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Colorful exterior view from the garden to the historic Landmark of Fonthill Castle home to Henry Chapman Mercer more than a century ago.
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Pictures taken from hte book "Alison and Peter Smithson-From the house of the Future to a house of today" edited by Dirt van Heuvel and Max Risselada
2018 Canadian Women's Mid-Amateur & Senior Championship in Fonthill, Ontario on August 30, 2018. Photo: Claus Andersen
One of my favorite places to visit, this is the first time I have been able to do photography within the Castle. www.mercermuseum.org/ Access gained via a tour with roaminwithroman.com/
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This old farm house was built in the WWI era. Now, there is no road to provide access; to reach it one mus take a trail in the woods.
The raised letters at the roof line say, "Who learns will love and not destroy the creatures life the flowers joy." That doesn't make much sense as a sentence, but it seems to carry meaning anyway.
As you can see, there has been much vandalism to the house over the years and the windows have since been barred.
Christina Proteau
[Fonthill, ON] – August 28, 2018 – Canadian Women's Mid Am & Senior Lookout Point Country Club
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This castle was built by a tile maker to showcase his tiles. The tileworks is across the street. The entire builing is contructed of concrete. Henry Mercer lived in it and gave tours to potential tile clients. Every room has different tiles all over the floors, walls and ceilings. Too bad we were not allowed to take pictures inside!
The cost to build this place was relatively low because Mercer was all about recycling. He used many found items and scrap materials in his construction. He made up the construction techniques as he went. It is a fascinating place to visit.
Here is a link to the museum website if you are interested in learning more.
Gail Pimm
[Fonthill, ON] – August 29, 2018 – Canadian Women's Mid Am & Senior Lookout Point Country Club
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GNRI No. 85 'Merlin' makes for an impressive sight as she powers through Clondalkin/Fonthill Station on it's way to Cork with the RPSI International Special.
A bonus of a track machine (I'm guessing a tamper) turning up as I hung around for the RPSI special at Clondalkin/Fonthill Station
Spool Quilt designed by Edyta Sitar, pieced by Dianne Civak and quilting by Kelly Corfe of The Quilting Bee Quilt Shop in Fonthill, Ontario, Canada, www.thequiltbee.com
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FontHill Castle, the home of Henry Chapman Mercer. Mercer built Fonthill both as his home and as a showplace for his collection of tiles and prints.
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Pictures taken from hte book "Alison and Peter Smithson-From the house of the Future to a house of today" edited by Dirt van Heuvel and Max Risselada
Fonthill Abbey był pomysłem William Thomas Beckford, syn zamożny właściciel plantacji William Beckford angielski i ucznia architekta Sir William Chambers, jak i James Wyatt, architekt projektu.
W 1771 roku, kiedy Beckford miał dziesięć lat, odziedziczył 1 milion funtów (£ 79.510.000 w 2014) [3] i dochody, które jego współcześni szacuje się na około 100 tysięcy funtów rocznie, kolosalna ilość w czasie, ale które znalazły biografowie być bliżej połowy tej sumy. Prasa z okresu opisał go jako "najbogatszego gminu w Anglii".
Poznał Williama Courtenay (11-letniego syna wicehrabiego Courtenay w), w 1778 roku spektakularny Christmas party trwały przez trzy dni był przetrzymywany przez chłopca w Fonthill. W tym czasie (c.1782), Beckford zaczął pisać Vathek, jego najbardziej znanych powieści. [4] W 1784 Beckford został oskarżony przez wuja Courtenay, Alexander Wedderburn Loughborough, 1. Pan (później hrabia Rosslyn) posiadania miała romans z Williamem Courtenay. [5] zarzuty nierzetelności pozostała niesprawdzona, pomimo, że miesza się przez Pana Loughborough, ale afera była na tyle znacząca, aby zażądać jego wygnanie.
