ST ORAN'S CHAPEL - IONA : 無料・フリー素材/写真
ST ORAN'S CHAPEL - IONA / summonedbyfells
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The small plaque to the right of the arched entrance reads:"This was the burial ground of the MacDonald Lordsof the Isles. Built in the 1100's, it is the oldest intactstructure on Iona. go through the decorated doorwayto see the remains of an impressive tomb and a collection of elaborately-carved West Highland grave slabs".Its probable that the Chapel was built by Somerled as a family mausoleum. He was the first regional warlord to take the Hebridian islands out of alternating control of Norway and the Scottish throne. This independence brought profound change in the power-structures of the day but of course, could not be allowed to last. It was Donald, one of Somerled's four sons who founded Clan MacDonald, becoming the seat of the Lords of the Isles.There is a stark simplicity about St.Oran's Chapel, a few rows of half-a-dozen wooden chairs, a cross and the rusticity of an unadorned, yet old and surviving faith, impressive in its almost tangible spirituality. Inside, displayed on the wall on the left of the chapel are the carved grave slabs referred to on the plaque by the door, though the slabs of four Chiefs of Clan MacDonald have been moved to the nearby Abbey Museum. Eventually, the ownership of Iona passed from the MacDonalds to the Campbells and the Dukes of Argyll, who have a similar mausoleum of 79 grave-stones at Kilmartin, thirty miles south of Oban, something I relish having seen as they are a truly stunning display of skilled craft and the surviving legacy of a lost Highland aristocracy. This confrontation with important lives now centuries in their graves inevitably acts as a reminder of the short span of our own earthly existence. As someone once put it: "look on my works ye mighty, and despair". A sentiment current in the poetry collection; The Lays of Iona from the pen of the nineteenth century Vicar, hymn-writer and poet Samuel John Stone: -THE REILIG ORAN Vain here the cynic's flout at place and power. The pomp of wealth, the pride of ancestry, The brief distinctions of an earthly hour, The common fate of each inane degree, One end for all in one oblivion's sea ; The silence like a sealfed tomb of scorn ; Without it nature's careless revelry ; Or round it cries of new contentions borne : Once more the same fool's course, once more this close forlorn.Samuel John Stone 1839 - 1900The grave of John Smith the former leader of the UK Labour Party is just behind the chapel off to the left, close to the Sound of Mull - and the everlasting sea. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-05-25 11:43:08 |
| 撮影者 | summonedbyfells |
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| カメラ | KODAK EASYSHARE C613 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA , EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/383) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.8 |
| 焦点距離 | 6 mm |