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"Strome", the name of this grand Victorian polychromatic brick villa, is found on a name plate on its elaborate parapet.
Built in 1895 for Florence Symms, this fine two story Victorian villa is situated in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North.
"Strome" is a double storey residence of solid polychromatic brick. It is surmounted by an elaborate parapet with a name plate. The cast iron balustrade features lacework that is of a late Victorian design using sunflower motifs and diagonal bands, which adds to the house's overall flamboyance. The cast iron balustrade design appeared in William Stephens Excelsior Foundry Catalogue, in Melbourne in 1901. "Strome" also retains its original corrugated iron roof.
The two giant cypress trees that stand to either side of the front path of "Strome" are heritage listed, and are a local landmark, as the villa stands on the crest of a hill, and the cypress trees are far taller than the double storey villa itself.
Fitzroy North has a distinct character, noted for its prevalence of wide streets and avenues, intact Victorian and Edwardian era terraced housing and for the Edinburgh Gardens, a large inner-city park formerly home to the Fitzroy Football Club. Fitzroy North is adjacent to, and shares a postcode and neighbourhood character with Clifton Hill, both being government subdivisions set on elevated ground and to the same layout by Clement Hodgkinson in the 1870s, and distinct from the earlier narrow and more crowded private subdivisions in the lower lying areas of Fitzroy and Collingwood to the south. Most of Fitzroy North is single and double storey Victorian and Edwardian housing, comprising rows of terraces, with a mixture of semi-attached and freestanding houses on small to moderately sized blocks. Large parts of the suburb are protected by heritage controls. The suburb is relatively intact and consistent in character, having had far less industrial and commercial development in its formative years than its southern namesake.
Class 323 electric multiple unit No. 323209 heads south from Sutton Coldfield station with 2O64, the 15:50 Lichfield Trent Valley to Bromsgrove service on Saturday 7th March 2020. The stone and brick parapet seen here belongs to the bridge that carries Manor Hill over the railway.
I would have preferred to have got more depth of field but as you can see I'd had to go to ISO 1000 already which seemed a bit excessive for four o'clock in the afternoon.
One of two on a parapet on either side of the entrances steps in front of 60 Victoria Embankment, overlooking the River Thames. This is the old Blackfriars City of London School building, now housing part of JP Morgan Asset Management and the view looks west, up the River Thames, with Sion House the first structure in the background.
Both the lamp standards and the building are Grade II listed structures according to Historic England. At the base of the structure are the date 1882 and the label "Coalbrookdale". This ties in nicely with the 1881-1882 construction dates for the school building which was designed by the pair of Scottish architects, Henry David Davis and Barrow Emanuel.
There is some interesting detail on the standard. Above the label is a layer featuring a bearded face, a caduceus and what appears to be a pair of crossed trowels supporting a trident. Of course the fish are the most obvious details but there is also a range of vegetation, including the garland rising up to the lamp above.
I've done this in monochrome as this ensures that the colourful background does not detract from the detail on which I've concentrated.
Built in 1874 during the Gold Rush era that saw Wandiligong's population swell to its largest number, the Manchester Unity hall would have been a focal point for some of the townsfolk. Built of red brick with stone detailing, the hall's parapet featuring the date plaque features some elegant scroll work. The hall is remarkably intact and still has its original supper room below the stage at the rear of the building on the lower level. The hall represents the activities of Friendly Societies in country towns during the Victorian era.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
As a day in early November comes to a close, the setting autumn sun breaks through the trees, lighting up the parapet of the old bridge over the River Shiel and the trees along the riverbank.
Seventh Day Adventist Church. c1820 with C20 alterations and addition. Limestone ashlar, part rendered. Small single cell, single storey hall. West entrance front ashlar, broad plain pilasters flank recessed centre with integrated boot scraper; moulded cornice and stepped parapet with moulded coping. Doorway set in rectangular panel up to cornice, plain surround and row of three marginal glazed lights extending full width of panel above doorhead level. c1920 door with vertical letterbox and gothic panelling.
The top of this unusual double parapet which if you enlarge it, shows the machicolations - openings between the corbels so that defenders could pour boiling oil or drop stones through, to repel invaders. Keen-eyed followers will probably have noticed that all these shots are variations from one vantage point, at the end of Mill Street - like everyone else, I'm really looking forward to being able to visit places again. The castle remained in the hands of the Greville family and Earls of Warwick until 1978, when it was sold to the Tussaud's Group who, faced with a more or less empty interior, created a waxwork tableau of an Edwardian weekend, which I think is very good. Tussaud's are now part of Merlin Entertainments, so (apart from lockdowns) now has lots of 'events', but the overheads must be enormous.
Moonta.
The original occupants of the land around Moonta were the Narrunga people who lived across Yorke Peninsula. Once white settlements appeared in the Copper Triangle towns a group of interdenominational zealots formed a committee in 1867 to set up a mission for Aboriginal people. A year later the group was granted 600 acres of land by the government for the establishment of Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission near Port Victoria. The first superintendent of the Mission was the Reverend Julius Kuhn. White settlement really began in the district in 1861 when Walter Watson Hughes of the Wallaroo run began mining operations at Wallaroo Mines. Patrick Ryan, one of his shepherds had discovered copper ore in a wombat burrow the year before. At that time in the 1860s copper was binging as much as £87 per ton so Walter Hughes became a wealthy man quickly. He developed the mine with capital from Elder Smith and Company and his fellow company directors. The first miners in the Copper Triangle were Cornish miners moving down from Burra. The majority of settlers though came directly as sponsored immigrants from Cornwall. In 1865 some 43% of all immigrants to SA came from Cornwall. This direct migration continued especially after the closure of some big mines in Cornwall in 1866. Mining began at Moonta about the same time as mining at Wallaroo Mines (1861.) Hughes was the major investor in both the Wallaroo Mining Company and the Moonta Mining Company. The smelters for the district were located at Wallaroo. The Moonta Mines were the richest in the whole district and in its first year of operations the Moonta Mines made a profit of £101,000.
One of the first shafts sunk at Moonta was the Ryan shaft, after Watson’s shepherd. From 1864 the mine superintendent was Henry Hancock and consequently the second shaft was named the Hancock shaft. Hancock was the one who made sure the mines operated efficiently. His “reign” lasted until 1898. He also had advanced social welfare ideas for the times and he established a school of mines for the boys and a library for the miners. By 1876 under Hancock’s expert management the mine had produced £1,000,000 in dividends. Upon his retirement in 1898 Hancock’s son took over management of the Moonta mines which had been amalgamated with the Wallaroo mines into one company in 1890. Mining operations at Moonta were complex and some shafts exceeded 700 metres in depth. This created problems with water (and heat for the miners) so large pump houses were required such as the Hughes Engine House which still stands, albeit in ruins. The Moonta mine lasted for over sixty years and Cornish miners influenced the style of buildings in the town and the design of pump and engines houses as they were all the same as those in Cornwall. Some engines were made in Cornish foundries but others were made by James Martin‘s large foundry in Gawler. After World War One the price of copper fell dramatically and the mines became financially unviable and closed in 1923. Their heyday had been between 1900 and 1910 when much of the mining equipment had been replaced and modernised and prices were good, but a disastrous underground fire in 1904 in Taylor’s shaft began a slow decline in returns for the mine investors.
The Copper Triangle towns of Moonta-Wallaroo- Kadina had 12,000 people by 1890, representing about 10% of Adelaide’s population which was only 130,000. Consequently government services for the area were given priority and by 1878 the Triangle had a daily rail connecting service to Adelaide via Port Wakefield, Balaklava and Hamley Bridge. Apart from their mining skills the Cornish brought with them their religious faith hence the numerous Methodist chapels and churches in the area. All three branches of Methodism were well represented- Bible Christian Methodists, Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Methodists. The 1891 census showed that 80% of the residents of the Moonta district were Methodists. Not surprisingly the Moonta Methodist Circuit (like a synod) had more church members than the big circuits in Adelaide such as Pirie Street, Norwood or Kent Town. The old Methodist Church at Moonta Mines was built in 1865 and with its gallery it can hold 1,250 worshippers. It seldom gets 50 worshippers these days! At one stage there were 14 Methodist churches in Moonta with a further 10 in Wallaroo/Kadina. As the Cornish used to say “Methodist churches are as common as currents in a cake.” The pulpits of the churches provided good training ground for public speaking as lay preachers were often used in these churches. One such trainee was John Verran who was Premier of SA between 1910-12. He once remarked “he was a MP because he was a PM” i.e Primitive Methodist!
The miners built their own cottages on the mining lands so many were poorly built and did not last but some still remain. In 1878 the very large Moonta Mines School opened as a model school. It soon had an enrolment of 1,000 children, although it was built to accommodate 800. Today the old school is the town museum. The biggest problem facing the Cornish miners was a lack of water. There are no rivers on Yorke Peninsula. Rainwater was gathered from puddles in roads and from roofs and in 1863, in just one week, 110 deaths were registered during a typhoid outbreak. The Moonta cemetery has many sad tales to tell and it is well worth a visit. Reticulated water was not piped to the town until 1890 when the pipeline from Beetaloo Reservoir reached the town and ended the summer typhoid outbreaks. Moonta was declared a town in 1863; the local Council was instituted in 1872; and by 1873 the town had 80 businesses, five hotels, numerous churches, its own newspaper, four banks and an Institute. A horse tramway connected the suburbs of Moonta Mines, Moonta and Moonta Bay. Other “suburban” areas of Moonta were Yelta, North Yelta, Cross Roads and Hamley Flat. When the mines closed in 1923 many left the town and it had a population of just over 1,000 people in 1980. Today it has a population of just over 4,000 people.
