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Anglican church of St Chad, Bensham, Gateshead. Architect William Searle Hicks, built 1900-03. Hicks died in 1902, before seeing St Chad's dedicated.
St Chad's Parish dates:
Church Hall built on land donated by Lord Northbourne and district formed from St Cuthbert's Parish Bensham - 1897
Parish consituted - 1900
Church consecrated - 1903
Hall enlarged, class rooms and institute added and completed - 1910
The church was consecrated on 29th September 1903 at a ceremony at 11.00 attended by 80 clergy, the mayor and town clerk of Gateshead, and the bishops of Durham and Newcastle. Henry C Embleton, Miss Easton's nephew, presented the petition on behalf of his aunt.
c.1872
This picture shows the pier as it was prior to a storm on New Years day 1877 which washed away the shoreward end of the Pier. It was consequently rebuilt at a higher level. At this point in the Pier's history it was still a promenading pier. It was not until 1888 that a theatre was built at the seaward end of the Pier.
Ceiling details from the bedroom of the 3rd. Marquess of Bute. The painted and gilded ceiling is inlaid with precious stones and bevelled mirrors to reflect the inscribed Greek lettering when seen from the bed. The letters spell out the name John and refer to John the Baptist (whose sculpture is elsewhere in the room) and the 3rd. Marquess himself. This infinite repetition was designed as an affirmation of faith. Visitors’ heads and our guide’s tie can be seen in the reflections.
Not an ancient church, my eye registered, in the one-second glimpse as we passed the gate. The lonely situation, remote from the village, also suggested a recent foundation. "Won't be a minute", I said to Mrs B, pulling up with a crunch of gravel at the edge of the lane and reaching back for my camera. She resignedly inserted the earpieces of her iPod and settled back in her seat.
My first impression was that the churchyard was a little too "kempt" for my liking but, at the back of the east end the leaning headstones were drowned in cowslips and grass, with cow parsley, not yet in flower, just beginning to unfurl and reach above the rest of the vegetation ...spring at its moment of perfection.
It was a surprise to find, when I got home, that St Stephen, Higham, (the one near Bury St Edmunds ...there are two villages of that name in Suffolk) is a work of Sir George Gilbert Scott. 1861, in the Geometrical style, says the lamentably out-of-date Pevsner. By the way, Pevsner refers to "Sir G. G. Scott". This is bad enough, but I do wish architectural writers would drop the form "Sir Gilbert Scott". Gilbert was not his name and there is a whole dynasty of architectural Gilbert Scotts. We are left with only the date to give us a hint which one is referred to.
Mausoleum of James Combe and wife. 1852 by A. MacDonald of Aberdeen. Pink Peterhead and grey mausoleum on two-stage base, Cell with framed door and lozenge containing IHS emblem on east side; angle-set corner buttresses with acroterion finials, cross-surmounted eared sarcophagus on top. An early and flamboyant example of machine-polished Scottish granite, prominently sited, erected in memory of Combe's wife. See The Builder 2 September 1854, 460.
Beautiful original stained glass window in one of the homes in Friendship.
On Friday I went for a walk thru the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Friendship, located about 6 miles east from downtown. Over the past 20 years or so the area has reinvented itself and I wanted to see how much it was changed. The answer is - A Lot!
Friendship began as farms owned by a large extended family who sold food to the Americans at Fort Pitt before the American Revolution. It takes its name from a farm owned by descendants of William Penn who belonged to the Society of Friends. After the Civil War, the families began to divide up their farms into lots for sale. In1890 streetcar service reached this rare level neighborhood and it became *the* place to live for professional-class families who built large, square homes with elaborate embellishments typical of the Victorian period.
In the mid-1900s the suburban exodus began and landlords gobbled up the beautiful old homes and divided them up into apartments. By 1980 over 70% of the area was blighted rental property. By the end of that decade urban homesteaders had begun to see the promise in these beautiful old homes and reclaimed the area. My little walk showed a diverse, complex, interesting area where artist, professionals and families live side by side and are united in continuing to improve this wonderful neighborhood. I can’t wait to go for another walk there.
St Gabriel's was a distinguished Victorian church by J. C. Neale, few of whose buildings survive. The camera position is in Bouverie Street, Easton, but St Gabriels Road starts at the bend. The photo was taken on Sunday 1st June 1975. The building enjoyed some kind of official protection (I am not sure whether "listing" existed then) but was nonetheless demolished in the following September. Some kind of spurious excuse was found ...one version I heard was that the authorities claimed the church had been damaged by subsidence from the workings of Easton Colliery, across the road. J. C. Neale was killed by a train at Exeter.
№ 2961 Sacramento Street, Pacific Heights / Zion District
San Francisco
Italianate style
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Liberty's of London and the Aesthetic Movement, a multimedia presentation by Ian Cox, Director of the Victorian Society in America's London Summer School, the talk focused on the origins and development of one of London's best known high end department stores founded in the late 19th century by Arthur Liberty and famed at that time for its connections with the aesthetic movement and "artistic" product ranges. The talk will include an update on the store's recent history.
