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Enterprise Loco 233 stands in for the failed 8113 on a Dublin - Midleton RPSI private Charter and powers through Clondalkin/Fonthill Station.
I love to visit unusual places. Fonthill Mansion did not disappoint! ^_^
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk about in a sandcastle? Well, that's what it feels like to walk around in the Fonthill Mansion. This structure isn't made of sand, but of concrete, and was built by the hands of its owner, Henry Mercer, and his friends over the course of four years. Inside, almost every inch of the floors, walls, and ceilings in the 44 rooms is covered with Mercer's tile. Even some of the furniture was made of concrete. If you're ever in Philadelphia, PA and have time to travel about 10 miles north of the city, check out Fonthill Mansion and the Mercer Museum!
Some background info:
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/
Another part of the parkland scenery at Fonthill Bishop near shaftesbury in Dorset. It really was a very photogenic location.
Between the 17th and mid-20th century, it was fashionable for the gentry to display fine porcelain and other arts from China. This one is called the Fonthill vase and is a very rare, well-documented porcelain piece. Apparently it was made in the 13th century during the Yuan dynasty. It was acquired by King Louis the Great of Hungary. He later presented it to Charles I of Durazzo of Albania.
This vase was then recorded in the collection of Dauphin of France in 1713. Following the French Revolution, William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire (England) acquired it. In 1882, William Beckford's brother-in-law, the Duke of Hamilton sold it off in 1882, when the National Museum of Ireland acquired it.
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I'm afraid this batch of photos are really rather poorly-taken. Taking photos through glass display cases hand-held with little control of the lighting is not easy, and I lack the knowledge and experience to do it right.
But they give you a taste of the collections housed in the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History, I hope!
Once a year or so they let you in to take real photos with a tripod and flash and all. Until very recently, they didn't even let you take cell phone photos. I think this was the coolest room in the house. As with the Mercer Museum, he made the entire place out of poured concrete and it is pretty much free form.
I mentioned a few images back that I stopped at the Fonthill Museum on my way home from work one evening. I had done a shoot there about two years ago, but thought it was a good idea to return to see how I might do things differently this time around – and to challenge myself to do better this time. Actually, I should go there often to do photography because it’s only five minutes away. It’s interesting how we sometimes overlook good opportunities for photography that are right in our own neighborhood.
The Fonthill is also a fascinating building to shoot. Build by Henry Mercer, a renown collector of tools and other artifacts from around the world, the museum is made entirely of poured concrete, so the walls are not entirely straight. As a result, almost any shot of it, including ones that strive for photorealism, tend to look a bit surreal nevertheless.
In this image, I was experimenting with a split tone technique I read about in one of my Photoshop books: red in the highlights, sepia in the midtones, and blue in the shadows.
Sunday, 07 February 2016
GM 215 propels the 0820hrs InterCity service from Cork to Dublin Heuston through Clondalkin, viewed from the Ninth Lock Road overbridge.
Clondalkin & Fonthill railway station can be seen in the background.
© Finbarr O'Neill
Fonthill was the home of the archeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is an early example of poured-in-place concrete and features 44 rooms, over 200 windows, 18 fireplaces and 10 bathrooms. The interior was originally painted in pastel colors, but age and sunlight have all but eradicated any hint of the former hues. It contains much built-in furniture and is embellished with decorative tiles that Mercer made at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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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.
Budowa [edytuj]
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)
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/
The final built 201 class locomotive no 234 'Abhainn na hEatharlai/River Aherlow' powers through Clondalkin/Fonthill on the 14:00 service to Cork.
Built between 1908-1912, Fonthill was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930). Archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramist, scholar and antiquarian, Mercer built Fonthill both as his home and as a showplace for his collection of tiles and prints. The first of three Mercer buildings in Doylestown, Fonthill served as a showplace for Mercer’s famed Moravian tiles that were produced during the American Arts & Crafts Movement. Designed by Mercer, the building is an eclectic mix of Medieval, Gothic, and Byzantine architectural styles, and is significant as an early example of poured reinforced concrete. Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Reigate Road (North Side)
Local/listed interest: Fonthill (c.1880, Reigate stone)
Formerly a hotel and a nursing home
Some of my Flickr friends were curious about Fonthill, built to be the home of Henry Mercer. So, here are a few more shots that I took earlier this week. This concrete pillar stands at the road. There must have been little traffic back in the early part of the twentieth century!
Position:
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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
Position:
maps.google.es/maps?ll=51.064252,-2.1104182&z=18&...
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