St Annes Chapel has stood on the edge of town for 596 years and I don’t know how many times I’ve walked past barely noticing it. As a teenager, I even had to walk past daily to school, just around the corner. In recent years it’s been refurbished and although I didn’t go inside because I was dog walking, I could see that the courtyard looks lovely. The chapel is actually the building on the left as the back of the picture, while the white timbered buildings are alms houses. Exeter was a prosperous town as far back as the 16th century, as the biggest city in Devon it was the centre of the county’s woollen trade. Hence the chapel was named St Annes, as she is the patron saint of weavers.
Like many of the oldest buildings in Exeter, the chapel and alms houses were built from red Heavitree stone, quarried less than two miles away, close to where I grew up. Today as I peeped through the gate the winter sun was bright and casting long shadows.
That’s when I noticed the angular shapes all around the courtyard, even those shadows,
The chapel is now part of the orthodox Parish of the Holy Prophet Elias, and its website says that the parish belongs to the Archdiocese of Orthodox Parishes of Russian tradition in Western Europe under the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
This is my second entry for the photo challenge of ‘Angular’ over at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/angular/
Love the angles, especially the shadowed ones. 🙂 I also like the one farther back from the arch. 🙂
So many in The one photo with nature getting in as well!
You have such an eye for Photography. I love the way you use the sun to redefine your subject, if only for a short time. 🙂 It’s interesting how the shadow from the wall (?) lines up with the roof-lines of the buildings beyond.
Perfect angles for the challenge, Gilly. Your shadow photos are superb. 🙂
Wow, there are so many angles in this one picture, it’s hard to count them. Great work, Gilly.
Wow! Stunning capture of the angles and shadows Gilly! What a beautiful little chapel! 😀 ♥
Isn’t it incredible what one sees once we begin to look around us. The photo with the shadows against the building is perfection. Great capture, Gilly. 😊
Those angular shadows are superb – and is that really English light that makes the view through the arch so luminous? I love the way churches move allegiance too. A stunning post, Gilly.
Wonderful angles and shadows…..those silhouettes are gorgeous thrown against the red stone. What a wonderful piece of history sitting on your doorstep Gilly.
The shadows make these brill,, love the angles. 😉
Really like the way the buildings glow in the light and cast those sharp shadows. Lots of interesting angles there.
Beautiful angles, Gilly.
janet
Cool effect the shadow made. Very nice submission. Oooh I can see you. 😀
Perfect! The shadows make the photo Gilly.