Moonta Historical Walk.
1. Moonta Area School, Blanche Terrace. Selina Hancock first started a licensed school on this site, with 41 children, in 1865. After the passing of the compulsory school act of 1875, a school building was erected by the Colonial Architect in 1877, at a cost of £6,400– a large sum for those days. The local builders were Rossiter and Davies and almost immediately the school had an enrolment of 800 – a solid number of students! The school was extended further in 1903. The original school had six classrooms plus three other large rooms (65’ by 24’), one for boys and one for girls and another for infants. Until 1978 this was the Moonta Primary School.
2. St Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, Blanche Terrace. This simple Gothic style limestone building was completed in 1869. Priests from Kadina serviced this church. Four buttresses support each side. The modern additions on the sides of the building unfortunately detract from its general appearance.
3. The Masonic Temple, Blanche Terrace. This magnificent Italian style building was completed in 1875. It has cement dressings and fine fretwork quoins. It is believed to be the oldest purpose built Masonic Temple still used for that purpose in Australia. The first lodge meetings were held in Moonta in July 1868 as lodges were strongly supported by the Cornish miners. The interior was especially fine and described in 1899 as having ornate ceilings, with chocolate, gold and salmon coloured scrolls painted on the walls. It has a fine tile floor and wooden benches and fittings. The building was fitted out in 1899 with gas hanging lamps. Like most Masonic Temples it has half windows only. The side and rear parts of the building are like a medieval crenulated castle. A good limestone garden wall surrounds the whole complex.
4. All Saints Anglican Church, corner of Blanche Terrace & Milne Terrace. This limestone church with brick quoins has a fine hammer and beam ceiling inside. The bell was made of local copper in 1874, whilst the church itself dates from 1873. The bell was donated by the Wallaroo Smelter Company. It stands in a separate wooden bell structure on the west side of the church. Unfortunately the original slate roof was replaced with asbestos imitation slate in 1973. The stone is local and the bricks were made at the Woods Brickyard at Moonta Mines. It is commonly regarded as the Anglican “cathedral” church of Yorke Peninsula. Note the fine triangular stone windows above the larger Gothic windows. Stone was left near the doorway for the addition of a stone porch that has not happened yet! The adjoining church hall was built in 1903.
5. School of Mines, Ellen Street on cnr of Robert Street. This important building was built in two stages, the southern half being built in 1866 as a Baptist Chapel (with a manse next door). In 1891 it became the School of Mines, the first school outside Adelaide for the training of adults and youths in trades and bookwork. The northern half of the School of Mines was built in 1903 to match the southern half. It is a fine limestone building in the Gothic style with a pediment to the roofline. When the School of Mines opened in 1891 it started with 33 students and a government grant of £200 per annum. The first subjects taught were Mine Surveying, Mechanical Drawing and Mathematics. By 1896 there were 100 students enrolled and by 1898 this had grown to 275 students. New subjects were added to the curriculum such as Sheet Metalwork, Plumbing, Carpentry, Bookkeeping and Metallurgy. Scholarships were made available to underground mine workers and early in the 20th century the government grant increased to £1000 per annum. There is a stable block next to the building.
6. Bible Christian Church, Cnr Henry and Robert Streets. This imposing and distinctive old church dating from 1873 was built for the Bible Christians. It was built by Nettle and Thor. In 1913 it was sold to the Church of Christ but it has been unused for religious services for many years and is now almost derelict. It is a Romanesque style church with a grand arched central doorway with three small Romanesque arched windows above. It is one of the most distinctive buildings in Moonta. Made of local stone, it has a fine finial on top of the gable façade. As with most Romanesque style buildings it has relatively small windows and this gives an impression of mass and solidness. Note the fretwork dividing the windows. The triple arched rounded windows above the doors are typical of this style of building.
7. The Uniting Church, Robert Street facing Queen’s Square. This former Wesleyan Methodist Church is a grand building reflecting the prominence of Methodism amongst the Cornish miners of Moonta. £4,000 was raised to build this church in 1873. Its Gothic style is offset with some fine Mintaro slate steps and a slate roof. The pulpit, large enough to hold four speakers, is a decorative example made of imported Bath stone from England. Delabole Slate Yards in Willunga carved it. The main window facing the street and square displays stone tracery dividing the stained glass panels. The church has seven buttresses and the symmetry of the façade is emphasised by four stone spires. It is a fine example of a Gothic style church designed by architect Roland Rees. The church was placed alongside the town square to indicate its importance to the town. Mining company officials and the first Mayor of Moonta, Mr Drew worshipped here. He laid the foundation stone on October 6th 1873. The adjoining hall was built in 1866.
8. Polly Bennet’s Shop, Robert Street facing Queen’s Square. This interesting little shop was a fashionable milliner’s shop. The wealthiest of the Methodist ladies purchased their hats here to wear to the Sunday services. The shop was built between 1864 and 1874. It is a nondescript little building only of historical interest because of its links to the premier Moonta Methodist congregation.
9. Queen’s Square. This attractive town square was named after Queen Victoria. It was planted and laid out in 1897 – (the 25th anniversary of the town) and in the centre a fountain commemorates the work of Charles Drew. The pretty cast iron three tiered fountain was erected in 1893. A rotunda for bands and concerts was also erected in 1893, but pulled down in 1947. However a modern replica was later erected. Some of the trees planted in 1897 include Moreton Bay Figs, Tamarisks and Norfolk Island Pines. Until 1945 the square was fenced.
10. Moonta Town Hall, George Street facing the Square. This prominent structure was built in 1885 as the fourth local institute, using volunteer labour. Mrs Corpe, wife of the then chairman of the Institute committee and a major Moonta mines investor, laid the foundation stone and the Governor of South Australia, Sir W. C. F. Robinson opened the building. Thomas Smeaton of Adelaide designed it. The grand design reflects the prosperity of the times for Moonta. It has a three storey clock tower with French metal roof, classical half round windows, and the ground level window sills have the original metal spikes on them to stop loitering! The clock tower was added in 1907 and the new clock faces were fitted in 1963. Around 1907 the Institute became the Town Hall. In 1928 some internal remodelling saw the introduction of a cinema room and Art Deco entrance leadlight doors. Outside the Town Hall is a cast iron drinking fountain erected in 1890 to commemorate the arrival of reservoir water from Beetaloo Dam.
11. Shop – formerly an Institute Building at 55 George Street. This quaint building was the third Institute erected in Moonta. It dates from 1870. The land was donated by David Bowers for the Institute. It is a classical designed building with Greek triangular pediments above the two doors and a rounded arch over the central window. It has had many uses in latter years. The current veranda ruins the classical appearance of the building and it must be seen from across the street to appreciate its architecture. Note the round louvred roof vent.
12. Former Bank of South Australia, 46 George Street. Built in 1864, this was the first bank in Moonta. It later became the Union Bank. The arched porch is very distinctive and the quoins around the windows and corners give the building an attractive frontage. The Moonta Mining Company banked here.
13. Prince of Wales Hotel, George and Ellen Streets. This pug, limestone and plaster building is one of the oldest in Moonta, dating from 1863, which was the year the town was laid out. The first meetings of the Moonta Council were held here and the first licensee of the hotel was Mr Weekes. The hotel lost its licence in 1911. It has been an antique shop for many years. It is one of the few partly pug buildings left in Moonta as opposed to Moonta Mines which has many pug buildings. Its large 160,000 gallon rain water tank was used by many townspeople in times of drought.
14. Old Union Bank, Ellen Street. This grand façade dates from 1865 when it was opened as the Bank of South Australia, later becoming the Union Bank in 1892 and trading as a bank until 1943. The façade is noted for its classical arches, symmetry and balustrades along the parapet roof. This is the finest commercial building in Moonta. A fine photograph of the building and Ellen Street in 1874 appears on the cover of Philip Payton’s, Pictorial History of Australia’s Little Cornwall, Rigby, Adelaide, 1978. Note the wooden louvred rounded window on the southern wall, the bricked up one, and the five half rounded windows of grand proportions and two half rounded doors on the front. Note the fine scrollwork around the windows. You can still faintly see “Union Bank” on the front parapet.
15. Cornwall Hotel, Cnr Ellen and Ryan Streets. This old public house was licensed and erected in 1865 with the upper storey added in 1890. The wood worked veranda clearly dates the upstairs to this time. There are four stables for coaches at the rear. It is a solid limestone building with cement rendered quoins.
16. Post Office, Ryan Street opposite Cornwall Hotel. This typical Georgian style Post Office was built in 1866, one of the early buildings of Moonta. The bull-nosed veranda was added in 1909 destroying the Georgian appearance of the building. Note the fine semi-circular small paned windows - half rounded and rectangular. This complex included the postmaster’s residence. A similar style police station next door was demolished in the 1960’s.
