My Top 10 Most Popular Photos: No 3

REMARKABLE IT IS: THE FLOOR AT SAINT MARY...

Remarkable it is the floor at St. Mary....

I produced this image of the floor at Saint Mary the Virgin, Bury Parish Church because I wanted to get across how beautiful and unique it is. Pevsner calls it a 'tour de force'. I think it is a remarkable example of the Victorian vision and and also their will to carry out such a vision.

The aim of the pic is to draw attention to some of the aspects of our historic churches which are undervalued and undervisited. Since posting this image on flickr it has received a lot of attention and comments. I think that's great for our heritage and our churches in general. It shows that there is a 'market' of interest out there which is potential 'capital' for our historic churches. It's great to see historic church architecture combined with cutting edge web 2 services such as flickr; and this is what we need to do to keep our historic churches at the forefront.

If you're interested in the seeing more of the floor you can visit the church!

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Take a look at this photo essay at Tabblo which has lots of pics of the floor

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Take a look at my flickr photosets on the church, or the floor, or the reredos (another tour de force)

If after all that your'e fascinated with the magic of tiles and ceramics (or you'd like to find a church near you which you can visit) then you can visit the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society website

More on tiles and ceramics on my delicious pages

If you have a feature of your church which you think is undervalued and should have more attention then drop me a line - we might be able to feature some images.

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More Mosaic

Remarkable it is - the texture and colour of the floor at Bury Parish Church, Lancashire UK. What time, skill and effort must have gone into this rich tapestry of tesselation. Stood, hunched over the viewfinder of my camera, it has a hypnotic, kaleidoscopic effect which leaves me tired but remarkably content.

More hypnotic floor to explore here...

My del.icio.us tag for floor

Andy Marshall is a professional architectural photographer. Most images can be downloaded 24/7 at Alamy as stock photography

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MOSAIC

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Wow this was a difficult job to take - what with several light sources, tungsten lighting and the clerestory windows covered with a yellow film.

It meant I had to use a little flash to remove as much shadow from the tripod legs as possible. The site is Bury Parish Church UK. You may have seem some of my other Tabblo's of the church interior. The floor is apparently by Minton - but there is some debate about this.

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Andy Marshall is a professional architectural photographer. Most images can be downloaded 24/7 at Alamy as stock photography

1. Website
2. Portfolio
3. Search 7000 stock images....
4. Stock photography architecture themes....
5. Video's

All images are copyright Andy Marshall and must not be used without prior permission.