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Percy Stone
Percy Goddard Stone (15 March 1856 – 21 March 1934) was an English architect, author and archaeologist who worked extensively on the Isle of Wight, where he lived for most of his life. He designed and restored several churches on the island, designed war memorials and rebuilt Carisbrooke Castle. His "passion for archaeology" led him to excavate the ruins of Quarr Abbey, and as an author he wrote about the churches and antiquities of the Isle of Wight and contributed to the ''Victoria County History''. Life Stone was born in London on 15 March 1856 to Coutts and Mary Stone of Bayswater. His father was also an architect, and after leaving Rugby School Percy Stone qualified as an architect in his home city. He was articled to George Devey for three years from 1875, then served as an assistant in the office of William Emerson, who had married Stone's sister Jenny in 1872. Stone worked in London, joining his father's practice, until either 1884 or the 1890s, when he moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria Memorial, St James's Square, Newport, Isle Of Wight (May 2016)
Queen or QUEEN may refer to: Monarchy * Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom ** List of queens regnant * Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king * Queen dowager, the widow of a king * Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mother of a reigning monarch Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Queen (Marvel Comics), Adrianna "Ana" Soria * Evil Queen, from ''Snow White'' * Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass), Red Queen (''Through the Looking-Glass'') * Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Queen of Hearts (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'') Gaming * Queen (chess), a chess piece * Queen (playing card), a playing card with a picture of a woman on it * Queen (carrom), a piece in carrom Music * Queen (band), a British rock band ** Queen (Queen album), ''Queen'' (Queen album), 1973 * Queen (Kaya album), ''Queen'' (Kaya album), 2011 * Queen (Nicki Minaj album), ''Queen'' (Nicki Minaj album), 2018 * Queen (Ten Walls album), ''Queen'' (Ten Walls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mark's Church, Station Road, Wootton (May 2016) (1)
ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy and theology by St. Thomas Aquinas * St or St., abbreviation of "State", especially in the name of a college or university Businesses and organizations Transportation * Germania (airline) (IATA airline designator ST) * Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, abbreviated as State Transport * Sound Transit, Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, Washington state, US * Springfield Terminal Railway (Vermont) (railroad reporting mark ST) * Suffolk County Transit, or Suffolk Transit, the bus system serving Suffolk County, New York Other businesses and organizations * Statstjänstemannaförbundet, or Swedish Union of Civil Servants, a trade union * The Secret Team, an alleged covert alliance between the CIA and American industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reredos
A reredos ( , , ) is a large altarpiece, a screen, or decoration placed behind the altar in a church. It often includes religious images. The term ''reredos'' may also be used for similar structures, if elaborate, in secular architecture, for example very grand carved chimneypieces. It also refers to a simple, low stone wall placed behind a hearth. Description A reredos can be made of stone, wood, metal, ivory, or a combination of materials. The images may be painted, carved, gilded, composed of mosaics, and/or embedded with niches for statues. Sometimes a tapestry or another fabric such as silk or velvet is used. Derivation and history of the term ''Reredos'' is derived through Middle English from the 14th-century Anglo-Norman ''areredos'', which in turn is from''arere'' 'behind' +''dos'' 'back', from Latin ''dorsum''. (Despite its appearance, the first part of the word is not formed by doubling the prefix "re-", but by an archaic spelling of "rear".) In the 14th and 15th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St George's Church, Arreton
St George's Church, Arreton, is a parish church in the Church of England located in Arreton, Isle of Wight. History The church is medieval and the earliest traces are from the Norman period. Arreton's Church of St George is renowned. Part of this church dates from the 12th century. The church features a Saxon wall and a Burma Star window. The short tower with its unique buttresses contains a ring of 6 bells the oldest of which was cast in 1589. In this parish lived Elizabeth Wallbridge. She became so famous that many people, including Queen Victoria visited her grave. The war memorial was designed by local architect, Percy Stone Percy Goddard Stone (15 March 1856 – 21 March 1934) was an English architect, author and archaeologist who worked extensively on the Isle of Wight, where he lived for most of his life. He designed and restored several churches on the isla ... (1856–1934). Organ The church has an historic organ dating from 1888 by the famous builder Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Edmund's Church, Wootton
St. Edmund's Church, Wootton is a parish church in the Church of England located in Wootton, Isle of Wight. History The church is medieval in origin. It is now in the same parish as St. Mark's Church, Wootton, although the medieval parish only included a small part of what is now the larger settlement of Wootton Bridge. There was a detached portion of the parish at Chillerton. The churchyard contains the Commonwealth war grave of a Hampshire Regiment soldier of World War I. CWGC casualty record, B T Luckham. Organ The pipe organ dates from 1869 and was originally installed in St Andrew's Church, , near |
Pulpit
A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin ''pulpitum'' (platform or staging). The traditional pulpit is raised well above the surrounding floor for audibility and visibility, accessed by steps, with sides coming to about waist height. From the late medieval period onwards, pulpits have often had a canopy known as the sounding board, ''tester'' or ''abat-voix'' above and sometimes also behind the speaker, normally in wood. Though sometimes highly decorated, this is not purely decorative, but can have a useful acoustic effect in projecting the preacher's voice to the congregation below. Most pulpits have one or more book-stands for the preacher to rest his or her bible, notes or texts upon. The pulpit is generally reserved for clergy. This is mandated in the regulations of the Catholic Church, and several others (though not always strictly observed). Even in Welsh Nonconformism, this was felt appropriate, and in some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin
