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C15 front range, early C17 rear wing with late C19 bay window, and late C17 linking block; late C19 alterations and shopfront. Front range and rear wing timber-framed; front range pargeted at front, rear of orange brick in stretcher bond; pantile roofs with brick stacks. 3 storeys, cellar and attics; 1 gabled bay to street with jettied first and second floors, second floor jetty having terminal brackets carved with garlanded heads. Shopfront contained in chamfered and moulded frame beneath prominent moulded cornice on brackets carved with flower sprays. Steps up to central glazed door with decorative leaded overlight recessed in arch with carved spandrels. On each side, 3-light square bay windows with stained glass clerestories project over cellar openings. Cellars have ornate cast-iron grilles and bands of glazed tiles, incorporating the date 1874. Painted wooden book sign hangs over door, inscribed 'HOLY BIBLE 1682'. First floor window is 4-light canted bay with leaded clerestory lights of stained glass: carved band beneath sill incorporates initials CR, date 1682, a Tudor rose and a thistle. Window surmounted by openwork wooden balustrade forming balcony beneath second floor windows.
The house served as a bookshop between 1682, when Francis Hildyard opened 'The Sign of the Bible', and 1873 when it was acquired by the stained glass artist, J W Knowles (1838-1931). From that date, it was his residence and workshop and remains as altered by him: much of the stained glass is his work.
THE BISHOP'S PALACE AND BISHOP'S HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1382873
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1953
County: Somerset
District: Mendip (District Authority)
Parish: Wells
Diocese of Bath and Wells
National Grid Reference: ST 55207 45781
Details
WELLS
Bishop's Palace and House. Begun in c1210 by Bishop Jocelyn but principally from c1230, restored, divided and upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey 1846-54; north wing (now Bishop's residence) added in C15 by Bishop Bekynton, modified C18, and c1810 by Bishop Beadon. Local stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Doulting ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, stone chimney stacks. PALACE EXTERIOR: the main palace now used for public functions and meetings is in 2 storeys with attics, in 7 bays. Plinth, string course between floors, wide buttresses with 2 offsets to bays 2 and 6, coped gables to bays 2, 4 and 6, paired octagonal stacks with openwork cappings to bays 3 and 5. Ground floor has 2-light trefoil-headed plate tracery windows to all but bay 4, similar windows to first floor with added quatrefoil windows with trefoil-arched labels, smaller versions of these windows to attic gables; central porch added c1824, has angled corner buttresses, gable with string and central panel of arms crowned with a mitre, the entrance through a moulded pointed- arched door flanked by two early C19 light fittings. The E wall is in 5 and-a-half bays, with large buttresses to 2 stepped offsets. The first 2 bays have lancets to the ground floor only, but bays 3, 4, and 5 have large 2-light windows with quatrefoil over, and lancets to the ground floor. The last half-bay has a corner stair-turret with stepped offsets. Far right is a deep gabled wing with a large stone-mullioned oriel above a panelled apron with shields of arms, carried on a deep moulded bracket, and with very large buttresses. A tower is set-back from this, adjacent to the moat, with 2 and 3-light cusped casements on 3 floors. PALACE INTERIOR: the original plan was with hall, solar, gallery and undercroft, the long range divided by a spine wall at each level; this remains the layout, with the addition of an upper floor (not inspected). The ground floor is entered through the central porch to a narrow gallery in 6 bays of quadripartite ribbed vaulting, carried on corbel capitals. In the central wall is a large C16 stone fireplace, brought in the late C19 from the former solar. The S wall has a doorway with Y-tracery to its head, and a corner door gives to Bishop Burnell's chapel (qv). The floor is of stone flags. At the N end is a very fine Jacobean open well stair with large square newels, including a double newel at the top landing, supporting carved griffons and with openwork pendants, panelled plaster soffite, painted dado panelling, and a compartmented ceiling with pendants. The undercroft beyond the wall is in 2x5 bays with a central row of Purbeck shafts to quadripartite vaulting, on faceted responds; there is a large stone fireplace of C15 design in the spine wall. The first floor, within Jocelyn's shell, has C19 detailing; Ferrey complained that much of the work to the ceilings was '.... done by an upholsterer from Bath....', but detailing is very rich, and good replica C19 patterned colourful wallpapers were installed c1970. On the E side is a suite of 3 rooms, with compartmental ceilings. The square room at the head of the stairs has a stone basket-arch fireplace with triple cusping, and retains some C18 panelling, and six 6-panel doors. The long central room has a 24-panel ceiling, and three C19 lighting pendants; at its S end a very rich pair of panelled doors opens to the square S room, in which are visible in the E wall remains of the original windows, which have been blocked externally. This room has no fireplace. The long gallery to the W of the spine wall has two fireplaces, dado panelling, and a ribbed panelled ceiling. The windows are in deep embrasures, and there are three 9-panel C19 doors. BISHOP'S HOUSE EXTERIOR: returns at the N end, being backed by the moat wall. It is in 2 parallel ranges, with a very narrow courtyard partly filled by C20 building, a cross wing containing a former hall, and opening to a porch at the S end, and a square tower on the NE corner. The S front is crenellated, and has 4 windows on 2 storeys with attic, all flush 2-light stone mullioned casements with cusped heads to the lights; at first floor 2 of the windows have C19 cast-iron small-paned casements, and there are 4 casement hipped dormers behind the parapet. To the left, in a lower wall with raked head are 2 similar casements, and set forward to the right, fronting the 3-storey N/S hall range is a low square tower with two 2-light plate-traceried windows as those in the adjacent Palace, and a round-arched C16 stone outer doorway with moulded and panelled responds and a large keystone with diamond embellishment. The porch is stone paved, with a stone bench to the left, and the inner doorway is a C15 stone 4-centred moulded arch with rosettes, hood-mould, and small diagonal pinnacles at the springing and key, above a carved angel keystone, containing a fine pair of early doors with panel, muntin and mid-rail, all with nail-heads. At the left end is a wide archway into the courtyard, on the site of the gateway seen in the Buck view. There are various lofty yellow brick stacks, including one very large stack to a coped gable in the rear range. BISHOP'S HOUSE INTERIOR: has been subdivided several times; in the front range are 2 plain rooms, then the inner hall to the porch, with the C15 doorway, a shell niche, and a stone arch matching that to the outer doorway of the porch; this gives to the main stair. N of the hall is a fine C15 oak screen with narrow panels and moulded muntins and mid-rail, and a central round-arched C20 doorway of C16 style. To the right is a large 3-light stone casement with transom, and to the left is a stone-flagged cross passage which runs through to a doorway at the moat end. The inner hall has 3 windows as in the outer hall, and the inner side of the screen has raised and moulded panels, and all members embellished, including small-scale chevron to the bressumer; the central C16 doorway has raised diamond keystone and enrichment. A dining room to the N has a peaked moulded wooden rere-arch, and opens in the NW corner to a small square study in the tower. This has a stone alcove in the N wall with a 3-light C16 casement, and in the corner access to a stone spiral stair rising the full height of the tower. There are many 6-panel doors, with raised mouldings, and with square centre panels. The main staircase is C20 with heavy turned balusters to the first floor, and a C19 straight flight with stick balusters in the upper flight. At first landing level the window contains fragments of mediaeval and C16 stained and painted glass; there is a second straight-flight stair between the ranges to the W. Rooms at first floor are generally plainly detailed; the N range had an extra floor inserted, and one bathroom has the lower part of one of the mediaeval oriels in its N wall. The second floor has a through corridor, and has many early 2-panel doors with raised mouldings. The square end room to the tower has a low relief plastered ceiling to a central rose, the window has early crown glass and a scratched date of 1822. Two of the bedrooms contain the upper parts of the oriels, and these have stone vaulted soffites, one including a carved angel keystone. Over the S range is a 6-bay collar and 2-purlin roof with original rafters, formerly with plaster; the space has 4 dormer windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: the complex building history, coupled with a splendid setting within its walled moat, makes this Palace an outstanding historic and visual document, with one of the most remarkable structures of the mediaeval period which '...represent the grandest aspect of the mediaeval way of life'.(Barley) The first-floor hall represents an outstanding example of its type, contemporary in date with those at St David's, Dyfed, and Southwark, London. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 312; Colchester LS: Wells Cathedral: A History: Shepton Mallet: 1982-: 227-244; Wood M: The English Mediaeval House: London: 1965-: 24 (PLAN); Bony J: The English Decorated Style: London: 1979-: PASSIM; Parker JH: Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells: Oxford: 1866-; Barley M: Houses and History: London: 1986-: 60-63).
