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Built in 1755 by Major William Caulfield as part of the effort by Marshall Wade to build roads around the Highlands.
Pembroke College Chapel.
Detail: Old embroidered kneeler.
The Chapel is the most beautiful building in the College. Built after the Civil War by Christopher Wren it was a breath of fresh air in the tired late Gothic of C17th England. The striking marble floor, the intricate plaster roof, and the glowing ancient woodwork make it a jewel-like and truly lovely space.
The Wren Chapel - Consecrated 1665
Pembroke College was the first in Cambridge to have a Chapel of its own: earlier Colleges worshipped in the nearest parish church. To secure this privilege the foundress, the Countess of Pembroke, obtained special licences from the Pope. Her Chapel was at the north-west corner of the front court, the room now called the Old Library.
To Matthew Wren is due the building of the present Chapel. Admitted Watts Scholar 1601, Fellow of the College 1605 and later President, Master of Peterhouse 1625-1634 (where he had a chief part in building their Chapel, still Gothic, in 1632), Bishop of Hereford, then of Norwich, then of Ely, he was a strong supporter of Archbishop Laud and was kept a prisoner in the Tower under Cromwell 1642 to 1659. While there he vowed to devote, if ever he should be released, a certain sum of money to âsome holy and pious employmentâ, and for this he chose the building of a new Chapel for the College.
The Chapel is the first building of Christopher Wren, consecrated in 1665. Its new classical style set the fashion for other College chapels and continues to afford a fine setting for Christian worship and music.
The Chapel is not only Christopher Wren's first work, but almost the first English church or chapel in the Classical style, preceded only by Inigo Jonesâs church of St Paul, Covent Garden, now rebuilt after a fire in 1795.
As designed for a community of fewer than eighty Fellows and students, this ornamented but restrained, panelled building must have been very spacious, enhanced by its high proportions and a splendid plaster ceiling flooded with light from the great windows including, what Wren afterwards ceased to favour, an east window (the stained glass featuring benefactors of the College is a late addition of 1906 in honour of the mathematician George Stokes).
The view west to the organ gallery is also handsome. The organ is not the original one, having been installed in 1708; it was restored in its fine double cases to baroque configuration by Manders in 1980.
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PEMBROKE COLLEGE, THE CHAPEL WITH HITCHAM'S CLOISTER
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1125509
Details
PEMBROKE COLLEGE 1. 942 The Chapel, with Hitcham's Cloister. tl 4458 SE 6/277 26.4.50 I 2. The Chapel 1663-5. By Sir Christopher Wren, extended one bay Eastwards in 1880 by George Gilbert Scott, the existing East end being re-erected. It is the earliest completed work by Wren. Built of Portland stone with a Corinthian order, inspired possibly by Serlio. There is an hexagonal cupola on the roof. Original lead rainwater heads with the initial W the original interior features include an elaborate plaster ceiling, oak communion rails, panelling and stalls, marble pavements and oak reredos, the organ is 1707 by Bernard Smith, restored 1863. Hitcham's Cloister, 1664-6. Six bay arcade, each end one being of the late C19. Ashlared ground floor, range of brick chambers above. All restored in late C19. (RCHM).
Listing NGR: TL4489258042
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Built in 1912, the Simms brush factory was a Saint John landmark until it finally fell to the wrecking ball early in 2014. I still find it a bit difficult to believe they couldn't have found another use for this unique structure. On the other hand, it seems to have been kind of awkwardly situated, with the ground floor below road level at a very busy intersection (known locally as Simms Corner). That could have been a factor; I don't know. What I do know is that this place helped to define the architectural character of industrial Saint John for over a century. It's not the same now . . .
Built in 1919, this old school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Herrick, South Dakota is a charming, though decrepit, community located in Gregory County between Burke and Bonesteel
Built in 1874 and one of Timaru's few remaining bluestone buildings. Registered as a Category 1 Historic Place with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
Note the date of the building - 1874. This is only 20-odd years after the very first buildings went up in Timaru after the Rhodes brothers founded the nearby Levels run in 1851.
Record shot for the NZHPT Images Project
Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and was the only ship of her class. The ship served as the flagship of Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima.
Mikasa, named after Mount Mikasa, was laid down by Vickers at their Barrow-in-Furness shipyard on 24 January 1899. She was launched on 8 November 1900 and completed on 1 March 1902. After a visit to Devonport, she left Plymouth on 13 March 1902, bound for Yokohama, under the command of Captain Hayasaki.
