Andrew Trundlewagon's photos with the keyword: history

Although Coombes church looks very humble form the outside, inside the walls are covered in paintings that were rediscovered in 1949. There is a difference of opinion when they were done. One view holds that they were painted by monks from Lewes Priory in the 12th century. The other view argues that they are Saxon and predate the Norman conquest. In support of the older date the paintings are true frescoes, that is they were painted onto wet plaster. The plaster lies directly on the original masonry and since the walls are Saxon, it follows that the frescoes are also Saxon. (Sussex, UK).

Although Coombes church looks very humble form the outside, inside the walls are covered in paintings that were rediscovered in 1949. There is a difference of opinion when they were done. One view holds that they were painted by monks from Lewes Priory in the 12th century. The other view argues that they are Saxon and predate the Norman conquest. In support of the older date the paintings are true frescoes, that is they were painted onto wet plaster. The plaster lies directly on the original masonry and since the walls are Saxon, it follows that the frescoes are also Saxon. (Sussex UK).

Although Coombes church looks very humble form the outside, inside the walls are covered in paintings that were rediscovered in 1949. There is a difference of opinion when they were done. One view holds that they were painted by monks from Lewes Priory in the 12th century. The other view argues that they are Saxon and predate the Norman conquest. In support of the older date the paintings are true frescoes, that is they were painted onto wet plaster. The plaster lies directly on the original masonry and since the walls are Saxon, it follows that the frescoes are also Saxon. (Sussex, UK).

The ruins of Bramber castle, Sussex, UK. A castle was built on this site in 1070, shortly after the Norman Conquest, by William de Braose, first Lord of Bramber. It was probably a wooden structure replaced over the years by a stone tower and curtain wall. The last male heir of the de Braose family died in 1326, and the castle has been falling down ever since until now very little is left. Its strategic position still commands fantastic views of the surrounding countryside.

Perhaps one of the most photographed views in Canterbury cathedral, the intricate fan vaulting of the Bell Harry tower (Central tower), completed in 1498. The name “Bell Harry” refers to a bell given to the cathedral by Prior Henry of Eastry in 1288. Fan vaulting is a predominantly English architectural innovation, and for scale, the central shield (which is a trap door) is about five feet, or roughly 1.5 metres in diameter. The tower is about 75 metres (250 feet) tall. Canterbury cathedral was founded by St. Augustine in 597. It was vandalized by Danish invaders in 1011, destroyed by fire in 1067, other parts destroyed by fire in 1174, and badly damaged by an earthquake in 1382. It has been variously rebuilt, added to and improved for centuries. More remarkable given that the builders were working without the benefit of the laws of mechanics, at least in a formal mathematical sense. Although they must have understood how forces etc. work for their unsurpassed buildings to remain standing. (Cell phone, and heavily cropped so resolution could be a lot better).

Dancers in their regalia at the McGill Pow Wow in Montreal.

Bignor Roman villa is near Arundel in Sussex; it was a large, very prosperous Roman-British farm complex of the third century. This rather solemn woman is thought to be Venus, although this is not hundred percent certain. The amount of work and skill that went into making these mosaics, to be lain in an obscure farmhouse at the Westernmost margins of the empire, is extraordinary and just as incredible that they were so well made to have survived to this day.

Bignor Roman villa is near Arundel in Sussex; it was a large, very prosperous Roman-British farm complex of the third century, and many of its mosaics have survived to this day. This is a detail from one of them and shows a nude woman in rear view.

"Sic transit Gloria mundi"- a pair of skulls on a grave slab from the floor of St Nicholas church in Portslade, Sussex.