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Underground Arches
Posted on February 17, 2023
A dramatic view of part of the subterranean church at Aubeterre-sur-Dronne.
Stone Staircases
Posted on November 11, 2022
These stone staircases can be found in the crypt of the subterranean church at Aubeterre-sur-Dronne.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Ways to move up and down
What Lies through this window?
Posted on September 23, 2022
This mysterious window can be found in Aubeterre-sur Dronne.
Soaring
Posted on September 9, 2022
For Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week,with the theme of ‘texture’, another dramatic image from the subterranean church at Aubeterre-sur-Dronne.
Cut from the living rock
Posted on September 2, 2022
Cee’s theme for her Fun Foto Challenge this week is ‘man-made items’. Handily, this gives me an opportunity to post another image from the subterranean church at Aubeterre-sur-Dronne.
This edifice is a good fifteen feet high and it’s been created by cutting away the solid rock from all around it. If that’s not impressive then I don’t know what is.
The subterranean church
Posted on August 25, 2022
In the picturesque village of Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, in the Charente region, is to be found a subterranean church, carved out of solid rock. Originally, in what must have been a major feat of both architecture and engineering, it was dug out from beneath the local chateau, which no longer exists.
They call it a church, but in terms of sheer scale it could easily pass for a cathedral.
Clock
Posted on September 24, 2021
The Collegiale church in Le Dorat has an imposing tower with a four-sided steepled roof. Fortuitously, there is a clock on each side of this sloping roof (which meets the criterion for this week’s Black & White Challenge) and as the sun sets on a very bright day, there is a pleasing contrast between the light and shady sides.
Indeed, I think this is brought out more effectively with a monochrome treatment, as here.
Let There Be Light
Posted on April 28, 2021
Cee’s challenge for this ‘assignment’ is to juxtapose natural and man-made light.
This photograph shows the interior of the old church in the ancient village of Saint Cirq Lapopie. On the wall on the right is the natural light of the sun, but the rest of the illumination is provided by the sunlight passing through the man-made stained glass widows.
Much bigger than a breadbin
Posted on February 27, 2021
Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week is ‘bigger than a bread box’ – or, indeed, ‘breadbin’.
You could hardly claim that that’s a particular limiting factor in making a choice of what to post.
So here’s a very big church located adjacent to the Argentomagus archaeological site.
Take a Pew
Posted on November 20, 2020
Take a pew? Somebody’s taken all of them from this church in Confolens and replaced them with chairs.
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