tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post6330060308219881068..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Shorthampton, OxfordshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-44310130257802353012010-08-27T18:16:59.244+01:002010-08-27T18:16:59.244+01:00Johnson: Yes, you're right about the box pews....Johnson: Yes, you're right about the box pews. They add to the feeling of another era – and also to the spatial character of the interior, which is quite unusual because the nave was widened at some stage. It's a fascinating place.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-62691849343243364792010-08-26T23:11:47.353+01:002010-08-26T23:11:47.353+01:00Shorthampton is quite a special place and not the ...Shorthampton is quite a special place and not the easiest to find. I love it. The box pews too are another feature of interest.<br /><br />I had planned to write about the church on my blog but you have pipped me to the post!<br /><br />JohnsonJOHN SHORTLAND, Cotswold Hills, England.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11702000270961029986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-9631522336562871382010-08-26T07:04:12.477+01:002010-08-26T07:04:12.477+01:00Neil: Paintings of subjects from the infancy Gospe...Neil: Paintings of subjects from the infancy Gospels are quite rare and are limited, as far as I know, to the more benign actions of the young Jesus.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-56108968719492992362010-08-25T10:16:17.790+01:002010-08-25T10:16:17.790+01:00Somehow the fragmentary and faded quality suits th...Somehow the fragmentary and faded quality suits these pictures, and they seem to me more moving in this battered and timeworn state than if they had survived fresh and whole. The apocryphal infancy gospels supplied material for English folksongs such as the Cherry Tree Carol; it would be interesting to know how many church wall paintings also drew inspiration from them. Thomas depicts Jesus as a naughty and wilful boy, quite unlike the Victorian "gentle Jesus meek and mild". Immediately after he has transformed the clay birds into live sparrows, he is angered by another boy who splashes away the puddle Jesus has made, and causes him to "wither like a tree". When another boy runs past him and bumps into his shoulder, Jesus causes him to fall down dead on the spot. And when the parents go to Joseph to complain, Jesus strikes them blind...Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-74779418334244209042010-08-24T20:23:16.924+01:002010-08-24T20:23:16.924+01:00Bazza: Yes, the Bible of the Poor is the usual ter...Bazza: Yes, the Bible of the Poor is the usual term for this. Although just to be perverse, the two pictures I illustrate in this post are not strictly from the Bible – one being from an apocryphal gospel and one of some unidentified churchman.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-41235277327749893452010-08-24T19:44:03.875+01:002010-08-24T19:44:03.875+01:00These photographs remind me of visiting Pompei but...These photographs remind me of visiting Pompei but there the paintings tended to be, shall we say, more secular in subject matter! I suppose paintings and stained glass in churches were bringing bible stories to the many illiterates in the congregation. Your photos fire one's imagination.bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.com