17. Druid’s Hall, Ryan Street. This small gothic building was erected as an Anglican schoolroom in 1866 and taken over by the Druids in 1902. Its simple façade with a gable, scrolls and Gothic arched windows is quite pleasing.
18. Royal Hotel, Cnr Ryan Street and Blanche Terrace. Dating from 1865 this is one of the three original hotels of Moonta. Originally it was called the Globe. After fire damage it was extensively rebuilt in 1885. The upper storey is an unusual mixture of half rounded windows with rectangular doors! The Ryan Street façade has a beautiful Art Nouveau style leadlight semi-circular window.
19. Moonta Railway Station and Information Centre. A display of old photographs and a number of books are available for reading here etc. The building is a typical Art Nouveau style station that was built in a number of South Australian country towns. Although there was a horse tramway between Wallaroo and Moonta as early as 1866 the government did not acquire the line until 1878. It was then converted to a 3’6” rail gauge track in 1891 with the first train arriving from Wallaroo in 1892. This line was converted to the usual South Australian 5’3’’ gauge at the time when the station was built in 1914. The building cost £2,000. The last passenger train to Adelaide ran in 1969 and the line closed in 1979.
20. Moonta Cemetery. Just 5 minutes’ walk from the Anglican Church is the cemetery established in 1866 just 5 years after mining began. The first recorded burial was for the infant son of the licensee of the Cornwall Hotel (then known as the Globe). There is a fine Gothic style gatehouse and a limestone wall complete with broken glass atop, surrounding the cemetery which was completed in 1874. The cemetery bell was erected in 1896 from local copper and cast in Adelaide by Horwood and Company. The bell called mourners to funerals. A small area of the cemetery was allocated for Jewish burials in 1875. It is located along the eastern wall (ie on your left when standing at the gatehouse) opposite the old original toilet block, which is on the right hand wall of the cemetery. The “new” section of the cemetery begins immediately beyond the Jewish section. The “new” section was opened in 1897! The area to the left of the main entrance is for unmarked children’s graves. There is a small memorial to them all. As noted previously typhoid and other epidemics caused by lack of freshwater caused many childhood deaths. This area also has an unusual wooden “headstone” dating from 1865 for Samuel Jones, which predates the opening of the cemetery! The cemetery has about 9,000 burials in it. In the 19th century over a quarter of all deaths recorded were of people 21 years or younger.
Using a public bridge for this kind of stunt is theoretically forbidden by local authorities, but this official prohibition does only add to the macho-male credentials to be gained by doing it...
Mr black-shorts chickened out of performing a proper dive from a standing position atop the parapet, choosing to crouch on the ledge just below instead...This is why he had to jump backwards, and, in the course of a bungled somersault, finds himself in this rather inelegant posture, offering a prime view of his outstretched bottom to the assembly of gawkers 😋
BTW : with only one girl among the crowd of onlookers, this does not look so promising as a hetero mating strategy😉 Maybe he had other targets in his sights? 2 👬 seem to have him in theirs ;-)
Style:
Ocean drive hotel, Art Deco.
Unusually asymmetrical stepped ziggurat parapet roofline; Glass block ornamentation at basement entry; Verticality emphasized in low relief bow-fluted ornamentation above every window; Split-flight stairway; Stairway hidden behind a ziggurat parapet wall; Cast iron ornamentation around primary entryway and raised porch completed in the common Art Deco "fountain" design
Architectural Description:
This is a 10-story, 10-bay domestic building in the Art Deco style built in 1935. The structural system is concrete block stucco. The foundation is reinforced concrete. Exterior walls are original stucco. The building has a flat with parapet roof. Windows are replacement aluminum single-hung sashes. There is a single-story, six-bay porch characterized by an integrated (under the main) roof. Unusual for Ocean Drive, the historic porch is raised one story and accessed by a split-flight staircase; Tile flooring; Metal railing and ornamentation styled after common Art Deco "fountain" design The original primary entryway appears to have been up the split-flight staircase and through the raised porch. Presently, however, the building serves multiple functions (restaurants, bars, retail space) and so no one distinct primary entryway is apparent. There is an additional entryway (records show it is the entry into the basement level) level with the street, directly south of the original tiled fountain, ornamented by fluted pilasters and glass block.
Historic Designation:
National (Miami Beach Architectural District, 1979)
Local (Ocean Drive/Collins Avenue District, 1986)
* Date source: City of Miami Beach Building Department records
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www.ruskinarc.com/mdpl/search/4660-1330%20Ocean%20Dr/view
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A hot Late May Bank Holiday Weekend return visit to Baddesley Clinton.
Grade I Listed Building
Baddesley Clinton House and Bridge over Moat
Listing Text
BADESLEY CLINTON
SP 17 SE
1/1 Baddesley Clinton House
11.4.67 and bridge over moat
(formerly listed as
Baddesley Clinton Hall,
including bridge over
moat)
GV I
Manor house. Late C15, on earlier site; south-east range refronted c.1736: late
C19 service wing added to north-east side of south-west range designed and built
by Edward Heneage Dering. Courtyard plan. North-east range: stone ashlar; old
brick flues, bridge end stack to right with octagonal brick flue. 2-storey,
6-window range. Gatehouse at right of centre: 4-centred outer archway encloses
4-centred doorway with spandrels. Panelled and studded door to inner doorway.
6-light stone mullion and transom window to first floor. Battlemented parapet
to gatehouse. 2-light stone mullion window with 4-centre arched heads to
lights, at left of centre 3-light stone mullion window with 4-centre arched
heads to lights, at right,. 5-light stone mullion window to left of centre. Two
3-light stone mullion windows, with flat stone arches having keystones, to
left. Continuous hoodmould to right, and to left of centre. 4-light stone
mullion window to first floor right. 3-light stone mullion window to first
floor right of centre. 4-light stone mullion window to first floor left of
centre. Two 3-light stone mullion window to first floor left. South-east
range: red brick; old plain-tile roof; various brick stacks,with octagonal or
diagonally set brick flues, 2 storey A-window range. Irregular fenestration,
mostly of C18 three-light wood casements with segmental brick heads. south-west
range: stone ashlar; old plain-tile roof; various brick stacks. 2-storey,
6-window range. Irregular fenestration, mostly of 3-light stone mullion
windows. Single-storey addition to centre with hipped old plain-tile roof, has
2 round-arched blind recesses to moat. Wood casement window to ground floor.
Courtyard: irregular fenestration. Interior: entrance hall has close-studded
timber-framing to walls. Great hall has stone fireplace of decorative pillars
supporting a frieze and atlantes flanking rectangular panel with round heraldic
central panel with strapwork surroundings. Dining room has late C16 panelling
and carved wood fireplace with pillars supporting a frieze and with richly
carved central heraldic panel. Drawing room has C17 panelling and chimney piece
placed here C18 Henry Ferrers' Bedroom, also known as the state bedroom has
panelling and chimney-piece of c.1629. Other rooms also have panelling and
carved chimney pieces. Bridge. Early C18. Red brick. 2 round arches, plain
brick parapet. History: site held by the Clintons, then was bought by John
Brome in 1438. Held by the Brome family, and passed by inheritance to the
Ferrers family in 1517. Henry Ferrers (1549-1633) carried out much work at the
house.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire: 1966, pp8l-82; Baddesley Clinton: national
Trust Guide Book, 1986)
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Listing NGR: SP1995071467
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Published in the Birmingham Mail TalkBack page as Picture of the Day on Friday 2nd June 2023.
Historical Background. Edward Gibbon Wakefield established the New Zealand Company to settle the land in 1839 just after the establishment of SA. He began his settlements in Wellington with his brother in charge, followed by later settlements in Whanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson. He also established the Canterbury Association with Robert Godley for the settlement of Christchurch in 1848. NZ was established as a serious of very separate settlements and the major cities of NZ today reflect that early history. His original Wellington settlement covered the area from Wellington to Napier and Hastings. Napier was a favoured spot in the Hawkes Bay region (named by Captain Cook in 1769) as it had a good port. The Crown purchased land from the Maoris in 1851 in Hawkes Bay. Before this purchase in 1851 William Colenso, a Cornishman had established a mission station here to work with the Maori in 1844. He was dismissed from the Missionary Society in 1852 as he had fathered a child with their Maori maid in 1850.His wife separated from him in 1853 but they never divorced. Colenso stayed on as a settler in Hawkes Bay. He became a MP for Napier in the national parliament in 1861. The illegitimate son Wiremu left NZ when he grew up and returned to live in Cornwall. A few settlers began to arrive in Hawks Bay around 1852 and in 1854 a town named Napier was laid out. It was named after Sir Charles Napier the British Army Commander in Chief in India who had died in 1853. As more settlers came to Hawkes Bay in the mid-1850s a public meeting in Napier moved to separate from the province of Wellington which they did in 1858. The port and the rich agricultural lands of Hawkes Bay provided wealth to the city of Napier. The region was known as a major export port of NZ wool. More recently it has become known as the fruit bowl on NZ. It produces kiwi fruits, grapes (for wine), stone fruits etc. Timber is also exported from the port of Napier. Just a few kilometres away is the city of Hastings. Napier has around 62,000 inhabitants and Hastings 80,000. The district has 165,000 residents.
