5184 x 3456 px | 43,9 x 29,3 cm | 17,3 x 11,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2 novembre 2020
Ubicazione:
Stansted House, Emsworth, Hampshire, England.
Altre informazioni:
Chapel of St Paul - On 16 April 1644, Stansted House was attacked by Parliamentary forces. By the end of the day, the house, built in 1480 on the site of the former hunting lodge, was in ruins. A new house was built some two hundred metres to the north-east in 1688, on the site of the present mansion, which commanded views across the coastal plain to the Solent and over parkland to the East and West. The ruins of the original House successively became stock sheds, a brewery and a bailiff's house until the Chapel of St Paul was built there by the Reverend Lewis Way in the mid 1800s. The Regency building incorporates earlier structures, and is by an unknown architect. The Chapel you see today has a colourful history and is Grade 1 listed. It was consecrated on 25th January 1819 (the Feast of Conversion of St Paul) by the Bishops of St David's and Gloucester. It contains a unique East window with Christian/Jewish iconography and Hebrew Tablets of the Ten commandments. John Keats attended the consecration service, along with 300 people and like many of them, is rumoured to have stood at the back. He used the Chapel's imagery in his poems The Eve of St Agnes and The Eve of St Mark.
