A New Day Dawns
After the bleak snowy sky, a few hours of bright, cold sunshine helped us to see ordinary things in a new light ...
Friday 26 January 2007
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Westminster Cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales. This extraordinary house of God was opened in 1903, and its distinctive Byzantine architecture provides the visitor with what Sir John Betjeman called "a series of surprises".
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- Piazza - or Forecourt?
- The Artery of the Cathedral
- Rings for the Tabernacle
- Homelessness Sunday
- Our Lady on a Saturday
- A New Day Dawns
- Snow in London
- Vespers at St Paul's Cathedral
- Our Prayers for Christian Unity
- Gilding the Rood
- The Warmth of Cardinal Cormac
- Westminster Cathedral Choir School
- A Burst of Sunshine
- Still Standing
- A Tranquil Corner
- Clergy House Library
- Lost en route....
- The Good Old days
- The Marriage Feast at Cana
- Remember His Name...
- Bishop Richard Challoner
- Signing the Way
- Turrets and Towers
- Lindisfarne's Gospels meet their Bishop
- The Hardest Days
- The Coming of the Kings
- The Journey of the Magi
- The Christmas Celebration - a memento
- Blowing His Own Trumpet
- New Month, New Oremus
- The Bones of the Saints
- New Year's Day
- Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
- Fireworks at Midnight
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3 comments:
These pictures prove once again what an impressive building Westminster Cathedral really is.
There is an interesting article on the Guardian website (http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,1997949,00.html) about Sir Edwin Lutyens's design of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and the model of it he commissioned.
This reminded me of the wooden model of Westminster Cathedral that I saw at the Centenery Exhibition in Cathedral Hall in 1995. I understand it's no longer on public display so I would love to see some photos of it, if at all possible.
Thanks again for your very informative blog.
Ivo
PS - It's a pity that not all the photos of your blog can be enlarged. (I guess this has to do with bandwidth...?)
The wooden model is at present being restored by our excellent archivist, and I will do a posting on it soon. The plan is to put it on permanent display in the north gallery, where it will be seen by those on special tours of the Cathedral.
It is indeed a magnificent model, and said to be the third most important such model in the country, after Wren's model of St Paul's and Lutyen's of Liverpool Cathedral.
Sorry about the photos - I'm not clever enough to know what to do!
An ironic title to the post as the Catholic Herald describes the lack of an exemption as "a decision against Catholics in Britain."
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