The coastal flood plains are traversed by five rivers flowing down from the central tablelands and volcanic area. The major river is the Wairoa River. Hawkes Bay is a very seismically active region of NZ with over 50 damaging earthquakes recorded since 1800 but only 6 of these have occurred since 1934. The early 1930s was a dramatic period for Hawkes Bay. A major earthquake occurred on 3rd February 1931 followed by subsequent earthquakes over the next three years. The 7.8 scale earthquake of 1931 was centred 15 kilometres from Napier. It struck mid-morning and killed 256 people and injured thousands with over 400 hundred admitted to hospital. Hundreds of aftershocks resulted. It remains NZ worst earthquake eclipsing even the more recent Christchurch earthquakes for damage and death. Most of the buildings of the city centres of Napier and Hastings were destroyed. Hawkes Bay lies almost directly on the fault line caused by the abutting of the Australia and Pacific tectonic plates. The coastline at Napier was raised two metres with 40 square kilometres of seabed being raised to create dry land! A 4,000 acre lagoon was drained and today Hawkes Bay airport, industrial estates and new housing lies on this reclaimed land. The earthquake set off fires (and many buildings were made of wood) and the fires raged for several day destroying what was left of some buildings. Fires were controlled very quickly in Hastings. The two cities were quite quickly rebuilt with government support within two years at the height of the Depression. Building regulations were changed and well-known architects rebuilt the cities in Art Deco style influenced by the rise of California with its Aztec and Spanish influenced Art Deco architecture. Even today there are only four specially designed buildings taller than five storeys in Napier. On a more positive note Napier decided to prosper from the earthquake and its Art Deco heritage. The Art Deco Trust was formed in 1985 and still operates an internationally recognised Art Deco festival each year in February. With local government support the Art Deco Trust employs 10 people and uses the services of 120 volunteers. It operates a shop, it runs tours, it turns over more than $1.5 a year and it prints publications etc. It encourages the preservation of Napier’s Art Deco buildings and helps with restoration. It attracts around 25,000 people to Napier each year. Citizens of Napier dress in 1930s style for the Festival, vintage cars from the era are part of the festival, a public great Gatsby arty is held in a city park, movie events, art shows, many jazz musical events, balls, dinners, parades, and an Art Deco spotter competition are all part of the festival. The Art Deco Trust shop opens all year selling 1930s hats, women’s’ fashion, jewellery, Art Deco style statues, glassware, china, books, posters etc. Among the 200 events is the Art Deco Dog Parade. I wonder what that is?
What is special about Napier and Art Deco? Art Deco as a design and architectural style emerged at the Paris Exhibition of 1925. It became popular throughout the 1920s, 1930s and even into the 1940s. The style was applied to buildings, especially American skyscrapers, jewellery, china, lighting, furniture, etc. Unlike the Art Nouveau style which had emerged around 1900 with colours, curves and flowing detail the Art Deco style was rectangular, geometric and modern industrial techniques were used to achieve this style doing away with handicraft and hand worked items. Just think of the designs used in the Poirot detective TV series from Agatha Christie. The designers drew their inspirations from old European, Mayan, Aztec, and in the case of New Zealand, Maori design elements. The European influences led to the Spanish Mission style of architecture with simulated adobe brick, rounded terracotta window shades, roof tiles, roof parapets etc. The American influences developed Mayan and Aztec and sometimes North American Indian elements with zigzags, stepped patterns etc. One special feature of Art Deco buildings was the colourful and soft pastel shades of varying depths of colour used on the decorative features. Art Deco buildings can be found across the world with many in Adelaide but unlike Napier there is no concentration of buildings in any one area and they have not been maintained since the 1930s. Art Deco buildings in Adelaide no longer have some of the design elements as they have been removed with modernisation, the colour schemes have been painted out and often replaced with current gaudy or grey colour schemes designed to hide the Art Deco elements. But several country towns in SA have many Art Deco buildings as they were being built and developed in the early 1930s – for example, Barmera and Renmark in the Riverland. Art Deco was popular for 1930s hotels in Adelaide and suburbs and Art Deco, especially the Spanish Mission style was popular for domestic housing in the 1930s. Napier, along with Miami in Florida and Santa Barbara in California have concentrations of Art Deco buildings, but Miami has especially grand multi storey buildings in the Art Deco style that you do not find in Napier. Napier Art Deco Trust applied for UNESCO World Heritage status for the city and its Art Deco heritage but this was rejected. Napier is special because of the earthquake behind the erection of the Art Deco buildings and the use of Maori motifs in some of its buildings.
Within days of the earthquake the NZ government established a Rehabilitation Committee and all houses could have one chimney repaired free of charge before residents re-occupied their homes. The government loaned money to start the rebuilding of commercial premises (but not to banks or international companies) near Civic Square. Loans were granted interest free for up to three years for commercial businesses. Two government Commissioners were appointed to oversee works and loans. They immediately contacted some Napier architects. The architects sought out ideas from American architectural pattern books and photographs and the five leading architectural practices agreed to share their limited resources and to rebuild with the city with a sense of unity and common style. The leading architectural firms were Finch and Westerholm who specialised in Spanish Mission style; Louis Hay a local who was influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright in America and his best building was the National Tobacco Company building; Natusch & Sons who specialised in houses and restrained Art Deco style; E A Williams who produced some quite flamboyant buildings; and J T Watson who became the Napier Borough Architect and is known for the Colonnade, Sunbay, Parker Fountain, esplanade Soundshell and the Egyptian inspired Municipal Theatre. Most of the central business district of
Dés qu'on parvient Fondamenta San Felice, on aperçoit le Pont Chiodo.
C'est le denier pont sans rambarde du centre historique, tel qu'ils étaient autrefois à Venise.
C'est un pont sans parapet, aux marches profondes et peu élevées.
C'est sur ce genre de pont qu'avaient lieu autrefois des jeux, voire des rixes entre factions de différents quartiers.
Dés qu'on parvient Fondamenta San Felice, on aperçoit le Pont Chiodo.
C'est le denier pont sans rambarde du centre historique, tel qu'ils étaient autrefois à Venise.
C'est un pont sans parapet, aux marches profondes et peu élevées.
C'est sur ce genre de pont qu'avaient lieu autrefois des jeux, voire des rixes entre factions de différents quartiers.
cannaregio.
As soon as one reaches Fondamenta San Felice, one sees the bridge Chiodo.
It's the penny bridge without railing of the historical center, as they once were in Venice.
It is a bridge without a parapet, steps and deep low.
It is on this kind of bridge which had been formerly held games, and even fights between factions of different neighborhoods.
As soon as one reaches Fondamenta San Felice, one sees the bridge Chiodo.
It's the penny bridge without railing of the historical center, as they once were in Venice.
It is a bridge without a parapet, steps and deep low.
It is on this kind of bridge which had been formerly held games, and even fights between factions of different neighborhoods.
cannaregio.
Fourth visit to Baddesley Clinton. But the first since all restrictions were lifted. On our last visit, the house was closed.
So this is the second time of going inside of the house (in over four years).
The moat was mostly clear, but made some nice reflections around autumn time.
Grade I Listed Building
Baddesley Clinton House and Bridge over Moat
Listing Text
BADESLEY CLINTON
SP 17 SE
1/1 Baddesley Clinton House
11.4.67 and bridge over moat
(formerly listed as
Baddesley Clinton Hall,
including bridge over
moat)
GV I
Manor house. Late C15, on earlier site; south-east range refronted c.1736: late
C19 service wing added to north-east side of south-west range designed and built
by Edward Heneage Dering. Courtyard plan. North-east range: stone ashlar; old
brick flues, bridge end stack to right with octagonal brick flue. 2-storey,
6-window range. Gatehouse at right of centre: 4-centred outer archway encloses
4-centred doorway with spandrels. Panelled and studded door to inner doorway.
6-light stone mullion and transom window to first floor. Battlemented parapet
to gatehouse. 2-light stone mullion window with 4-centre arched heads to
lights, at left of centre 3-light stone mullion window with 4-centre arched
heads to lights, at right,. 5-light stone mullion window to left of centre. Two
3-light stone mullion windows, with flat stone arches having keystones, to
left. Continuous hoodmould to right, and to left of centre. 4-light stone
mullion window to first floor right. 3-light stone mullion window to first
floor right of centre. 4-light stone mullion window to first floor left of
centre. Two 3-light stone mullion window to first floor left. South-east
range: red brick; old plain-tile roof; various brick stacks,with octagonal or
diagonally set brick flues, 2 storey A-window range. Irregular fenestration,
mostly of C18 three-light wood casements with segmental brick heads. south-west
range: stone ashlar; old plain-tile roof; various brick stacks. 2-storey,
6-window range. Irregular fenestration, mostly of 3-light stone mullion
windows. Single-storey addition to centre with hipped old plain-tile roof, has
2 round-arched blind recesses to moat. Wood casement window to ground floor.