Listing NGR: ST5522445760
The woodwork was made in 1778 by Jean Elshoecht of Sint Winoksbergen, called Bergues in French. He was paid 350 French crowns.
Ref 2329: A 1902, Bluthner grand piano for sale with a Rococo style rosewood case. Piano has an openwork lattice music desk, carved with shells and rocailles. Piano features carved cabriole legs with scroll feet and a traditional shaped lyre
www.besbrodepianos.co.uk/piano-sale/bluthner-grand-piano-...
Newcastle (officially Newcastle upon Tyne) developed around a Roman settlement called Pons Aelius. Later, being part of the kingdom of Northumbria, it was known as Monkchester. Conflicts with the Danes in 876 left the settlements along the River Tyne in ruins. Robert Curthose, oldest son of William the Conqueror, erected a wooden castle there in the year 1080 since then the town was known as New Castle. The wooden structure was replaced by a stone castle in 1087. After a rebellion against the Normans in 1088, the town was all but destroyed by Odo of Bayeux.Throughout the Middle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress.
Soon after the construction of the Norman castle in 1080, the first parish church was built on its current site. It is mentioned as St Nicholas' Church in 1194. Around the same time, the wooden building was replaced by a stone church, which burned down twice in the following decades and was rebuilt larger. At the end of the 14th century, it was raised and given a clerestory. This gave it the shape of an elongated basilica with a transept. The tower with its characteristic openwork crown was added at the end of the 15th century.
Scottish reformer John Knox served here as minister from 1550 to 1553.
In the mid-19th century Newcastle experienced a huge increase in its population, leading to the construction of over 20 new churches in the suburbs. As Newcastle continued to grow, so did its need for a diocese separate from Durham, and so in 1882 the Diocese of Newcastle was formed, with St Nicholas's as its cathedral.
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George IV State Diadem Miniature
Creator:
Rundell Bridge & Rundell (jeweller)
Creation Date:
1820
Materials:
Diamonds, pearls, silver, gold
Dimensions:
7.5 cm
Acquirer:
George IV, King of the United Kingdom (1762-1830)
Provenance:
Made for George IV, 1820 (£8,216, adjusted to £7,126; RA GEO/25994)
Description:
Openwork silver frame lined with gold and set transparent with diamonds; narrow band edged with pearls, surmounted by four crosses-pattée, the front cross set with a pale yellow brilliant, and four sprays representing the national emblems of the United Kingdom.
From its frequent appearance on postage stamps and coins, this exceptionally beautiful head ornament, incorporating the national emblems of England, Scotland and Ireland, is probably the most familiar piece of Her Majesty The Queen's jewellery. Set with 1,333 diamonds, including a four-carat pale yellow brilliant in the centre of the front cross, the diadem has been regularly worn (and slightly modified) by queens regnant and consort from Queen Adelaide onwards. This feminine association belies its origin, since it was made for George IV's use at his famously extravagant coronation in 1821. On that occasion, he wore it over a large velvet 'Spanish' hat at the ceremonies in Westminster Hall and during the walking procession to Westminster Abbey.
The order for the diadem was placed with Rundells in 1820 and work was complete by May of that year. The design, probably by Rundells' chief designer Philip Liebart, reflects something of the discarded plan for George IV's Imperial State Crown, which was drawn up by Liebart in the same period and was to have included the national emblems in place of the traditional fleurs-de-lis.
Together with a diamond-studded loop (which was broken up to help make Queen Victoria's Garter armlet) the bill for the diadem amounted to the large sum of £8,216. This included an £800 hire charge for the diamonds - stones were regularly hired for use at coronations up to 1837 - computed on a percentage of the value of the stones. When the coronation had to be postponed for a year on account of Queen Caroline's trial, a further hire charge was levied. Normally the stones would have been returned to Rundells after the coronation, but in this case there is no sign that the delicately worked diamond sprays and crosses, a masterpiece of the new transparent style of setting, have been disturbed. Equally, there is no evidence that the King purchased the stones outright, so it could be that the bill was met by a discreet barter of old stones from George IV's extensive collection.
Today the diadem is worn by Her Majesty The Queen when travelling to and from the State Opening of Parliament.
Catalogue entry from Royal Treasures, A Golden Jubilee Celebration, London 2002
This information is copyright of the Royal Collections Trust website (well worth a look)
www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/31702/the-diamond-d...
