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Tag: abbey , pumping , station , victorian , steam , beam , engine , leicester , england , museum , gimson , woolfe , compound
Description: These four steam massive steam engines were used to pump sewage out of Leicester up to the treatment works at Beaumont Leys. They were completed in 1891 and ran until 1964 when they were preserved. They can be seen running at special events throughout the year.
Tag: Oloron , Crusades , Santiago , Compostela , Pilgrim , Pilgrimage , Church , Abbey , Monastery , Romanesque , Medieval , Christianity , Camino
Description: Oloron is the last town in France before the crossing of the Pyrenees along the Aspe valley and over the Somport Pass into Spain. The cathedral dates from the early twelfth century and the Crusading spirit of the day is amply borne out in the iconography of the porch sculpture. At the base of the trumeau are two chained Saracens, condemned like Atlant figues to support the structure above. The central image of the tympanum is of the Descent from the Cross which is lent an Apocalyptic dimension, as so often in Romanesque art of the pilgrimage roads by the surrounding Elders of the Apocalypse. Significantly, to the left is the androphagous figure of the Leviathan and very unusually opposite on the right, an Imperial Horseman crushing a figure underfoot. Horsemen such as this are a common feature in the Poitou region but unkown this far south. Usually considered to be a reference to the Christian emperors Constantine and Charlemagne, the presence of the horseman at Oloron and the chained Saracens below must reflect a close connection between pilgrimage and crusading and the location of Oloron as a gateway to the armed conflict in Spain of the Reconquest Crusades there.
Tag: Moissac , Saint , Pierre , Cluny , Santiago , Compostela , Pilgrim , Pilgrimage , Abbey , Monastery , Romanesque , Medieval , Christianity
Description: The abbey of Saint-Pierre de Moissac on the banks of the river Tarn was the great centre of the Cluniac order in the south-west of France and a major halt for pilgrims to Compostela. The church still retains its magnificent portico and the porch tympanum sculpture is arguably the greatest of all Romanesque monuments. It features an Apocalyptic vision of Christ in Majesty surrounded by the twenty-four Elders of the Apocalypse
