Charles Dixwell and family Monument - Churchover, Warwickshire

walwyn Sun, 11/15/2009 - 15:25

Dixwell Monument

 

Monument to Charles Dixwell (d1591), his wife Abigail (d1635), and their five children William, Edgar, Humphrey, Basil, and Barbara.

 

 

 

Lavergne, Claudius - Paris

walwyn Fri, 10/30/2009 - 21:47

Stained glass by Claudius Lavergne - Châteauvieux

 

 

 

Claudius Lavergne (1814-1887) was a painter, and art critic who studied under Ingres.

Rhogogaster viridis

walwyn Sat, 10/24/2009 - 19:47

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Symphyta
Genus: Rhogogaster
Species: R. viridis

St. Giles

walwyn Sun, 10/11/2009 - 21:56

 

14th century wall painting of the life of St Giles at Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher.

 

 

 

 

Pontlevoy - St. Pierre

walwyn Tue, 09/22/2009 - 01:20

St Bernard and St Elizabeth of Hungary.

 

 

This church is mostly furnished with glass work from J. Fournier of Tour.

Stictocephala bisonia

walwyn Fri, 09/18/2009 - 13:24

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Membracidae
Genus: Stictocephala
Species: S. bisonia
Common name: Buffalo Treehopper

Edward Burne-Jones

walwyn Fri, 09/11/2009 - 18:32

St. Mary by Burne-Jones, Middleton Cheney.

 

Born at 11 Bennetts Hill on August 28 1833. Edward Coley Jones was raised by his father a frame maker and gilder, and lived for the first 20 years of his life in Birmingham.

Fawsley

walwyn Sun, 08/16/2009 - 11:01

Fawsley Hall Fawsley Hall was the home of the Knightley Family from the turn of the C15. Where they developed the land for sheep farming. At the end of the C15 the peasants were evicted to make more land available for sheep.

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