It concluded with a description of the summer study programs offered by The Victorian Society in America. #VicSocAmerica #VSASummerSchools #VSALondon
Photograph by James Russiello
Ian Cox is a decorative arts historian with special interests in historic interiors, furniture and ceramics. For many years he taught in the History of Art Department at Glasgow University and was Director of the Christie's Master's Programme in the History of the Decorative Arts. He is currently Director of the Victorian Society of America London Summer School, which this year is enjoying its 40th anniversary.
For more information on the Victorian Society in America’s summer schools in London, England, Newport, Rhode Island, and Chicago, Illinois, please email summerschools@Victoriansociety.org or our website www.VictorianSociety.org
About the Merchant's House: Built in 1832, the Merchant’s House was home to a prosperous merchant family and their Irish servants for almost 100 years. Complete with the family’s original furnishings and personal possessions, the house offers a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life in New York City from 1835-1865. www.merchantshouse.org
Built in 1887 as a dream house for John Bennett, this magnificent mansion is the best example of Queen Anne architecture in Nyack, NY. The belvedere must have a stunning view of the Hudson River.
Anglican church of St Chad, Bensham, Gateshead. Architect William Searle Hicks, built 1900-03. Hicks died in 1902, before seeing St Chad's dedicated.
St Chad's Parish dates:
Church Hall built on land donated by Lord Northbourne and district formed from St Cuthbert's Parish Bensham - 1897
Parish consituted - 1900
Church consecrated - 1903
Hall enlarged, class rooms and institute added and completed - 1910
The church was consecrated on 29th September 1903 at a ceremony at 11.00 attended by 80 clergy, the mayor and town clerk of Gateshead, and the bishops of Durham and Newcastle. Henry C Embleton, Miss Easton's nephew, presented the petition on behalf of his aunt.
From Victorian footbridge on Whaley Bridge Station. The pub has been closed for some time. The previous picture of the Jackdaw was taken from the same place with the same lens.
Victorian architecture became ever more grandiose during the course of the Queen’s long reign (1837-1901). It reflected ever-increasing pride as Great Britain extended its imperial reach. India was deemed to be the Jewel in the Crown, and Queen Victoria herself was bestowed the title of Empress of India. Indian Mughal elements began to be reflected in contemporary civic buildings too. Leicester’s Town Hall and Town Hall Square of 1876-78 echo the full scale of Victorian pride and confidence. The building and tower were designed by Francis Hames, while Sir Israel Hart, a former mayor, gifted the ornate granite fountain.
January 2015
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
13th June 1870
The Pier was officially opened by Lord Edward Cavendish in 1870, but not actually completed until 1872
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THIS IS THE COVER OF THE BOOKLET ISSUED IN A LIMITED EDITION WHEN THE SCHOOL WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED DEC 7TH 1982 BY STUART BLANCH - ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
THE SCHOOL WAS THE AMALGAMATION OF ST EDMUNDS COLLEGE AND LIVERPOOL GIRLS COLLEGE. INITIALLY THE SCHOOL WAS HOUSED IN THIS BUILDING FOR THE FIRST 10 YEARS OF ITS LIFE LATER MOVING TO THE FORMER PADDINGTON COMPREHENSIVE WHERE IT STILL EXISTS. THE BUILDING [ DEMOLISHED AFTER THE SCHOOL MOVED OUT - WHATEVER DID HAPPEN TO THE NICE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DETAILS AND FITMENTS? ] WAS FULL OF CHARACTER - MUCH OF IT FALLING DOWN AND WITH LEAKING ROOFS - THE DRAWING BY THE LATE JOHN C GREEN WAS SCREENPRINTED - METALLIC GOLD ON BLUE - SCHOOL COLOURS - AND THE GATES A PHOTO PRINT ON ACETATE -
I shot this with an iPhone 4S from my front stoop and it went viral online. At last count, it had received over 2,500 "likes" on various social networks. Prints will be sold soon with all proceeds going to keeping the mansion maintained for future generations.
Final editing was done by Adrian Mendoza.
The Masonic Temple is located in downtown Minneapolis, MN.
Built in 1888, it is an outstanding example of Richardsonian Romanesque. The massive eight-story building was designed by Long and Kees, a noted local firm.
The firm was also responsible for some of Minneapolis’ finest historic buildings: City Hall, the Lumber Exchange, and the Flour Exchange. All (including the Masonic Temple) are on the National Register of Historic Places.
It is now the home of the Hennepin Center for the Arts.
Grey Harcourt granite columns in the Cathedral Room of the ANZ Gothic Bank, Collins Street Melbourne, once the city's stock exchange. Never fails to impress.
The Strand in Galveston was once known as the "Wall Street of the Southwest".
The 70+block Strand Historical District is recognized for its outstanding collection of 19th century architecture.
The Hutchings Sealy Building built in 1896.