Courtyard: irregular fenestration. Interior: entrance hall has close-studded
timber-framing to walls. Great hall has stone fireplace of decorative pillars
supporting a frieze and atlantes flanking rectangular panel with round heraldic
central panel with strapwork surroundings. Dining room has late C16 panelling
and carved wood fireplace with pillars supporting a frieze and with richly
carved central heraldic panel. Drawing room has C17 panelling and chimney piece
placed here C18 Henry Ferrers' Bedroom, also known as the state bedroom has
panelling and chimney-piece of c.1629. Other rooms also have panelling and
carved chimney pieces. Bridge. Early C18. Red brick. 2 round arches, plain
brick parapet. History: site held by the Clintons, then was bought by John
Brome in 1438. Held by the Brome family, and passed by inheritance to the
Ferrers family in 1517. Henry Ferrers (1549-1633) carried out much work at the
house.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire: 1966, pp8l-82; Baddesley Clinton: national
Trust Guide Book, 1986)
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Listing NGR: SP1995071467
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Angkor Thom located in present-day Cambodia, was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer Empire. It was established in the late twelfth century by King Jayavarman VII. 170 It covers an area of 9 km², within which are located several monuments from earlier eras as well as those established by Jayavarman and his successors. At the centre of the city is Jayavarman's state temple, the Bayon, with the other major sites clustered around the Victory Square immediately to the north. The site is one of the major tourist attractions of southeast Asia.
Angkor Thom (Khmer: អង្គរធំ) is the transform name from another alternative name of Nokor Thom (Khmer: នគរធំ), which is believed to be the correct one, due to neglect of calling it in incorrect pronunciation. The word Nokor (Khmer: នគរ, Nôkô) is literally derived from Sanskrit word of Nagara (Devanāgarī: नगर), which means City, combining with Khmer word Thom (Khmer: ធំ, Thum), which means Big or Great so as to form Nokor Thom then being altered to current name of Angkor Thom.
Angkor Thom was established as the capital of Jayavarman VII's empire, and was the centre of his massive building program. One inscription found in the city refers to Jayavarman as the groom and the city as his bride.: 121
Angkor Thom seems not to be the first Khmer capital on the site, however. Yasodharapura, dating from three centuries earlier, was centred slightly further northwest, and Angkor Thom overlapped parts of it. The most notable earlier temples within the city are the former state temple of Baphuon, and Phimeanakas, which was incorporated into the Royal Palace. The Khmers did not draw any clear distinctions between Angkor Thom and Yashodharapura: even in the fourteenth century an inscription used the earlier name.: 138 The name of Angkor Thom—great city—was in use from the 16th century.
The last temple known to have been constructed in Angkor Thom was Mangalartha, which was dedicated in 1295. Thereafter the existing structures continued to be modified from time to time, but any new creations were in perishable materials and have not survived.
The Ayutthaya Kingdom, led by King Borommarachathirat II, sacked Angkor Thom, forcing the Khmers under Ponhea Yat to relocate their capital southeast to Phnom Penh.: 29
Angkor Thom was abandoned some time prior to 1609, when an early western visitor wrote of an uninhabited city, "as fantastic as the Atlantis of Plato".: 140 It is believed to have sustained a population of 80,000–150,000 people.
The Poem of Angkor Wat composed in Khmer verse in 1622 describes the beauty of Angkor Thom.
Angkor Thom is in the Bayon style. This manifests itself in the large scale of the construction, in the widespread use of laterite, in the face-towers at each of the entrances to the city and in the naga-carrying giant figures which accompany each of the towers.
The city lies on the west bank of the Siem Reap River, a tributary of Tonle Sap, about a quarter of a mile from the river. The south gate of Angkor Thom is 7.2 km north of Siem Reap, and 1.7 km north of the entrance to Angkor Wat. The walls, 8 m high and flanked by a moat, are each 3 km long, enclosing an area of 9 km². The walls are of laterite buttressed by earth, with a parapet on the top. There are gates at each of the cardinal points, from which roads lead to the Bayon at the centre of the city. As the Bayon itself has no wall or moat of its own, those of the city are interpreted by archaeologists as representing the mountains and oceans surrounding the Bayon's Mount Meru.[8]: 81 Another gate—the Victory Gate—is 500 m north of the east gate; the Victory Way runs parallel to the east road to the Victory Square and the Royal Palace north of the Bayon. It is around 30 minutes from central Siem Reap.
The faces on the 23 m towers at the city gates, which are later additions to the main structure, take after those of the Bayon and pose the same problems of interpretation. They may represent the king himself, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, guardians of the empire's cardinal points, or some combination of these. A causeway spans the moat in front of each tower: these have a row of devas on the left and asuras on the right, each row holding a naga in the attitude of a tug-of-war. This appears to be a reference to the myth, popular in Angkor, of the Churning of the Sea of Milk. The temple-mountain of the Bayon, or perhaps the gate itself,: 82 would then be the pivot around which the churning takes place. The nagas may also represent the transition from the world of men to the world of the gods (the Bayon), or be guardian figures. The gateways themselves are 3.5 by 7 m, and would originally have been closed with wooden doors.: 82 The south gate is now by far the most often visited, as it is the main entrance to the city for tourists. At each corner of the city is a Prasat Chrung—corner shrine—built of sandstone and dedicated to Avalokiteshvara. These are cruciform with a central tower, and orientated towards the east.
Within the city was a system of canals, through which water flowed from the northeast to the southwest. The bulk of the land enclosed by the walls would have been occupied by the secular buildings of the city, of which nothing remains. This area is now covered by forest.
Most of the great Angkor ruins have vast displays of bas-relief depicting the various gods, goddesses, and other-worldly beings from the mythological stories and epic poems of ancient Hinduism (modified by centuries of Buddhism). Mingled with these images are actual known animals, like elephants, snakes, fish, and monkeys, in addition to dragon-like creatures that look like the stylized, elongated serpents (with feet and claws) found in Chinese art.
But among the ruins of Ta Prohm, near a huge stone entrance, one can see that the "roundels on pilasters on the south side of the west entrance are unusual in design."
What one sees are roundels depicting various common animals—pigs, monkeys, water buffaloes, roosters and snakes. There are no mythological figures among the roundels, so one can reasonably conclude that these figures depict the animals that were commonly seen by the ancient Khmer people in the twelfth century.
The Charles Bridge in the heart of Prague is lined with statues, standing on parapets on both sides. There 30 of them altogether, plus one statue standing aside on a pillar at Kampa Island. Most of the statues are from 1706 – 1714. They were ordered for the bridge by aristocrats, by the Church, the City of Prague and by universities. They were created by important sculptors of the era – for example Matthias Braun or Jan Brokoff.
Some of the statues were damaged by floods during the centuries and they were replaced by replicas. The originals can be seen in the Lapidary of the National Museum or in the Gorlice hall at Vysehrad.
Statue that brings luck – St. John of Nepomuk
The statue of St. John of Nepomuk is the oldest statue on the Charles Bridge. It was made by Jan Brokoff in 1683. It is made of bronze and it became an obligatory iconographic model for many other statues of this saint made in Bohemia and abroad. St. John of Nepomuk was a parson, who refused to betray a secret, confided to him by Queen Sophia, to the king Wenceslas IV. He was tortured on the king´s demand and then thrown to the river Vltava from the Charles Bridge in 1393. The inseparable attributes of St. John of Nepomuk statue are the five stars, a surplice, a cross and a martyr´s palm tree. The five stars allegedly appeared above the river, after the martyr was thrown there. They are supposed to symbolize the five letters of Latin word “tacet”, which means “silent”. There is a brassy cross with five stars at the place on the parapet, where he was thrown to the river. If you place your hand on the cross, so that every finger will touch one star, you can wish something and it will be fulfilled. People also touch the relief on the statue for luck.
Crucifix statue
You can see a Crucifix statue on the right side of the Charles Bridge. A cross stood there as a first decoration of the bridge already in the 14 th century and it was changed several times later. The present bronze gilded cross was bought for the Charles Bridge in 1657. There is a gilded inscription on the pedestal, saying “Saint, saint, saint is the God of the crowds”. It was said, that the inscription was gilded on the expense of a Jew, who sneered at the Crucifix. However, this story is not true, and that´s why a board with an explanation was placed there in 2000.
Legend of the Bruncvik statue
Bruncvik statue stands aside. It represents a knight with a golden sword, a coat-of-arms and a lion beside. It was made according to a fragment of the original statue, which was damaged during the Thirty Years´ War. An old legend about Bruncvik says, that he was a Czech ruler, who went to faraway countries to gain a right to have a stately coat-of-arms. He allegedly saved a lion on his journey and the lion accompanied him ever since. There is a lion in the Bohemian national emblem. Bruncvik also gained a miraculous sword, which could kill anybody on his demand. The sword was built up somewhere in the Charles Bridge and it will wait there till the country is in danger. Than, the legend says, the knights in the Blanik hill will come to Prague, St. Wenceslas will lead them, and they will help the country. The sword will serve to them. When the Charles Bridge was restored after a flood in 1890, a big rusty sword was reportedly really found in the bridge deck.
Other interesting statues
St. Francis Xavier statue from 1711 made by F. M. Brokoff is situated on the left side, if you look at the bridge from the Old Town Bridge Tower. It is the most valuable statue of this sculptor on the Charles Bridge. St. Francis was a missionary in exotic countries and the statue depicts him with the pagans. This statue fell to the river together with a part of the Charles Bridge during a flood in 1890. A replica was placed there later.
