{"id":137911,"date":"2024-06-30T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=137911"},"modified":"2024-06-30T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:00:23","slug":"pioneering-days-of-the-trinity-college-chapel-1920-and-after-by-ranil-bibile-epilogue-to-main-article-on-the-tck-chapel-by-rb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/pioneering-days-of-the-trinity-college-chapel-1920-and-after-by-ranil-bibile-epilogue-to-main-article-on-the-tck-chapel-by-rb\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering days of the Trinity College Chapel; 1920 and after. &#8211; By Ranil Bibile (Epilogue to main article on the TCK Chapel by RB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Pioneering days of the Trinity College Chapel; 1920 and after. &#8211; By Ranil Bibile ( Epilogue to main article on the TCK Chapel by RB )<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>(with photographs from the TCK Library Archives)<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From the seed of an inspiration to a monument built for eternity\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137912 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/polonnaruwa-571x400.jpg\" alt=\"polonnaruwa\" width=\"571\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137913 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/polonnaruwa-2-533x400.jpg\" alt=\"polonnaruwa\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>Polonnaruwa: The inspiration from circa 1100 AD<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>Kandy; circa 1920 AD<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137914 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>Putting pen to paper: the inspiration germinates into a plan<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-137915\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-2-600x393.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>The plan develops into general perspectives<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137916 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-3-597x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"597\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The finished belfry, completed in the 1980s, is similar to the one in the above rendering<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Detailed renderings of the interior as envisaged by Rev. Gaster:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137917 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-4-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>This rendering envisages a ceiling and galleries with a pair of upper frescoes. These were not in the final \u2018as built\u2019 design. The rest were built as shown<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137918 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-5-263x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy \" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>A forest of stone pillars, fifty-four in number, each sixteen feet high and two feet square<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137919 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-6-268x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"268\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u201c\u2026to the sunset glow on the hills beyond&#8221; (Hantana)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137920 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-7-600x397.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From two dimensions to three: Rev. L. J. Gaster\u2019s Model<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Finally the physical work begins with a quarrying of rock:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cthe rock face had to be split with human muscle power aided by steel wedges, sledgehammers, and crowbars, as blasting would have merely shattered the rock into pieces\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137921 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-8-598x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"598\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>\u201cThe Quarry: Showing the marks of the wedges with which the rock is split\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-137927\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-9-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cThe monolithic pillar blocks had to be eighteen feet long and three feet square with no cracks or major blemishes. Each weighed about three tons.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137928 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-10-597x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"597\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>A prospective pillar is detached and levered up by muscle power onto round logs as in ancient days, to be rolled onto a trolley for transport.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137929 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-11-600x395.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cThe massive blocks loaded onto a special trolley designed to carry one pillar at a time\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137930 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-12-600x396.jpg\" alt=\"Kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u201c..and be hauled by two elephants, one pulling and one pushing, for a distance of three miles to the school premises; and then another three hundred feet up the slope of the hill to the Chapel site.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137932 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-13-597x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy \" width=\"597\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>Hard metal wheels, and a tree trunk grab pole for the lead elephant<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137934 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-15-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137935 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-16-600x394.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137936 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-17-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Up and up: Ascending the College Drive (leading to the Chapel). Hantana in the distance<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137937 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-18-600x396.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">When a force of 2-elephantpower alone was not enough\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137939 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-19-600x395.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Journey\u2019s end: at the worksite<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIt is not surprising then that the pillars were brought in at the rate of only about two a month, when it was not raining!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137940 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-20-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unloading, again onto logs.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137942 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-22-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>Then began the arduous task of cutting the blocks to their exact dimensions, smoothening them, carving them, and erecting them on site<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137943 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-23-597x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"597\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>Carved Pekadas made of Gammalu \u2013 the hardest of hardwoods to work with; yet intricately carved<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137944 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-24-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137945 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-25-600x392.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>Carvings and lacquer work<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137946 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-26-598x400.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"598\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>The first pillar goes up and..<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-137947 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-27.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"430\" height=\"662\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201c\u2026is crowned with a carved pekada. The figure is Mr. K. L. B Tennakoon who supervised all the work<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-137949 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-28-e1719766008308.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>&#8216;And so it grew\u2026.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137952 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-30-600x395.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u2026passing a point where it was almost a Polonnaruwa redux\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-137953 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-31.jpg\" alt=\"ka\" width=\"438\" height=\"619\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137954 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-32-600x396.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">..until it was ready for the use of generations of Trinitians<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-137955 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-33.jpg\" alt=\"k\" width=\"542\" height=\"687\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137956 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-34.jpg\" alt=\"kandy\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137957 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kandy-35-600x396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The final works of art were the four marvellous murals painted by David Paynter O.B.E, a Member of the Royal Academy, and an old pupil of Trinity, who began his labour of love in 1929 when only the side chapel was roofed and completed. The murals as seen today are all in his own inimitable style, and though the scenes are Biblical, they have a tropical colour and a unique local setting to match the Kandyan architecture itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(Photographs from the collection at the Trinity College Library and Archives)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800000;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/elanka-newsletter-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly\u00a0to\u00a0your\u00a0inbox!<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering days of the Trinity College Chapel; 1920 and after. &#8211; By Ranil Bibile ( Epilogue to main article on the TCK Chapel by RB ) (with photographs from the TCK Library Archives) &nbsp; 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