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St Mary, Bramford, Ipswich
A pleasingly grand riverside church in outer Ipswich suburbia. It has Suffolk's only stone roodscreen, and the Jacobean font cover opens up.
I took the new Buildings of England: Suffolk for a test-run. A short cycle ride out from my house in Ipswich took me to the churches of Bramford, Little Blakenham, Nettlestead, Somersham, Flowton, Elmsett, Burstall and Sproughton.
Flowton and Nettlestead are two of my favourite churches in the world. All eight are churches I like to some degree. The new BOE proved a splendid companion, showing me things in all churches that I'd never noticed before.
Incidentally, because the new Suffolk Pevsner is in two volumes, and the chosen border between the two volumes is the line of the A12/A14/A140 roads, all the churches I visited were in the SUFFOLK: WEST volume, despite the fact that Bramford and Sproughton are suburbs of Ipswich, which of course is in SUFFOLK: EAST.
The new Buildings of England volumes for Suffolk are published on April 23rd. People will just have to buy both.
A rear-view perspective of what used to house the Design and Arts College in Christchurch CBD.
Note the post-earthquake cracks up the back wall!
The philosophy section at the Literary Guillotine. Best viewed large to see all your favorites. 11/2004
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There is something about a weeping, kneeling & grief stricken angel that I just love. Although it's quite sad to look at, the sculpture is quite beautiful. The details are so amazing that just staring at them can you make you dizzy. Just look at the details in the wing. It's amazing.
Nave and chancel parish church of St. Leonard Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire 06/12/2008.
This is one of the oldest Norman churches in Warwickshire. The land was given to Coventry Priory in 1043 by Lord Leofric (him of Lady Godiva fame) mainly woodland and worth 100s. By 1086 the monks had chopped a good part of it down and it was only worth 60s. A small part of the ancient woodland still survives though.
The east wall was rebuilt possible in the 15th century of red sandstone.
Constructed in 1897-98, the long-vacant Jamaica Savings Bank building "is a fine and particularly exuberant example of the classically inspired Beaux-Arts style strikingly executed in carved limestone and wrought iron, and is one of only a few buildings in the borough of Queens to embrace that architectural aesthetic. Prominently sited on Jamaica Avenue, the bank building is an urbane presence on the neighborhood’s main commercial thoroughfare. Although the four-story structure is relatively small in scale, the imposing design of the facade conveys a monumentality which is appropriately suited to the distinguished image and reputation of the banking institution, while lending the building the formal elegance of a private club or townhouse."
UPDATE (Oct. 2016): The old bank and its two neighbors to the right are being turned into a three-building retail complex. The 10-story tower that stood immediately to the right (visible above) has been knocked down and is being replaced by a structure similar in height to the bank building. Here's a rendering of the proposed development.
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The fascinating Elbphilharmonie building in Hamburg, Germany. This is a concert hall in the Hafencity quarter. The new construction sits on top of an old warehouse building (Kaispeicher A) and is designed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. It is the tallest inhabited building of Hamburg, with a height of 110 metres.
Located within the St. John’s Church Historic District of Church Hill, Richmond, VA, the home was built between 1813 and 1816 by Hilary Baker, who was in the hardware business with his sister’s husband, John Van Lew. The Federal style house has Flemish bond brickwork with plaster flat arches over the windows. The first floor windows were lengthened to reach a Victorian verandah, which was removed during restoration.
Ref “Church Hill”, Crumley & Zehmer