Sujet

Godshill Church, Isle of Wight, 1861. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Godshill Church, Isle of Wight, 1861. 'On the summit of...a picturesque and somewhat precipitous hill amid a wealth of foliage...rises a grey and ancient church, of considerable architectural beauty, and its sides are dotted with green graves and time-soiled tombs, wherein "the forefathers of the hamlet sleep". The village derives its name, Godshill, evidently enough, from the singular position of its admirable church on this lone, abrupt hill...The church (of which the old tradition is told, so common elsewhere to explain the position of sacred edifices on elevated or otherwise inconvenient sites, of spirits, either good or evil, transporting the materials from the valley below during the night, until the builders were constrained to acquiesce in the change of situation) stands on an isolated knoll, whose broken sides, rich in colouring and profuse vegetation, offer many tempting studies to an artist...the isolation of the knoll affords unbroken prospects on all sides'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23B24_137

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

9,1Mo (876,3Ko) / 17,3cm x 13,2cm / 2043 x 1554 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors countryside hill hills building England religious architecture arts religion art British geography church color Christianity village rustic location century Britain newspapers press print concept isle of wight Godshill B&W engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century rural The Print Collector All Saints Church geographical feature Illustrated London News rural life TGN ILN All Saints' Church outside newspaper Unknown Church of All Saints Regionalism 19th-century John Jessop Hardwick Hardwick John Jessop