Religion Gallery

Malmesbury BB95_10457

MARKET SQUARE, Malmesbury, Wiltshire. A rooftop view looking over Market Square, showing the market cross (c.1500) and the abbey ruins. The abbey was the setting for man's first flight attempt in the form of a monk named Elmer who threw himself from the abbey tower and subsequently broke both his legs in c. 1000. Photographed in 1864 by W Hanks

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St Pauls Cathedral CC97_00536

ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, City of London. A general view looking across the River Thames from bankside and towards St Pauls with a passenger paddle steamer moored at the opposite bank. Paddle steamers were a familiar site on the Thames from the 1850s onwards. Late 19th century photograph by York & Son

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Correggio - The Agony in the Garden K040846

APSLEY HOUSE, London. " The Agony in the Garden " by Antonio Allegri, called CORREGGIO (c1494-1534). (Luke xxii, 39-46) The angel appears to Christ while the Apostles Peter, James the Greater and John are asleep on the right. Previously from the Spanish Royal Collection. Captured by the Duke of Wellington at Vitoria in 1813

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