Beckford wybrał wygnanie w towarzystwie swojej żony, z domu Lady Margaret Gordon, którego wyrósł kochać głęboko, ale zmarł w czasie porodu, gdy para znalazła schronienie w Szwajcarii. Beckford podróżował po tej tragedii - do Francji, wielokrotnie, do Niemiec, Włoch, Hiszpanii i Portugalii (kraju faworyzował przede wszystkim). Odrzucane przez społeczeństwa angielskiego, mimo to zdecydował się na powrót do kraju; po otaczający posiadłość Fonthill w sześć mil długiej ścianie (wystarczająco wysoka, aby zapobiec myśliwych z pościgu lisy i zające na jego własności), to arcy-romantyczna zdecydowała się na gotycką katedrę zbudowaną na jego domu.
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Plan parterze (Rutter, 1823).
Fonthill Abbey od południowego zachodu, przez Williama Turnera (1799)
Budowa klasztoru rozpoczęła się na dobre 1796 w posiadłości Beckford z dnia Fonthill Gifford najbliższej Hindon w Wiltshire, Anglia. Wynajął James Wyatt, jeden z najbardziej popularnych i skutecznych architektów pod koniec 18 wieku, aby prowadzić prace. Wyatt był często oskarżany o spędzeniu sporo swego czasu na kobiety i napój [6] W związku z tym, że również spowodował gniew wielu swoich klientów -. Tym Beckford - z powodu jego zbyt powszechny nieobecności w spotkaniach klienta, dla ogólnego lekceważenie nadzorowanie prac budowlanych był za, a nie dostarczenia obiecanych wyników w czasie, ze klienci oskarżając go - w niektórych przypadkach -. lat opóźnienia [6]
Chociaż cierpi związek, który był w czasie napięte, Beckford i Wyatt zaangażowany w budowę opactwa. Jest jednak oczywiste, że ze względu na ciągłe nieobecności Wyatt z witryny, oraz ze względu na intensywne zainteresowania osobowych Beckford miał w przedsiębiorstwie, często wziął na roli nadzorcy budowy, ogólnym organizator, patrona, jak i klienta . Rzeczywiście, jego biografowie i swojej korespondencji wynika, że, w czasie przedłużających się nieobecności Wyatt, wziął na siebie skierować budowę opactwa, jak również prowadząc wysiłki krajobrazu w swojej posiadłości.
Co więcej, dowody wskazują, że był on nie tylko z przyjemnością zobowiązują wszystkich tych obowiązków, ale jak Brockman [7] sugeruje, musi jeszcze mieszkali niektórzy z jego najjaśniejszych momentów swego dorosłego życia zarządzających wysiłki Fonthill. To nie znaczy, że rola Wyatt w budowie było bynajmniej drobne do Beckford jest. Wyatt był nie tylko zaprojektował budynek (na podstawie pomysłów Beckford jest), ale ostatecznie mistrzem w łączeniu różnych wielkości i skali w obiekcie. Czyniąc Wyatt osiągnął faux efekt warstw rozwoju historycznego w budynku, łącząc różne stylistyczne elementy architektoniczne.
Malarz Franciszek Eginton szkło zrobił wiele pracy w budynku, w tym trzydziestu dwóch postaci królów, rycerzy, itp, i wiele okien, dla których Beckford wypłaconych mu £ 12,000.
Beckford za 500 robotników pracowało w dzień iw nocy. Przekupił 450 więcej od budynku nowych apartamentów królewskich w zamku Windsor, zwiększając się racje ALE aby przyspieszyć. On też zarekwirowane wszystkie lokalne wagonów do transportu materiałów budowlanych. Aby zrekompensować, Beckford Dostawa węgla i koce do ubogich w zimnie.
Pierwsza część była wieża, która osiągnęła około 90 metrów (300 stóp), zanim upadł.Nowa wieża została ukończona sześć lat później, znów 90 metrów wysokości. To upadł również. Beckford natychmiast zaczęli budować jeszcze jeden, tym razem z kamienia, i ta praca została ukończona w ciągu siedmiu lat.