St. Ludmila and little Wenceslas statue represents the first Czech Christian martyr St. Ludmila, the grandmother of Czech patron St. Wenceslas. The statue was made by Matthias Bernard Braun around 1720. St. Ludmila statue has a veil in her hand, which symbolizes her death: she was strangled. The murder of St. Wenceslas is depicted on a relief on a pedestal. The original of this statue is placed in the Gorlice at Vysehrad.
The only marble statue on the Charles Bridge is the St. Philip Benitius statue from 1714. The area underneath the statue is called The Venice of Prague.
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H.T. Klugel Architectural Sheet Metal Works was established in Emporia,, Virginia in 1914 at the junction of two rail lines—the Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern Railroad. This location was to figure in the expansion of his business. Klugel, a tinsmith, was from Danville, Illinois, learning the trade from his father. His shop produced a variety of goods for local needs such as cornices, gutters, drain pipes, stove flues, marquees, decorative details, and others. A customer, who might need prefabricated pressed metal ceilings, he would have them select from catalogs. They would arrive by rail, facilitating his installation of items for his customers. His business supplied contractors all over southeastern Virginia. The sheet metal façade of his own shop became an advertisement for his goods and skills, displaying a variety of metal ornaments such as swags, circles, geometric patterns and lions’ heads. The structure is a unique example of a decorative sheet metal façade for a store, and it was all produced in Emporia. Ads were painted on the brick sides of the building. The building is styled as Edwardian Classicism in the nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places. As an architectural viewing amateur, I’m not certain what this is, even after reading about it. The building was added to the Register April 2, 1973 with identification #73002208. The nomination form is available at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources
www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Emporia/109-0005_Kl...
As a factory for tin goods, the building was intended to be utilitarian. Originally ell-shaped, a cinderblock addition has made the structure rectangular. The flat-roofed building with parapets on the sides is made of American bond brick, which is not visible viewing only the front façade. A color combination of silver and black is used throughout the façade ornamentation. At the top of the front façade is a pediment mounted on two short pedestals, each flanked by volutes. Inside the pediment is floral ornamentation. Beneath the pediment a panel shows what I call a sun-burst motif (the nomination form refers to this a part of a patera—( www.decorartsnow.com/2013/05/28/design-dictionary-patera-... ). Another pedestal is above the pediment and is topped by a finial in the shape of an onion dome. Below the pediment is an inscription within panels of various sizes—1902 H. T. Klugel 1914”. To each side of this inscription is a balustrade with two pedestals topped by small onion dome finials. The cornice just below has dentils and modillions or brackets. The horizontal second level with a geometric sheet metal design has three distinct areas: the middle with the inscription “Architectural Sheet Metal Work” on the patterned background and flanked with roundels that show keystone motifs; the right section shows a raised panel with the words “Skylights” and the left shows a raised panel with the writing “Cornices”. Below each of these latter two sections are swags of flowers and drapery. The first level contains two arched entrances both with soffit and with double doors; the central entrance is recessed. Just above the arch of the center door is a keystone. On either side of the main entrance are figures of lion’s heads with floral decoration; a pattern of circles is below each of the lion’s heads. The windows are arched as well and contain fan tracery.
For a fascinating read on ornamental architectural materials, check out the following:
Built in a stripped back, Gothic style, the former Catholic Church on River Road in the tiny country town of Woodford is a classic example of an unassuming and elegant country church.
Although now used for commercial premises, the former Woodford Catholic Church remains intact and maintains many of its original Gothic features including its parapeted gables, the vertical element of the cross on the skyline and the tracery around the lancet windows. All of these are typical Gothic architectural features. It also still retains its original Gothic style stained glass windows.
Sadly, with no foundation stone or memorial plaque it is impossible to date the church, and I can find no record of it.
Woodford is a very small township in the Western District of Victoria, located nine kilometres north of Warrnambool. The town is home to Woodford Primary School which opened on the first of May 1854. Woodford Post Office opened on 1 January 1854, and closed sometime in 1975. It's population consists of only a few hundred people these days.
From this angle it can be seen that there was an earthen parapet on the forward edge of the bailey. In the 12th century when the castle was first built, this bank would have been topped with a palisade. We know that most if not all of the buildings within the bailey and on the motte were of timber as well, as we are told that in 1281 the castle was falling into decay, and that at that time “Lydel, the site of a Castle, contained these ‘domiciles,’ viz., a wooden hall, with two ‘solars,’ a chapel, a kitchen, a byre, a grange, and a wooden granary, which threaten ruin.”
As one would suspect from its location, Liddel Castle changed hands on various occasions during the War of Independence, and it is reasonable to assume that whoever held it, occupied their spare time restoring and improving it. That they rebuilt in stone is evidenced by a description written by the Rev. James Arkle, Minister of the Parish of Castleton from 1792 to 1801, who wrote that the foundations and a portion of the wall were then standing. In 1839 the fosse and ramparts were entire, however by then no masonry remained except a circular well in the centre of what may at one time have been a courtyard. Like all such buildings until quite recent times, the castle formed a ready made quarry for the purpose of constructing farm and other buildings in the district.
Probably early 20th century. 2-storey, 3-bay building in red sandstone with corner tower. Base course, strip course, cornice and blocking course with parapet surmounted by modern wrought iron railing. Long and short quoins, millioned windows, all bipartites with balconettes. Lower left bay now entrance. Projecting corner tower with door to ground with segmental fanlight; pilasters and keystone surround; upper narrow bipartites; slated mansard with decorative wrought iron finial. Unfortunate modern glazing.
Unknown architect or exact date of build.
The 1Z95 17:24 Edinburgh to Crewe 'Northern Belle gets under way from Kingmoor up goods loop with 47501 'Craftsman' and 47832 'Solway Princess' both up front. Glimpsed at sunset between the rosebay willowherb growing out of the Etterby Road bridge parapet.
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Circa 1790, Eastrop Bridge is a standard Basingstoke Canal bridge, with a parapet ending in stone-capped piers, band, cambered arch and brick cutwaters. The bridge is contructed of red brickwork in English bond.
Eastrop Bridge is the first bridge after the Greywell Tunnel on the derelict western section of the Basingstoke Canal. The very last bridge on the canal, in Basingstoke itself, was also called Eastrop bridge. This confusing state of affairs ceased when the one in Basingstoke was dropped and the canal underneath culverted in 1927. The deep cutting that extends westwards from Greywell is almost a mile long, and it is thanks to this cutting that the last few remaining bridges on the Basingstoke Canal stand.
The Basingstoke Canal was completed in 1794 and was built to connect Basingstoke with the River Thames at Weybridge via the Wey Navigation.
From Basingstoke, the canal passes through or near Greywell, North Warnborough, Odiham, Dogmersfield, Fleet, Farnborough Airfield, Aldershot, Mytchett, Brookwood, Knaphill and Woking. Its eastern end is at Byfleet, where it connects to the Wey Navigation. This, in turn, leads to the River Thames at Weybridge. Its intended purpose was to allow boats to travel from the docks in East London to Basingstoke.
It was never a commercial success and, from 1950, lack of maintenance allowed the canal to become increasingly derelict. After many years of neglect, restoration commenced in 1977 and on 10 May 1991 the canal was reopened as a fully navigable waterway from the River Wey to almost as far as the Greywell Tunnel. However its usage is currently still limited by low water supply and conservation issues. This section to the west of the Greywell Tunnel was not restored and stays derelict.
The canal used to start from the centre of Basingstoke, but this last 5 miles (8 km) of the canal route have now been lost. This section of the canal fell into disuse after the closure of the Greywell Tunnel due to a lack of boat traffic, general neglect and a lack of water. There were no locks on this part of the canal after Ash and so the route generally followed the contours of the land with occasional cuttings, tunnels and embankments. The route can be partly determined by noting that the canal falls between the 75 m and 80 m contours on Ordnance Survey maps. The main source of water for the Basingstoke end of the top pound of the canal appears to have been the natural springs within the Greywell Tunnel - old ordnance survey maps show the River Loddon running next to but not into the canal in Basingstoke
The canal started at a canal basin, roughly where the cinema in Festival Place is located. From there the canal ran alongside the River Loddon following the line of Eastrop Way. The old canal route passes under the perimeter ring road and then follows a long loop partly on an embankment to pass over small streams and water meadows towards Old Basing, where the route goes around the now ruined palace of Basing House and then through and around the eastern edge of Old Basing. Cuttings, which contain water in the winter are present through Old Basing, just off Milkingpen Lane and from the section running around farm land at the eastern edge of the village behind the Belle View Road/Cavalier Road estate. It followed another loop to go over small streams near the Hatch public house (a lot of this section was built over when constructing the M3) and headed across fields on an embankment towards Mapledurwell. The canal then headed towards a small tunnel under the Andwell Drove and then across another field partly on an embankment towards Up Nately. The section of the canal from Up Nately to the western entrance of the Greywell Tunnel still exists and is a nature reserve; there is water in the canal and the canal towpath can be walked. A permissive footpath at the western entrance to the tunnel allows walkers to access public footpaths to get to the eastern entrance of the tunnel.
