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Church Of St Peter, Draycott
St Peter's Church is an Anglican parish church in Draycott, Somerset, England. It dates from 1861. Designed by Charles Edmund Giles, the church is a Grade II listed building. It holds a notable font by the celebrated Victorian art-architect William Burges, which the church controversially attempted to sell in 2006. History and description The church was designed by Charles Edmund Giles and consecrated in 1861. The building stone is rubble, known locally as 'Draycott Marble', a dolomitic conglomerate quarried nearby. The church is in a simple Early English revival style. Historic England's listing record describes it as "competent", while Pevsner considers it "modest". The interior contains a rood screen fashioned in wrought iron. It is later in date than the church and Historic England suggests that the designer may have been George Fellowes Prynne. The church is an active parish church in the benefice of Cheddar, Draycott and Rodney Stoke. Burges font The church's most nota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Most are members of national or regional Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, one of the largest Christian bodies in the world, and the world's third-largest Christian communion. When united and uniting churches, united churches in the Anglican Communion and the breakaway Continuing Anglican movement were not counted, there were an estimated 97.4 million Anglicans worldwide in 2020. Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The provinces within the Anglican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fellowes Prynne
George Halford Fellowes Prynne (1853–1927) was a Victorian and Edwardian English church architect. Part of the High Church school of Gothic Revival Architecture, Prynne's work can be found across Southern England. Biography Early life George Halford Fellowes Prynne was born on 2 April 1853 at Wyndham Square, Plymouth, Devon. He was the second son of the Rev. George Rundle Prynne and Emily Fellowes (daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes KCB DCL). His elder brother was the painter Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne. George Fellowes Prynne studied at St Mary’s College, Harlow. He went on to Chardstock College, and thence to Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy at Southsea. Career In 1871, aged 18, Prynne sailed America to work with a cousin who had taken land, and was farming in the western states of America. But finding the work "trying and severe", after almost two years he travelled to Toronto and was appointed to the role of Junior Assistant in the office of architect Richard Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tower House
The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, is a late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home. Designed between 1875 and 1881, in the French Gothic Revival style, it was described by the architectural historian J. Mordaunt Crook as "the most complete example of a medieval secular interior produced by the Gothic Revival, and the last". The house is built of red brick, with Bath stone dressings and green roof slates from Cumbria, and has a distinctive cylindrical tower and conical roof. The ground floor contains a drawing room, a dining room and a library, while the first floor has two bedrooms and an armoury. Its exterior and the interior echo elements of Burges's earlier work, particularly Park House in Cardiff and Castell Coch. It was designated a Grade I listed building in 1949. Burges bought the lease on the plot of land in 1875. The house was built by the Ashby Brothers, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's, Studley Royal
The Church of St Mary, Studley Royal, is a Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival church built in the Early English Period, Early English style by William Burges. It is located in the grounds of Studley Royal Park at Fountains Abbey, in North Yorkshire, England. Burges was commissioned by the George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, 1st Marquess of Ripon to build the church as a memorial church to Frederick Grantham Vyner, his brother-in-law. It is one of two such churches, the other being the Church of Christ the Consoler at Skelton-on-Ure. History Frederick Vyner had been murdered by Greek bandits in 1870 in an event known as the Dilessi murders, Dilessi massacre. A significant ransom had been demanded, and in part collected, before his death. His mother, Lady Mary Vyner, and his sister, Lady Ripon, used the unspent ransom to build the two churches in his memory. Burges' appointment as architect was most likely due to the connection between his greatest patro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
