Peel Cemetery Chapel
And a long awaited touch of blue sky yesterday afternoon.
Peel Cemetery Chapel
Posted by Peter Killey on January 7, 2016
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This very famous Manx Grave in the New Kirk Braddan Cemetery is that of Manx Illustrator and designer Archibald Knox (1864 to 1933).
Archibald Knox was born in nearby Cronkbourne Village and he grew up being inspired by intricately carved patterns in Celtic Stones of Mann.
The beautiful wording on his gravestone reads “A humble servant of God in the ministry of the beautiful”
His work still lives on to this day in the form of the world famous Archibald Knox Jewellery.
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An image from inside the beautiful Old Kirk Braddan Church and titled “Simple Shadows”
The image was captured on my Fuji X10 camera resized and cropped in Adobe Photoshop CS5
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Whilst out and about today I captured this image of Kirk Braddan new Cemetery on the Braddan Road, the Mortuary Chapel is in classic Manx style designed by John Jefferson and was opened circa 1843, John Jefferson also designed what is now Joseph Bucknalls in upper Church Street and the former Methodist School in Peel by Albany Road Corner (Thanks to local Historian Peter Kelly for all his help and information)
The Cemetery is such a wealth of Manx history and the graves of two famous Manx people spring to mind, Archibald Knox and Henry Bloom Noble, incidentally my Grandad and Grandma Killey are also buried in this graveyard.
The image was captured on my Nikon D80 SLR with a Nikon 18-135 F3.5/5.6 G AFS DX lens at 20mm, converted into sepia to give a “Ye olde World” look and finally cropped in Adobe Photoshop CS5.
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