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Built in 1926, St. Petersburg Central High School is a Mediterranean Revival building and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The building was designed by William Ittner who was a prolific designer of school buildings and plied his trade throughout the United States. Ittner is also responsible for executing the design of the St. Petersburg Mirror Lake High School in 1918 and the St. Petersburg Junior High School (now the Tomlinson Educational Center).
Central High was the fourth high school in the St. Petersburg high school system; three of these buildings remain as local or national historic properties. The school systems first building was the Domestic Science and Manual Training School built in 1898 with funds given by Edwin Tomlinson. A bond issue was passed in 1909 giving $30,000 to construct new schools.
The new high school was completed in 1911 at the corner of 5th Street and 2nd Avenue North. (It was demolished in 1947 to construct the Pinellas County Administration Building, which was demolished in 2001.) Between 1913 and 1918 the city school enrollment increased by 46 percent forcing the city to pass a $175,000 bond issue in 1917 allowing the construction of St. Petersburg Mirror Lake High School. St. Petersburg launched a vast school building spree in 1923 which lasted until 1928. During these five years twenty new schools were erected. This was in response to the phenomenal growth of the city during the "boom" era. During this period Central High School was constructed.
Central High is built of brick, hollow tile and poured concrete with a stucco exterior finish. The building is rectangular in plan with two interior court- yards flanking the central auditorium. The exterior is highlighted by the arcade along the first floor of the main facade, the red clay bar rel tile roof, the entrance pavilions and surrounds, casement windows, corner towers and stair towers. Significant interior areas include the auditorium and library.
The school is built over a continuous poured-in-place concrete footer; a crawl space below the concrete slab floor allows room for the heating system. The walls are stucco over brick, hollow tile, and poured-in-place concrete. The roof is covered with red clay barrel tiles with copper flashings and gutters. The auditorium roof is flat of built-up tar paper and gravel construction. The southern facade is two stories in height, the east and west facade is two story with attic, and the north facade three story. The auditorium is two and one-half stories. The main (south) facade has strong horizontal lines which are broken by a central two-story entrance pavilion and two projecting gable and wings at the corners of the facade. These three projecting vertical elements are linked by a first-floor open arcade of sixteen bays. Sixteen wood casement windows (4/4/4 per case) are on the second floor centered over each arch.
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Drying tobacco leaves at Porto Formoso, in Ribeira Grande municipality, on the north coast of the island of São Miguel, the Azores.
Les première trace du lieu remonte à une maison de retraite pour homme d'église émérites au milieu du XVIIe siècle.
Ensuite, par manque de place, l'hospice démange et donne la main à l'ordre des Trinitaires en 1705). Ces derniers ne trouvèrent pas le lieu à leur gout et décidèrent d'aller un peu plus loin pour mieux et cela fut repris par un autre ordre, celui des Servites de Marie.
Et bien, vous savez quoi, ça n'allait toujours pas, malfamé ou vraiment mal fichu, ça ne plaisait pas. Ils vendirent le lieu à des nouveaux arrivants (des bleus qui ne devaient pas avoir l'historique) : l'Ordre de Sainte-Elisabeth.
Cet ordre commencé ici d'infirmières s'était établie dans la ville en 1719 pour venir en renfort lors du dernier épisode de peste de la capitale bohémienne. En effet, le lieu n'était pas folichon puisqu'au début ces soigneuses ne pouvaient aider que seulement 6 personnes à la fois, mais elles avaient un avantage que les ordres précédents n'avait pas : le soutien des femmes nobles des environs ! De ce fait, le développement se fit et une nouvelle église-hôpital vu le jour en 1725 (celle que vous voyez). D'autres ailes du complexes furent ajoutées et l'hôpital des sœurs élisabéthaines permit à la ville d'avoir son premier hôpital pour femmes.
L'ordre continua à se moderniser et à s'étendre jusqu'à ce que les soviétiques s'invitent en ville et fit déguerpir l'ordre en 1957 pour laïciser ce haut lieu de soin. Un peu plus tard en 1965, l'hôpital fut transformer en établissement d'hospitalisation de l'Institut national de santé du district. Et ce n'est qu'en 1993 que cela est restitué à l'ordre. Il collabore pour cela avec le Centre de prévention et de suivi du cancer.
Sources : Encyclopédie de Prague 2 (CZ) && Wikipédia église (Multi) && Wikipédia Ordre de Sainte-Elisabeth (Multi)
Un des bâtiments des plus anciens du quartier, cette église mainte fois retouchée, fut initialement gothique et construite au XIIIe siècle. Sa dernière grosse refonte fut le passage au style en vogue au XVIIe : le Baroque, cela conduit notamment à ce duo de jolis bulbes. Il faut également mentionner le campanile qui eu également un passé tumultueux, une chose est sur, il est maintenant détaché de l'église et une route les sépare à l'heure actuelle.
Sources : Wikipédia église (CZ/DE/EO) && Monument historique (CZ) && Wikipédia saint (Multi)
Inside Vlaeykensgang, the narrow alley in Antwerp, dating back to 1591 and originally inhabited by shoemakers. Although its name is presumably derived from the local pie “Vlaai” and the place today is very picturesque and cute, back in the day only the poorest were housed here. The, by the 20th century, dilapidated Vlaeykensgang survived the fate of other such alleys that were demolished and redeveloped, thanks to a local antique dealer who purchased the houses in the alley and restored the complex.
Today, Vlaeykensgang is home to many galleries and a popular spot to enjoy the Monday evening carillon concerts given at Antwerp’s cathedral during the summer. Visitors can enter from either Hoogstraat or Oude Koornmarkt Pelgrimstraat, the entrance at nr16 of the latter being no wider than a doorway.
An experiment that started with a peony and a glass of white wine, and owes much to growing up in the '60's :)
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Shot on Kodak Trix film, ISO 400, with a Canon A1, 50mm 1.4 lens. Developed with Kodak D76 and scanned with a Minolta Dimage Multi II.
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If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.
Peter Stamm "All Days Are Night"
A novel use for some old casement windows - paint them brightly and nail them to your fence. Two of a number decorating a fence in a near-by street.
Another for the Historic Winchester series.
Ye Dolphin Inn, 51- 52 High Street, Winchester
Left: - Ye Dolphin Inn in 2019
Upper Right:- Ye Dolphin Inn in 1981
Lower Right:- The Dolphin Hotel in 1880
The site on the west side of the corner of the High Street and St. Thomas Street was bequeathed to the Hospital of St. John by Ralph Lamb who left £400 in his will for the purchase of property for the benefit of the almsfolk in the hospital in 1558, on this site was built a two story half-timbered building, called the Dolphin Hotel; this had been an ancient hostelry, distinctive as one of Winchester's few stone-built houses, which in turn had been built over the cellars of a medieval hostelry, which still exist today.
