Started off the field trip to St. Mary the Virgin's Church in Iffley England a little crazy. Thought it started a 1/2 hour earlier than it did. A couple of other students and I thought we missed the bus and thought they left without us. Turns out the field trip started half an hour later and we didn't miss the bus after all!
Had a lady comment on my buddy bruce this morning. She's said "There's a girl who takes her teddy bear everywhere" I then explained how a friend gave him to me and how I take him on all my field trips!
So when we all finally met up for the field trip we walked to the bus station, then rode a double decker bus to a bus station near the Church, and then proceeded to walk a half a mile to the church. It was a lot of fun walking with everyone and looking at all of the cottages along the road.
When we arrived we learned more about the symbolisms used in the church and various details about the Church that we had not learned in class.
After we had viewed and discussed the church some students rode the bus back and others walked back along the Thames river. We all got back in time for lunch and I made it to my first seminar at 1:00 pm. My first seminar was business ethics in London. We had four people in the class and we all had really great discussions on the topic of occupy protestors.
After the seminar we had tea and I ended up listening to many philosophical and theological discussions that were all about really topics and were founded in solid evidence. It was such a nice refresher to hear all of the dialogue back and forth. I wish we had more of that at NCU. I ended up staying in Simon's office (that is where the tea and discussions were) until dinner time. I had dinner with some uplifting and positive encouragement from David Timm and I am going to start working on my thesis for my first business essay.
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| West side |
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| West side |
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| West side |
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| Simon explaining the history behind the carvings on the door. |
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| Small graveyard (they are every where around the church) |
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| Church keepers house |
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| It sits right next to the church |
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| North side |
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| Window added in the 14th century on the north side. |
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| Tower added in the 1900's (north side) |
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| You can see where the original 12th century church ends and the add on begins (north side). |
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| Original window (north side) |
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| Inside of the church |
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| Fount with black marble imported all the from France in the 12th century. |
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| See the brick arch above the window? That is where the original window had been replaced. |
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| Inside windows |
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| Fantastic arches |
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| View of the 1900's replica round window from the inside. |
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| Organ! |
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| I believe this stone cross was from the 13th century... |
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| Pews |
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| Amazing archways in the church. |
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| See the intricate detail? |
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| Black marble columns were also imported from France. |
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| This was a stairwell leading up to a little room. I couldn't hear what it was for... |
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| And the little room... |
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| More intricate carvings |
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| These columns were from the 14th century |
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| You can tell by the pointed archways |
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| Dr. Jenkins explaining about the building structure and the pointed archways |
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| Front of the church |
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| Beautiful cross on top of the roof. |
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| Impressive tower... It looks so ominous. |
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| More gravestones |
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| A holy well |
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| South side |
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| Only this two stones were carved at the top. Theory is that the benefactors of the church ran out of money. |
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| Green Man! |
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| Door where the hermit used to receive the sacraments |
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| 13th century priest's grave. |
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| Royal Navy grave |
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| Raven hanging out on top of the church |
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| East side |
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| Pretty purple flower! |
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