THE BISHOP'S PALACE AND BISHOP'S HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1382873
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1953
County: Somerset
District: Mendip (District Authority)
Parish: Wells
Diocese of Bath and Wells
National Grid Reference: ST 55207 45781
Details
WELLS
Bishop's Palace and House. Begun in c1210 by Bishop Jocelyn but principally from c1230, restored, divided and upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey 1846-54; north wing (now Bishop's residence) added in C15 by Bishop Bekynton, modified C18, and c1810 by Bishop Beadon. Local stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Doulting ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, stone chimney stacks. PALACE EXTERIOR: the main palace now used for public functions and meetings is in 2 storeys with attics, in 7 bays. Plinth, string course between floors, wide buttresses with 2 offsets to bays 2 and 6, coped gables to bays 2, 4 and 6, paired octagonal stacks with openwork cappings to bays 3 and 5. Ground floor has 2-light trefoil-headed plate tracery windows to all but bay 4, similar windows to first floor with added quatrefoil windows with trefoil-arched labels, smaller versions of these windows to attic gables; central porch added c1824, has angled corner buttresses, gable with string and central panel of arms crowned with a mitre, the entrance through a moulded pointed- arched door flanked by two early C19 light fittings. The E wall is in 5 and-a-half bays, with large buttresses to 2 stepped offsets. The first 2 bays have lancets to the ground floor only, but bays 3, 4, and 5 have large 2-light windows with quatrefoil over, and lancets to the ground floor. The last half-bay has a corner stair-turret with stepped offsets. Far right is a deep gabled wing with a large stone-mullioned oriel above a panelled apron with shields of arms, carried on a deep moulded bracket, and with very large buttresses. A tower is set-back from this, adjacent to the moat, with 2 and 3-light cusped casements on 3 floors. PALACE INTERIOR: the original plan was with hall, solar, gallery and undercroft, the long range divided by a spine wall at each level; this remains the layout, with the addition of an upper floor (not inspected). The ground floor is entered through the central porch to a narrow gallery in 6 bays of quadripartite ribbed vaulting, carried on corbel capitals. In the central wall is a large C16 stone fireplace, brought in the late C19 from the former solar. The S wall has a doorway with Y-tracery to its head, and a corner door gives to Bishop Burnell's chapel (qv). The floor is of stone flags. At the N end is a very fine Jacobean open well stair with large square newels, including a double newel at the top landing, supporting carved griffons and with openwork pendants, panelled plaster soffite, painted dado panelling, and a compartmented ceiling with pendants. The undercroft beyond the wall is in 2x5 bays with a central row of Purbeck shafts to quadripartite vaulting, on faceted responds; there is a large stone fireplace of C15 design in the spine wall. The first floor, within Jocelyn's shell, has C19 detailing; Ferrey complained that much of the work to the ceilings was '.... done by an upholsterer from Bath....', but detailing is very rich, and good replica C19 patterned colourful wallpapers were installed c1970. On the E side is a suite of 3 rooms, with compartmental ceilings. The square room at the head of the stairs has a stone basket-arch fireplace with triple cusping, and retains some C18 panelling, and six 6-panel doors. The long central room has a 24-panel ceiling, and three C19 lighting pendants; at its S end a very rich pair of panelled doors opens to the square S room, in which are visible in the E wall remains of the original windows, which have been blocked externally. This room has no fireplace. The long gallery to the W of the spine wall has two fireplaces, dado panelling, and a ribbed panelled ceiling. The windows are in deep embrasures, and there are three 9-panel C19 doors. BISHOP'S HOUSE EXTERIOR: returns at the N end, being backed by the moat wall. It is in 2 parallel ranges, with a very narrow courtyard partly filled by C20 building, a cross wing containing a former hall, and opening to a porch at the S end, and a square tower on the NE corner. The S front is crenellated, and has 4 windows on 2 storeys with attic, all flush 2-light stone mullioned casements with cusped heads to the lights; at first floor 2 of the windows have C19 cast-iron small-paned casements, and there are 4 casement hipped dormers behind the parapet. To the left, in a lower wall with raked head are 2 similar casements, and set forward to the right, fronting the 3-storey N/S hall range is a low square tower with two 2-light plate-traceried windows as those in the adjacent Palace, and a round-arched C16 stone outer doorway with moulded and panelled responds and a large keystone with diamond embellishment. The porch is stone paved, with a stone bench to the left, and the inner doorway is a C15 stone 4-centred moulded arch with rosettes, hood-mould, and small diagonal pinnacles at the springing and key, above a carved angel keystone, containing a fine pair of early doors with panel, muntin and mid-rail, all with nail-heads. At the left end is a wide archway into the courtyard, on the site of the gateway seen in the Buck view. There are various lofty yellow brick stacks, including one very large stack to a coped gable in the rear range. BISHOP'S HOUSE INTERIOR: has been subdivided several times; in the front range are 2 plain rooms, then the inner hall to the porch, with the C15 doorway, a shell niche, and a stone arch matching that to the outer doorway of the porch; this gives to the main stair. N of the hall is a fine C15 oak screen with narrow panels and moulded muntins and mid-rail, and a central round-arched C20 doorway of C16 style. To the right is a large 3-light stone casement with transom, and to the left is a stone-flagged cross passage which runs through to a doorway at the moat end. The inner hall has 3 windows as in the outer hall, and the inner side of the screen has raised and moulded panels, and all members embellished, including small-scale chevron to the bressumer; the central C16 doorway has raised diamond keystone and enrichment. A dining room to the N has a peaked moulded wooden rere-arch, and opens in the NW corner to a small square study in the tower. This has a stone alcove in the N wall with a 3-light C16 casement, and in the corner access to a stone spiral stair rising the full height of the tower. There are many 6-panel doors, with raised mouldings, and with square centre panels. The main staircase is C20 with heavy turned balusters to the first floor, and a C19 straight flight with stick balusters in the upper flight. At first landing level the window contains fragments of mediaeval and C16 stained and painted glass; there is a second straight-flight stair between the ranges to the W. Rooms at first floor are generally plainly detailed; the N range had an extra floor inserted, and one bathroom has the lower part of one of the mediaeval oriels in its N wall. The second floor has a through corridor, and has many early 2-panel doors with raised mouldings. The square end room to the tower has a low relief plastered ceiling to a central rose, the window has early crown glass and a scratched date of 1822. Two of the bedrooms contain the upper parts of the oriels, and these have stone vaulted soffites, one including a carved angel keystone. Over the S range is a 6-bay collar and 2-purlin roof with original rafters, formerly with plaster; the space has 4 dormer windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: the complex building history, coupled with a splendid setting within its walled moat, makes this Palace an outstanding historic and visual document, with one of the most remarkable structures of the mediaeval period which '...represent the grandest aspect of the mediaeval way of life'.(Barley) The first-floor hall represents an outstanding example of its type, contemporary in date with those at St David's, Dyfed, and Southwark, London. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 312; Colchester LS: Wells Cathedral: A History: Shepton Mallet: 1982-: 227-244; Wood M: The English Mediaeval House: London: 1965-: 24 (PLAN); Bony J: The English Decorated Style: London: 1979-: PASSIM; Parker JH: Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells: Oxford: 1866-; Barley M: Houses and History: London: 1986-: 60-63).
Listing NGR: ST5522445760
As we remember, the little girl Alice finds herself in an amazing and fabulous world of wonders, following the White Rabbit, who was constantly looking at his watch and was late for something. The phrase "Follow the White Rabbit" has become a set phraseological unit. The White Rabbit from the famous fairy tale by Lewis Carroll is represented on the catwalk today by AngelInkaNega. AngelInka is wearing cute white SPIRIT shorts, coquettishly lifted up on the hip, an openwork white top ADN, a bolero with a bow embossed with a floral pattern and gold trim, and a top hat with ears from irrISIStible. Her image with mechanical steampunk elements from irrISIStible would delight and intrigue not only Alice.