Built on the site of Number 51 High Street the hotel had a large bay window with arch topped windows to the left of the door on the High Street frontage, the recessed door appearing to be adjacent to the door of a shop at number 52, the lower sections of the glass in the bay window appear to be of frosted glass, which may have a pattern or writing etched into it.
The St Thomas Street frontage has a two light sash window near the corner next to a side door with both casement and sash windows further down the street. The upper floor, which continues over number 52, is jettied with timber framing with 6 (?) 8 light sash windows facing the High Street. The high roof is tiled and steeply pitched, with the roofline parallel to the High Street and is fitted with two dormer windows, one over each section, with latticed casement outward opening panels. The extension of the building down St.Thomas Street has both 2 light sash windows and 4 light casement windows and the lower roofline is at right angles to the front of the building running parallel to St. Thomas Street.
Over the front doorway is a large coach lamp supported with ornate wrought iron brackets from the centre with decorated supports running diagonally from the doorway below and up to the bottom of the roof, two plain side braces are also fitted, extending from the lamp back to the sills of the adjacent windows. The gas lamp has 4 glass panes, the front being etched with a stylised dolphin and the side with the name of the Hotel. The photo (Lower Right) is believed to have been taken in about 1880 and going by the partially erected timber scaffolding on the St. Thomas Street side of the building it would seem to have been taken as the buildings demolition was starting.
Richard Moss (1823 – 1905), a wealthy brewer, Freeman of the city and the Conservative M.P. for Winchester from 1880 to 1885 and 1888 to 1882 whose firm, The Winchester Brewery, then managed the Dolphin Hotel had the building pulled down and a new public house built on the site, these alterations widened St. Thomas street by five feet, the lease on the site at that time was £25 a year, payable to the St. Johns charity. The Victorian inn, built in the Tudor Revival style was designed by Thomas Stopher, the younger in 1882 and, going by the date on the column between the windows on the High Street frontage, it was completed in 1883, who also rebuilt No. 52 in the same year. Stopher later re-used the oak chimney piece of the old inn in the house called Chilcombe Chine on Sleeper's Hill in Winchester. The Hampshire Chronicle in 1882 condemned the Dolphin Inn as a new design in domestic Gothic, 'presenting ugly features and occupying valuable space'.
What appears to be the same coach lamp from the front of the old Dolphin Hotel is visible on the front of the Inn in photos taken in 1898 and 1902, but not in later pictures.
On the St Thomas Street frontage, the classical columns carry the initials R.M. for Richard Moss and the lamb and flag which is the are ancient heraldic insignia associated with St John's Hospital, the ground landlords of No. 51 and 52 High Street. The carved dolphins above the front door are replicas of the originals which are believed to have been detached by the vibration of heavy traffic before the High Street became a pedestrian precinct, beneath them over the door is the inscription ‘Ye Dolphin Inn’.
Above this, the facing below the upper corner window reaching round to the bay windows was covered with a plain white board with ‘Ye Dolphin Inn’ painted on the angled section, appearing thus in a 1909 sketch by Jenny Wylie and an assortment of photos taken thereafter, at some stage after the inn’s closure and conversion the board has been removed and the vertical half-timbering behind it has been revealed, the ugly lead flashing down the angles of the tiled roof of the spire has also been removed.
In 1891 the Publican was John Castle, who was succeeded in 1898 by Mr George Henry Catt. In 1907 the Publican was a Mr Stephen Cummins but this changed to Mrs Harriet Cummins in 1911 and in 1914 a Mr T. Ingram is listed as the Publican, this changed in 1916 to Thomas Higgins. A Year earlier Charles Bunker had moved into number 52 High Street, which is part of the same building next door to the Dolphin, this had been previously occupied by a Mr William Hyde since 1894 and is thought to have been a poulterer and butcher’s shop.
From 1920 to 1927 the Publican was a Mr Frederick Pragnell and by 1925 Charles Bunker was now the manager of Mac Fisheries, a chain of fishmongers and poulterers, which had opened the shop at Number 52. The Mac Fisheries shops, set up by Lord Leverhome in 1918 and taken over by Lever Brothers in 1922, were the first chain of fish shops to have a standard layout and colour scheme and the Mac Fisheries logo (a four fish sign based on the St Andrews Cross) became synonymous with hygiene and good quality products.
In 1931 the Publican was a Mr Harry J. Cobb but this changed in 1932 Mr G. Trigg, at the same time a Mr H. Towler became the manager of Mac Fisheries (Now part of the Unilever Group), though this changed again in 1934 when Edwin P. J. Beckett took over the management of the shop.
There are gaps in the records but in 1940 a Mr G. H. Ayling was the Publican at the Dolphin and Mac Fisheries was being run by a Mr C. Annett, in about 1952 Mac Fisheries moved out of Number 52 and took over a larger shop in number 120 the High Street, it would be around that time that Radio Rentals moved in. Mr Ayling left the Inn in 1953 and by 1954 the Publican was Clifford F. Gale who remained there until 1961 when the last Publican, Mr Hugh Clark took over and ran it until the 100 year lease on the building ran out in 1981 and Ye Old Dolphin Inn closed for the final time.
After considerable alterations costing some £500,000, the building was found to be structurally unsound and had to be stabilised by the insertion of steel framing and 46 deep-bored concrete piles. The ground floor of the inn was converted into a shop (Designed by Plincke, Leaman and Browning, architects) which extended into 52 High Street, which is part of the same building and was previously occupied by Radio Rentals.
The conversion involved removing the fixed light casement windows, quoin stones and brickwork down between the windows to the left of the front door on the St. Thomas Street frontage, moving the door and its right hand adjacent column from below the first bay window to a position just to the right of the second bow window further along the street, lowering the height of the brickwork on the ground floor down to two courses to accommodate two large shop windows with stone sloping lower sills, the stone lintels above the windows below the stringcourse were either removed, or covered with a painted timber facade.
On the High Street frontage the 5 bay fixed light casement window was removed from the position adjacent to the front door, the brickwork lowered to two courses and sloping sill lowered and a shop window fitted, The doorway of Number 52, the left hand door column, window and facia boards of the ex Radio Rental shop were taken out and a timber façade to match the other shop window was installed between the remaining columns with a second matching shop, the lower stone sill, sitting on two course of brickwork at the right hand end was aligned with the first window, although owing to the gradient of the High Streets pavement the right hand end of the window is quite low, a matching section of stonework was also fitted to continue the line at ground level to the right hand column, the differences are easily compared on the above photos.
