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Window of a house on the island of Burano in the Venetian lagoon, home to fishermen and lace factories.
My husband's cousin and his wife live in this very beautiful eighteenth century house on one of the islands of Orkney and their elegant drawing room looks out onto this sound with all its changing weather.
The statue in the garden used to be at my late mother-in-law's house, so I know him well!
With the gloomy wet weather of recent, there isn't much to shoot here, so I dig out (as some may be guessing) past unprocessed shots - I've got plenty of those :)
a Window in the Great Hall of Craignethan Castle, Lanarkshire. The last great castle of the middle ages in Scotland.
Built in the 1530s by James Hamilton of Finnart, Bastard of Arran, Steward of the Royal Household and Master of Works to King James V of Scotland. He had travelled in Italy, and it shows.
Annunciation - one of 3 stained glass windows by Kempe, designed by Herbert Bryans, in memory of John Lloyd Wharton dedicated by his daughter Mary Dorothea Darwin 1913
(John was MP for Durham and Ripon. He was a director of the North Eastern Railway He married Susan Frances Duncombe Shafto in 1870 who died 2 years later. One of the bells was also donated in his memory). - Church of All Saints Elston, Nottinghamshire
I do love the windows of our apartment house corridor.
Sadly this picture doesn't came out like I wished. But it's my fault, I'm a month late. Actually I wanted to take this shot while the sun is shining trough so that you can see the whole glory of these coloured windows. But the sun don't reach this window in August. Maybe I should try it again next June or July.
Anyway, I wish you a nice week. I'm some days off for viisting my family.
See you!
Wednesday, 15.8.2012
A ground-floor window of Iford manor, built 1725-30. 'The windows are all pedimented', Pevsner tells us. Here, as you can see, the shutters are almost closed, presumably to protect the interior from too much sun.
A triple bay window at West Park Asylum sits with paint peeling and its net curtains rotting as time passes...but to me this is beauty...It simply beats Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie,however if either want to get in touch i'm free most nights apart from thursdays when i'm at night school doing cake decorating..lol
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Please take a look at my West Park Asylum set
Kyneton.
The Carlsruhe sheep run taken up in 1838 by Ebden covered a huge area from modern Woodend to Kyneton. In 1839 it was split into two pastoral runs and the run near Kyneton was taken over Charles Wedge and then shortly after by Henry Jeffreys who built his slab homestead on the current town site astride the Campaspe River. In 1848 Henry Jeffreys went into partnership with Lieutenant Governor Charles La Trobe as this was still part of NSW then (the Governor was based in Sydney but the Lieutenant Governor was based on Port Phillip Bay.) Perhaps not coincidentally a small courthouse was established in 1848 on the Campaspe River at this spot after La Trobe had visited his and his partner’s property. La Trobe decided to make the courthouse site a town site which he called Kyneton after the birthplace of Henry Jeffreys’ wife who was born in Kineton Warwickshire. The town was gazetted as Kyneton in 1850 just before the first gold was found at Bendigo and Mt Alexander in late 1851. Kyneton grew quickly as it was a resting place on the journey from Melbourne to Bendigo and impressive basaltic bluestone buildings were erected as there was a plentiful supply of good bluestone between Kyneton and Taradale. By the late 1850s there was an impressive array of bluestone public buildings in Kyneton including: the Kyneton Courthouse erected in 1856; the Anglian church (built 1852 and rebuilt 1856 with the west tower added 1928); the Congregational Church (built 1853 and rebuilt 1860 but now a theatre); the Mechanics Institute built 1854 (and rebuilt 1897); the Catholic Church built in 1857, the Presbyterian Church also built in 1857 and numerous banks, shops, the school (built in 1855, extended 1861 and in 1906 and still in use as the state school) and the hospital. Also built in the 1850s in bluestone was the De Graves three storey flourmill (1857) a few kilometres out of the town and another steam flourmill for Willis Brothers was built partially in bluestone in Piper Street in 1862. Some notable houses and residences were also built in the 1850s including the Attic House in 1858, the rear part of Carn Brae built in 1854 and Inverugie opposite the old town school which was built in 1858. The two storey grand Kyneton Hospital built between 1854 and 1856 with an amazing little morgue behind it which was built in 1859 when the east wing was added to the hospital. The west wing was added in 1874. The hospital’s lacework wrought iron veranda was added in 1910 thus destroying the Georgian appearance of the hospital. General use of the hospital ceased in 1942. Alas it is now vacant and vandalised but there are plans to restore it and convert it into apartments. The oldest house in Kyneton is believed to be the Anglican rectory built in 1853. One of the many fine two storey banks - the former Bank of NSW built in 1856 is now the town museum which has the homestead of Theaden station (1840) relocated in its grounds.
Kyneton also has a fine Botanic Garden along the edge of the Campaspe River. It was established in the 1880s although the site was reserved for this purpose back in 1867. Across the river from the Botanic Gardens is the bluestone railway station and goods shed which were built in 1862. Some of the later buildings of Kyneton, not in bluestone, are also of great interest. They include the rebuilt Royal George Hotel which was built in its current style in 1915 to replace an earlier structure from 1860 which was called the Diggers Arms Hotel; the wonderful Art Nouveau style Bank of New South Wales built in 1904 in Mollison Street; the impressive Post Office and tower built in 1871; the Congregational Sunday School built in Arts and Crafts style in 1898; the former Kyneton Market on the corner of Piper and Ebden Streets built in 1878 which is again being used for that purpose; and the slightly bizarre Ellim Eek house with tower and griffins along the roof which was built in 1890 and remodelled in 1906 with the griffins etc. It is now used as solicitor’s offices. Many of the shops of Kyneton date from the 1850s but one in classical style is worth special mention as it was constructed in 1852 exemplifying the optimism and confidence of the early settlers of Kyneton because of the nearby goldfields. This fine classical store is at 68 Piper Street almost opposite the town museum.
The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church in Ilkley is a remarkable blend of traditional and modern architecture, with an entrance porch and apse in Victorian Gothic and north and south nave extensions dating from the 1970s with a saw-tooth wall arrangement, inspired by Coventry cathedral.
More remarkable still is the complete glazing scheme of contemporary stained glass, all executed in the dalle de verre ('slab of glass') wherein thick chunks of coloured glass are set in a concrete or resin matrix (as opposed to traditional lead). The technique was popular in the 1960s and 70s but sharply declined since, largely due to many such windows latterly suffering from heat expansion, leakages or structural problems.
The exceptional scheme of dalle de verre windows at Ilkley includes both windows with concrete and windows with resin matrixes; The earliest windows are those in the apse which utilise concrete, being the work of Pierre Fourmaintraux of Whitefriars. The remaining windows in the nave were executed with resin and supplied by John Hardman Studios of Birmingham in the late 1970s.
These dalle de verre windows ably illustrate the richness and potential of large scale uses of the technique. Current research will hopefully find solutions to the problems encountered with the technique and may hopefully one day lead to a resurgence in the medium.
Window display at the General Store at Bodie. Light source is the low wattage carbon filament light bulb and the near full moon on the outside of the building.