An exceptionally large and elaborate Gothic cathedral on the main square of Milan, the Duomo di Milano is one of the most famous buildings in Europe. It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the second largest Catholic cathedral in the world.
Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano; Lombard: Domm de Milan) is the cathedral church of Milan, Italy. Dedicated to Santa Maria Nascente (Saint Mary Nascent), it is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Cardinal Angelo Scola.
The Gothic cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete. It is the fifth largest cathedral in the world, and the largest in the Italian state territory.
The roof is open to tourists, which allows many a close-up view of some spectacular sculpture that would otherwise be unappreciated. The roof of the cathedral is renowned for the forest of openwork pinnacles and spires, set upon delicate flying buttresses.
Over a hundred small panels make up this work of art, and it stands out among the other stained glass windows in the cathedral due to its height and intricate details. It is difficult to show the entirety of this window however, as it stretches horizontally rather than vertically.
Town hall. Designed by John Johnson, architect and District Surveyor of East Hackney 1879-80, following a public competition, in a Renaissance style with Italian and French motifs. White brick and stone dressings with Doulton-tile bands. Fishscale slate roof with panelled brick chimneystacks. Steep roof with platform, wrought iron handrail with finials. Two storeys and attics: five windows to front elevation, nine windows to side elevation. Plan form has first floor Board Room/Court Room at front and large full-height public hall with stage behind. Front elevation has four dormers with triangular heads. Central clock tower at front of building with baroque detail, clock face and weather vane, dated AD 1880. Openwork brick balustrade with exaggerated piers to corners. Cornice with bands of dentils and interlaced decoration. Quoin pilasters. Five windows to first floor forming an arcade. Round headed arches of one recessed order with keystones and heavily foliated capitals. Plate-glass windows. Medallions in spandrels. Panel with key pattern under windows. String course and decorated band. Four sashes to ground floor with foliated imposts. Cill band and further decorated (Doulton tile) band above plinth. Central Tuscan porch supporting balcony to central upper window. Side elevation in form of two end pavilions with lower five bay public hall in centre with arcaded first floor. INTERIOR: 2 stone staircases with cast-iron balusters. Debenham Room, former Court Room or Board Room, has coved and diaphragm-arched ceiling on head corbels, plaster ceiling roses, plastered swag and panel decoration and gallery with carved wooden clock above. Room below is public hall 73 feet by 48 feet with round-headed arched proscenium, stage front renewed in later C20, balcony to rear and ribbed ceiling. Original mechanism of the town clock of 1881 by Gillette, Bland and Co. of Croydon. EH Listing
The Sacred Heart Church or Sacred Heart Parish church Graz is a brick building in neo-Gothic style, a Roman Catholic church in Graz St. Leonhard . The building was built in 1881-1887 and has the third highest spire in Austria and is one of the most important buildings of historicism in Styria.
Architectural History
Facade
In 1875, called a native of South Tyrol Prince Bishop Johann Baptist Zwerger, a great admirer of the Sacred Heart, for the first time to build a Sacred Heart Church for Graz. The church should be a parish center for the then rapidly growing Gründerzeitviertel now in the district of St. Leonhard and at the same time representing an important monument of the Sacred Heart devotion .
After long discussions about the architecture ( the building of a church of the nature of the Votive Church (in Vienna) had to be rejected for cost reasons) eventually a native of Graz George of Hauberrisser, architect of the Munich town hall, was commissioned with the establishment of the church in neo-Gothic brick style by way of the north German churches in the style of Brick Gothic . The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 1881, in 1885 the same roof was completed in 1887 and celebrated the high tower. On 5 June 1891 the church was consecrated , but only on 10 October 1902 the parish church. In the years 2004 and 2005, a comprehensive foreign restoration was carried out.
Outside
Herz-Jesu- Kirche Graz , north -west side
The church and parsonage are built in the same style surrounded by a park and visibly influenced by the ideals of Romanticism. To achieve a monumental appearance , despite the low-lying building site , the church was built in the form of a two-storey lower church , which opens in arcades to the park, and an overlying upper church. The southwest tower of the church is not exactly geostet (eastern-oriented) with 109.6 meters the third highest church tower in Austria , according to the towers of St. Stephen's Cathedral and St. Mary's Cathedral in Linz.
Upper Church
The church was to as many people on the sanctuary to provide a view built as a directed road church with side chapels , support free interior and integrated into the nave wall piers. The stern look of great free interior is enlivened by colorful windows and wall frescoes. The prevailing inside single overall impression is due to the fact that Hauberrisser has designed every little detail and even the original equipment is still intact .
Altar area
The new altar designed by Gustav Troger
Look through the nave to the front
Looking back through the nave
Through a wide steps of plant base of a large pointed arch at the transition is made to the presbytery. A higher floor level than the ship and a little different material choice the altar area is highlighted.
As part of the preparation for the Centenary of the Church in 1991 led to a redesign of the altar area of the church. In the spirit of the liturgy reforms of the Second Vatican Council , a smaller additional altar was to maintain the original high altar still can , built on an upstream , designed by the architect Henry Tritthart podium. This so-called people's altar was made according to a design by the Styrian artist Gustav Troger , as well as a new ambo and glass chandeliers.
The original altar consecrated to the Sacred Heart is designed as altar canopy . In the front pediment of the altar canopy wound of a crown of thorns heart is to see, and an openwork roof attachment holds the statue of the risen, the Redeemer pointing to his open heart.
Side chapels
There are small chapels with Retabelaltären and murals on both sides of the nave.
Left Right
Joseph's Chapel Lady Chapel
Francis Xavier Chapel Aloisiuskapelle
Barbara Chapel Nepomukkapelle
Annakapelle Antoniuskapelle
Cross Chapel Baptistry
Mural
At the request of the architect Hauberrisser Viennese genre and historical painter Karl Karger was entrusted with the production of the mural. Karger then created boxes, after which his pupils Johann Lukesch and Max Goldfeld ran the paintings from 1886 to 1906. The 12 murals on the sides of the nave and chancel on the north wall form a closed cycle, which begins with the worship of Christ front right by shepherds and kings and ends with the crucifixion of Christ. Each image is accompanied by an explanatory quotation from the Bible .
Stations of the Cross
The 14 Stations of the Cross painted on copper plates , which are located on the outer walls of the side chapels were designed by the Viennese painter Josef Kastner .
Pulpit
The octagonal pulpit rests on a stronger central column and seven slender columns, which also take the stairs. In the fields the pulpit railing relief busts of the four evangelists are seen at the six corners of the sound cover are angel with a banner ( Discite a me, uia mitis sum et humilis corde - Learn from me , for I am meek and humble of heart ' , Matthew 11:29 ) , and on the underside of the lid, the sound is represented as a dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit.
