markkirby.bsky.social
Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford. Architectural historian, C17 church architecture & furnishings. Chairman of Council of the Ecclesiological Society.
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"divers persons have assumed to themselves the use and bearing of the Armes of severall of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdome, whereby many errors are crept in, and divers abuses committed since the sitting of this Parliament."
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Not unknown for people to create their own arms in the C17-C17. Hence (in part) the need for visitations by heralds to police it. Even during the Civil War, at a time when one might think that priorities lay elsewhere, Parliament issued an ordinance in 1646 to respond to concerns that:
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Cabinet the ultimate symbol of this silent coup. Government of the billionaires, for the billionaires, by the billionaires.
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Musk is only the most egregious example. Buys Twitter to make at an instrument for Trump's election, twisting the algorithm and setting up Grok to twist truth further. Brazenly pays people to vote for Trump. Then sets up DOGE to dismantle every government agency that was annoying him.
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Yes. What we are seeing is the logical consequence of unregulated capitalism. The accumulation of vast wealth in the hands of a tiny number of people. Many Senators & Congressmen bankrolled by individuals/corporates, slowly deprived of ability to act/vote independently.
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Wedding chuppah; I've only seen fabric ones before so this was an interesting surprise. And finally the smaller, more intimate and more easily heated winter synagogue elsewhere in the complex.
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Women's galleries with latticed fronts supported by smaller columns. 1744 Ark in Brazilian jacaranda wood, housing the Torah scrolls.
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Designed on C17 notions of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, with usual adaptations for the needs of a synagogue. You enter behind the bimah and then the whole space opens up in front of you. Rows of benches on sand-strewn floor (why the sand, anybody?), triple barrel vault on 4 huge stone columns.
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I don't think either is a liberal vs conservative point. I am not alone in being liberal but alarmed by both.
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But that’s the joy of Pevsner! Classic comment on the Rector’s Lodgings at Lincoln College, Oxford: “Well-meant; no harm done.”
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Thoroughly enjoyed this. A great education for an early modernist like me to get an insight into the medieval mind.
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Every singer needs a backing group.
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O Horrible Murder!
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Always good to have aspirations. Drawing on the comment of the chairman of a conference I once spoke at, my autobiography would be entitled "Sometimes Dull but Beautifully Illustrated".
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The Inn is probably named after the Earl of Lincoln, on whose ground it was first begun. The College is named after Lincoln Cathedral - full name "the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln". College adds "and All Saints" but has the same name. (Hope you're keeping well, Alice.)
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Quite.
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The reason I asked what your source was is that, as a fully paid up libtard myself (but not a republican), I really think it is important that we maintain the highest standards of truth, inc on this platform. We must not ape Trump's lies.
Again, what is your source?
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I love the whole genre of post-Reformation Dutch church interiors. Real sense of wanting to portray a Calvinist notion of beauty & a new type of religious life. Hadn't come across van Langevelt before, so extra thank you for that too, John.
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Your source for this figure?
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Immigrant allegedly commits rape. Beat up every immigrant in sight.
Brit allegedly commits rape. Nothing.
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Unreal. He's planning to arrest people who spoil his birthday party. The USA is dead.
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I visited in April. When strightening verticals in Photoshop afterwards I realised this is a very wonky church! Those cross-beams are clearly there for a purpose.
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Fake views.
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Same with William the Conqueror. Would have been so embarrassing if he'd lost.
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"For all the world like a square theatre, without any show of a church … And I remember, when I passed over at the Firth, I took it at first sight for a large square pigeon-house; so free was it from all suspicion of being so much as built like an ancient church.”
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So wonderful to see the transformation from the dog who wouldn't come out from behind the sofa.
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I love it.
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The window looks like an old-fashioned cathode-ray tube TV.
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Bit of a Tolkien Lord of the Rings vibe here.
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Bring back the Papal States and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies!
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I rest my case.
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Important point of nuance: they didn't eat all of him.
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A place I long to visit. Roman arches had a revival in the C16-C17 as temporary arches in joyeux entrées & coronation arches. The Timgad arch became the model for church reredoses, inc this one at St Margaret Lothbury in London. Also in France.
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"The courts should not be allowed to prevent people from breaking the law." Hm.