Nidaros Cathedral,Trondheim, Norway
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I went through a phase of photographing church interiors a couple of years ago.
This is a pretty one, just off Oxford Street, London.
Click on the pic … takes you to the album.
Norwegian Stave Church
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Scarbrough…Anne Bronte Grave , old and new, It was a foggy day and I traipsed round looking for it , it took some finding …
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A young lady I used to work with - well, she’s not so young now actually - is a Wiccan. I’ve had a few laughs with her about that!
Very interesting.
I had to do a bit of googling.
The heaviest ‘change ringing’ tenor bell is, again, at Liverpool Cathedral (when it was built, the intention was that it was to be the ‘biggest’ in every way!). However, according to their web site it is claimed that it can be rung by a single person. Of course, it may be that in practice they use two people as you describe.
Or perhaps there’s another very heavy one elsewhere that does require two people?
That’s interesting.
It looks like the original headstone has been heavily weathered and then touched up, but then a newer stone laid in front.
I wonder why she was buried in Scarborough, quite a distance from where she lived.
This is what i found on Google,
It was to save her sister from having to escort her coffin back to howarth
People also ask
Why is Anne Bronte buried in Scarborough?
Anne died on 28 May and was buried in Scarborough by her own wish, to spare Charlotte the unbearable task of accompanying her coffin back to their home in Haworth, and her elderly father the anguish of conducting the funeral of his third child to die in the space of nine months. …
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Kiruna Pastorat, Kiruna, Sweden
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LOL - any genuine Witch worthy of her broomstick would be mortally offended to be referred to as wiccan - and as for a hierarchy of priests/priestesses - no way!
Sorry to disappoint you further - but they would not have been dancing, naked or otherwise, in graveyards or performing human sacrifices - although many Satanists did both.
What a shame!
I was beginning to seriously consider converting to Wicca/Witchcraft/whatever they want to call it. The way you describe their ‘meetings’ makes them sound much more fun than all this bowing and scraping that the ‘established religions’ seem to do, though I’m not completely in favour of human sacrifices…
well, perhaps except for certain people who have been rather naughty, now they’ve done away with capital punishment.
SKOGSKYRKOGÅRDEN // STOCKHOLM.
This burial ground was a collaboration between two of Sweden’s most famous architects, Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, who transformed a former quarry into a beautiful site where modest gravestones are absorbed into the forest and meadows.
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PÈRE LACHAISE // PARIS, FRANCE
When it opened in 1804, Père Lachaise was a revolutionary cemetery—it offered a gravesite to anyone who could afford it, regardless of denomination, and allowed families to purchase burial space in perpetuity. Today the graceful monuments and many famous burials (including Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison) make it the most-visited cemetery in the world
Pere Lachaise is well know for being the first garden and the first municipal cemetery in Paris.
The cemetery was established in 1804 by Napoleon, offering stunning views with all those cobblestone paths, picturesque tombstones, statues, mini chapels, mausoleums and lots of trees.
It is home to many famous French authors, musicians and writers.
Did you know that at Pere Lachaise Cemetery it is not out of the ordinary to reopen a grave after a body has decomposed?
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This thread has covered a lot of underground so far eh? - gravestones often sadden me - particularly the neglected ones of course - I discussed this with a few inhabitants and their explanation was quite simple. Well in some cases the entire family has in time either died themselves or moved away. This the sad part really - there is no one who does tend it anymore. I did think there were some graveyards where local staff were employed to tidy up? Where I once lived in the Kimberley WA there is a graveyard for the catholics only; one for the protestants only ; and one for the Japanese only? the of course used to be very separated groups of people trying to live harmoniously together - from memory I think the Japanese was the tidiest and I think sometimes the whole community [Japanese] got involved however they are getting older or moved away
Up here we have a lot of the very old Clan Graveyards with tiny churches and ancient stones. Some are very lonely spooky places, but they have always facinated me.
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Why? and how would they know - bodies decompose at different rates dependent on time of year, type of coffin, cause of death etc.,
guess that a crime was committed and on a need to review/examine basis…DNA never exactly leaves us…
Just found this on Wiki …
During relatively recent times, the Père Lachaise has adopted a standard practice of issuing 30-year leases on gravesites, so that if a lease is not renewed by a family, the remains can be removed, space made for a new grave, and the overall deterioration of the cemetery minimized. Abandoned remains are boxed, tagged and moved to Aux Morts [ossuary](Ossuary - Wikipedia), still in the Père Lachaise cemetery.
Given human nature … I imagine that after about half a century or so most graves get opened and their contents removed.
Sounds awful doesn’t it when you think about it …a bit mercenary … a lease on a grave holding revered remains.
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Guess that’s the norm in most places but I imagine an exhumation order is required.
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