St Andrews Church is a ruined church on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. The church is situated on the east side of the island, above the Church Ope Cove beach, near Wakeham village. It is found close to the ruins of Rufus Castle and the private Gothic Revival mansion Pennsylvania Castle.
In 1625 a wall was built to shore up the land after a landslip had damaged the church, and threatened half of the cemetery to collapse. Another major landslip in 1675 caused considerable damage, whilst the church continued to suffer from an unstable site and various invasions of French pirates. The church was abandoned after it was in danger of falling over the cliff after a second massive landslip around 1734-1735, known as The Great Southwell Landslip which remains Britain's second largest recorded historical landslide. This event caused a large section of the graveyard to slip down the cliff. Following the 1734 landslip, a decision was made, which led to the church being closed and partly demolished in July 1756.
Today, the barest ruins now remain of the church, whilst some of the original stones are in the garden of Portland Museum. - Wikipedia
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The Natural History Museum in London catches a shaft of sunlight on a cloudy day.
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The maze of canals threaded through Venice requires the use of more than 400 bridges to permit the flow of foot traffic.
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The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. Standing 309.7 metres (1,016 ft) high, the Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the fourth-tallest building in Europe and the 96th-tallest building in the world. It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom. Wikipedia
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Canary Wharf is a major business district in east London, within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the United Kingdom's two main financial centres along with the City of London and contains many of Europe's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest in the UK, One Canada Square.
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