Christ Church Gate, from the inside
A detail from the wall surrounding Canterbury Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, just next to the Christ Church Gate.
It’s hard to comprehend how old the Cathedral is; on the website, the history of the Cathedral is broken down into “Origins” and “More Recent Times” – the latter section picking up in 1540. (The town I live in wasn’t even founded until 1890.) A comment on the same website puts it further into perspective: the Cathedral stands as a place where prayer to God has been offered daily for over 1,400 years.
Goodness.
(The gate was constructed in 1517, and has undergone several renovations through the centuries, including the removal of the battlements “to allow some residents in the vicinity to see the time by the Cathedral clock”, an accommodating change. I found no mention of the state of that window, seemingly stuck forever halfway between open and closed.)
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury, UK
photographed 10.17.2007
Posted on March 2, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, architecture, black and white photography, canterbury, canterbury cathedral, christ church gate, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography. Bookmark the permalink. 16 Comments.
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Beautiful, rich, texture. Good choice for black and white.
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Thanks!
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Wonderful wonkiness. Great framing (heh, heh) on your part.
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Thanks, Linda – and I see what you did there with “framing”!
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Brick and block through the ages.
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Lots and lots of ages, too!
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This is one of many examples of what makes your blog exceptional. The photography is perfectly matched to the prose, all wrapped in vintage Melinda style, cadance, and quirk. Thank you for sharing, friend.
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Thanks for such a generous comment; can I use it as a blurb on the back of my next book?! (I don’t really have a “next book” – because I believe a “first book” is a prerequisite…)
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Reblogged this on What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?.
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I was looking through the reader and I just knew this was one of yours. One of my favourites.
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I guess this means I have a “style”, doesn’t it?! Glad you like this one.
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Yes, it’s a good thing!
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An odd bunch of shapes and textures but that’s what makes this a great photo.
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Thanks, Ken. It is a bit of a conglomeration, isn’t it?
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It is a bit of an incomprehensible timeline for us New Worlders isn’t it? I had a job at Westminster Abbey in the 80s – in the College Garden. The garden had been continuously a garden for 900 years at the time. Hard to get my mind around. The wall around it was immense too, tall and thick enough (14 feet thick at the base) to make it almost quiet in the garden inspite of a stream of traffic just beyond.
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Yes, it is almost impossible to imagine a 900-year-old garden. Around here, 50 years old is considered ancient. (Which hurts my feelings a little more every year.)
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