Sujet

Remains of Cockermouth Church, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

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Remains of Cockermouth Church, 1850. All Saints, an 18th-century church in Cumbria, was destroyed by fire. 'There appears to be no doubt that the conflagration originated in the tower end of the venerable edifice. From the immense quantity of wood in the construction of that portion of the building, the flames spread with frightful rapidity, and burst through every window, whilst portions of the roof, as the fire advanced, fell in...the flames raged until the excellent peal of six bells, the organ, Church clock, chimes, chandeliers, galleries, pulpit, pews, paintings near the altar, marble monuments - everything, in short, but the bare walls, was destroyed; and even these are so much injured...as to preclude the possibility of their being available, save as old materials....View of the Tower and roofless walls from a Daguerreotype, taken by Mr. Joseph Martin, of Cockermouth.'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_297

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

60,8Mo (3,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 36,3cm / 4960 x 4283 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building England destruction religious architecture religion fire British Cumbria church damage damaged ruins ruin Christianity disaster Victorian century Britain catastrophe newspapers press concept ruined churchyard B&W engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century The Print Collector All Saints Church Illustrated London News TGN ILN All Saints' Church outside newspaper landscape Cockermouth Unknown 19th-century