The shop opened as Taurus, the Winchester Bag Company, this closed in 1993 and was replaced by Elvi Fashions. In February 2006 the lease of the shop was taken over by Joules, another fashion shop.
The shop in 30 St. Thomas Street, part of the same building, is currently empty, this had been Oddbins wine merchants which closed in 2007, and then Maxims Boutique; however that company was wound up on the 14th of August 2018 and at the time of writing (June 2019) the shop is unoccupied and advertised to let at £43,500 pa.
A doorway between this shop and the Dolphin, partially under the second bay window is flanked by two of the columns and opens to a staircase which leads to numbers 32 to number 35 St. Thomas Street. Number 32 is occupied by Witcher Crawford, architects and designers, at number 33 are the offices of Dataloft, a property market intelligence and design company, Adam Knibb, architects, and Summit Digital, an internet marketing service. Dr. Victoria, a cosmetic dermatology clinic is at number 34. Number 35 is a leasehold flat, currently valued at £381,000 or £1,350 pcm.
Access to the rear of the Dolphin and other properties is via St. Clement Street where St. Clements Yard opens into a courtyard behind Café Winchester which is on the junction at numbers 28 and 29 St. Thomas Street.
Photo Credits
Top Right:- Tom Beaumont James
Lower Right:- Hampshire Museum Service
Bel immeuble d'angle que je ne vous montre pas, ici regardons plutôt cet oriel supporté tel le monde par Atlas, un atlante des moins éloigné du canon de beauté de l'époque. Serait-ce une référence à l'architecte ou le commanditaire réduit à sa tenue d'Adam ? Je n'ai malheureusement pas trouvé de réponse. Tout ce que j'en sais c'est qu'elle fut construite au début du XXe siècle dans un style néo-baroque par Otakar Bureš. Cela peut-être suffisant si vous souhaitez partir à la chasse aux infos.
Sources : Forum entre touriste (CZ) && Commons par Wikimedia (Multi)
Detail of one of the buildings on Aristotelous square, Thessaloniki, Greece. The square was designed by French architect Ernest Hébrard in 1918, right after the great fire that destroyed a large part of the city. Hébrard envisioned a monumental axis which would start at the southern end of the square, next to the sea, reaching all the way to Venizelou square and the Roman Agora. His original designs were inspired by western architecture, with European, Arabic and neobyzantine elements to highlight the link of the city to the Byzantine empire. Unfortunately, during the construction of the square in the 1950s the façades of the buildings were simplified greatly, owing to the financial situation of the country at the time and the decision of the Venizelos government in 1918 to fund the project from private sources and not publicly.
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[This series has 4 photos] Time was many roadside structures had a standardized architectural form--gas stations, motels, restaurants (Howard-Johnson, McDonald's, etc.). This practice also existed for buildings that didn't cater to tourists. In Virginia even the ABC stores (Alcoholic Beverage Control) used a subdued Art Deco/Moderne pattern complete with glass blocks. Coca-Cola also used a standardized structure for a time, although the there was no rigid adherence to the pattern. Such an instance is the former Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi. The plant is not in operation but the building, through adaptive reuse, is still in existence with the Leaps and Bounds Learning Academy. Typical of these bottling plants are stone signs on brick announcing the building's function. The fourth image in this series shows a 6-section design with the Coca-Cola name with decorative work of the Coke bottles. Casement windows are used throughout. And the door is rather remarkable for the intricacy of architectural ornament. Quoins of stone frame the entrance with a simulated arch complete with keystone above the doorway. To either side are slender scepter-like elements rising to finials at the top.
A superb discussion of Coca-Cola architecture (with many many photos) is at
www.earlycoke.com/architecture-of-refreshment
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My favorite floor is the second floor, on account of the comical windowlessness of its expansive grid of rectangles, and the comically uneven application of its dark red paint.
My second favorite floor is the third floor, on account of its lozenge-shaped design of dark brown brickwork, set within a field of dark brown bricks.
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In downtown McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on July 1st, 2019, a building on the north side of 5th Avenue, east of Sinclair Street.
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Created from Salvaged Casement Windows, with Stainless Steel legs
look for other examples of my rePurposed Furniture @ www.kramerdesignstudio.com/repurposed.htm
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[This series has 4 photos] Time was many roadside structures had a standardized architectural form--gas stations, motels, restaurants (Howard-Johnson, McDonald's, etc.). This practice also existed for buildings that didn't cater to tourists. In Virginia even the ABC stores (Alcoholic Beverage Control) used a subdued Art Deco/Moderne pattern complete with glass blocks. Coca-Cola also used a standardized structure for a time, although the there was no rigid adherence to the pattern. Such an instance is the former Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi. The plant is not in operation but the building, through adaptive reuse, is still in existence with the Leaps and Bounds Learning Academy. Typical of these bottling plants are stone signs on brick announcing the building's function. The fourth image in this series shows a 6-section design with the Coca-Cola name with decorative work of the Coke bottles. Casement windows are used throughout. And the door is rather remarkable for the intricacy of architectural ornament. Quoins of stone frame the entrance with a simulated arch complete with keystone above the doorway. To either side are slender scepter-like elements rising to finials at the top.
A superb discussion of Coca-Cola architecture (with many many photos) is at
www.earlycoke.com/architecture-of-refreshment
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
This house is pretty much as I remember theses houses being 30 plus years ago. The suburb is much much leafier now but there was very little landscaping on most blocks back in the 70s.. much like this one still is today.
Fujifilm X-Pro1 - XF35mmF1.4 R
900th at F4 200iso
New detailed shots of the old Christopher Wray building.
I hope someone saves this and restores it, rather than selling it and having it demolished. It is Grade II listed after all.
It is at 7 - 12 Bartholomew Row, which is off Chapel Street.
Houses and workshops, now brassware factory. Mid C19 with possible
late C18 and early C19 remains, and late C19 and early C20 additions.
Brick with some painted stone or stucco dressings, and slate roofs.
The facade to Bartholomew Row is of 3 storeys above a cellar and 7
irregular bays. A straight joint suggests that it is of 2 builds and
the ground-floor brickwork is painted. It has painted surrounds to the
openings and the parapet is rendered. The windows are casements. The
first floor windows have a sill band, and lugged architraves with
cornices and pulvinated friezes. The second floor windows have plain
surrounds. The left-hand bay on the ground floor contains a blocked
window opening. The second bay has a doorway with plain reveals and
a painted round arch. The third bay contains a wide doorway with
timber lintel. The fourth and seventh bays have doorways which are
similar to the first floor window surrounds,the left-hand one now
containing a window. The fifth and sixth bays have windows with plain
reveals and painted lintels. Between them is a door with a painted
surround with round arch, keystone, and impost blocks. In line with
this doorway there is a ridge chimneystack. The main part of the Fox
Street facade is of painted render and of 2 storeys and 3 bays. On the
ground floor there are 2 wide entrance doorways with elliptical
arches, with a blocked window between them which has an architrave.
