Thursday, February 22, 2007

Old St. Mary, Shelby

This was very nice. Built in the early 1890's, I believe. I like the big openings at the top of the tower. There's one rather unusual detail. You don't often see both a rose window and a tympanum window over the entrance of a fairly small church.
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  1. Hooda Thunkit (Dave Zawodny)February 28, 2007 at 12:10:00 PM EST

    Okay, you got me.

    Does a tympanum window have anything to do with the church's bells, as in the louvered section above the rose window?

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  2. Jeffrey SmithFebruary 28, 2007 at 2:37:00 PM EST

    I'm so used to preaching to the choir that I forget. A tympanum window is triangular, in this case triangular with curved edges.

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