Window
The glass windows of the Sacred Heart Church provide one of the few completely preserved ensemble neo-Gothic glass art in Austria. From the according to the design of Haubenrisser designed windows came the figural art glass in stained glass of the Institution Neuhauser in Innsbruck, the simpler glazing partially in Graz. In the figural windows main content Christian doctrine is presented, such as the Trinity and the saints and the risen Christ.
Organ
1889 a large two-manual organ with 36 registers and pneumatic action was built by the Walcker firm. 1941, the plant was then a third manual, a positive return, extended and converted the pneumatic action of electro-pneumatic operation . An overhaul of the builders firm was completed in 1991. Now there are 52 registers.
Bell
In the first World War II were dismantled all bronze bells as war material. In the 2nd World War II again. Only the smallest was then obtained. As a result of it steel bells were installed, for cost reasons and because it is to be expected that they remain safe. Only the largest (about 3000 kg) is currently at 7 , 12 and 19 clock ( electric motor ) rung (2009). The small bronze bell serves as Totenglöcklein (death knell).
Crypt
The lower church is dedicated to the poor souls. This three-nave system can be achieved through a wide staircase and a hall through the unspoilt natural brick structure of the pier produces a strong impression. Closing windows on three figualen choir Christ , Mary and John the Baptist are seen. The original altar of the lower church is located directly beneath the high altar of the upper church and is a simple Retabelaltar with relief representations of the " poor souls ". Even in the lower church, a new altar area was built to celebrate the winter here in worship. The redesign of the altar area was designed by architect Henry Tritthart.
THE BISHOP'S PALACE AND BISHOP'S HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1382873
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1953
County: Somerset
District: Mendip (District Authority)
Parish: Wells
Diocese of Bath and Wells
National Grid Reference: ST 55207 45781
Details
WELLS
Bishop's Palace and House. Begun in c1210 by Bishop Jocelyn but principally from c1230, restored, divided and upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey 1846-54; north wing (now Bishop's residence) added in C15 by Bishop Bekynton, modified C18, and c1810 by Bishop Beadon. Local stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Doulting ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, stone chimney stacks. PALACE EXTERIOR: the main palace now used for public functions and meetings is in 2 storeys with attics, in 7 bays. Plinth, string course between floors, wide buttresses with 2 offsets to bays 2 and 6, coped gables to bays 2, 4 and 6, paired octagonal stacks with openwork cappings to bays 3 and 5. Ground floor has 2-light trefoil-headed plate tracery windows to all but bay 4, similar windows to first floor with added quatrefoil windows with trefoil-arched labels, smaller versions of these windows to attic gables; central porch added c1824, has angled corner buttresses, gable with string and central panel of arms crowned with a mitre, the entrance through a moulded pointed- arched door flanked by two early C19 light fittings. The E wall is in 5 and-a-half bays, with large buttresses to 2 stepped offsets. The first 2 bays have lancets to the ground floor only, but bays 3, 4, and 5 have large 2-light windows with quatrefoil over, and lancets to the ground floor. The last half-bay has a corner stair-turret with stepped offsets. Far right is a deep gabled wing with a large stone-mullioned oriel above a panelled apron with shields of arms, carried on a deep moulded bracket, and with very large buttresses. A tower is set-back from this, adjacent to the moat, with 2 and 3-light cusped casements on 3 floors. PALACE INTERIOR: the original plan was with hall, solar, gallery and undercroft, the long range divided by a spine wall at each level; this remains the layout, with the addition of an upper floor (not inspected). The ground floor is entered through the central porch to a narrow gallery in 6 bays of quadripartite ribbed vaulting, carried on corbel capitals. In the central wall is a large C16 stone fireplace, brought in the late C19 from the former solar. The S wall has a doorway with Y-tracery to its head, and a corner door gives to Bishop Burnell's chapel (qv). The floor is of stone flags. At the N end is a very fine Jacobean open well stair with large square newels, including a double newel at the top landing, supporting carved griffons and with openwork pendants, panelled plaster soffite, painted dado panelling, and a compartmented ceiling with pendants. The undercroft beyond the wall is in 2x5 bays with a central row of Purbeck shafts to quadripartite vaulting, on faceted responds; there is a large stone fireplace of C15 design in the spine wall. The first floor, within Jocelyn's shell, has C19 detailing; Ferrey complained that much of the work to the ceilings was '.... done by an upholsterer from Bath....', but detailing is very rich, and good replica C19 patterned colourful wallpapers were installed c1970. On the E side is a suite of 3 rooms, with compartmental ceilings. The square room at the head of the stairs has a stone basket-arch fireplace with triple cusping, and retains some C18 panelling, and six 6-panel doors. The long central room has a 24-panel ceiling, and three C19 lighting pendants; at its S end a very rich pair of panelled doors opens to the square S room, in which are visible in the E wall remains of the original windows, which have been blocked externally. This room has no fireplace. The long gallery to the W of the spine wall has two fireplaces, dado panelling, and a ribbed panelled ceiling. The windows are in deep embrasures, and there are three 9-panel C19 doors. BISHOP'S HOUSE EXTERIOR: returns at the N end, being backed by the moat wall. It is in 2 parallel ranges, with a very narrow courtyard partly filled by C20 building, a cross wing containing a former hall, and opening to a porch at the S end, and a square tower on the NE corner. The S front is crenellated, and has 4 windows on 2 storeys with attic, all flush 2-light stone mullioned casements with cusped heads to the lights; at first floor 2 of the windows have C19 cast-iron small-paned casements, and there are 4 casement hipped dormers behind the parapet. To the left, in a lower wall with raked head are 2 similar casements, and set forward to the right, fronting the 3-storey N/S hall range is a low square tower with two 2-light plate-traceried windows as those in the adjacent Palace, and a round-arched C16 stone outer doorway with moulded and panelled responds and a large keystone with diamond embellishment. The porch is stone paved, with a stone bench to the left, and the inner doorway is a C15 stone 4-centred moulded arch with rosettes, hood-mould, and small diagonal pinnacles at the springing and key, above a carved angel keystone, containing a fine pair of early doors with panel, muntin and mid-rail, all with nail-heads. At the left end is a wide archway into the courtyard, on the site of the gateway seen in the Buck view. There are various lofty yellow brick stacks, including one very large stack to a coped gable in the rear range. BISHOP'S HOUSE INTERIOR: has been subdivided several times; in the front range are 2 plain rooms, then the inner hall to the porch, with the C15 doorway, a shell niche, and a stone arch matching that to the outer doorway of the porch; this gives to the main stair. N of the hall is a fine C15 oak screen with narrow panels and moulded muntins and mid-rail, and a central round-arched C20 doorway of C16 style. To the right is a large 3-light stone casement with transom, and to the left is a stone-flagged cross passage which runs through to a doorway at the moat end. The inner hall has 3 windows as in the outer hall, and the inner side of the screen has raised and moulded panels, and all members embellished, including small-scale chevron to the bressumer; the central C16 doorway has raised diamond keystone and enrichment. A dining room to the N has a peaked moulded wooden rere-arch, and opens in the NW corner to a small square study in the tower. This has a stone alcove in the N wall with a 3-light C16 casement, and in the corner access to a stone spiral stair rising the full height of the tower. There are many 6-panel doors, with raised mouldings, and with square centre panels. The main staircase is C20 with heavy turned balusters to the first floor, and a C19 straight flight with stick balusters in the upper flight. At first landing level the window contains fragments of mediaeval and C16 stained and painted glass; there is a second straight-flight stair between the ranges to the W. Rooms at first floor are generally plainly detailed; the N range had an extra floor inserted, and one bathroom has the lower part of one of the mediaeval oriels in its N wall. The second floor has a through corridor, and has many early 2-panel doors with raised mouldings. The square end room to the tower has a low relief plastered ceiling to a central rose, the window has early crown glass and a scratched date of 1822. Two of the bedrooms contain the upper parts of the oriels, and these have stone vaulted soffites, one including a carved angel keystone. Over the S range is a 6-bay collar and 2-purlin roof with original rafters, formerly with plaster; the space has 4 dormer windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: the complex building history, coupled with a splendid setting within its walled moat, makes this Palace an outstanding historic and visual document, with one of the most remarkable structures of the mediaeval period which '...represent the grandest aspect of the mediaeval way of life'.(Barley) The first-floor hall represents an outstanding example of its type, contemporary in date with those at St David's, Dyfed, and Southwark, London. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 312; Colchester LS: Wells Cathedral: A History: Shepton Mallet: 1982-: 227-244; Wood M: The English Mediaeval House: London: 1965-: 24 (PLAN); Bony J: The English Decorated Style: London: 1979-: PASSIM; Parker JH: Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells: Oxford: 1866-; Barley M: Houses and History: London: 1986-: 60-63).