The first floor windows have plain surrounds with a sill band, and
casement windows with glazing bars. The central window is tripartite.
To the right is the end wall of a late C19 workshop range, of 2
storeys under a narrow gable at the left, and of 3 storeys and 2 bays
under a monopitch roof at the right.
The main Fox Street building is linked to the rear of numbers 7-10
Bartholomew Row by ranges of shopping of 2 and 3 storeys, including
a workshop with a lantern light rising above the roof. The late C19
workshop range extends, under a monopitch roof, from Fox Street to the
rear of numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row.
Interior. The former houses facing Bartholomew Row have brick vaulted
cellars, a mid C19 staircase, slate or marble fireplaces of mid and
late C19 type, and some brick floors. The interiors of the workshop
areas retain many features, including fixed workbenches directly lit
by ranges of single side-wall windows. At ground floor levels, sunken
walkways accommodate access to stamping machines. One area, central
to the ground floor workshops retains a two bay vaulted ceiling
reminiscent of fire proof construction in C19 textile mills. There is
a single cast metal pillar with a decorative capital associated with
this vaulting. An upper room, rectangular on plan was lit by the
raised lantern roof; an inserted C20 ceiling now obscures this
feature.
History. Map evidence shows that Bartholomew Row was built up by 1779
and Fox Street by 1810. Numbers 7-10 may have late C18 origins, but
numbers 11 and 12 were probably rebuilt in the early 1860's. The
earliest building fronting Fox Street may be William Spurrier's
malthouse of 1800, altered in the late 1870's or early 1880's when the
premises were occupied by a glass tablet maker. The shopping at the
rear of numbers 7-10 Bartholomew Row was in existence by 1855 and may
be the buildings listed as Spurrier's warehouse and shopping in 1823.
The shopping behind numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row was built c1894
by Henry Austin Aquila, a ginger beer maker. In 1910 H.B. London and
Bros., Stampers, moved into 10 Bartholomew Row and by 1928 occupied
the entire complex. London Bros. were incorporated into Christopher
Wray in the early 1980's.
Christopher Wray - Heritage Gateway
Detail of grapes and nuts.
This incredible Gothic Revival house may have been built for Dr. David H. Reed, a physician who first appears in the census as a resident of North Fairfield in 1860. Note that the facade is constructed of brick laid in a normal Flemish bond, not the double-stretcher Flemish bond common in the area. I would have opted for the double-stretcher variety myself, but that's nitpicking.
Date and location unknown—maybe the Midwest. The house may be small, but the V-notched logs are gigantic. After years of abandonment, the building has lost most of its daubing, but the chinking remains intact.
New detailed shots of the old Christopher Wray building.
I hope someone saves this and restores it, rather than selling it and having it demolished. It is Grade II listed after all.
It is at 7 - 12 Bartholomew Row, which is off Chapel Street.
Houses and workshops, now brassware factory. Mid C19 with possible
late C18 and early C19 remains, and late C19 and early C20 additions.
Brick with some painted stone or stucco dressings, and slate roofs.
The facade to Bartholomew Row is of 3 storeys above a cellar and 7
irregular bays. A straight joint suggests that it is of 2 builds and
the ground-floor brickwork is painted. It has painted surrounds to the
openings and the parapet is rendered. The windows are casements. The
first floor windows have a sill band, and lugged architraves with
cornices and pulvinated friezes. The second floor windows have plain
surrounds. The left-hand bay on the ground floor contains a blocked
window opening. The second bay has a doorway with plain reveals and
a painted round arch. The third bay contains a wide doorway with
timber lintel. The fourth and seventh bays have doorways which are
similar to the first floor window surrounds,the left-hand one now
containing a window. The fifth and sixth bays have windows with plain
reveals and painted lintels. Between them is a door with a painted
surround with round arch, keystone, and impost blocks. In line with
this doorway there is a ridge chimneystack. The main part of the Fox
Street facade is of painted render and of 2 storeys and 3 bays. On the
ground floor there are 2 wide entrance doorways with elliptical
arches, with a blocked window between them which has an architrave.
The first floor windows have plain surrounds with a sill band, and
casement windows with glazing bars. The central window is tripartite.
To the right is the end wall of a late C19 workshop range, of 2
storeys under a narrow gable at the left, and of 3 storeys and 2 bays
under a monopitch roof at the right.
The main Fox Street building is linked to the rear of numbers 7-10
Bartholomew Row by ranges of shopping of 2 and 3 storeys, including
a workshop with a lantern light rising above the roof. The late C19
workshop range extends, under a monopitch roof, from Fox Street to the
rear of numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row.
Interior. The former houses facing Bartholomew Row have brick vaulted
cellars, a mid C19 staircase, slate or marble fireplaces of mid and
late C19 type, and some brick floors. The interiors of the workshop
areas retain many features, including fixed workbenches directly lit
by ranges of single side-wall windows. At ground floor levels, sunken
walkways accommodate access to stamping machines. One area, central
to the ground floor workshops retains a two bay vaulted ceiling
reminiscent of fire proof construction in C19 textile mills. There is
a single cast metal pillar with a decorative capital associated with
this vaulting. An upper room, rectangular on plan was lit by the
raised lantern roof; an inserted C20 ceiling now obscures this
feature.
History. Map evidence shows that Bartholomew Row was built up by 1779
and Fox Street by 1810. Numbers 7-10 may have late C18 origins, but
numbers 11 and 12 were probably rebuilt in the early 1860's. The
earliest building fronting Fox Street may be William Spurrier's
malthouse of 1800, altered in the late 1870's or early 1880's when the
premises were occupied by a glass tablet maker. The shopping at the
rear of numbers 7-10 Bartholomew Row was in existence by 1855 and may
be the buildings listed as Spurrier's warehouse and shopping in 1823.
The shopping behind numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row was built c1894
by Henry Austin Aquila, a ginger beer maker. In 1910 H.B. London and
Bros., Stampers, moved into 10 Bartholomew Row and by 1928 occupied
the entire complex. London Bros. were incorporated into Christopher
Wray in the early 1980's.
