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Sky over the Monastery


Sky over the Monastery

At maximum zoom with the camera. Gorton Monastery was in the world top ten of most endangered buildings, right up there with the Taj Mahal....I thought the sky was stunning though.



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Beautiful shot Pimm's :))

7 Apr, 2012

 

excellent shot Pp..

7 Apr, 2012

 

That is simply perfect, Pim. What time of day did you take this?

7 Apr, 2012

 

Coming home from work so...between 2:30 and 4:30pm

7 Apr, 2012

 

The light is so striking, I would have guessed either much earlier or much later. Wonderful blocks of shade there......

7 Apr, 2012

 

What kind of monastery was it? Are there still monks/nuns?

7 Apr, 2012

 

A Franciscan Monastery...No kat, no monks or nuns are left here.

It is called the Angel Centre now.

7 Apr, 2012

 

Excellent!

7 Apr, 2012

 

Why was it given so importance, do you know?

7 Apr, 2012

 

A link for you Katarina

http://www.themonastery.co.uk/Our-History.html

I thought that HB

8 Apr, 2012

 

Thank you for the link. I read it as it is interesting, yet a common story. Very sad, if you take that the monastery is just around hundred years old - so not so old as let say Valley of Kings or Taj Mahal. But it had fortunately good end. Still, when I watch ruins and then their renewed buildings, I canĀ“t get rid of feeling that something is missing, something definitely lost.

8 Apr, 2012



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