(Wikipedia)
Fonthill Abbey was a brainchild of William Thomas Beckford, son of wealthy English plantation owner William Beckford and a student of architect Sir William Chambers, as well as of James Wyatt, architect of the project.
In 1771, when Beckford was ten years old, he inherited £1 million (£79,510,000 in 2014)[3] and an income which his contemporaries estimated at around £100,000 per annum, a colossal amount at the time, but which biographers have found to be closer to half of that sum. Newspapers of the period described him as "the richest commoner in England".
He first met William Courtenay (Viscount Courtenay's 11-year-old son), in 1778. A spectacular Christmas party lasting for three days was held for the boy at Fonthill. During this time (c.1782), Beckford began writing Vathek, his most famous novel.[4] In 1784 Beckford was accused by Courtenay's uncle, Alexander Wedderburn Loughborough, 1st Lord (later Earl of Rosslyn) of having had an affair with William Courtenay.[5] The allegations of misconduct remained unproven, despite being stirred up by Lord Loughborough, but the scandal was significant enough to require his exile.
Beckford chose exile in the company of his wife, née Lady Margaret Gordon, whom he grew to love deeply, but who died in childbirth when the couple had found refuge in Switzerland. Beckford travelled extensively after this tragedy – to France, repeatedly, to Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal (the country he favoured above all). Shunned by English society, he nevertheless decided to return to his native country; after enclosing the Fonthill estate in a six-mile long wall (high enough to prevent hunters from chasing foxes and hares on his property), this arch-romantic decided to have a Gothic cathedral built for his home.
Construction[edit]
A plan of the main floor (Rutter, 1823).
Fonthill Abbey from the South West, by J. M. W. Turner (1799)
Construction of the abbey began in earnest 1796 in Beckford's estate of Fonthill Gifford near Hindon in Wiltshire, England. He hired James Wyatt, one of the most popular and successful architects of the late 18th-century, to lead the works. Wyatt was often accused of spending a good deal of his time on women and drink.[6] Consequently, he also caused the ire of many of his clients — including Beckford — because of his all too common absences from client meetings, for a general disregard for supervising the construction works he was in charge of, and for not delivering the promised results in time, with clients accusing him — in certain instances — of years of delay.[6]
Although suffering from a relationship which was at time strained, Beckford and Wyatt engaged, in the construction of the Abbey. It is clear, however, that due to Wyatt's constant absences from the site, and because of the intense personal interest that Beckford had in the enterprise, he often took on the roles of construction site supervisor, general organiser, patron, as well as client. Indeed, his biographers and his correspondence indicate that, during Wyatt's prolonged absences, he took it upon himself to direct the construction of the Abbey, as well as leading the landscaping efforts in his estate.
Furthermore, the evidence suggests that not only was he happy to undertake all of those duties but, as Brockman[7] suggests, must even have lived some of his brightest moments of his adult life managing the efforts of Fonthill. This is not to say that Wyatt's role in the construction was by any means minor to Beckford's. Wyatt had not only designed the building (based on Beckford's ideas), but was ultimately a master at combining the different volumes and scales in the building. In so doing Wyatt had achieved a faux effect of layered historical development in the building by combining different stylistic architectural elements.
Glass painter Francis Eginton did much work in the building, including thirty-two figures of kings, knights, etc., and many windows, for which Beckford paid him £12,000.
Beckford's 500 labourers worked in day and night shifts. He bribed 450 more from the building of the new royal apartments at Windsor Castle by increasing an ale ration to speed things up. He also commandeered all the local wagons for transportation of building materials. To compensate, Beckford delivered free coal and blankets to the poor in cold weather.
The first part was the tower that reached about 90 metres (300 ft) before it collapsed. The new tower was finished six years later, again 90 metres tall. It collapsed as well. Beckford immediately started to build another one, this time with stone, and this work was finished in seven years.
(Wikipedia)