Christopher Wray - Heritage Gateway
An old letter box for Christopher Wray.
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[This series has 4 photos] Time was many roadside structures had a standardized architectural form--gas stations, motels, restaurants (Howard-Johnson, McDonald's, etc.). This practice also existed for buildings that didn't cater to tourists. In Virginia even the ABC stores (Alcoholic Beverage Control) used a subdued Art Deco/Moderne pattern complete with glass blocks. Coca-Cola also used a standardized structure for a time, although the there was no rigid adherence to the pattern. Such an instance is the former Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi. The plant is not in operation but the building, through adaptive reuse, is still in existence with the Leaps and Bounds Learning Academy. Typical of these bottling plants are stone signs on brick announcing the building's function. The fourth image in this series shows a 6-section design with the Coca-Cola name with decorative work of the Coke bottles. Casement windows are used throughout. And the door is rather remarkable for the intricacy of architectural ornament. Quoins of stone frame the entrance with a simulated arch complete with keystone above the doorway. To either side are slender scepter-like elements rising to finials at the top.
A superb discussion of Coca-Cola architecture (with many many photos) is at
www.earlycoke.com/architecture-of-refreshment
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Looking in my Eastside set, I found a former cafe called Rosa's Cafe. Think this is it being knocked down. In the snow.
JSW Engineering brought down by DSM Demolition.
First thing in the morning before work.
Next to the demolition is Christopher Wray, a Grade II listed building.
It is at 7 - 12 Bartholomew Row, which is off Chapel Street.
Houses and workshops, now brassware factory. Mid C19 with possible
late C18 and early C19 remains, and late C19 and early C20 additions.
Brick with some painted stone or stucco dressings, and slate roofs.
The facade to Bartholomew Row is of 3 storeys above a cellar and 7
irregular bays. A straight joint suggests that it is of 2 builds and
the ground-floor brickwork is painted. It has painted surrounds to the
openings and the parapet is rendered. The windows are casements. The
first floor windows have a sill band, and lugged architraves with
cornices and pulvinated friezes. The second floor windows have plain
surrounds. The left-hand bay on the ground floor contains a blocked
window opening. The second bay has a doorway with plain reveals and
a painted round arch. The third bay contains a wide doorway with
timber lintel. The fourth and seventh bays have doorways which are
similar to the first floor window surrounds,the left-hand one now
containing a window. The fifth and sixth bays have windows with plain
reveals and painted lintels. Between them is a door with a painted
surround with round arch, keystone, and impost blocks. In line with
this doorway there is a ridge chimneystack. The main part of the Fox
Street facade is of painted render and of 2 storeys and 3 bays. On the
ground floor there are 2 wide entrance doorways with elliptical
arches, with a blocked window between them which has an architrave.
The first floor windows have plain surrounds with a sill band, and
casement windows with glazing bars. The central window is tripartite.
To the right is the end wall of a late C19 workshop range, of 2
storeys under a narrow gable at the left, and of 3 storeys and 2 bays
under a monopitch roof at the right.
The main Fox Street building is linked to the rear of numbers 7-10
Bartholomew Row by ranges of shopping of 2 and 3 storeys, including
a workshop with a lantern light rising above the roof. The late C19
workshop range extends, under a monopitch roof, from Fox Street to the
rear of numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row.
Interior. The former houses facing Bartholomew Row have brick vaulted
cellars, a mid C19 staircase, slate or marble fireplaces of mid and
late C19 type, and some brick floors. The interiors of the workshop
areas retain many features, including fixed workbenches directly lit
by ranges of single side-wall windows. At ground floor levels, sunken
walkways accommodate access to stamping machines. One area, central
to the ground floor workshops retains a two bay vaulted ceiling
reminiscent of fire proof construction in C19 textile mills. There is
a single cast metal pillar with a decorative capital associated with
this vaulting. An upper room, rectangular on plan was lit by the
raised lantern roof; an inserted C20 ceiling now obscures this
feature.
History. Map evidence shows that Bartholomew Row was built up by 1779
and Fox Street by 1810. Numbers 7-10 may have late C18 origins, but
numbers 11 and 12 were probably rebuilt in the early 1860's. The
earliest building fronting Fox Street may be William Spurrier's
malthouse of 1800, altered in the late 1870's or early 1880's when the
premises were occupied by a glass tablet maker. The shopping at the
rear of numbers 7-10 Bartholomew Row was in existence by 1855 and may
be the buildings listed as Spurrier's warehouse and shopping in 1823.
The shopping behind numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row was built c1894
by Henry Austin Aquila, a ginger beer maker. In 1910 H.B. London and
Bros., Stampers, moved into 10 Bartholomew Row and by 1928 occupied
the entire complex. London Bros. were incorporated into Christopher
Wray in the early 1980's.
New detailed shots of the old Christopher Wray building.
I hope someone saves this and restores it, rather than selling it and having it demolished. It is Grade II listed after all.
It is at 7 - 12 Bartholomew Row, which is off Chapel Street.
Houses and workshops, now brassware factory. Mid C19 with possible
late C18 and early C19 remains, and late C19 and early C20 additions.
Brick with some painted stone or stucco dressings, and slate roofs.
The facade to Bartholomew Row is of 3 storeys above a cellar and 7
irregular bays. A straight joint suggests that it is of 2 builds and
the ground-floor brickwork is painted. It has painted surrounds to the
openings and the parapet is rendered. The windows are casements. The
first floor windows have a sill band, and lugged architraves with
cornices and pulvinated friezes. The second floor windows have plain
surrounds. The left-hand bay on the ground floor contains a blocked
window opening. The second bay has a doorway with plain reveals and
a painted round arch. The third bay contains a wide doorway with
timber lintel. The fourth and seventh bays have doorways which are
similar to the first floor window surrounds,the left-hand one now
containing a window. The fifth and sixth bays have windows with plain
reveals and painted lintels. Between them is a door with a painted
surround with round arch, keystone, and impost blocks. In line with
this doorway there is a ridge chimneystack. The main part of the Fox
Street facade is of painted render and of 2 storeys and 3 bays. On the
ground floor there are 2 wide entrance doorways with elliptical
arches, with a blocked window between them which has an architrave.
The first floor windows have plain surrounds with a sill band, and
casement windows with glazing bars. The central window is tripartite.
To the right is the end wall of a late C19 workshop range, of 2
storeys under a narrow gable at the left, and of 3 storeys and 2 bays
under a monopitch roof at the right.
The main Fox Street building is linked to the rear of numbers 7-10
Bartholomew Row by ranges of shopping of 2 and 3 storeys, including
a workshop with a lantern light rising above the roof. The late C19
workshop range extends, under a monopitch roof, from Fox Street to the
rear of numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row.
