Sujet

New Church, built by Sir Benjamin Hall, at Abercarn, South Wales, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

New Church, built by Sir Benjamin Hall, at Abercarn, South Wales, 1854. Church provided '...for the sole use of the native Cymri...The edifice is built of the fine stone of the locality...The sculpture of the stone corbels and mullions of the windows is very fine, but devoid of all fantastic ornaments...the style is the simple, solid architecture of the oldest ecclesiastical edifices in Wales, with a belfry, but no tower...The whole proceedings were arranged with the strictest attention to the benefit of the Welsh people, by the establishment of a commodious Church, where they can be certain of regular services in their own language...Sir Benjamin Hall had given especial orders that everything on this occasion should be done consistently, and in reality; and that the Church should not be nominally, but actually, appropriated to the use of his countrymen'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22B08_037

Model release

NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

7,8Mo (648,7Ko) / 16,4cm x 11,8cm / 1941 x 1398 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building religious architecture Wales country tower religion nationality British church traditional tradition Christianity rustic Gothic location century bell tower Britain belfry newspapers press concept Welsh language typical B&W South Wales 19th century black & white black and white B W Neo-Gothic Gothic Revival nineteenth century Victorian Gothic rural culture The Print Collector Illustrated London News rural life ILN outside newspaper engraving Unknown Regionalism 19th-century Mynyddislwyn Mynyddyslwyn