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The mill at Dunham Massey, a Listed Building, dates from the early 1600's and was used for milling corn until it was converted into a saw mill in the middle of the 1800's.
It is now water driven and you can have a tour round it when volunteers are on duty, check the National Trust website for more details.
It is situated within the Dunham Massey estate, a National Trust property on the outskirts of Altrincham.
The Meyer May House in Grand Rapids, Michigan is one of the finest restorations I've seen. In 1985, Steelcase, Inc., office furniture manufacturer, purchased the house and faithfully restored it (apparently with unlimited budget) to its 1908 new house condition, using original furnishings where possible, and making meticulously precise reproductions of others.
When Frank Lloyd designed a house, he also insisted on designing all furnishings, so everything reflects his style.
This type of horizontal layering is termed the "Prairie Style" architecture.
Leadlights, leaded lights or leaded windows are decorative windows made of small sections of glass supported in lead cames. The technique of creating windows using glass and lead came is discussed at came glasswork. The term leadlight could be used to describe all windows in which the glass is supported by lead.
………Another shot from our visit to Little Moreton Hall - a Moated Tudor gem built & extended in many directions over time between around 1500 and 1600 - bet the window tax bill was extortionate!! …….
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/little-moreton-hall
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A different angle and within 5 minutes the skies are darkening giving different colours. #Portland2015 #Summertime #PortlandBillLighthouse
St. John's Parish Church is an historic church building in Barbados. It is the first church of St. John that is presumed to have been a simple wooden building, but its date is unknown. The parish along with St. George, was carved out of St. Michael in 1640–1641. But successive churches were badly damaged by the hurricane of 1675, the Great Hurricane of 1780, and finally destroyed by the 1831 Barbados–Louisiana hurricane. The present church building (the fifth) was built is 1836, and the chancel added in 1876. It is the prototype of the restrained Barbadian version of the Gothic parish church, and a beautiful Westmacott sculpture, commemorating Elizabeth Pinder, on the left of the main door.
A mahogany tree is in the foreground.
The eastern end of Christchurch Priory Church, overlooking the mill stream in Dorset, UK, underwent a restoration a few years ago. There was no documentation of the original gargoyles, and several had worn away with age. A local newspaper asked the public for suggestions on what should replace them. A local engineer, Donald Bailey (inventor of the Bailey Bridge), and an NHS COVID nurse were chosen. The gargoyle of Sir Donald Bailey can be seen with his head through a section of a Bailey Bridge.
Going up a stairwell to level I in Edinburgh’s portrait gallery , I came across this beautiful window throwing light onto the landing. Lovely leaded glass set in arched windows. Well worth a visit to the portrait gallery , Edinburgh,Scotland.
Detail of Little Moreton Hall , Near Congleton in Cheshire , England.
Looking well under National Trust ownership since the 1930's. It originally dates from about 1504, being built in several stages by different generations of the Moreton family.
Portland Bill Lighthouse and the ever changing sky. Beautiful scenery Portland Dorset UK. #Summertime #Portland2015 #PortlandBillLighthouse
Pigeons pause for a wee discussion in the window, presumably on the condition of the not great wall paintwork.
The archway in the Wiltshire city of Salisbury that leads from the town into the grounds of Salisbury Cathedral.
Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house situated on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, where it is believed that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood years.
This was taken at the top of the staircase after having exited the Hall (the inspiration for the dining hall in the Harry Potter series)
Shaftesbury Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Shaftsbury Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
The first town hall was a medieval guildhall; it was itself replaced with a second structure which was financed under the will of a former mayor of the town, Edmund Bower, who had died in 1554. This structure was designed with arcading on the ground floor to allow markets to be held and was erected in the middle of the High Street in 1578. In the early 19th century civic leaders decided, as part of a widening scheme for the High Street, to erect a third town hall on a site to the south of the 16th century structure.
The current building, which was commissioned by Earl Grosvenor, was designed in the Neoclassical style and built between 1826 and 1837. It was constructed in ashlar stone and was castellated. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto the High Street; the central bay featured a porch on the ground floor and a casement window on the first floor with a clock tower being added in 1879. The basement contained a number of police cells which could be accessed from the rear of the building. The principal room in the building was the council chamber on the first floor which was panelled and, on the south side, featured views out over Gold Hill, which has been described as "one of the most romantic sights in England."
The town hall was the headquarters of Shaftesbury Borough Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be local seat of government when the enlarged North Dorset District Council was formed in 1974. It subsequently became the home of Shaftesbury Town Council.
Four murals were painted by Phyllis Wolff and installed in the town hall in 1979: they depicted the consecration of Shaftesbury Abbey at the instigation of Alfred the Great in 888, the reburial of King Edward the Martyr in the abbey in 979, the visit of Cardinal Otto Candidus, the legate to the Apostolic see of Pope Gregory IX, to confirm the abbey charter in 1240, and, lastly, the dissolution of the abbey under King Henry VIII in 1539. Other works of art in the town hall include a portrait by an unknown artist of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury.
Text courtesy of Wikipedia.
The black and white building on the left is The Old Weavers' House, built 1500AD. It takes its name from the Flemish and Huguenot weavers who fled from France to escape religious persecution in the 16th and 17th Centuries. They were allowed to trade in Canterbury - given permission by Queen Elizabeth I.
Since I bought my little but really fab G9 last december, I am developing an interesest in making pictures (that's somewhat of an understatement...), which makes visiting churches all of a sudden much more interesting than before. What great light, statues and paintings you can find in those old churches!
Have a great weekend you all!