Listing NGR: ST5522445760
This openwork bronze plaque depicts a tiger walking off with a mule hanging from its mouth.
Such spirited and vibrant depictions of wild animals are closely associated with the culture and art of the Eurasian Steppe, including the Ordos region in northern Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia.
This plaque displays the Qin appropriation of art forms from their nomadic neighbors.
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND ST MARY, COLLEGE STREET, WORCESTER
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1389728
National Grid Reference: SO 85002 54520
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW COLLEGE STREET 620-1/17/1 Cathedral Church of St Mary 22/05/54 (Formerly Listed as: Cathedral Church of Christ and St Mary)
GV I
Cathedral Church, formerly Benedictine Priory. Crypt from 1084, some remains of same date in W transept and first 2 bays West end of nave. West transept and part of 2 bays at west end of nave c1175. Choir, east transept, Lady Chapel, presbytery, 1224-1250. Nave with aisles 1317-1377; central tower from 1374, and north porch from 1386, substantial restoration 1857-1863, by AE Perkins and GG Scott. Few medieval designers are identified, but include Alexander the Mason c1224-1240 (nave west bays), William Shockerwick, c1317-1324 (nave north arcade), and John Clyve, 1376/77 (nave south arcade and central tower).
MATERIALS: construction mainly in Highly and Alveley sandstones, with some Cotswold oolite, and Purbeck marble, many of the vault panels are in tufa, roof slate, including Penrhyn slate.
PLAN: east end includes substantial remains of the early crypt, formerly with radial chapels and outer ambulatory. Principal church has 9-bay nave and aisles with deep north porch and a single bay chapel also on north side. West transept and east transept, both without aisles, 4-bay choir with aisles, 3-bay Lady Chapel, and 2-bay Chapel of St John, central crossing tower. South of the nave are the cloister, with Chapter House and former frater (now King's School Hall qv)).
EXTERIOR: exterior of the cathedral was very largely refaced during C19 restoration work, and both central tower and eastern arm substantially restructured or refaced - the sandstones used being relatively soft, and subject to reject rapid weatherings. However, original medieval detail remains in most areas. The gables are coped, and parapets are mostly plain, with saddle-back weathered copings and a lower string course, the northwest transept is an exception. The following description will begin at the west end and work to the east.
NAVE - WEST END: central gable over 3 tall rectangular lights and a very large 8-light 'Decorated' window of the C19, flanked by square buttresses surmounted by octagonal turrets with open pinnacles. The big west door, also of C19 but with some remnants of Norman work, has a high gable breaking into the bottom part of the window. To each side the aisle terminations with square corner turrets to octagonal pinnacles, and each with a round-arched light with later tracery above a large 4-light window.
NAVE - NORTH SIDE: first 2-bays of the clerestory have round-arched lights with tracery, in masonry of various dates, remainder are small 3-light with stopped drips in flat 4-centred arches. The aisle, right of the porch, has a 3-light pointed then a 3-light with stepped transoms, and with straight-sided arch. These bays with heavy flying buttresses, supporting a wall of early masonry in small blocks. 2 further bays having simpler 3-light to cusped heads in pointed arches. Bay 5 has the bold square 2-bay porch with almost plain flanks, and rich north front, rebuilt by Scott, and having statues by Redfern. Interior is vaulted, and inner door, flanked by Norman responds, has a narrow Dec cusped head above the C19 doors set in plain masonry to a very flat basket arch. Left of the porch are 2 bays with 3-light Dec windows under small rectangular lights, with deep buttress between, then the single bay projecting chapel with corner buttresses and large 3-light to the North wall. Beyond this is a further aisle bay.
NAVE - SOUTH SIDE: the first 2-bays are similar to those to the North, incorporating older masonry, then 7 clerestory bays with 3-light windows to straight-sided arches and stopped drips, and two flying buttresses. The aisle has two 2-light traceried rectangular windows to each bay, but one 3-light in the arches, set deep with broad casement mould, and with stopped drips. Plain square buttresses divide the bays. At the lower level is the north walk of the cloister (qv).
WEST TRANSEPT - NORTH ARM: the high gabled north wall has 3 small rectangular lights above a prominent horizontal string, then a large C19 Decorated 4-light window to sill string, carried round to the returns. To each side is a square turret with nook shafting, crowned by tall octagonal turrets with pinnacles. The W and E sides have two 4-light in Mannerist panelling including ogee heads and with a crenellated parapet. The east side also has a deep 4-light with transom and 4-centred head.