Interior. The former houses facing Bartholomew Row have brick vaulted
cellars, a mid C19 staircase, slate or marble fireplaces of mid and
late C19 type, and some brick floors. The interiors of the workshop
areas retain many features, including fixed workbenches directly lit
by ranges of single side-wall windows. At ground floor levels, sunken
walkways accommodate access to stamping machines. One area, central
to the ground floor workshops retains a two bay vaulted ceiling
reminiscent of fire proof construction in C19 textile mills. There is
a single cast metal pillar with a decorative capital associated with
this vaulting. An upper room, rectangular on plan was lit by the
raised lantern roof; an inserted C20 ceiling now obscures this
feature.
History. Map evidence shows that Bartholomew Row was built up by 1779
and Fox Street by 1810. Numbers 7-10 may have late C18 origins, but
numbers 11 and 12 were probably rebuilt in the early 1860's. The
earliest building fronting Fox Street may be William Spurrier's
malthouse of 1800, altered in the late 1870's or early 1880's when the
premises were occupied by a glass tablet maker. The shopping at the
rear of numbers 7-10 Bartholomew Row was in existence by 1855 and may
be the buildings listed as Spurrier's warehouse and shopping in 1823.
The shopping behind numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row was built c1894
by Henry Austin Aquila, a ginger beer maker. In 1910 H.B. London and
Bros., Stampers, moved into 10 Bartholomew Row and by 1928 occupied
the entire complex. London Bros. were incorporated into Christopher
Wray in the early 1980's.
Christopher Wray - Heritage Gateway
Not much left of this old detailing.
New detailed shots of the old Christopher Wray building.
I hope someone saves this and restores it, rather than selling it and having it demolished. It is Grade II listed after all.
It is at 7 - 12 Bartholomew Row, which is off Chapel Street.
Houses and workshops, now brassware factory. Mid C19 with possible
late C18 and early C19 remains, and late C19 and early C20 additions.
Brick with some painted stone or stucco dressings, and slate roofs.
The facade to Bartholomew Row is of 3 storeys above a cellar and 7
irregular bays. A straight joint suggests that it is of 2 builds and
the ground-floor brickwork is painted. It has painted surrounds to the
openings and the parapet is rendered. The windows are casements. The
first floor windows have a sill band, and lugged architraves with
cornices and pulvinated friezes. The second floor windows have plain
surrounds. The left-hand bay on the ground floor contains a blocked
window opening. The second bay has a doorway with plain reveals and
a painted round arch. The third bay contains a wide doorway with
timber lintel. The fourth and seventh bays have doorways which are
similar to the first floor window surrounds,the left-hand one now
containing a window. The fifth and sixth bays have windows with plain
reveals and painted lintels. Between them is a door with a painted
surround with round arch, keystone, and impost blocks. In line with
this doorway there is a ridge chimneystack. The main part of the Fox
Street facade is of painted render and of 2 storeys and 3 bays. On the
ground floor there are 2 wide entrance doorways with elliptical
arches, with a blocked window between them which has an architrave.
The first floor windows have plain surrounds with a sill band, and
casement windows with glazing bars. The central window is tripartite.
To the right is the end wall of a late C19 workshop range, of 2
storeys under a narrow gable at the left, and of 3 storeys and 2 bays
under a monopitch roof at the right.
The main Fox Street building is linked to the rear of numbers 7-10
Bartholomew Row by ranges of shopping of 2 and 3 storeys, including
a workshop with a lantern light rising above the roof. The late C19
workshop range extends, under a monopitch roof, from Fox Street to the
rear of numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row.
Interior. The former houses facing Bartholomew Row have brick vaulted
cellars, a mid C19 staircase, slate or marble fireplaces of mid and
late C19 type, and some brick floors. The interiors of the workshop
areas retain many features, including fixed workbenches directly lit
by ranges of single side-wall windows. At ground floor levels, sunken
walkways accommodate access to stamping machines. One area, central
to the ground floor workshops retains a two bay vaulted ceiling
reminiscent of fire proof construction in C19 textile mills. There is
a single cast metal pillar with a decorative capital associated with
this vaulting. An upper room, rectangular on plan was lit by the
raised lantern roof; an inserted C20 ceiling now obscures this
feature.
History. Map evidence shows that Bartholomew Row was built up by 1779
and Fox Street by 1810. Numbers 7-10 may have late C18 origins, but
numbers 11 and 12 were probably rebuilt in the early 1860's. The
earliest building fronting Fox Street may be William Spurrier's
malthouse of 1800, altered in the late 1870's or early 1880's when the
premises were occupied by a glass tablet maker. The shopping at the
rear of numbers 7-10 Bartholomew Row was in existence by 1855 and may
be the buildings listed as Spurrier's warehouse and shopping in 1823.
The shopping behind numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row was built c1894
by Henry Austin Aquila, a ginger beer maker. In 1910 H.B. London and
Bros., Stampers, moved into 10 Bartholomew Row and by 1928 occupied
the entire complex. London Bros. were incorporated into Christopher
Wray in the early 1980's.
Christopher Wray - Heritage Gateway
On the door it says they have moved to Warwick Road in Solihull.
New detailed shots of the old Christopher Wray building.
I hope someone saves this and restores it, rather than selling it and having it demolished. It is Grade II listed after all.
It is at 7 - 12 Bartholomew Row, which is off Chapel Street.
Houses and workshops, now brassware factory. Mid C19 with possible
late C18 and early C19 remains, and late C19 and early C20 additions.
Brick with some painted stone or stucco dressings, and slate roofs.
The facade to Bartholomew Row is of 3 storeys above a cellar and 7
irregular bays. A straight joint suggests that it is of 2 builds and
the ground-floor brickwork is painted. It has painted surrounds to the
openings and the parapet is rendered. The windows are casements. The
first floor windows have a sill band, and lugged architraves with
cornices and pulvinated friezes. The second floor windows have plain
surrounds. The left-hand bay on the ground floor contains a blocked
window opening. The second bay has a doorway with plain reveals and
a painted round arch. The third bay contains a wide doorway with
timber lintel. The fourth and seventh bays have doorways which are
similar to the first floor window surrounds,the left-hand one now
containing a window. The fifth and sixth bays have windows with plain
reveals and painted lintels. Between them is a door with a painted
surround with round arch, keystone, and impost blocks. In line with
this doorway there is a ridge chimneystack. The main part of the Fox
Street facade is of painted render and of 2 storeys and 3 bays. On the
ground floor there are 2 wide entrance doorways with elliptical
arches, with a blocked window between them which has an architrave.
