Where was I? Vol 3

[Bonefish Blues]

Another picture, perhaps?

[Amateurish]

Stowe?

[Bonefish Blues]

Exactly there - I only found this bit a couple of days ago, having visited dozens of times.

[Amateurish]

Bonefish Blues said:

Exactly there - I only found this bit a couple of days ago, having visited dozens of times.

Funny, I've been many times and never seen these. I know they are adding statues there at the moment.

[Amateurish]

[Bonefish Blues]

Amateurish said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Exactly there - I only found this bit a couple of days ago, having visited dozens of times.

Funny, I've been many times and never seen these. I know they are adding statues there at the moment.

Right at the back on the rhs of the Temple, just off the perimiter road

[silentbrown]

Are we in Scotland?

Snowy hills in background, and it reminds me of Edinburgh somehow.

[Logbert]

Armenia?

[jmorgan]

silentbrown said:

Are we in Scotland?

Snowy hills in background, and it reminds me of Edinburgh somehow.

Beat me to it.

[Amateurish]

Logbert said:

Armenia?

Yep, that was quick. Know where?

[Logbert]

Amateurish said:

Yep, that was quick. Know where?

Nope

[Amateurish]

Logbert said:

Nope

Noone else has had a guess, so I think you will have to take on the baton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Garni

[Logbert]

Sorry nothing available at the moment someone else go please

[DuraAce]

Go on then, I'll have a bash with one...

[driverrob]

OK. Recent visit (wife in foreground):

[Wiccan of Darkness]

driverrob said:

OK. Recent visit (wife in foreground):

Ooh, If that's where I think it is, it's a church, St Michaels. Dartmoor somewhere. When a church was built over an old pagan site, it was always consecrated to St Michael, therefore any church that's called 'St Michaels' will be on a site previously used for pagan worship. Often incorporated previous standing stones, icons or carvings in the new structure.

No idea about the arms. Shrubbery suggests northern mediterranean. Spain or south of France. I'll say Spain.

[Saleen836]

I think the arms statue is France but can't remember name of location

[DuraAce]

Saleen836 said:

I think the arms statue is France but can't remember name of location

It's somewhere in France........

[silentbrown]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

When a church was built over an old pagan site, it was always consecrated to St Michael, therefore any church that's called 'St Michaels' will be on a site previously used for pagan worship. Often incorporated previous standing stones, icons or carvings in the new structure.

You'll probably know about the five churches dedicated to St Michael 'containing' a dragon sleeping under Radnor Forest? https://cymraes.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-casco...

Radnor Forest is also the setting for "A Crown of Lights" by the excellent Phil Rickman.

[Bonefish Blues]

silentbrown said:

Wiccan of Darkness said:

When a church was built over an old pagan site, it was always consecrated to St Michael, therefore any church that's called 'St Michaels' will be on a site previously used for pagan worship. Often incorporated previous standing stones, icons or carvings in the new structure.

You'll probably know about the five churches dedicated to St Michael 'containing' a dragon sleeping under Radnor Forest? https://cymraes.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-casco...

Radnor Forest is also the setting for "A Crown of Lights" by the excellent Phil Rickman.

Is that always the case re St Michaels?