St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin is a parish church in the Church of England located in Shanklin, Isle of Wight. History It is an ecclesiastical parish taken out of Sandown in 1876. (fn. 17) The church was built 1880–90, and has an apsidal chancel, a nave with aisles of five bays and a stone tower at the north angle. The church was designed by the architect C. L. Luck.The Buildings of England, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Nikolaus Pevsner St. Paul's Church has the bell from HMS Eurydice (1843), which sank off Dunnose Point Dunnose is a cape on the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. The headland is visible from well out to sea, and is used in navigation. It has twice been used as the base point for a triangulation of Great Britain. The line of accurately survey ... and is the subject of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Organ The pipe organ dates from 1882 by the builder Forster and Andrews. A specification of the organ can be found on thNational Pipe Organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peter's Church, Shorwell
St. Peter's Church, Shorwell is a parish church in the Church of England located in Shorwell, Isle of Wight. History The church is medieval.''The Buildings of England'', ''Hampshire and the Isle of Wight''. Nikolaus Pevsner The interior of the church features a famous 15th century painting of St. Christopher. There is also a painting of the two wives and 15 children of John Leigh. The church also features an alabaster monument of John Leigh praying, accompanied by his great grandson Barnabas who died at the age of 9 months while Leigh's body was waiting for burial in 1629. They share a tomb which is inscribed; Organ The church acquired its two manual organ from St. Andrew's Church, Chale. It dates from 1890 by Henry Jones. A specification of the organ can be found on thNational Pipe Organ Register References Image:St Peter, Shorwell - East end - geograph.org.uk - 1170876.jpg, East end {{DEFAULTSORT:Shorwell, St. Peter Church of England church building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. Overview The chancel is generally the area used by the clergy and choir during worship, while the congregation is in the nave. Direct access may be provided by a priest's door, usually on the south side of the church. This is one definition, sometimes called the "strict" one; in practice in churches where the eastern end contains other elements such as an ambulatory and side chapels, these are also often counted as part of the chancel, especially when discussing architecture. In smaller churches, where the altar is backed by the outside east wall and there is no distinct choir, the chancel and sanctuary may be the same area. In churches with a retroquire area behind the altar, this may only be included in the broader definition of chancel. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totland
Totland is a village, civil parish and electoral ward on the Isle of Wight. Besides the village of Totland, the civil parish comprises the western tip of the Isle of Wight, and includes The Needles, Tennyson Down and the hamlet of Middleton. The village of Totland lies on the Western peninsula where the Western Yar almost cuts through along with Alum Bay and Freshwater. It lies on the coast at Colwell Bay, which is the closest part of the island to the British mainland. Today It is linked to other parts of the island by Southern Vectis buses on route 7, and route 12 serving Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport including intermediate villages. In the summer, open-top bus " The Needles Tour" also serves the village. Christ Church, Totland is the Church of England parish. Environmental concerns During Christmas 2012, a large landslip overran a section of the sea wall between Totland Bay and adjacent Colwell Bay, also blocking the walkway which ran along the top of the wall. The lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christ Church, Totland
Christ Church, Totland is a parish church in the Church of England located in Totland, Isle of Wight. History The church dates from 1875 and was designed by the architects Habershon and Pite.The Buildings of England, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Nikolaus Pevsner In 1869 a temporary church of wood was erected opposite the present church. This was re-erected on Totland beach where it served as a village reading room and library and subsequently as an annex to the Totland Bay hotel. The current church was finished and consecrated in 1875. The extension was built in 1905. The lych-gate was built in 1906. It is not in alignment with the church (as is normal with such structures) as it was built with the assumption there would be a further extension to the church (which was never built) to bring it into alignment. The wood used reputedly came from H.M.S. ''Thunderer'', which fought at the Battle of Trafalgar. Organ The pipe organ dates from 1911 by the builder Norman and B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Lawrence, Isle Of Wight
St Lawrence is a village on the south (English Channel) coast of the Isle of Wight, in southern England. It is located to the west of Ventnor, in the Undercliff, which is subject to landslips. The Undercliff lies between the original high cliff and the sea, formed over thousands of years, since the last Ice Age, from accumulated landslips. Several rocky coves can be accessed from the coastal path, which affords fine views of some prominent Victorian villas, set in a wooded landscape below the great rock wall of the original sea cliff: Woody Bay, Mount Bay and Orchard Bay. The area of the village is around in size. History St. Lawrence is much older than Ventnor dating back to at least the Middle Ages. The '' Old Church of St. Lawrence'' dates from the 12th century. When first built it was only 20 feet long and 12 feet wide, considered at the time to be the smallest church in England. In 1842 it was lengthened by the addition of a ten-foot chancel. Although there are undoubte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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