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SO5174 CASTLE SQUARE
825-1/1/192 Castle Lodge and attached railings
15/04/54
GV II*
House. Probably C14-C15 with late C16/early C17
superstructure. Rubble; timber-frame and plaster; hipped slate
roof; brick stack to rear. 3-storeys; 4-window range: C16
moulded wood mullion and transom windows with casements and small leaded lights. Later 2nd floor of 3 bays of
timber-framing, with moulded bressummer, on consoles with
stone corbels; mullioned windows with leaded lights. Entrance,
to right, has studded plank door in C14(?) pointed arch with,
to right, moulded wood mullion and transom window with leaded lights and to left, large bay with wood transom, and further mullion and transom window. Front to Mill Street has jettied chevron braced 2nd floor; to right, C18 tiered canted bay with mullion and transom leaded lights, those to ground floor decorated; to left, blocked opening, and moulded wood mullion and transom windows with leaded lights, to ground and 1st floors. Right return of rubble, with windows to 1st and 2nd floors. To Castle Square and Mill Street frontages, late C18 wrought-iron railings and gate, with urn-finials to posts, on stone plinth. INTERIOR: imported C16-C19 panelling; decorative plaster ceilings with pendants; fireplaces with fireback and overmantel; panelling doors with architraves and entablatures.
Source: British listed Buildings
The Mayor's Reception Room. City Hall fireplace. The mahogany mantlepiece is supported by two carved Atlantes. The firebox is surrounded with Alps green marble contains a brass fireback depicting a Roman Charioteer. Sitting atop the mantel are a clock and two urns.
The Philadelphia City Hall is the world's second tallest masonry building. It is still the largest municipal building in the United States.
The building is topped by an 11.3-m (37 ft), 27-ton bronze statue of city founder William Penn. The observation deck located directly below the base of the statue, approximately 500 ft (152 m) above street level, offers visitors an expansive view of the city and its surroundings.
28817 Household artifacts – American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, 200 Water Street, Yorktown, York, Virginia. April 26, 2025. Decimal degrees: 37.239720, -76.518472 GPS: N 37 14.383, W 76 31.108
Top row:
“New Industries and Markets”
“With the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the American people could expect to reap the benefits of being an independent nation state whenever their commercial creatures and products were offered in international markets. They were fa---ated from their farmer dependence on Britain’s nontactile system. No longer have they to submit to the taxes and regulations that had ---USA domestic Industries and overseaers trading. Many American producers and businessmen s---ed the chance to expand traditional industries and grow their own markets at home and aboard.
The USA economy proved resilient despise coping with debt and other negative industrial and marketing trends in the wake of the war. On the brighter side victory offered a finer prospect for direct foreign trade with Holland and China, so American delegates and agents abroad started to negotiate trade deals in the Far East and with other European nations.”
“delft ‘Rappe’ Tobacco Jar
Netherlands, 1765-1785”
“Tobacco continued to represent a major American commodity after the Declaration of Independence. It was now exported by American growers and merchants directly to European markets and British customers without middlemen taking part of the profits. Consignments of American tobacco which came to the Netherlands were sold in Dutch stores in Delfware jars like this one The blue decoration on the sides of this jar advertises the cipher of the Dutch East India Company, ‘VOC’, which labels a box behind the large coopered barrel. On the plinth is depicted a jar marked with the brand name ‘Rappe.’ The traditional Virginia tobacco figure is represented in the foreground, with a long pipe in his mouth and sporting a feathered headdress.”
“Stoneware Jar
Captain James Morgan, New Jersey, 1775-1800”
“In the Mid-Atlantic region there began and vessels which matched the needs of local farming communities for these decorative wares. The vertical handles and blue ‘watch-spring’ decorative painting in cobalt blue are touches of refinement that speak to the measure of prosperity in the last quarter of the 18th century.”
“Mahoghany Side Chair
East Windsor, Connecticut, 1780-1790”
“This ribbon back side chair is made of mahogany with maple and eastern white pine. The form of the chair back and the details of the joinery show a knowledge and training in Philadelphian chair-making traditions and a taste for Chippendale design. The shaped and pierced crest rail with a group of chairs made by Eliphalet Chapin (1741-1807) who trained in Philadelphia but who produced this pattern for local customers in Connecticut upon his return to Windsor.”
“Coin Silver Teapot
Philadelphia, Dated 1786”
“After the Revolution, American craftsmen began producing a whole range of luxury goods for a growing consumer market. American silversmiths often used so-called ‘coin’ silver rather than sterling silver for their flatware and hollow wares. Coin silver did not have as high a silver content as sterling, but it was both easier to obrain and cheaper than sterling silver. The neo-classical form is embellished with an engraved monogram of the owner, ‘TMW.’ This stans for Thomas and Mary Wistar who married in Philadelphia, in 1786.”
