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Bumfitt is an artwork created for the Herd Project, an event to celebrate the artistic, cultural and historical heritage of Kirklees. Bumfitt is one of many works created for the event, the works range in size from around life size to this one which is around 10 feet high. Each sheep as well as being unique and created from different materials is also installed with a sound system playing pieces by local musicians and choirs. Bumfitt is apparently number 15 as used in Cumbria for counting sheep. By the way, if you’ve never heard of Kirklees (join the club!) it’s a large metropolitan area in the North of England and is pretty much unknown to anyone outside the area. herd-kirklees.co.uk/plan-your-visit/
Le palais de Westminster (en anglais : Palace of Westminster), également désigné sous le nom de Chambres du Parlement (Houses of Parliament), est le lieu où siège le Parlement du Royaume-Uni : la Chambre des communes (House of Commons) et la Chambre des lords (House of Lords). Le palais borde la rive nord de la Tamise et se situe au centre de la ville de Londres, dans l'arrondissement de la Cité de Westminster.
Un incendie dévastateur a détruit presque entièrement le palais le 16 octobre 1834, n'épargnant que le Westminster Hall qui remonte à 1097. Le bâtiment actuel date du XIXe siècle.
Sir Charles Barry a réalisé le nouveau palais de Westminster dans un style gothique dit « perpendiculaire ». C'est une variante de l'art gothique tardif très caractéristique de l'Angleterre, de la fin du XIVe au XVe siècle, avec des prolongements au XVIe siècle dans le style Tudor. Ce style est revenu à la mode au XIXe siècle avec le néogothique, car considéré à cette époque comme l'un des styles qui marqua le plus l'histoire architecturale du pays, avec une forte valeur d'identité nationale. Barry lui-même était en réalité un architecte de formation classique, mais fut aidé dans son travail par son confrère Augustus Pugin, rompu aux subtilités du gothique. Westminster Hall, rescapé des flammes, construit au XIe siècle mais doté de la plus merveilleuse charpente en bois de style gothique perpendiculaire du XIVe siècle, put ainsi être intégré harmonieusement dans la vision d’ensemble de Barry. Pugin fut toutefois mécontent de l’œuvre finale, en particulier à cause de la structure symétrique voulue par Barry. Il le fit savoir dans une remarque restée célèbre : "Du pur grec, monsieur. Des détails Tudor sur un corps classique".
L’actuel palais de Westminster comprend plusieurs tours. La plus grande et la plus carrée, la tour Victoria (Victoria Tower), se situe à l’angle Sud-Ouest de l’édifice et culmine à 98,5 mètres. Elle fut baptisée ainsi en l’honneur du monarque régnant de l’époque, la reine Victoria. La tour abrite le greffe de la Chambre des lords (House of Lords' Record Office), qui en dépit de son nom est utilisé par les deux chambres parlementaires. Son sommet arbore un drapeau, qu’il s’agisse du Royal Standard quand le souverain est présent ou plus généralement de l’Union Jack. C’est en effet au pied de la tour Victoria que se situe l’entrée officielle du souverain dans le palais (la Sovereign’s Entrance to the Palace), utilisée notamment à l’occasion des cérémonies d’ouverture du Parlement ou de tout autre événement impliquant la venue du chef de l’État.
La tour Centrale (Central Tower) domine le milieu du palais. Sa hauteur de 91,4 mètres[8] en fait la plus petite des trois principales tours du monument. Contrairement à ses voisines, la tour Centrale est surmontée d’une flèche située immédiatement au-dessus du vestibule central, de forme octogonale.
L’angle nord-ouest supporte la plus célèbre des tours du palais de Westminster, la tour de l’Horloge (Clock Tower), ou Elisabeth Tower, haute de 96,3 mètres[8]. Elle fut dessinée par Augustus Pugin et constitue son chef-d’œuvre. Comme son nom l’indique, la tour abrite la grande horloge de Westminster (Great Clock of Westminster), qui possède un cadran sur chacun des quatre côtés. La tour de l’Horloge contient également les cinq cloches du palais, qui sonnent tous les quarts d’heure. La plus grande et la plus célèbre de ces cloches, officiellement appelée la grande cloche de Westminster, est bien davantage connue sous son surnom de Big Ben. Il s’agit de la troisième cloche la plus lourde de tout le Royaume-Uni, avec un poids d’environ 13,8 tonnes. Bien que l’appellation de Big Ben ne s’applique stricto sensu qu’à une des cloches du carillon, il est courant de désigner par ce terme l’ensemble de la tour de l’Horloge. Cette tour s'inspire de la typologie des beffrois caractéristiques de l'architecture gothique civile du Moyen Âge en Europe continentale, comme ceux de Gand, Ypres, Bergues ou encore Toruń et Gdańsk. Ce type de tour n'existait pas en Angleterre avant la construction de celle-ci, mais elle fut traitée et habillée avec des lignes et une décoration dans le style gothique perpendiculaire typiquement anglais, comme le reste du palais. Cette intégration stylistique est si réussie que la tour est devenue un symbole de l'Angleterre. Elle a ensuite elle-même inspiré la construction de nombreuses autres tours d'horloges dans le monde.
