal - almost like a wooden-block church in a child's toy village or something. Any ideas about its architectural history?
Well, it's a romanesque building, but those twin west towers (which I love) are certainly unusual. My guide book says they're typical of the Rhineland. How they came to be here- on the edge of Sherwood forest- is anybody's guess.
Ah, no wonder I thought it looked like a toy church, then. It evokes the land of the gingerbread / picture-postcard / little model village extraordinaire. How curious.
I understand the crosses on the lawn to mark of course some of the departed but what are those square items ? but I suppose they are also grave markers...still it has a pleasantly higgledly-piggledy look rather like markers for some cosmic giant slalom perhaps one imagines angels and elementals etc weaving between them
Yes, those are also grave markers- rather grand ones. Generally speaking the rectangular "table tombs" are earlier than the crosses- 18th and early 19th century rather than Victorian.
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Date: 2009-05-03 08:24 pm (UTC)I love the roofs. Rooves. Whatever. Shiny! I bet they set someone back a pretty penny. It's a lovely church, though.
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Date: 2009-05-03 08:52 pm (UTC)mark of course some of the departed but what are
those square items ? but I suppose they are
also grave markers...still it has a pleasantly
higgledly-piggledy look rather like markers
for some cosmic giant slalom perhaps one imagines
angels and elementals etc weaving between them
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Date: 2009-05-03 09:11 pm (UTC)And I saw the side door photo...that's fantastic!
We'll be doing a short tour up north in Zamora in a couple of weeks. That's the city with the most Romanesque architecture in all of Europe.
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Date: 2009-05-04 07:37 am (UTC)I'll look forward to your pictures from Zamora.
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