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703-709 Capp Street, 731-765 Capp Street: fifteen stick-style houses, all by architect T. J. Welsh, ten of which are intect. built 1889 - source- S + J Woodbridge, 1982 edition
"Between 1889 and 1894, Baroness Mary Ellen von Schroeder developed 27 houses on South Van Ness (then called Howard Street) between 22nd and 23rd Streets and the backing lots with houses facing Capp Street. Designed by architect Thomas J. Welsh (1845-1918), the Eastlake or American Stick style houses sold for around $5,000. Many of the existing houses have the original flash glass—small colored glass squares surrounding the main window pane. Welsh designed many houses in the city, but is best remembered for his work as the primary architect for the Archdiocese of San Francisco: the original buildings for Sts. Peter and Paul in North Beach, St. Dominic's and Sacred Heart Parish in the Western Addition, and St. Mary's Cathedral on Van Ness. Only the latter two survived the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, although fire destroyed St. Mary’s in 1962.
And what of the Baroness? Mary Ellen Donahue, called Mamie, was the daughter of Peter Donahue, who had arrived in San Francisco from Ireland in 1849 and with his brothers opened a small blacksmith shop at the corner of Mission and First Streets. This shop grew into Union Iron Works, the first foundry in San Francisco. Peter Donahue also manufactured the first printing press in the West and built the first city railway on the Pacific. And with his brother James, Peter founded the first gas works in San Francisco, the forerunner of Pacific Gas and Electric Company."
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Capp Street between 22nd and 23rd
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View of the proscenium "arch" of the theater. The theater was built in 1926 for vaudeville and was later converted to a movie theater. It closed in 1985 but was recently reopened for plays. A fire in 2007 destroyed much of the theater auditorium.
The theater looks perfectly normal until you look down the side street. Some people dressed as "Hobos" were collecting money to restore the theater.
Built by stonemasons William and Thomas Keegan and completed in 1838. It is now owned by the Westmeath County Council.
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Built by the Midland Railway Company in the late 18th century - I love it ... it is just so decadent !
Galveston's East End Historical District has a wonderful collection of Victorian Houses.
At 926 Winnie Street is the McKinney-McDonald House built in 1889.
The Classical and Gothic Victorian house is known for its undulating arches with mariner's wheels.
The photo was taken in July 1980.
These 19th century Victorian homes are located in Old Town Historical Park in San Diego, California. They were originally located in other parts of the city but were dismantled and brought to the park for preservation. I love the vivid colors and the wonderful angles one often sees in Victorian architecture. This photo was shot mid-day from an extreme, low angle, giving it some wonderful shadows.
The term "Bristol Byzantine" has now fallen into disfavour among architectural commentators, who now refer to the "Bristol commercial style". No doubt this is more archaeologically accurate, but I can't see it catching on somehow. There are few correspondences between Bristol Byzantine and the real thing, and I wonder who coined the term and when. It has a journalistic sound, as though some hack, casting around for something with a snappy alliterative ring, simply picked something beginning with B from the limited number of architectural styles he'd heard of.
But never mind all that. It was a genuine style ...and a vigorous one... which flourished for a few decades in the second half of the 19th-century and gave the commercial parts of Bristol a particular appearance not exactly found anywhere else. Needless to say most of it has been destroyed ...some during the war but much more afterwards, before it had come to be appreciated. Well, what Fray thinks today the world thinks tomorrow and I think I may claim to have been among the first who appreciated it. On Monday 12th July 1971 I was out photographing condemned examples in Victoria Street. At one time this thoroughfare, laid out in the early 1870s, must have consisted very largely of Bristol Byzantine buildings. Few would have been noteworthy and this is an unremarkable example. Nonetheless it was an exemplar of some of the style's characteristics ...the storeys expressed by arcades of diminishing size, the jazzy brickwork and some restrained "structural polychromy" in the form of stone banding.
For those trying to get their bearings, this would be slap bang in the middle of the present Novotel. Interestingly there is some kind of alley, called Temple Place, leading out of the right-hand side of the photo. I have no recollection of this and it is not marked in my contemporary Geographia Bristol Street by Street ...even at the front of the book where there is a large scale map of the central area. It would have separated these properties from Temple Colston School. Note that the parapet has been renewed in bricks that don't quite match. I would be surprised if the building wasn't originally topped by a more ornamental cornice. On the other side of the street, down towards Temple Meads, an especially fine Bristol Byzantine building, latterly a branch of Henley's Garage, was lost in the mid 60s. I dimly remember it. I think it was demolished to make room for the prefabricated temporary flyover which was finally removed a few years ago. But we are fortunate that the apotheosis of the the Bristol style, the Welsh Back granary, is still with us; and another of Victoria Street's examples, which lost its top two storeys in the war ...what remained disappeared under a coat of grey paint for the next fifty years... was splendidly restored during the 90s. It's a great shame the change of taste came too late for Henley's Garage and so much else. This group was demolished in November 1973.