Decorative and Ornate Objects and Architecture

Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative (Eng-07016)

Detail - Interestingly both have faces on their tails. Carved about 1489-1494. Ripon Cathedral, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-19023)

Decoration on a wall at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew, London Borough of Richmond on Thames, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-22011)

York Minster. Detail showing the gargoyles on the pinnacles on one of the west towers as seen from the top of the central tower. Well worth the 275 steps to the top. York, North Yorkshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-17006)

Dates from the 14th Century. Southwell Minster, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-11007)

Southwell Minster on the north wall outside the Pilgrim's Chapel. The carvers apparently carved images of their family and friends. Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-12025)

Taken from a window in a dormitory at the Polytechnic Institute of the University of Westminster on Marylebone Road. The view is of the roof of the Portman Mansions a block of Victorian mansion flats on Porter at Chilton streets in the City of Westminster, London, England. The mansions were built built between 1890 and 1900 by Henry Saxon Snell, an architect. The crouching figure at the far left is supposed to be Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-04033)

The Black Bull Free House on High Street in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-18005)

Winchester Cathedral, Holy Sepulchre Chapel, ceiling early 13th century. The wall paintings are c. 1180. WInchester, Hampshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng 06026)

The east window in the sanctuary of St. Andrew's Church. The window is 15th Century. The glass placed in 1842 depicts Christ as King. Aldborough, North Yorkshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-19004)

Part of the stone rood screen, Southwell Minster, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-11010)

This depicts Jonah coming back out of the whale, symbolic of the resurrection. Copied from the Biblia Pauperum. On the left is a fruit. On the right is asmall animal with webbed feet, long tail and upturned snout. Carved c. 1489-94. Ripon Cathedral, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-19021)

This depicts Caleb and Joshua carrying the grapes from the Pormised Land. Grapes symbolize the Blood of Christ represented by the wine at Holy Communion. On the left and right are blemya, inhabitants of strange lands who have their faces in their stomachs. Carved c. 1489-94. Ripon Cathedral, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-19022)

This is the 315 foot high clock tower of the Houses of Parliament. It was completed in 1858. It was originally named St. Stephen's Tower, was renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. However, it is more commonly known as Big Ben which is actually the nickname for the enormous bell, originally called the Great Bell, which is installed in the tower. The nickname is thought to have been derived from Sir Benjamin Hall, Commissioner of Works at the time, but another theory is that it came from Ben Caunt, a champion heavyweight boxer of the 1850s. The clock which is also enormous is 23 feet in diameter. London, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng 24021)

Bell tower on the Basilica di Sant. Andrea delle Fratte, built by Francesco Borromini, completed in 1663, Rome, Italy. Scanned 35mm negative. (E011)

London, England. Scanned 35mm negative (Eng-06023)

The British Museum. Part of the colossal human headed winged bull from the palace of Ashumasirpal II at Nimrod, 883-859 B.C. London, England. Scanned 35mm negative. (Eng-02002)

Rosemary and Grape Hyacinths in my garden, Etowah County, Alabama (IMG_5144)