SOUTH ARM: this differs greatly in detail from the north arm, having an 'Early English' plate tracery window in the south wall, below the high gable with rectangular lights, and to heavy octagonal corner turrets without pinnacles. The west side has a small 4-light in panelling as to the north, then a very long 4-light with 2 transoms, all this set to masonry of widely varied dates. The east side has a high rectangular window in a larger 4-centred opening, and weathered offset at sill level, below are roofs of ancillary buildings. The bold crossing tower rises to 59.7m (169ft), and has 4 identical faces. It is in 2 stages, with a lofty 8-bay Perp blind arcade below two large 2-buttresses with pinnacles rise to tall octagonal main pinnacles, linked by 7-bay traceried parapets to a horizontal coping. Although substantially rebuilt in the C19, the medieval detail has been convincingly retained. The eastern arm externally is mainly C19 work, it has plain coped parapets carried on a continuous corbel-table of tri-lobed arches, and windows are generally formed in pale limestone contrasting with the sandstone walling. The east end has 5 above 5 lancets, the upper row stepped, and a large open trefoil in the gable, all flanked by square buttresses crowned by open octagonal turrets with plain pinnacles, these are repeated on the gable ends of the east transept. The east end has a single bay return with a single lancet at 2 levels, then the ends of the Lady Chapel aisles. The main body has stepped in a containing arch at aisle level, with triple lancets to the 2-bay chapel on the south side. On the north side of the choir is a very large ground level flying buttress below the original flying buttress. The transepts have triple lancets at 2 levels, the upper one stepped, and on the returns a similar configuration in the first bay with a single small lancet above the aisles. Square buttresses with weathered heads have small nook shafts.
INTERIOR: the description begins with the earliest unit - the crypt, then proceeds from east to west. The crypt - the central vessel is in 4 aisles with apsidal end, small monolithic columns with square bases and cushion capitals carry plastered groined vaults with broad transverse arches, with a central and 2 outer rows. This is contained within thick walls with attached half-columns in bedded stone, and arched doorways to outer aisles, also with a central row of columns and responds. Remains of a south side chapel are at the west end, with early stairs to the west transept, and a C20 stair flight gives access at the east end, adjacent to Prince Arthur's Chapel, here also are some excavated remains of a former pentagonal chapel, including some early wall painting. The church is stone vaulted throughout, principally ribbed quadripartite, and neither plastered nor painted except to the East arm. Floors are generally C19 black and white marble. Nave, choir and Lady Chapel are in three storeys, with aisles. The east arm makes extensive use of Purbeck marble, main arcades carry richly moulded arches, those to the choir with some embellishment, and wider than in the Lady Chapel. The triforium above a Purbeck string, is in paired double lights with varied carved spandrel figures, in front of a simpler continuous blind arcade which is carried through in an independent rhythm. The clerestory, also above a Purbeck string, has a triple stepped opening with Purbeck shafts, and wall passage. The vault, with a longitudinal ridge rib, retains the C19 Hardman painted decoration, and is carried on Purbeck shafts taken down to the level of the arcade capitals. The shallow single bay sanctuary to the Lady Chapel has tall lancets at two levels, on three sides. The aisles have simple quadripartite vaulting, and wall arcading in the eastern half and east transept. In the east transept the 3 storey treatment is carried into the first bay, with 2 level lancets in the outer bay and the end walls, all with an inner Purbeck screen and wall passage. The east crossing piers have banded Purbeck shafts to the full height. The main crossing has tall unbroken multi-shaft piers carrying pointed arches in four orders, and crowned by an unusual lierne vault, plastered and painted. West transept reflects continuous growth and alteration from the time of Wulfstan to the C19, with a mix of masonry, and occasional remnants of detail built into the walls. Both arms have ribbed vaults with diagonal and ridge ribs, with some liernes in the south arm, the joints in the severy panels are very prominent. In each arm the east wall retains a bold Norman arch with the 2-bay St John's Chapel, which was part of the great 1224 extension. The upper parts of these walls include rectilinear inner screening to windows. The west walls have much plain masonry, with sharply cut rectilinear blind panelling above the aisle arches. In the NW corner of the north arm is a prominent circular stair turret from early work, but the large window is C19. This arm contains many wall monuments. The south arm has a triple lancet to its south wall. The nave, with a single tierceron rib in addition to the diagonals and ridges also have prominent joints to the panels. Arcade piers are multi-shafted, some of these taken full height on the Sough side, and detail varies slightly between the two arcades, the south being completed some decades later than the north. Triforia have paired double lights, with very varied carved spandrel figures, there is no wall passage in the normal way, but bays are entered from doorways in the roof spaces. The clerestory has a wall passage, and stepped triple inner arcade. In the first bay adjoining the crossing there are prominent flying buttresses carried through clerestory and triforium levels, these inserted to stabilise the central tower. The 2 west bays have a lower arcade, and transitional detail, with paired triple round-arched openings embellished with chevron and rosettes, under pointed arches, and mixed pointed and round arches to the clerestory inner screen, at the pier junction between old and new bays is some two-coloured stonework of Wulfstan's original build. The large west window is richly glazed in small scale biblical stories. The nave north aisle has simple vaulting, but the south is an unusual combination of quadripartite design plus sets of longitudinal and transverse lierne ribs except for the two west bays. The walls are almost filled with monuments, including in the south side some deep recesses. On the north side the single bay Jesus Chapel is enclosed by a decorative stone screen of the late C19. The entrance from the north porch is provided with a large internal draught lobby. Above the south aisle for its full length is the Cathedral Library, with heavy roof timbers adjusted when new shelving was inserted in the C18. Parts of 2 flying buttresses show within the space, and at the west end the floor is lower, over the Norman bays.
