Rooftops of Chichester
This is a view from the only public window of Chichester's Novium museum. The Novium is a museum in Chichester, West Sussex, southern England. The name comes from the Roman name for the city, Noviomagus Reginorum.
The museum, designed by the architect Keith Williams following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions, has an area of 1,300 sq m which is approximately 2.4 times the size of the previous museum in Little London. The building is divided into three floors each of which will contain a gallery for exhibition. It contains a research and learning room as well as a collection store for the social history collection. The museum is built directly over the top of the Chichester's Roman Bath House complex which are displayed in the ground floor gallery.
The museum has over 350,000 objects of geological, archaeological and social historic interest. The social history and geological collections is made up of some 50,000 objects which are housed within the new building, whilst the archaeological collection is contained in a purpose built store within the Discovery Centre located at Fishbourne Roman Palace.
The museum was opened on 8 July 2012.
The most promenent building in this view is Chichester Cathedral. Construction of the cathedral probably started in the 1070's. A number of disasters including subsidence, partial collapse and lightning strikes have affected the Cathedral over the years. The most serious incident occurred in 1861 when the cathedral spire collapsed in on itself. The new spire, designed by George Gilbert Scott, was rebuilt over a 5-year period and is slightly taller than the previous spire at 85 metres tall. The Cathedral is now home to a pair of peregrine falcons, who have been nesting in the cathedral turrets since 2001.
To the right of the Cathedral is the Chichester cathedral bell tower. Chichester is the last remaining city in the UK to have a Cathedral with a detached medieval bell tower. The tower stands 36 metres high and 11 metres square at the base. The octagonal bell chamber is home to 8 bells dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. An hour bell was added in 1877 and is named 'Great Walter'. They require a team of 15 bell ringers to climb 84 steps every Sunday and Wednesday to ring the bells in a call tp prayer.
On the far right can be seen part of the church of St Peter the Great which was constructed in 1850 and consecrated in 1852, it's designer, Richard Carpenter (1812-1855) also worked on Chichester Cathedral. At one time St Peter the Great was the 'mother church' of the city.
As a result of being overshadowed by the Cathedral, a dwindling congregation and the need for major repairs, the church fell into disuse by 1979. Since that date the church has been used as an antiques market, shopping centre and tourist information point. In 1997 it was converted into a pub, 'The Slurping Toad', is currently known as Wests Bar and Lounge.
Rooftops of Chichester
This is a view from the only public window of Chichester's Novium museum. The Novium is a museum in Chichester, West Sussex, southern England. The name comes from the Roman name for the city, Noviomagus Reginorum.
The museum, designed by the architect Keith Williams following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions, has an area of 1,300 sq m which is approximately 2.4 times the size of the previous museum in Little London. The building is divided into three floors each of which will contain a gallery for exhibition. It contains a research and learning room as well as a collection store for the social history collection. The museum is built directly over the top of the Chichester's Roman Bath House complex which are displayed in the ground floor gallery.
The museum has over 350,000 objects of geological, archaeological and social historic interest. The social history and geological collections is made up of some 50,000 objects which are housed within the new building, whilst the archaeological collection is contained in a purpose built store within the Discovery Centre located at Fishbourne Roman Palace.
The museum was opened on 8 July 2012.
The most promenent building in this view is Chichester Cathedral. Construction of the cathedral probably started in the 1070's. A number of disasters including subsidence, partial collapse and lightning strikes have affected the Cathedral over the years. The most serious incident occurred in 1861 when the cathedral spire collapsed in on itself. The new spire, designed by George Gilbert Scott, was rebuilt over a 5-year period and is slightly taller than the previous spire at 85 metres tall. The Cathedral is now home to a pair of peregrine falcons, who have been nesting in the cathedral turrets since 2001.
To the right of the Cathedral is the Chichester cathedral bell tower. Chichester is the last remaining city in the UK to have a Cathedral with a detached medieval bell tower. The tower stands 36 metres high and 11 metres square at the base. The octagonal bell chamber is home to 8 bells dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. An hour bell was added in 1877 and is named 'Great Walter'. They require a team of 15 bell ringers to climb 84 steps every Sunday and Wednesday to ring the bells in a call tp prayer.
On the far right can be seen part of the church of St Peter the Great which was constructed in 1850 and consecrated in 1852, it's designer, Richard Carpenter (1812-1855) also worked on Chichester Cathedral. At one time St Peter the Great was the 'mother church' of the city.
As a result of being overshadowed by the Cathedral, a dwindling congregation and the need for major repairs, the church fell into disuse by 1979. Since that date the church has been used as an antiques market, shopping centre and tourist information point. In 1997 it was converted into a pub, 'The Slurping Toad', is currently known as Wests Bar and Lounge.