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Bristol Cathedrals, Churches and Chapels - Phil Draper's list of Christian places of worship, past and present. For some he provides photographs and descriptions, for others brief comments and links. Part of the Church Crawler site.
Bristol Society of Architects - Searchable listing of architecture and construction links, competition news, local events and history of the society from Bristol and Bath RIBA.
Architecture Centre - A charitable trust with a programme including exhibitions, guided tours, visits, discussions, workshops and lectures.
The Bristol Pyramid - Large scale sculpture to be built from recycled wine bottles on the top of a warehouse on the bank of Avon. Explanation of the engineering and education programme of the project.
Bristol Civic Society - An independent, non-political organisation whose activities include pressing for the highest standard for new buildings and working to preserving important buildings and open spaces. Links, membership details, events diary and newsletter.
Kings Weston House - 18th century manor house offering a variety of functions from business lets to weddings: services, contact details, events and history.
John Wesley's Chapel - The oldest Methodist chapel in the world (1739) located in Broadmead. History, information about guided tours and publications.
Bristol Photographs - These pictures by Michael A. Matthews of Bristol's churches, historic and modern buildings and other landmarks come with brief histories, for which he gives references.
St Mary Redcliffe - Magnificent church described by Queen Elizabeth I as 'The goodliest, fairest and most famous parish church in England'. Ground plan and illustrated tour.
Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England - A large, multi-disciplinary faculty, covering a wide range of subjects relating to the natural and built environments: architecture, planning, housing, surveying and construction.
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(Anonymous) I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Architecture Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Architecture The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Architecture I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Architecture Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Architecture Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Architecture "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Architecture The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Architecture Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Architecture "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Architecture "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Architecture The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Architecture The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Architecture As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Architecture I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Architecture Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Architecture "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Architecture There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Architecture "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Architecture
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