Monday, July 16, 2007

Dome





I remember that the church dome had a painting on it. Shades of yellow and red, I used to stare at it during my high school days when I am still serving masses. The present state of which has just a plain color. Even the old windows were changed into a sampaguita colored glasses; formerly they were just as simple as smoked glass. The original windows were at the storage left. The dome features the adobe vaulting with several lightings on each. Four oblong shaped paintings of the Evangelists were on the domes corner, attached on a cone shape structure. Paintings inside the church have evidence when we saw a ca. 1940’s photo of the interiors of the church. Probably these paintings on the interior walls of the church were still in existence, it is just that they were paint over. The last surviving was at the ground level ceiling of the belfry now a repository of Images. There was a painting of the baptism of the Lord there then, painted over. Renovations and re-paintings were previously done inside the church, yet some of the old features vanished.

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