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The mural that adorns the front facade of the school building is an important and easily recognizable aspect of the school itself. Designed by Heinz Gaugel, it measures 44 feet by 66 feet and stands five stories high. The dominant feature of the mural is the two hands, because the artist believed that "education is only worthwhile if the hands are used to transform it into something". The remaining images reflect aspects of ancient cultures, modern technology and nature. The connection between education and all around us is prominent. (excerpt from elcrossley.dsbn.org/about/the-mural)
Painted in Irish Rail livery to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the company, 073 heads the Belmond Grand Hibernian through Clondalkin/Fonthill station.
I thought the castle looked glamorous in her holiday outfit, and I’ll probably post way too many shots before the season is over.
Ford Flathead Engine. Chrome and Aluminum with Edelbrock Valve Covers. Hot Rod.
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The first permanent Government House was built in the current Gardens on a site closer to the existing Lodge, but was replaced by the current building in 1863, which has been the residence of every Governor of Western Australia since.
The style of the building is described as ‘Fonthill Gothic’. The bricks came from clay pits that were located near where Queen’s Gardens in East Perth are today. A Foundation Stone for the current Government House was laid on March 17, 1859, and you can still see it today on the exterior wall of the Governor’s Office on the Forecourt façade.
“How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies.”
Margaret Atwood
Built between 1908 and 1912, Fonthill Castle was the home of archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramicist, scholar, and antiquarian Henry Chapman Mercer (1856–1930). Mercer built Fonthill Castle as his home and as a place to display his collection of tiles and prints.
The castle is an early example of reinforced concrete and has forty-four rooms, over two hundred windows, and eighteen fireplaces. The interior of Fonthill Castle features Mercer's famous hand-made ceramic tiles, created during the heyday of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Fonthill Castle is a unique historical site!
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Tower, part of the remains of Hadlow Castle, a large Gothick house of late C18 origins. Tower begun 1838 (lantern added in 1840) for Walter Barton May to the designs of George Ledwell Taylor (Thirsk); modelled in part on William Beckford's 1812 tower (collapsed 1825) at Fonthill, Wiltshire, designed by James Wyatt. Rendered brick to imitate stone with the finer architectural detail and decoration built up in the Roman cement render. Gothick.
Plan: The tower was added at the south east corner of the original house (built by May's-father) with the stable courtyard to its north east. The main house was dismantled in 1951: what is left today is the stable courtyard, converted to housing, with the tower in the south east corner linked to the courtyard buildings by a freestanding wall, formerly the west wall of the house. Tower octagonal on plan with a circular stair turrett adjoining at the south west and a doorway on the north face. A lower, rectangular tower adjoins at the west. The original function of the main tower, beyond advertising the wealth and architectural ambition of the family, is obscure. The interior is relatively plain, especially when comapred with the lavish Interior of the house. It does not appear to have been heated originally and the smaller tower, between it and the house, was used as accommodation for men servants prior to 1951 (Thirsk).
Exterior: An extraordinary landmark, especially in the flat Hadlow landscape. 170 feet high, plus the lantern and covered with quite delicate Gothick detail in Roman cement, becoming progressively more elaborate on the upper stages. Slender 3-tier gabled projections to each of the cardinal faces with diagonal buttresses, steep gables and tall crocketted pinnacles. The 3-stage stair turret has a pierced parapet and lancet window. The stages of the tower are marked by string courses of various designs, some enriched with fleurons. The faces of the tower are divided by buttresses which rise above the pierced parapet as tall pinnacles with gabled crocketted pinnacles. Tall, buttressed, pinnacled lantern largely obscured by scaffolding at time of survey (1988). Various tall, Gothick windows, matching on each stage. The lower stage windows are 2-light and transomed with flamboyant tracery and moulded architraves with engaged shafts with capitals; incised crosses above the windows and, above them, a string course with a tier of engaged battlementing. The second stage also has 2-light transomed windows with quatrefoil windows above. Similar, narrower windows to the third stage with pairs of lancets above. The fourth stage has smaller transomed windows, each wall face covered in blind arcading in 2 tiers. The fifth stage also has 2 tiers of decoration, the lower tier trefoil-headed arcading, some blind, some glazed, the upper tier decorated with blind tracery and incorporating corbelled projections. Some of the Roman cement detail has fallen away. The gabled projections each have 2 tiers of tall lancet windows with moulded architraves, the embrasures filled with cusped lattice with traceried windows just below the gables. The north projection has a very tall, chamfered 2-centred doorway. The adjoining 4-storey servants' tower is embattled with a rounded projecting stair turret at the north west and various Gothick windows: lancets, 2-centred with cusped Y tracery and timber flamboyant traceried windows in square-headed embrasures.
Interior: Plain by comparison with the exterior but preserving some original doors with applied Gothick panelling. A remarkable example of ambitious Gothick design and an outstanding landscape feature.
The May family was essentially local and sum of the wealth used on the tower may have derived from hop-growing (Thirsk).
Irish Rail's retro liveried 071 class locomotive number 073 is seen here passing Clondalkin / Fonthill Station with the 10.40 Portarlington - Heuston HOBS train which ran bang to time.
Some winters it isn't easy to find Canvasbacks in Howard County (MD). During our recent freeze, they could be found almost anywhere with open water, including the pond at Font Hill Wetland Park. (First eBird record for this location.)
Built by Henry C. Mercer, Fonthill is one of three cast-in-place concrete structures built by him in 1898.
Mercer was involved with the turn of the century Arts and Crafts movement. He wanted to recreate early Pennsylvania pottery manufacturing techniques.
Drove 90 minutes down into western PA. to shoot this castle. Come to find out... you can't take pictures inside unless you pay $200 and have a special tour guide. Well CRAP! They could have said something on their website about that, so we didn't waste our time going down there, but whatever....
At least we were allowed to shoot the outside...
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Timmsdale's ghost walks,
Through the derelict estate—
Shadows in moonlight,
Whispers of forgotten days,
Haunting the crumbling stones.
I went to one of our two local castles, and for the second year in a row, I tried to find a way to express the beauty of the displays while working around ropes and signage. I would love a crack at it with no rules or other guests!