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Buildwas Abbey - ii (AT LAST!!!!)
Nov. 12th, 2011 01:40 pmHello. I've been absent for a while. Don't blame me - blame an unruly router, which got slapped back into line with the help of an Awfully Nice Gentleman from, I suspect, India, who assisted by offering me instructions via the phone which I then ferried to J, who was up the stairs twiddling about with the router...
So I couldn't blog last night to moan about the state of the rail services, or regale you the night before with tales of tea, cakes, a quivering Jack Russell, and two unfortunate construction workers (and a third unfortunate mill-owner) who had to hand-dig four 600 x 600 x 650mm pits through heavy Lanarkshire clay (the machine was on hire to someone else) in order to underpin a foundation for a nineteenth century mill which I've visited previously. As for the mill foundation?? Let's put it this way. There wasn't one. The wall was kind of floating.
So the sooner the concrete goes in, the better, I think. Hope the wall face in question is still standing when I next pay my next visit. Or we'll all be weeping into our tea and cake, I guess...
Talking of impressive old buildings, I thought I'd return to Buildwas. And because it's been a long hard week, and because I'm bracing myself for Yet Another Family Get-Together this afternoon, I thought I'd take refuge in pretty pictures.
Not that I need much excuse to take refuge in pretty pictures, of course.
Prepare yourselves, then, for some more gratuitous Romanesque. Let's start with a view of the arcade, from another angle:-
I particularly like the dog-toothed mouldings around the capital of each pillar. The former line of the external wall can also be seen, and there's a nice view of the windows at clerestorey level:-
An atmospheric view of a doorway now, which seems to be verging on the Transitional...
And one last atmospheric photograph now, looking through the crossing, towards the S wall of the nave:-
So I couldn't blog last night to moan about the state of the rail services, or regale you the night before with tales of tea, cakes, a quivering Jack Russell, and two unfortunate construction workers (and a third unfortunate mill-owner) who had to hand-dig four 600 x 600 x 650mm pits through heavy Lanarkshire clay (the machine was on hire to someone else) in order to underpin a foundation for a nineteenth century mill which I've visited previously. As for the mill foundation?? Let's put it this way. There wasn't one. The wall was kind of floating.
So the sooner the concrete goes in, the better, I think. Hope the wall face in question is still standing when I next pay my next visit. Or we'll all be weeping into our tea and cake, I guess...
Talking of impressive old buildings, I thought I'd return to Buildwas. And because it's been a long hard week, and because I'm bracing myself for Yet Another Family Get-Together this afternoon, I thought I'd take refuge in pretty pictures.
Not that I need much excuse to take refuge in pretty pictures, of course.
Prepare yourselves, then, for some more gratuitous Romanesque. Let's start with a view of the arcade, from another angle:-
I particularly like the dog-toothed mouldings around the capital of each pillar. The former line of the external wall can also be seen, and there's a nice view of the windows at clerestorey level:-
An atmospheric view of a doorway now, which seems to be verging on the Transitional...
And one last atmospheric photograph now, looking through the crossing, towards the S wall of the nave:-
And now I'm going to sign off and listen to therest of the Symphonie Fantastique...