Plans to reconnect Basingstoke with the surviving section of the Canal have been mooted several times in the past and this remains a long term aim of the Basingstoke Canal Society. Another possible idea also considered was to connect the remaining canal to the Kennet and Avon navigation near Reading.
This scene is in the small village Up Nately in Hampshire, England. Its nearest railway station is in Hook, three miles to the east of the village.
Originally part of Mapledurwell, it was created as a separate estate in the early part of the 12th century, when it was granted to the Cistercian Abbey of Tiron in France by Adam de Port. It was sequestered by Edward III as it was an abbey that owed allegiance to a foreign power. It was bought in 1391 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester who then bestowed it on the newly founded College of Winchester
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www.londoncanals.uk/extnl/lost02.html
Grade I listed. Former medieval kitchen refronted in 18th century. Balustraded parapet, buttresses and two two-light pointed windows similar to those on Bath House at Corsham Court by Capability Brown.
Lacock Abbey was the home of William Henry Fox Talbot scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
Grade II listed. House of circa 1740. Three storey painted brick with parapet and dormered attic. Ground floor timber early circa 19th century shopfront with projecting small pane windows under entablature; square headed shop doorway to centre with fanlight and half glazed door; square headed pilastered house doorway to right - panelled door and radial glazed fanlight, three windows to upper floors, glazing bar sashes, those on first floor flush framed under segmental arches. Interior retains fielded panelling to first floor front room with boxed cyma cornice etc.
British Listed Buildings
Temple Bar is a red brick archway and Lodge to Edwardstone Hall built in 1840 and named after the original Temple Bar in London, on which it is said to have been modelled.
The gateway has a 4-centred arch and an octagonal tower with a castellated parapet on the north side, casement windows with "Tudor" arched top lights and brick hood moulds. A moulded brick band extends across the front between the storeys.
This shot was taken on a cold but sunny February afternoon.
Listed Building Grade I
List Entry Number : 1208577
Date First Listed : 1 June 1949
Prior's tower with hall range, extension and adjoining stables; now Deanery, museum and flats. For the Priory of St Mary, Carlisle. Late C15 tower and hall with C17 extensions and alterations; further 1853 extensions by James Stewart (internal alterations now partly removed, 1882 by CJ Ferguson); 1949-51 alterations dated 1950 on rainwater head. Red sandstone ashlar, some of the extensions are of squared red sandstone, on chamfered plinth, with string courses on tower and battlemented parapet. Flat lead roof on tower; otherwise greenslate roofs with coped gables and kneelers; full and half-gabled dormers; ashlar ridge and end chimney stacks. Stable range has sandstone flag roof. The main facade faces towards the Cathedral. Central square tower of 2 storeys over basement; the hall range at the right is 2-storey, 3 bays with projecting 2-storey extension; left 3-storey, 3-bay extension and beyond is the single storey, 4-bay stables. Tower has a central 2-light cusped headed oriel window, corbelled out, in a deeply chamfered surround under hoodmould and pent roof. Other small irregular casement windows; upper floor 2-light mullioned window with diamond leaded panes. The right return has a high crease for the original roof on the hall range. Rear has similar oriel and other windows. INTERIOR has rib-vaulted basement, contemporary with the tower; panelled upper floor room with panelled doors; painted wooden ceiling has decorative and heraldic devices, applied during Prior Senhouse's term of office c1494 - 1521. Angle newel stair to top storey and roof. The Deanery has a 1950 right doorway with projecting stone porch, in a single-storey 3-bay pent extension of 1853. First floor is C17 with 2-light mullioned windows and late C17 carved panel of Bishop's arms. 2-light gabled 1/2 dormers (appear on a view of 1715). The projecting facing double gable extension at right is of 1853 with 2- and 3-light mullioned and cross-mullioned windows. The rear wall of the hall range is probably C15 stonework but now with sash and mullioned windows. INTERIOR has ground floor C16 segmental-arched stone fireplaces; an upper floor fireplace is on corbels. Now internal front wall has former C17 doorway. Wooden staircase is probably of 1882 by CJ Ferguson; C19 panelled doors. Extensive repairs in 1988-9 required the gutting of the hall range. No.5 (the left extension) was formerly part of the Deanery but now a flat. Central panelled door in stone architrave with segmental pediment and flanking windows in stone architraves were all inserted in 1950 when an 1853 pent extension was removed; left blocked opening has a double chamfered surround; a right projecting stone porch (added since 1950) gives access to tower. Above are sash windows with glazing bars in C17 stone architraves with hood cornices. The V-jointed quoining at the left of calciferous sandstone is 2-storey and above it changes to red sandstone; the third storey was added in C19 with 1/2 gabled dormers. Rear 2- and 3-light mullioned and cross-mullioned windows. INTERIOR altered. Prior's Stables, Nos 5A and 5B, have a left recessed doorway now with C20 door, the C15 flattened arch with the initials TG (for Prior Thomas Gondibour, prior c1464-1494). Further right C15 doorway has segmental chamfered arch with hoodmould. Between the doors are a small and larger sash window with glazing bars in chamfered surrounds; further left C20 window in C20 opening. Left return has C20 double plank doors in C20 former garage opening. The roof had to be rebuilt in the 1960s. INTERIORS not inspected. It is now thought that the tower was built in the 1490s, not c1507 as previously thought.
"Strome", the name of this grand Victorian polychromatic brick villa, is found on a name plate on its elaborate parapet.
Built in 1895 for Florence Symms, this fine two story Victorian villa is situated in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North.
"Strome" is a double storey residence of solid polychromatic brick. It is surmounted by an elaborate parapet with a name plate. The cast iron balustrade features lacework that is of a late Victorian design using sunflower motifs and diagonal bands, which adds to the house's overall flamboyance. The cast iron balustrade design appeared in William Stephens Excelsior Foundry Catalogue, in Melbourne in 1901. "Strome" also retains its original corrugated iron roof.
The two giant cypress trees that stand to either side of the front path of "Strome" are heritage listed, and are a local landmark, as the villa stands on the crest of a hill, and the cypress trees are far taller than the double storey villa itself.
Fitzroy North has a distinct character, noted for its prevalence of wide streets and avenues, intact Victorian and Edwardian era terraced housing and for the Edinburgh Gardens, a large inner-city park formerly home to the Fitzroy Football Club. Fitzroy North is adjacent to, and shares a postcode and neighbourhood character with Clifton Hill, both being government subdivisions set on elevated ground and to the same layout by Clement Hodgkinson in the 1870s, and distinct from the earlier narrow and more crowded private subdivisions in the lower lying areas of Fitzroy and Collingwood to the south. Most of Fitzroy North is single and double storey Victorian and Edwardian housing, comprising rows of terraces, with a mixture of semi-attached and freestanding houses on small to moderately sized blocks. Large parts of the suburb are protected by heritage controls. The suburb is relatively intact and consistent in character, having had far less industrial and commercial development in its formative years than its southern namesake.
Kapunda.
Six years after the founding of the colony, SA was producing almost no wheat and the government was near bankruptcy. Governor Gawler had run up huge debts that the SA Company and the British government were unwilling to pay. Governor Grey arrived to face these problems but the discovery of commercial quantities of copper at Kapunda saved the state. Captain Charles Bagot of Koonunga Station discovered the copper and conferred with Francis Dutton of Anlaby station who had also discovered copper. They kept the news secret whilst they applied for 80 acres of land to be surveyed which they then bought at auction. Thus the two purchased the Kapunda copper mine with Bagot owning 75% and Dutton 25%. The first samples were assayed and averaged 23% pure copper, an extremely high rate for any mine. Cornish miners were secured for the mining jobs and mining began in January of 1843. The first shipment of copper reached England in 1845 and the royalties from the sales revived the states flagging economy. The first group of three blocks of miners cottages owned by the mine were built in 1845 really marking the beginning of the town. They were near the Dutton chimney stack and whim. Over the next thirty five years the mine delivered about £1,000,000 of wealth and the township of Kapunda grew quickly to become a major SA town. Dutton sold his share of the mine in 1846 for a huge sum (£16,000) which allowed him to invest in the even wealthier Burra copper mine. Bagot became the major shareholder but sold out to an English company within a couple of years although he maintained financial involvement with the mine until 1859. He returned to Adelaide and built Nurney House North Adelaide. His younger son Edward lived on in the district and established a stock agent and wool handling business when the railway reached Kapunda in 1860. This business eventually merged into Elder Smiths Goldsborough Mort. Edward Bagot was an important pastoralist with several stations in the far north of SA and a boiling down works at Thebarton.
William Oldham became the mine superintendant in 1848, as well as the Congregational minister, the town surveyor, the local post master and a local businessman. To many he is considered the “father” of Kapunda! From 1866 Captain Osborne succeeded William Oldham as the mine superintendent until the mine closed in 1878. At first copper was carted to Port Adelaide by bullock dray, a six day journey. It was then exported to Wales for smelting. Soon the Welsh joined the Cornish in Kapunda and smelting operations began in the town in 1849. In 1851 three hundred men, including woodcutters were employed in the smelting works. The town had taken its name from an Aboriginal word “cappie oonda” which means spring. There were several mines with different names on the site.
