God's Grandeur

This afternoon, a rare and sunny treat, and almost warm in (usually) wild, wet, windy, wonderful west Wales brought with it a chance to take an image I have long waited to capture.  I had to pass through the nave of St David's Cathedral mid afternoon.  Thankfully, I had my camera. 

Work is being done inside, and the great west door was, by chance, open on this sunny day to facilitate the delivery of building materials to the work site near the High Altar.  A few moments either way and the opportunity would have been missed, passed by as an ordinary afternoon in this magnificent building (not that any afternoon is ordinary in such an ancient and beautiful place of worship).  But I was there at the right moment in time and space . . and I had my camera!  Instead of walking straight across the back of the Nave, I chanced to glance up at the Rood Screen, and there was the sun shining across the carved Irish oak ceiling and the large crucifix that hangs above the Nave.  There is a correct architectural term for this feature, but I do not know it.

I could search a dictionary for the right words and never find them.  Simple majesty in the glory of God's gift of the brilliant autumn sunshine blazed off a hand carved image of His Only Son. 

Here, Gentle Reader, are three of the images I captured.  I am immensely happy with them.  I will say no more.  They speak for themselves . . .