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St Andrew's Church Netherton in Black and White.
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Description: St. Andrew’s Church was built, as a Mission Church or Church-at-Ease to the church of St. Thomas in Dudley. It was built on land given for the purpose by the Earl of Dudley.
The foundation stone was laid on St. Andrew’s Day 1827, and the building consecrated for divine worship on 16 July 1830.
It is reputed that the bricks for the church were all hand-made in the adjoining fields, and the facing stone was quarried over the hill in Gornal.
It took the appointment of the Rev’d S J Marriott in 1878 to begin a seed change, and it was his devoted ministry for the next 45 years that enabled the church to develop and grow, providing a firm spiritual
foundation for the future. Many of the interior furnishings of the church today are a testimony to the esteem in which the Church and Canon Marriott were held by local people.
The interior remained substantially the same until 1999, when a re-ordering scheme removed some of the pews at the back of nave to enable the provision of two meeting rooms that, by the moving of partition walls,
can become one larger room.
St. Andrew’s stands proud in the community as a sign and symbol of the presence of God’s love in our lives.
The church is there all the time; it is there when it is wanted, it is there when our busy lives lead us sometimes to forget it.
St. Andrew’s stands to serve us all.
The church stands in an impressive and commanding position to the north-west of the parish, and at an altitude of 650 feet above sea level. The main approach is up an avenue from the east, at the top centre of
which is the Parish War Memorial Cross.
The main entrance is situated under the high-pinnacled tower and belfry at the west end of the building, and is reached by passing either to the north or to the south side of the church.
The building follows the early English style of construction and measures some 98 feet in length and 54 feet wide; it feels very spacious and is well lit. A large gallery extends almost the full length of the building on
both sides and across the west end. There are a number of features that immediately attract one’s attention, the most notable being the width of the nave aisle, the wrought-iron chancel screen, the box pews, the
immense alabaster pulpit, the reredos and lectern and, without doubt, the fine stained-glass windows.
In 1871 a peal of six bells was presented to the parish and this was augmented by another gift in 1897, of a further two bells, to commemorate the Queen’s Jubilee.
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Fields of Spring in black and white.
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Description: Beautiful tree with rapeseed fields in black and white.
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Bloom Chrysanthemum flower in Black and White.
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Description: Bloom chrysanthemum, Lilium flower on Black composed of 130 images stacked and displayed on black.
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Himley Hall park in Black And White #2.
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Description: More beautiful scenes Himley Hall park Dudley.
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Himley Hall park in Black And White.
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Description: More beautiful trees Himley Hall park Dudley.
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Himley Hall Park Winter Walk #5.
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Description: Himley Hall, situated between Kingswinford and Wombourne, started life in the 18th century when a medieval manor house on the site belonging to the Earl of Dudley was demolished to make way for a great Palladian mansion. The 180 acres of grounds were designed by Capability Brown to include a great lake fed by a series of waterfalls from a higher chain of smaller pools.
The Hall, owned by the Ward family, received regular royal patronage. In 1934 the Duke and Duchess of Kent honeymooned at Himley and The Prince of Wales (The Duke of Windsor, later Edward VIII) spent his last weekend there before his abdication.
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Himley Hall Park Winter Walk #4.
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Description: Himley Hall, situated between Kingswinford and Wombourne, started life in the 18th century when a medieval manor house on the site belonging to the Earl of Dudley was demolished to make way for a great Palladian mansion. The 180 acres of grounds were designed by Capability Brown to include a great lake fed by a series of waterfalls from a higher chain of smaller pools.
The Hall, owned by the Ward family, received regular royal patronage. In 1934 the Duke and Duchess of Kent honeymooned at Himley and The Prince of Wales
(The Duke of Windsor, later Edward VIII) spent his last weekend there before his abdication.
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Himley Hall Park Winter Walk #3.
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Description: Himley Hall, situated between Kingswinford and Wombourne, started life in the 18th century when a medieval manor house on the site belonging to the Earl of Dudley was demolished to make way for a great Palladian mansion. The 180 acres of grounds were designed by Capability Brown to include a great lake fed by a series of waterfalls from a higher chain of smaller pools.
The Hall, owned by the Ward family, received regular royal patronage. In 1934 the Duke and Duchess of Kent honeymooned at Himley and The Prince of Wales(The Duke of Windsor, later Edward VIII) spent his last weekend there before his abdication.
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