The design of Mikasa was a modified version of the Formidable-class battleships of the Royal Navy with two additional 6-inch (152 mm) guns. Mikasa had an overall length of 432 feet (131.7 m), a beam of 76 feet (23.2 m), and a normal draught of 27 feet 2 inches (8.3 m). She displaced 15,140 long tons (15,380 t) at normal load. The crew numbered about 830 officers and enlisted men.
The Royal Navy's Formidable-class battleships were an eight-ship class of pre-dreadnoughts designed by Sir William White and built in the late 1890s. The class is often further divided into a separate London class, and the London class sometimes is divided further into a separate Queen class. Alongside the King Edward VII class, they were the largest class of battleships built, with eight complete vessels.
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Built by Triumph Werke-Numberg, a subsidiary of the British Triumph Company until 1929, when they went separate ways. TWN produced high quality motorcycles from 1903 to 1957.
Built 1914 Architect - unknown .... in Arts & Crafts style .... Originally built for Colonel Harold Bickford & his family, the estate was named Ranelagh Park. 33 room mansion is currently closed & derelict ....
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Built for the Northern States Power Co. and housed the city's first electrical generators. It was vacant for several years before it was sold to a private party.
Built circa 1890 and was originally a three-story building. By 1914 the third floor had been removed. The Kramer brothers operated a clothing and shoe store here from the late 1800's until 1943.
Built 1936-8 and debt free one month before destruction by bombing in World War Two in 1942. Rebuilt and rededicated in 1951 but the chancel was never built before or after the war. The temporary east wall was finally replaced 1980-81. Glass by Mark Angus of 1980 and 2001.
Built by George IV in the early 19th century, this out-of-place building would look more at home in India than in a modern seaside English resort. It's gaudy and pretentious and pretty cool to see.
For those who think they don't build them like they used to, think again! This is a brand new building, located in downtown Paso Robles, CA. There was a hundred year old building with a clock tower in this location but it was destroyed in the San Simeon Earthquake of December 22, 2003. This was built in its place.
BNSF 4331 was originally built in the Heritage 2 paint scheme. Later in it's life a heritage 1 painted long hood was added to engine, leaving the locomotive in an odd frankenstien paint scheme, one of a few different variations to the typical 3 BNSF schemes. Wrightstown, WI
AWDREY was designed, built and maintained by the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. The system was designed to detect the blast of a nuclear explosion through the registering of the initial and subsequent intense flash generated by the explosion either by the electro-magnetic pulse that the explosion generates or from the flash generated by the blast. From these effects, an estimate the nuclear devices power (yield) could be determined.
The units were not located at all Group Controls, but were located far enough apart that a simultaneous response on two AWDREY units could only be registered as a nuclear explosion and not be triggered from a lightning strike which would generally affect only one AWDREY. A further machine called DIADEM (Direction Indicator of Atomic Detonation by Electronic Means) worked with AWDREY and enabled the identification of the likely bearing of the explosion.
ROC post bomb detection instruments such as the Bomb Power Indicator (BPI) operated by recording the pressure of the blast wave from any nearby nuclear explosion. Any ultra-high-altitude nuclear explosion, designed to knock out the UK's communications and electronic equipment would not produce a detectable blast wave and the AWDREY system was therefore the only method of identifying these bursts
built in 1961 to monitor nuclear explosions and fallout in Yorkshire, in the event of nuclear war.
One of about 30 around the United Kingdom, the building was used throughout its operational existence as the regional headquarters and control centre for the Royal Observer Corps's No. 20 Group YORK between 1961 and 1991. It has become an English Heritage Scheduled Monument and was opened in 2006 by English Heritage as a tourist attraction.
During its Cold War operational period, the building could have supported 60 local volunteer members of the Royal Observer Corps, inclusive of a ten-man United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation scientific warning team. They would have collated details of nuclear bombs exploded within the UK and tracked radioactive fallout across the Yorkshire region, warning the public of its approach. This example of an ROC control building is the only one that is preserved in its operational condition. The others stand derelict or have either been demolished or sold. A few have been converted to other uses, like No. 16 Group Shrewsbury that is now a veterinary clinic, another is a recording studio, two are satellite and communications control centres, and one is a solicitor's file storage facility.
The fully restored building contains air filtration and generating plant, kitchen and canteen, dormitories, radio and landline communication equipment and specialist 1980s computers and a fully equipped operations room with vertical illuminated perspex maps.OOK