Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Guild Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West is in Fleet Street in the City of London. It is dedicated to Dunstan , Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is of medieval origin, although the present building, with an octagonal nave, was constructed in the 1830s to the designs of John Shaw .
One of the earliest surviving manuscripts, now at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, telling that Dunstan the abbot gave orders for the writing of this book. King Ine of Wessex enriched the endowment of the community of monks established at Glastonbury [10] and reputed to have directed that a stone church be built in 712, [11] the foundations of which form the west end of the nave.
The prominent tower with its golden ball on the flagpole [1] became a Trinity House "sea mark" on navigational charts, and the Queen's Regulations still permit St. Anne's Limehouse to display the White Ensign 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. [3] The church was gutted by fire on Good Friday 1850, and restored between 1851 and 1854 by Philip ...
St Dunstan-in-the-East was a Church of England parish church on St Dunstan's Hill, halfway between London Bridge and the Tower of London in the City of London. The church was largely destroyed in the Second World War [ 1 ] and the ruins are now a public garden maintained by the City of London Corporation .
Dunstan [a] (c. 909 – 19 May 988), [2] was an English bishop and Benedictine monk.He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised. [3]
The original St Dunstan's Cathedral was built from 1897 to 1907. The present stone structure was built between 1913 and 1919 after a fire destroyed the original cathedral in 1913. It was built in the Gothic Revival architectural style. [2] In 1929, ten years after its completion, the church was blessed by Pope Pius XI as a basilica. The church ...
Dunston is a small village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.It is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) south-east from the city of Lincoln, and close to the B1188 between Nocton to the north and Metheringham to the south.
The Flame Queen Opal is perhaps the best-known example of "eye-of-opal", an eye-like effect created when opal in-fills a cavity. [ 1 ] The Flame Queen's flat central raised dome flashes red or gold depending on the angle of view, and is surrounded by a band of deep blue-green, giving the stone an appearance somewhat like that of a fried egg.