St James Church Buttermere by Jason Connolly
Shot last year at Buttermere in the English lake district national park.
The small picturesque Church of St James is situated above the village of Buttermere at the junction of Honister and Newlands passes. The original chapel was consecrated in 1507, while the present building dates from 1840, and was restored in 1930.
A special feature is the wrought iron ’Shepherd’s Gate’, at the entry to the porch. There is an antique organ, dated 1820. The East window by Henry Holiday, dated 1893, has Mary, Martha and a cherub head. Wordsworth said ‘A man must be very unsensible who would not be touched at the sight of the chapel of Buttermere’.
There is a stone tablet set into the window sill of a south window as a memorial to Alfred Wainwright, the famous walker and author of guidebooks. The window looks out on his favourite place to walk, Haystacks, where at his wish his ashes were scattered.
Shot with a Nikon D70s and 18-70mm lens
1 shot Raw HDR tonemapped using Photomatix HDR software and tidied up in photoshop.
Comments
What a neat picture, Jason! And a helpful description as well! Thank you! – Pat
Cheers pat and thank for the comments and visit too my friend.
– Jason Connolly
A lovely little church, nice one Jason …
Thanks Tom mate.
– Jason Connolly
A marvelous photograph. Rich in color and composition. I like this very much.
Thank you so very much Albert, this was taken last Summer believe it or not, only had one nice weather day the whole week being there and only just got around to processing it today….
– Jason Connolly
Jason … you are the KING of pastoral beauty in the UK!!!!! Right down to the perfect placement of your ram (is it a ram?) buddy!!!!! WOWZER!!!
Well thank you my friend, you are so nice with your comments..I think it’s a goat or a sheep with horns LOL
Cheers Lois…
– Jason Connolly
This is really pretty Jason.x
Thanks so much Catherine.
– Jason Connolly
Excellent , like the comp with the goat.
Thanks very much warren, this was a stuffed posed model one that I keep in the boot of the car for occasions like this !! ;-)) LOL
Cheers bud..
– Jason Connolly
Great work, my friend!
Thanks ever so much bela mate..
– Jason Connolly
This is gorgeous!! :0
Thanks so much Nancy , appreciate that.
– Jason Connolly
Wow, great shot. There is such history there. Well done.
Thanks ever so much magnum1975, appreciate the fine comments and visit.
– Jason Connolly
Gosh, what a beautiful place Jason! I’d certainly love to visit a little chapel like this one… and look at those beautiful hills in the distance!!! Gorgeous work.
This was the first time i had been to this part of the lake district Nori and I have to think that it is amongst the most beautiful part too, didn’t have time to go in the church so no piccies there…
Thanks my friend.
– Jason Connolly