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The clock was restored in 1782, 1822, 1841, and completely overhauled in 1872, when the upper dial showing only the time was installed. The zodiac calendar was restored in 1973. The clock was badly damaged by fire in 1986; after a complete restoration, the clock was reinstalled in 1994 with a replica mechanism.
In ancient Greece and Rome, the tympanon (τύμπανον) or tympanum, was a type of frame drum or tambourine. It was circular, shallow, and beaten with the palm of the hand or a stick. Some representations show decorations or zill-like objects around the rim. The instrument was played by worshippers in the rites of Dionysus, Cybele, and ...
The late Romanesque tympanum of Vézelay Abbey, Burgundy, France, 1130s. A tympanum (pl.: tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch. [1] It often contains pedimental sculpture or other imagery or ...
Last Judgment by Gislebertus in the west tympanum at the Autun Cathedral The Temptation of Eve, detail, now at the Musée Rolin. Gislebertus, Giselbertus or Ghiselbertus, sometimes "of Autun" (flourished in the 12th century), was a French Romanesque sculptor, whose decoration (about 1120–1135) of the Cathedral of Saint Lazare at Autun, France – consisting of numerous doorways, tympanums ...
Between 1973 and 1980, the flèche, or spire, was entirely restored. ... The centerpiece of the Tympanum of the Last Judgement is the figure of Christ, raising his ...
A figure seems to be pushed by an angel toward a divine being, perhaps God the Father, or Christ, to whom another angel holds out a crown. The figure thus presented to God for glorification could again be Victor, the martyr and patron saint of Mouzon. [12] [21] The tympanum. The whole is part of a balanced composition, contributing to its ...
In 1860 the church was restored to designs by the architect Samuel Seckham. The 15th century east window of the chancel was removed and replaced by a Gothic Revival one in a 14th-century style. The set of three 15th century wooden screens was to be removed, had not the then Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, personally intervened to save ...
Hitch helped restore the old Rood Screen and executed a new pulpit, this in 1894–96. [21] A photograph of part of the pulpit is shown here courtesy of James Oakley. Church of the Holy Cross 1884 Seend Wiltshire: A. J. Style Hitch carved the pulpit for this church.