The first floor windows have plain surrounds with a sill band, and
casement windows with glazing bars. The central window is tripartite.
To the right is the end wall of a late C19 workshop range, of 2
storeys under a narrow gable at the left, and of 3 storeys and 2 bays
under a monopitch roof at the right.
The main Fox Street building is linked to the rear of numbers 7-10
Bartholomew Row by ranges of shopping of 2 and 3 storeys, including
a workshop with a lantern light rising above the roof. The late C19
workshop range extends, under a monopitch roof, from Fox Street to the
rear of numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row.
Interior. The former houses facing Bartholomew Row have brick vaulted
cellars, a mid C19 staircase, slate or marble fireplaces of mid and
late C19 type, and some brick floors. The interiors of the workshop
areas retain many features, including fixed workbenches directly lit
by ranges of single side-wall windows. At ground floor levels, sunken
walkways accommodate access to stamping machines. One area, central
to the ground floor workshops retains a two bay vaulted ceiling
reminiscent of fire proof construction in C19 textile mills. There is
a single cast metal pillar with a decorative capital associated with
this vaulting. An upper room, rectangular on plan was lit by the
raised lantern roof; an inserted C20 ceiling now obscures this
feature.
History. Map evidence shows that Bartholomew Row was built up by 1779
and Fox Street by 1810. Numbers 7-10 may have late C18 origins, but
numbers 11 and 12 were probably rebuilt in the early 1860's. The
earliest building fronting Fox Street may be William Spurrier's
malthouse of 1800, altered in the late 1870's or early 1880's when the
premises were occupied by a glass tablet maker. The shopping at the
rear of numbers 7-10 Bartholomew Row was in existence by 1855 and may
be the buildings listed as Spurrier's warehouse and shopping in 1823.
The shopping behind numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row was built c1894
by Henry Austin Aquila, a ginger beer maker. In 1910 H.B. London and
Bros., Stampers, moved into 10 Bartholomew Row and by 1928 occupied
the entire complex. London Bros. were incorporated into Christopher
Wray in the early 1980's.
Christopher Wray - Heritage Gateway
Detail of grapes and nuts.
New detailed shots of the old Christopher Wray building.
I hope someone saves this and restores it, rather than selling it and having it demolished. It is Grade II listed after all.
It is at 7 - 12 Bartholomew Row, which is off Chapel Street.
Houses and workshops, now brassware factory. Mid C19 with possible
late C18 and early C19 remains, and late C19 and early C20 additions.
Brick with some painted stone or stucco dressings, and slate roofs.
The facade to Bartholomew Row is of 3 storeys above a cellar and 7
irregular bays. A straight joint suggests that it is of 2 builds and
the ground-floor brickwork is painted. It has painted surrounds to the
openings and the parapet is rendered. The windows are casements. The
first floor windows have a sill band, and lugged architraves with
cornices and pulvinated friezes. The second floor windows have plain
surrounds. The left-hand bay on the ground floor contains a blocked
window opening. The second bay has a doorway with plain reveals and
a painted round arch. The third bay contains a wide doorway with
timber lintel. The fourth and seventh bays have doorways which are
similar to the first floor window surrounds,the left-hand one now
containing a window. The fifth and sixth bays have windows with plain
reveals and painted lintels. Between them is a door with a painted
surround with round arch, keystone, and impost blocks. In line with
this doorway there is a ridge chimneystack. The main part of the Fox
Street facade is of painted render and of 2 storeys and 3 bays. On the
ground floor there are 2 wide entrance doorways with elliptical
arches, with a blocked window between them which has an architrave.
The first floor windows have plain surrounds with a sill band, and
casement windows with glazing bars. The central window is tripartite.
To the right is the end wall of a late C19 workshop range, of 2
storeys under a narrow gable at the left, and of 3 storeys and 2 bays
under a monopitch roof at the right.
The main Fox Street building is linked to the rear of numbers 7-10
Bartholomew Row by ranges of shopping of 2 and 3 storeys, including
a workshop with a lantern light rising above the roof. The late C19
workshop range extends, under a monopitch roof, from Fox Street to the
rear of numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row.
Interior. The former houses facing Bartholomew Row have brick vaulted
cellars, a mid C19 staircase, slate or marble fireplaces of mid and
late C19 type, and some brick floors. The interiors of the workshop
areas retain many features, including fixed workbenches directly lit
by ranges of single side-wall windows. At ground floor levels, sunken
walkways accommodate access to stamping machines. One area, central
to the ground floor workshops retains a two bay vaulted ceiling
reminiscent of fire proof construction in C19 textile mills. There is
a single cast metal pillar with a decorative capital associated with
this vaulting. An upper room, rectangular on plan was lit by the
raised lantern roof; an inserted C20 ceiling now obscures this
feature.
History. Map evidence shows that Bartholomew Row was built up by 1779
and Fox Street by 1810. Numbers 7-10 may have late C18 origins, but
numbers 11 and 12 were probably rebuilt in the early 1860's. The
earliest building fronting Fox Street may be William Spurrier's
malthouse of 1800, altered in the late 1870's or early 1880's when the
premises were occupied by a glass tablet maker. The shopping at the
rear of numbers 7-10 Bartholomew Row was in existence by 1855 and may
be the buildings listed as Spurrier's warehouse and shopping in 1823.
The shopping behind numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row was built c1894
by Henry Austin Aquila, a ginger beer maker. In 1910 H.B. London and
Bros., Stampers, moved into 10 Bartholomew Row and by 1928 occupied
the entire complex. London Bros. were incorporated into Christopher
Wray in the early 1980's.
Christopher Wray - Heritage Gateway
Not sure what this paste on is called. It is by Tempo33.
This incredible Gothic Revival house may have been built for Dr. David H. Reed, a physician who first appears in the census as a resident of North Fairfield in 1860. Note that the facade is constructed of brick laid in a normal Flemish bond, not the double-stretcher Flemish bond common in the area. I would have opted for the double-stretcher variety myself, but that's nitpicking.
New detailed shots of the old Christopher Wray building.
I hope someone saves this and restores it, rather than selling it and having it demolished. It is Grade II listed after all.
It is at 7 - 12 Bartholomew Row, which is off Chapel Street.
Houses and workshops, now brassware factory. Mid C19 with possible
late C18 and early C19 remains, and late C19 and early C20 additions.
Brick with some painted stone or stucco dressings, and slate roofs.