In 1850 the Cornish miners built the still impressive Dutton chimney which draw the draft from the Buhl Enginehouse furnaces via a lined tunnel up into the air through the chimney stack. The Cornish traditionally built round chimney stacks and the Welsh built square chimney stacks. The Buhl pump house drew water out of the main shaft which was up to 360 feet deep. Then in 1861-62 a second winding house to haul up copper ore was built further up the hill but for some strange reason it was named the Buhl Winding house although it never contained a Buhl engine. A significant part of the Buhl Winding House ruins remain on the site. Although the first mining was simple open cut mining undertaken by miners and tributers (who were paid according to how much ore they extracted), deep shafts were soon needed to reach the underground lodes of ore. The deepest shafts sunk were 150 m (490ft) and mining operations were complex. By 1861 the mine employed 340 men and boys. Just two years later mining operations were scaled down (Moonta Mine had begun by that time) and the mine reverted to open cut mining. Low grade ore was mined until 1878, the year after the Burra mine closed. Some tribute work continued in the mine until 1912. Almost nothing remains to mark the site of the copper smelters which were on the southern edge of the mine site off Perry Road.
The original private township was called North Kapunda and it was laid out by the North Kapunda Mining Company in 1846 although many miners were living on the lands of the Dutton copper mine before that time. These early miners squatted on land even if they built a hut or cottage on it. In 1849 the government belatedly surveyed a town which it called Victoria and then Kapunda. Look at a map of Kapunda today and you can see this government town delineated by South, North, and West terraces. This is the northern half of today’s Kapunda where the old primary school is located. Government facilities followed soon after the founding of the mining town with the police station, now a private residence being erected in 1852. Later in 1866 the impressive Court House was built adjacent to the police station still in the private township of the Kapunda Mining Company. The early Congregational Church of 1857 was also built on land obtained from the Kapunda Mining Company. The town prospered greatly once the government railway arrived in 1860. It then became the terminus for the bullock drays carting copper ore from Burra. It was during the 1860s and 1870s that many of the fine buildings in the town were erected. At this time Kapunda was larger than Gawler and Glenelg and in 1850 Kapunda was larger than Brisbane! It was the first town in SA with gas street lighting from around 1870. Kapunda also had its own newspaper from 1864 when the Kapunda Herald was established. Andrew Thomson of Osborne House bought the newspaper later that year. The paper still operates today as the Barossa and Light Herald (from 1908) and is the largest circulating regional weekly newspaper. Thomson also ran the general store, which is now the information centre.
Once the mine closed in 1878 the town focused on its agricultural hinterland and Sir Sidney Kidman played a major role in developing the town. He regularly held horse and cattle auctions behind the North Kapunda Hotel in the main street and by the time of his death in 1935 he owned or had a financial interest in 68 large properties which covered over 100,000 square miles ( 64 million acres or 259,000 square kms ) of Australia. Victoria is only 227,000 square kms! Kidman donated his home to the education department in 1921 for it to become Kapunda High School- one of the first high schools outside of Adelaide. In 1876 a local Scot, Alexander Greenshields built a mansion for £4,000 which he called Lanark after his birthplace in Scotland. He was a wealthy Kapunda draper and store owner. Sir Sidney Kidman bought the house around 1897 and renamed it Eringa. A major fire destroyed the roof of Eringa in 1902 and the Art Nouveau style Marseille tile roof replaced the original roof. The western wing was also added at this time and if you get to go inside you can see the delightful Art Nouveau ceiling motifs and the leadlight windows featuring bull rushes. When Sidney and his wife Bel moved to Adelaide they purchased a house at 76 Northgate Street Unley Park which they also named Eringa. Sir Sidney Kidman died here in 1935 and was buried nearby in the Mitcham cemetery. The Kidman Empire was inherited by his son Walter and other family members. Sir Sidney Kidman was mourned by people around the world and the almost illiterate 13 year who set about to create a pastoral empire on his own died an extremely wealthy man. Kidman was knighted partly for his generosity and bequests to the Inland Mission, the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and other charities. During World War One he had also donated hundreds of horses, produce, especially beef and other materials to the Australian war effort including two fighter airplanes. As a generous employer it was not surprising that his employees put on a rodeo party for his 75th birthday in 1932 in the Adelaide Parklands. 60,000 people attended! Kidman was meant to be as comfortable talking to British royalty as to his stockmen. Although the Kidman properties are only half what they used to be in size they are for sale for round $350 million in 2015.
A Grade I Listed rustic bridge over a lake on the appoach to Stowe House and School near Buckingham. The bridge dates from 1761 and has three arches and eight urns on the parapets.
Minnie is the rescued stray on the parapet. She is with us now.
Lalloo (Red) - another stray- is on the ground at his watch. Though he is on the free side of the fence, he does not budge from his post as he misses Minnie.
The strays Lalloo and Minnie are very close friends. We had made kennels for them to sleep in Delhi's winter.
On the morning of 13th of December, 2015 harmless, trusty and very friendly Minnie was deliberately knifed in the hip by one of some horrible young men who were exercising in the park at the edge of which Lalloo is sleeping. She required 6 stitches and an Elizabethan collar for two weeks. She had to stay with us and now has our heart and hearth.
Lalloo meanwhile is at his station keeping a vigil for Minnie. Twice a day Minnie plays with him during her walk in the park. Then he is very lively. He is fed three times a day, but eats unenthusiastically.
Fine silver hollow ring with felt and faceted carnelian beads. Forgive the museum putty at the base of the ring.
Une croix avec 5 étoiles sur le parapet : endroit où a été jeté le vicaire Saint Jean de Népomucène.
Légende : des étoiles sont apparues quand il a touché l'eau...
Fourth visit to Baddesley Clinton. But the first since all restrictions were lifted. On our last visit, the house was closed.
So this is the second time of going inside of the house (in over four years).
The moat was mostly clear, but made some nice reflections around autumn time.
Grade I Listed Building
Baddesley Clinton House and Bridge over Moat
Listing Text
BADESLEY CLINTON
SP 17 SE
1/1 Baddesley Clinton House
11.4.67 and bridge over moat
(formerly listed as
Baddesley Clinton Hall,
including bridge over
moat)
GV I
Manor house. Late C15, on earlier site; south-east range refronted c.1736: late
C19 service wing added to north-east side of south-west range designed and built
by Edward Heneage Dering. Courtyard plan. North-east range: stone ashlar; old
brick flues, bridge end stack to right with octagonal brick flue. 2-storey,
6-window range. Gatehouse at right of centre: 4-centred outer archway encloses
4-centred doorway with spandrels. Panelled and studded door to inner doorway.
6-light stone mullion and transom window to first floor. Battlemented parapet
to gatehouse. 2-light stone mullion window with 4-centre arched heads to
lights, at left of centre 3-light stone mullion window with 4-centre arched
heads to lights, at right,. 5-light stone mullion window to left of centre. Two
3-light stone mullion windows, with flat stone arches having keystones, to
left. Continuous hoodmould to right, and to left of centre. 4-light stone
mullion window to first floor right. 3-light stone mullion window to first
floor right of centre. 4-light stone mullion window to first floor left of
centre. Two 3-light stone mullion window to first floor left. South-east
range: red brick; old plain-tile roof; various brick stacks,with octagonal or
diagonally set brick flues, 2 storey A-window range. Irregular fenestration,
mostly of C18 three-light wood casements with segmental brick heads. south-west
range: stone ashlar; old plain-tile roof; various brick stacks. 2-storey,
6-window range. Irregular fenestration, mostly of 3-light stone mullion
windows. Single-storey addition to centre with hipped old plain-tile roof, has
2 round-arched blind recesses to moat. Wood casement window to ground floor.
Courtyard: irregular fenestration. Interior: entrance hall has close-studded
timber-framing to walls. Great hall has stone fireplace of decorative pillars
supporting a frieze and atlantes flanking rectangular panel with round heraldic
central panel with strapwork surroundings. Dining room has late C16 panelling
and carved wood fireplace with pillars supporting a frieze and with richly
carved central heraldic panel. Drawing room has C17 panelling and chimney piece
placed here C18 Henry Ferrers' Bedroom, also known as the state bedroom has
panelling and chimney-piece of c.1629. Other rooms also have panelling and
carved chimney pieces. Bridge. Early C18. Red brick. 2 round arches, plain
brick parapet. History: site held by the Clintons, then was bought by John
Brome in 1438. Held by the Brome family, and passed by inheritance to the
Ferrers family in 1517. Henry Ferrers (1549-1633) carried out much work at the
house.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire: 1966, pp8l-82; Baddesley Clinton: national
Trust Guide Book, 1986)
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Listing NGR: SP1995071467
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
roof parapet detail at the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum in Guangzhou, China - I believe they call this "Shiwan cresting craft", it originated in Guangdong province itself and appears on the roofs of Chinese temples and buildings throughout the world now.
This culvert carries a modest flow of water from Eagle Pond behind me under what had been Route 10 when, in 1922, the highway department built this parapet. At the time Route 10 was the main road carrying traffic north to Malone. Wiki tells me Route 10 was renumbered to Route 30 in the 1930s. Archival topo maps tell me that in the early 1960s, a two-plus mile section of Route 30 was shifted west and straightened out, leaving a this culvert behind. The fragment of old Route 30 that I stood on to get this shot now is called Moore Road.