Posted on December 9, 2019
This ‘secular’ stained glass window clearly isn’t contemporary with the medieval church in Chauvigny where it can be found – but that doesn’t make it a bad thing.
#MondayWindow 9 December 2019
Category: Windows Tagged: #MondayWindow, Chauvigny, Church, Monday Window, Stained Glass
Posted on December 3, 2019
The interiors of many old churches can be rather cold and austere, with great slabs of now-bare stonework. Not so the medieval church in the town of Chauvigny, especially with the warming glow of the sun shining through stained glass windows.
Category: Composition Tagged: Architecture, Chauvigny, Church, fpj-photo-challenge, glow, Stonework
Posted on June 9, 2017
Monochrome helps to create a sense of brooding menace in this image of a medieval building in the French town of Chauvigny.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Buildings
Category: Black & White Tagged: Architecture, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Chauvigny, Medieval
Posted on November 13, 2014
Although I’m as secular as they come, I do appreciate the architecture of churches and cathedrals.
Typically, though, the interiors of these buildings are largely of grey stone and emanate anything but warmth. However, this church, in the medieval town of Chauvigny, is an exception, especially when, as in this image, natural sunlight streams through the high windows above the altar.
Category: Photography 101 Tagged: Architecture, Chauvigny, churches, photo101, Photography 101, Sunlight, Warmth
Posted on November 5, 2013
Somehow the bird adds to the sense of menace created by the looming stonework.
Taken in Chauvigny, a fortified medieval town in the Vienne department of France.
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Architecture, Chauvigny, France, Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie