Beverley And Howden

[poliphilo]

My mother-in-law likes garden gnomes. Ailz bought her three very large ones from an eBay seller in Beverley- which gave us a reason to drive over to the East Riding and look at a couple of wonderful gothic churches.

This is Beverley Minster







And this is Howden Minster

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

No pictures of the gnomes? :(

(Kidding. I like the saints (?) at Howden.)

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Earth has not anything to show more fair

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

The pipe blowing figure is wonderful. They all are.
I love how these churches rise out of the countryside.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

These are all very nice, but I was hoping for photos of the gnomes too.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

I realize this is possibly a dumb question, but what is the origin of the term 'minster' in relationship to churches? And/ or - what is the difference between a cathedral and a minster?

Beautiful photographs - as always.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We just bundled the gnomes into the car and drove them straight to my ma-in-law's.

Maybe I'll eventually get round to photographing them in their new home :)

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

This is why you must never leave LiveJournal.

[mamadar.livejournal.com]

I love your photographs, but especially your church photos. And your photos of Glastonbury. Yes, I am a raving Anglophile, I want to go to England even though I know it'd just be same sh*t, different country in a lot of ways. What can I say? it's a matter of the imagination.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think Yorkshire is the loveliest of English counties.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Beverley has a wonderful collection of medieval musicians.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We ran the gnomes straight from Beverley to my ma-in-law's, with no time to pause and have them pose. Maybe I'll take pictures of them in their new home.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've never been sure what the difference was, so I consulted wikipedia. It turns out "minster" is an anglo-saxon word meaning "monastery". It was originally applied to churches with a college of priests attached, but these days it's simply an honorary designation that gets applied more or less at random. Some minsters- like Southwell and York- are cathedrals, others- like Beverley and Howden- are simply very large churches.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Even if I stopped writing I think I would retain LJ as my photo-album.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I've been to the States- and it was an education. In spite of the shared language, our two nations are very different.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Thank you.