Depuis le jubilé de la reine Élisabeth II (2012), la tour de l'Horloge se nomme la tour Élisabeth (Elizabeth Tower).
A shot from the roof of the Victoria Tower taken in preparation for the Stone photography project.
This one was taken as a storm passed over the City and a couple of rainbows appeared.
Taken using a Phase One IQ180 with a 55m lens.
There is a blog post on what we are up to in the link, archives.blog.parliament.uk/2016/01/12/set-in-stone/
There is a blog post on what we are up to in the link, archives.blog.parliament.uk/2016/01/12/set-in-stone/
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Victoria Tower located on Castle Hill in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.
The tower is a prominent local landmark, completed in 1899 to commemorate the 60th anniversary (Diamond Jubilee) of Queen Victoria's reign.
Castle Hill itself has a history of human activity spanning over 4,000 years, including an Iron Age hill fort and a medieval castle.
The tower is a Grade II listed building and offers panoramic 360-degree views of the surrounding area from the top.
During World War II, there were suggestions to demolish the tower to prevent its use as a navigation aid by German bombers.
The Woolworth Building is an early American skyscraper designed by architect Cass Gilbert and located at 233 Broadway in Manhattan,
New York City.It was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930,with a height of 792 feet (241 m)More than a century after its construction,it remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States-Wikipedia
Construction of this impressive building lasted from 1881 to 1886. The story goes that the tower was deliberately made higher than that of Glasgow City Chambers to try and outdo their larger city neighbours.
The building was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941 and a corner of the building is missing as a result.
The Victoria Tower, Greenock, Scotland - is part of the complex of Municipal Buildings that was constructed largely between 1881 and 1886 in an Italianate style, and to a scale then unseen in the rest of Scotland.
The building famously has a corner missing, something that has never been fixed. This is called "Cowan's Corner" after the landowner of the time who refused to sell his plot for redevelopment.
A WW2 bomb destroyed the shop that sat there in 1941 and although it was always assumed that the Municipal Buildings would eventually be completed when temporary blank facades were erected bounding the site, it has never been fixed.
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The Victoria Tower is located alongside Salisbury Dock. It was constructed in 1847-48 as a navigational aid on the River Mersey in Vauxhall, Liverpool, England.
Completed in 1899 to commemorate the 60th Jubilee of Queen Victoria, illuminated in purple in 2022 to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament, is located on the banks of the Thames in the London district of Westminster. The palace is the seat of the British Parliament, which consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Since 1987 it has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Striking features of the building: the 96 meter high clock tower (Elizabeth Tower, so named in 2012 in honor of the diamond jubilee of Elizabeth II, previously known simply as Clock Tower), which is better known as Big Ben. Westminster Hall, the oldest parts of which date from Norman times and have a beautiful wooden ceiling. The House of Representatives and House of Commons are located in the central part of the building. The Victoria Tower is the square tower on the southwestern side.
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The Europa Point Lighthouse, also referred to as the Trinity Lighthouse at Europa Point and the Victoria Tower or La Farola in Llanito, is a lighthouse at Europa Point, on the southeastern tip of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula, at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
Europa Lighthouse was inaugurated on 1 August 1841 in a brief ceremony witnessed by about 10,000 people. The first upgrade of the lighthouse occurred in 1864, when the single-wick lamp was replaced with a Chance Brothers four-wick burner, with further changes in 1875 and in 1894 when the amount of light emitted was increased. A three incandescent mantle burner was added in 1905. Following further modernisation in the 20th century, the lighthouse was fully automated in 1994.
Victoria Tower
Castle Hill, Huddersfield, England.
Perched on Castle Hill overlooking Huddersfield, the tower was completed in 1899 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's reign. The corner-stone of the tower was laid on 25 June 1898 by Mr John Frechville Ramsden and was officially opened by the Earl of Scarbrough on 24 June 1899. The walls of the tower are four feet thick at the bottom, tapering to two feet at the top. The tower was renovated in 1960 when the top seven feet were removed. It reaches the height of almost 997 feet above sea level.
Old and new architecture in Huddersfield, the old is the rear of a terrace of shops on Manchester Road, these are traditional construction in Yorkshire stone. Also, Victoria Tower in visible on the distant horizon. The new is Huddersfield Polytechnic.
Victoria Tower was designed by Jesse Hartley and was constructed between 1847 and 1848, to commemorate the opening of Salisbury Dock. Its design was based upon an earlier drawing by Philip Hardwick in 1846.
Victoria Tower, which was often referred to as the 'docker's clock', was built as an aid to ships in the port, as it allowed them to set the correct time as they sailed out into the Irish Sea, while its bell warned of impending meteorological changes such as high tide and fog. Upon its completion is also served as a flat for the Pier Master.
In 1975, the building was added to the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest with Grade II status.[