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Pitcairn Wordless Wednesday
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Snow Wordless Wednesday
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Greenwood Wordless Wednesday
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Freeman Wordless Wednesday
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Dallas Wordless Wednesday
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Connor Wordless Wednesday
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The Right Honorable Gerald FitzGibbon
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, In the church..., Statues, tagged cenotaph, dublin, ireland, occupation, st. patrick's cathedral on November 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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The Right Honorable Gerald FitzGibbon was a lawyer and judge, who shared both his name and profession with his father and his son. A graduate of the University of Dublin, he served in several prominent legal positions, including Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Solicitor General of Ireland, Lord Justice of the Irish Court of Appeal.
The Boyle Family Monument
Posted in In the church..., tagged dublin, effigy, ireland, sculpture, st. patrick's cathedral on October 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The largest monument in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin is to the Boyle family. Robert Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, commissioned the monument following the death of his wife Catherine in 1629. The monument’s size and location were controversial, as explained further here.
Remember me
Posted in In the church..., tagged buffalo, cenotaphs, grave art, stained glass, trinity church on November 15, 2012| 2 Comments »
Earlier this summer we took a trip to Buffalo, New York, and stopped by the Allentown Arts Festival. In conjunction with the festival, Trinity Church was opened up for the public to walk through, and I of course went in with my camera. The walls and windows were covered in memorials that I wanted to show.
I took a number of photos of stained glass windows with dedications, and luckily it was an overcast enough day that my photos were not all overexposed. Memorials like those in stained glass represent a kind of common cenotaph in our culture – we may be interred in a cemetery or churchyard (or even have our ashes scattered to the winds or the sea) but those we love put our names somewhere else that more people visit – on the bench at our favorite park, in stained glass at our church, in a memorial brick at our alma mater. People we knew who spent time in those places see our names and remember us, and those who never knew us read our names to themselves and wonder who we were and what we were like.
Usually the stained glass containing names is at the bottom in its own panel – sometimes I could get the whole window, but sometimes the light wasn’t quite right.
A Grave Concern: How long have they been there?
Posted in In the church..., tagged christ church cathedral, dublin, effigy, ireland, st. patrick's cathedral on February 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I completely missed last month’s Graveyard Rabbits carnival, which was “how long have they been there?’ The idea was to post the oldest grave/tombstone/memorial that you had photographed in your cemetery explorations. I’ve been uploading my photos to make a photo book because I was given a gift certificate for a rather nice photobook producer. The oldest memorials that I have photographed are not tombstones, but monuments inside Dublin cathedrals.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral holds the tomb of Fulk de Saundford, an Archbishop of Dublin. If I’m reading the inscription correctly, the year is 1261.
There was another effigy that was either unlabeled or whose label I did not see.
Christ Church Cathedral also had effigies in a similar arrangement.
This one had a plaque with an inscription.
Of course, I utterly failed to get a photograph of the famous Strongbow effigy in Christ Church. Maybe next time.
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