“Chippendale Tall Case Clock
Nathan Adams, Massachusetts, Circa 1790”
“Made for the Joseph Putman family of Danvers, Massachusetts, this tall clock has a butternut and pine case of elegant proportions. The increasing wealth of the middle classes in the United States after the Revolutionary War was attested by the number of expensive timekeeping instruments which are included in New England household inventories of this period. Marry immigrant Swiss, German and British clockmakers advertised their trade in local newspapers, and local American cabinet makers applied their skills in building cases to house the works. Like the Putnam tall-case clock, these ‘grandfather’ clocks were passed down the generations of family members as heirloom pieces.”
Lower row:
“Plate with Emblem of the Society of the Cincinnati
---, Circa 1763”
“This place belonged to a pon piece dinner service ordered from China by members of the Society of the Cincinnati, a foraminal order of American and French officers founded in 1783 to preserve the patriotic ideals and the fellowship of French and Americans serving in the Continental Army and Navy during the Revolutionary War Colonel ‘Light Horse Harry’ Lee planed the order for himself and George Washington. Major Sammuel Shaw oversaw the production as the perc--- works in China sailing to Cantown aboard the U.S. vessel the Empress of China. After its completion in 1785 the Chinese g---service was imported to America aboard the U.S. brig. Pallies.
Each part of the service bore the affirmative American bald eagle on the insignia of the Society of that Cincinnati. Painted in bright enamels it adorns the center of the plate, and was excused by a Chinese ---. This post -Revolutionary emblem is appended from a blue ribbon held a left by the winged figure of frame blowing a trumpet. Charismatic borders of blue Chinese underglass oran---- the design.”
“Silver Independence Recognition Medal
Netherlands 1782”
“The Dutch province of Friesland produced this silver medal in recognition of America’s Independence and to commemorate the peace accord and commercial arrangements which the provincial assembly approved in their meeting of February and April 1782 held at Leeuwarden. The designer, BCV Calker, used emblems on the medal of signify the amity between West Frisia and the United States Thurs American was personified as a princess in Indian costume trampling the scepter and the chain of dependence under her feet. Symbolic of Frisia was the warrior. He is shown ignoring Britannia with her olive branch and her attributes of a leopard and an adder.”
“George III Folk Art Figure’s
English, Circa 1800”
“Produced for popular consumption in Britain the artisan represented the aging monarch in the ‘Windsor’ uniform which the king designed for use of the Royal family in 1779. Pinned to his coast is the Garter star, emblem of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, a society formed of the king’s closest and nearest distinguished familiars.
While the loss of the American colonies was a grievous blow to king and country, the long reign saw the success of British forces operating in the sub-continent of India and in the Western hemisphere. British fleet monitored trade routes and safeguarded British commerce protecting far flung markets for British goods overseas. Not least was the growing distaste in Britain for the invasion from across the channel united the British people behind their king whose leadership and armed forces had ensured peace and prosperity.”
“Wrought Iron Gooseneck Andirons
American, 18th Century”
“The iron industry in America had been expanded during the war years. After Independence was won local ironworks in all the states expanded their range of products to supply local markets with domestic equipment such as hearth tools, stoves, firebacks and cooking utensils.”
“Chinese Export Porcelain Punch Bowl
Chinese, Circa 1775”
“When peace was signed at the Treaty of Paris in 1782 the United States began trading directly with China, rather than through the British trading network. This Chinese bowl was fashioned to be marketed abroad in Europe and America because it has the European shape of a punch bowl. The exterior is decorated in the colorful palette of Chinese enamel artists, but the function served a Western custom of partaking of the drink called punch, a refreshing fruit cocktail that was often fortified with spices and alcohol.”
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Since there are very few urbex opportunities in the New Forest, I thought I'd rip out my own fireplace to create some shots in my own living room! Just wait until I start on the bathroom!
Also, note the mysterious symbolism on the fireback, and the strange alien appendages squeezing through from a different spacetime. The advent of Cthulhu? (rapture nuts - you have nuthin...)
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A Giant Pitta (Hydrornis caeruleus) sighting report of yesterday's afternoon demanded an immediate change of plans which put us on the road again at 4.00 am, on the muddy, slippery, steep trail by 6.00 am, attacked by a mad territorial crested fireback by 6.10 am, on the hidden pitta by 7.00 am and on out in the open posing pitta by 7.06 am.... I have never thought will be able to see this elusive pitta, let alone photograph it, but then Razis Nasri happened. Thank you!!! An experience to last a lifetime. For my non-birder friends, this pitta might not be as colorful and attractive as the ones I kept on posting, but it is so special to see it, as it is very shy! Sort of the holy grail of pittas.
Limestone, France, late 15th or early 16th century;
Cast iron, France, late 15th or early 16th century;
Wrought iron, France, late 14th or early 15th century.
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Anne of Cleves House, Lewes.
Wealden Iron Gallery.
This gallery displays material relating to the Sussex Wealden iron industry which flourished during Tudor times.
Richard Lennard Fireback.
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