The facade to Bartholomew Row is of 3 storeys above a cellar and 7
irregular bays. A straight joint suggests that it is of 2 builds and
the ground-floor brickwork is painted. It has painted surrounds to the
openings and the parapet is rendered. The windows are casements. The
first floor windows have a sill band, and lugged architraves with
cornices and pulvinated friezes. The second floor windows have plain
surrounds. The left-hand bay on the ground floor contains a blocked
window opening. The second bay has a doorway with plain reveals and
a painted round arch. The third bay contains a wide doorway with
timber lintel. The fourth and seventh bays have doorways which are
similar to the first floor window surrounds,the left-hand one now
containing a window. The fifth and sixth bays have windows with plain
reveals and painted lintels. Between them is a door with a painted
surround with round arch, keystone, and impost blocks. In line with
this doorway there is a ridge chimneystack. The main part of the Fox
Street facade is of painted render and of 2 storeys and 3 bays. On the
ground floor there are 2 wide entrance doorways with elliptical
arches, with a blocked window between them which has an architrave.
The first floor windows have plain surrounds with a sill band, and
casement windows with glazing bars. The central window is tripartite.
To the right is the end wall of a late C19 workshop range, of 2
storeys under a narrow gable at the left, and of 3 storeys and 2 bays
under a monopitch roof at the right.
The main Fox Street building is linked to the rear of numbers 7-10
Bartholomew Row by ranges of shopping of 2 and 3 storeys, including
a workshop with a lantern light rising above the roof. The late C19
workshop range extends, under a monopitch roof, from Fox Street to the
rear of numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row.
Interior. The former houses facing Bartholomew Row have brick vaulted
cellars, a mid C19 staircase, slate or marble fireplaces of mid and
late C19 type, and some brick floors. The interiors of the workshop
areas retain many features, including fixed workbenches directly lit
by ranges of single side-wall windows. At ground floor levels, sunken
walkways accommodate access to stamping machines. One area, central
to the ground floor workshops retains a two bay vaulted ceiling
reminiscent of fire proof construction in C19 textile mills. There is
a single cast metal pillar with a decorative capital associated with
this vaulting. An upper room, rectangular on plan was lit by the
raised lantern roof; an inserted C20 ceiling now obscures this
feature.
History. Map evidence shows that Bartholomew Row was built up by 1779
and Fox Street by 1810. Numbers 7-10 may have late C18 origins, but
numbers 11 and 12 were probably rebuilt in the early 1860's. The
earliest building fronting Fox Street may be William Spurrier's
malthouse of 1800, altered in the late 1870's or early 1880's when the
premises were occupied by a glass tablet maker. The shopping at the
rear of numbers 7-10 Bartholomew Row was in existence by 1855 and may
be the buildings listed as Spurrier's warehouse and shopping in 1823.
The shopping behind numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row was built c1894
by Henry Austin Aquila, a ginger beer maker. In 1910 H.B. London and
Bros., Stampers, moved into 10 Bartholomew Row and by 1928 occupied
the entire complex. London Bros. were incorporated into Christopher
Wray in the early 1980's.
Christopher Wray - Heritage Gateway
Doors on the old Christopher Wray building.
New detailed shots of the old Christopher Wray building.
I hope someone saves this and restores it, rather than selling it and having it demolished. It is Grade II listed after all.
It is at 7 - 12 Bartholomew Row, which is off Chapel Street.
Houses and workshops, now brassware factory. Mid C19 with possible
late C18 and early C19 remains, and late C19 and early C20 additions.
Brick with some painted stone or stucco dressings, and slate roofs.
The facade to Bartholomew Row is of 3 storeys above a cellar and 7
irregular bays. A straight joint suggests that it is of 2 builds and
the ground-floor brickwork is painted. It has painted surrounds to the
openings and the parapet is rendered. The windows are casements. The
first floor windows have a sill band, and lugged architraves with
cornices and pulvinated friezes. The second floor windows have plain
surrounds. The left-hand bay on the ground floor contains a blocked
window opening. The second bay has a doorway with plain reveals and
a painted round arch. The third bay contains a wide doorway with
timber lintel. The fourth and seventh bays have doorways which are
similar to the first floor window surrounds,the left-hand one now
containing a window. The fifth and sixth bays have windows with plain
reveals and painted lintels. Between them is a door with a painted
surround with round arch, keystone, and impost blocks. In line with
this doorway there is a ridge chimneystack. The main part of the Fox
Street facade is of painted render and of 2 storeys and 3 bays. On the
ground floor there are 2 wide entrance doorways with elliptical
arches, with a blocked window between them which has an architrave.
The first floor windows have plain surrounds with a sill band, and
casement windows with glazing bars. The central window is tripartite.
To the right is the end wall of a late C19 workshop range, of 2
storeys under a narrow gable at the left, and of 3 storeys and 2 bays
under a monopitch roof at the right.
The main Fox Street building is linked to the rear of numbers 7-10
Bartholomew Row by ranges of shopping of 2 and 3 storeys, including
a workshop with a lantern light rising above the roof. The late C19
workshop range extends, under a monopitch roof, from Fox Street to the
rear of numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row.
Interior. The former houses facing Bartholomew Row have brick vaulted
cellars, a mid C19 staircase, slate or marble fireplaces of mid and
late C19 type, and some brick floors. The interiors of the workshop
areas retain many features, including fixed workbenches directly lit
by ranges of single side-wall windows. At ground floor levels, sunken
walkways accommodate access to stamping machines. One area, central
to the ground floor workshops retains a two bay vaulted ceiling
reminiscent of fire proof construction in C19 textile mills. There is
a single cast metal pillar with a decorative capital associated with
this vaulting. An upper room, rectangular on plan was lit by the
raised lantern roof; an inserted C20 ceiling now obscures this
feature.
History. Map evidence shows that Bartholomew Row was built up by 1779
and Fox Street by 1810. Numbers 7-10 may have late C18 origins, but
numbers 11 and 12 were probably rebuilt in the early 1860's. The
earliest building fronting Fox Street may be William Spurrier's
malthouse of 1800, altered in the late 1870's or early 1880's when the
premises were occupied by a glass tablet maker. The shopping at the
rear of numbers 7-10 Bartholomew Row was in existence by 1855 and may
be the buildings listed as Spurrier's warehouse and shopping in 1823.
The shopping behind numbers 11 and 12 Bartholomew Row was built c1894
by Henry Austin Aquila, a ginger beer maker. In 1910 H.B. London and
Bros., Stampers, moved into 10 Bartholomew Row and by 1928 occupied
the entire complex. London Bros. were incorporated into Christopher
Wray in the early 1980's.
Christopher Wray - Heritage Gateway
Not much left of this old detailing.