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[vera_j]

The snow is gone, it was falling at night but now it is 1,5°C above zero and raining.  As you probably know a view from my west-looking window, that with a pond, I made one picture from our north- looking one. You can see a Baroque small chapel, very uncommon design. It is protected as a precious one. A row of small trees in our future hornbeam fence. The pic taken at 14.20 approx.

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[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Is your little chapel like a wayside shrine? I've seen lots of those on the continent but since the UK is pretty much protestant and we got both Henry VIII and my relative Oliver Cromwell trying to root out Popishness we don't have that sort of thing here now ...

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Well i don't know if it is only a Welsh thing but they are coming back in a way. Fatal accidents on the road are commemorated by little shrines all over the bits of Wales I drive, There's one on the Newport- Caerleon Road that now has a stone monument as well as the flowers and other bits and pieces.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Ah. True, our wayside shrines are in plenty here but this one is is actually a substitution for a church building. Our village is tiny, only 97 people, and in the past it belonged to a wealthy landlords of Schwarzenberg family ( our minister of foreign affairs is a descendant). The nearest church was 8 km and this structure was quite suitable for "keeping a decorum".
Um... Czech people were among the first reformers of the Church in the time of Schisma (3 Popes), accepted some ideas from John Wycleff and used them for a new view of the church which wanted to return to the Bible and a purity ( and poverty) of the Church. It led to a so called Hussite Revolution in 15th century. Very complex but very interesting - and vey Czech.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

That is a Chapel of Ease, we have an other thing in common, only our chapel that gave the village it's name was demolished in the 1970s just before it fell down due to disrepair.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Really! I love our exchange of our similarities and differences!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

That is a pretty little chapel. You do live a lovely place.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

But so do you - I find lots of common between our countries. Only the countryside in Wales is different and therefore so wonderful for me!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

And vice versa, I love my country but I know it so well, strangeness is very appealing.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

That's so tiny and sweet!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like this view.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful. But I must admit, with my odd way of seeing things, I'm envisioning that as the entrance to a Hobbit cathedral, all underground and huge and full of beautiful carvings in honey-colored wood and lit up by tall beeswax candles set in silver candleholders made to resemble antlers and cattle horns.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Wow! Now I am really tempted to try and find a secret entrance in this cathedral! I don´t think my activities would be app¨roved here...:-):-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

You could leave a pot of tea and a plate of seedy cakes nearby and see if it vanishes- that's a sure sign of hobbits. :^)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Good! I will certainly leave some treats nearby - as every Christmas: apples, hard bread and rolls, raw beef fat hanging on the branches for the tits and others!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the birds love it!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

You are right!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Then you have lovely views out both sides! What a peaceful and very beautiful place you live in, exotic (to me) and full of history.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I will have to show you the two remaining sides. Anyway, you inspired me inot an idea to create a gallery of Czech historic structures. What do you think?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea! Are you doing it on LJ or somewhere like Flickr?

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Ah, please, do not expect professional or sophisticated thing from me, I am glad I am able to post pictures here, so I will remain here. It will take some time, I have little chance to move but I have already thought of some buildings is Třeboň and České Budějovice.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

A Baroque building, we don't have much of that in England. We sort of skipped that style.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

No wonder, you didn´t experienced the forced re-catholisation! I myself do not like it very much, only the "rural Baroque" , I like it because it was changed by the folk into simple, clean style. There is a village of Holašovice nearby, which is on a UNESCO World Heritage list like an unique example of this style.

[nautile26.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is lovely. It would make a very pretty greeting card.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Actually there is one such card, the structure from its front side with a lime tree next tö it. I am glad you like it!

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful and peaceful photo. The chapel is very pretty - a style we unfortunately don't see here.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Thank you!