FITTINGS, MONUMENTS, AND STAINED GLASS: Most internal fittings are of the later C19, many by G G Scott, including the bishop's throne, choir reredos, choir stalls (but incorporating late C14 misericords and choir screens, including main open ironwork screen under the crossing arch, organ cases, and the nave pulpit. The chancel pulpit is an octagonal design of 1642, much restored by Scott. There is a 3-bay repositioned C15 stone screen on the North side of the retrochoir, and two openwork iron screens by Skidmore. The nave lectern with gilt angel is a Hardman design, and the font, at the west end of the nave south aisle, is by G F Bodley. Although fragments of C14 glass remain in some windows of the nave south aisle, most is of the C19, principally by Hardman, including the great window and the main lancets, the large window in the north wall of the west transept is by Lavers and Barraud, as is that in the east bay of the nave North aisle,of 1862, and according to Pevsner 'The best Victorian glass in the cathedral...'. Of special historic interest is a fine memorial 3-light window to Sir Edward Elgar, in the second bay of the nave north aisle (above a C16 monument of the kneeling figure of Lady Abigail, mother to Bishop Goldisburgh). The cathedral is very rich in commemorative monuments, both free-standing and wall-mounted, including work by Nollekens, Robert Adam, Chantrey, and Westmacott Junior. They are too numerous to be detailed here, but Pevsner (op cit) includes many of them in his description. Outstanding is the chantry chapel to Prince Henry, of 1504. This is a very elegant fine stone 'casket' on the south side of the main sanctuary, in lacy open stonework with delicate cresting and pinnacles, it has a complex flat lierne vault with pendants, and very rich stone reredos with many figures and complex canopies: these were defaced and plastered over, but when rescued, much of the detail is seen to remain. On its south side, towards the east transept, the chapel is on two levels, with an intermediate band of shields and other devices in blank panelling, above 2 recesses containing earlier recumbent figures of the Giffard family. Other major monuments include the splendid recumbent effigy to King John, centred below the sanctuary steps, Bishops Walter de Cantelupe and William de Blois in the Lady Chapel sanctuary, the chest tomb to Sir Griffith Ryce, 1523, with very fine in-situ brass top, in the SE transept, Sir John Beauchamp, executed by the 'merciless parliament' in 1388 - a splendid painted chest tomb on a medieval base, and Robert Wylde, 1607/08 (sic), a large multi-coloured chest tomb, these last two in the N and S arcade of the nave, respectively, fourth bay from the crossing. In the eighth bay, near the W end, the large free-standing early Renaissance monuments to Bishop Thornborough, 1641 (N side) and Dean Eades, 1596 (S side) are especially notable. In the N chancel aisle, opposite the Prince Arthur chantry are 2 early monuments, both of early design, with recumbent figures in recesses, of interest since they, with adjacent walling, were left 'unrestored' by Scott, to demonstrate the general state of the building before that action. Among wall monuments some of the more striking are: Bishop Isaac Maddox, 1697-1759, in white and grey marble, with a great urn and weeping supporters over an extended inscription, and Bishop Hough, a Roubiliac design of 1746, in the NW transept and choir aisle, Dean Stillingfleet, 1599, in white marble on a gadrooned base, in the N wall of this transept, Nicholas Billington, 1576, with an esoteric selection of elements, to the right of Jesus Chapel, John Moore, 1615, with his wife Ann and six kneeling figures, with late gothic vaulting over an early Renaissance design (nave, N aisle, to left of porch). The nave S aisle has a whole series of interesting monuments, including Bishop Blandford, 1675, a bold Baroque design, a recessed tomb chest of 1428 to Judge Littleton, and in the next bay to Bishop Henry Parry, 1616 - this under a medieval canopy, with cusping and mouchettes. Of special local interest is the modest white marble tablet on the W wall of the NW transept to Mrs Henry Wood, 1814/1887, author of the Victorian 'best seller' East Lynn.
HISTORY: Worcester in the Middle Ages was an unusually large diocese, including, for instance, both Gloucester and Bristol, it was also unusual in that its Saxon Bishop, Wulfstan, remained in power after the Norman takeover, and it was during his episcopate that the earliest extant parts of the current cathedral - the crypt, nave and W transept - were established. Subsequent Gothic phases were conditioned by the pre-existing work, but the E arm was greatly extended - including a second transept, peculiar to English cathedrals - in the C13, so that the central tower lies almost exactly half-way in the 130m (425ft) length of the structure. Rich in architectural detailing and containing a large number of monuments, both free-standing and as wall tablets, the building has frequently undergone restoration or reconstruction because the soft sandstone used weathers so quickly. Substantial new work, including replacement of window designs, was undertake in the C17 and C18, much damage having been caused also by Parliamentarians, but a major restoration, including replacement of window designs of appropriate type, was effected in the C19. The location is enhanced by its setting by the Severn, but in the C20 the town has been cut off visually and practically by the principal traffic route passing diagonally across the N and E sides of the building. The Pevsner description was written before the later excavation revealed the details of radial chapels to the crypt. (P Barker: A Short Architectural History of Worcester Cathedral: 1994-; MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT WORCESTER CATHEDRAL: 1978-; J Harvey: English Mediaeval Architects: 1954-; N Pevsner: The Buildings of England, Worcestershire: 1968-).
Sources
Books and journals
Medieval Art and Architecture at Worcester Cathedral, (1954)
Harvey, J , English Medieval Architects, (1984)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968)
Barker, P, 'Worcester Cathedral Publications' in A Short Architectural History of Worcester Cathedral, (1994)
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Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England, situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin, of Worcester. The present cathedral church was built between 1084 and 1504, and represents every style of English architecture from Norman to Perpendicular Gothic. It is famous for its Norman crypt and unique chapter house, its unusual Transitional Gothic bays, its fine woodwork, and its "exquisite" central tower,[1] which is of particularly fine proportions.[1][2] The cathedral contains the tombs of King John and Prince Arthur.
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THE BISHOP'S PALACE AND BISHOP'S HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1382873
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1953
County: Somerset
District: Mendip (District Authority)
Parish: Wells
Diocese of Bath and Wells
National Grid Reference: ST 55207 45781
Details
WELLS
Bishop's Palace and House. Begun in c1210 by Bishop Jocelyn but principally from c1230, restored, divided and upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey 1846-54; north wing (now Bishop's residence) added in C15 by Bishop Bekynton, modified C18, and c1810 by Bishop Beadon. Local stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Doulting ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, stone chimney stacks. PALACE EXTERIOR: the main palace now used for public functions and meetings is in 2 storeys with attics, in 7 bays. Plinth, string course between floors, wide buttresses with 2 offsets to bays 2 and 6, coped gables to bays 2, 4 and 6, paired octagonal stacks with openwork cappings to bays 3 and 5. Ground floor has 2-light trefoil-headed plate tracery windows to all but bay 4, similar windows to first floor with added quatrefoil windows with trefoil-arched labels, smaller versions of these windows to attic gables; central porch added c1824, has angled corner buttresses, gable with string and central panel of arms crowned with a mitre, the entrance through a moulded pointed- arched door flanked by two early C19 light fittings. The E wall is in 5 and-a-half bays, with large buttresses to 2 stepped offsets. The first 2 bays have lancets to the ground floor only, but bays 3, 4, and 5 have large 2-light windows with quatrefoil over, and lancets to the ground floor. The last half-bay has a corner stair-turret with stepped offsets. Far right is a deep gabled wing with a large stone-mullioned oriel above a panelled apron with shields of arms, carried on a deep moulded bracket, and with very large buttresses. A tower is set-back from this, adjacent to the moat, with 2 and 3-light cusped casements on 3 floors. PALACE INTERIOR: the original plan was with hall, solar, gallery and undercroft, the long range divided by a spine wall at each level; this remains the layout, with the addition of an upper floor (not inspected). The ground floor is entered through the central porch to a narrow gallery in 6 bays of quadripartite ribbed vaulting, carried on corbel capitals. In the central wall is a large C16 stone fireplace, brought in the late C19 from the former solar. The S wall has a doorway with Y-tracery to its head, and a corner door gives to Bishop Burnell's chapel (qv). The floor is of stone flags. At the N end is a very fine Jacobean open well stair with large square newels, including a double newel at the top landing, supporting carved griffons and with openwork pendants, panelled plaster soffite, painted dado panelling, and a compartmented ceiling with pendants. The undercroft beyond the wall is in 2x5 bays with a central row of Purbeck shafts to quadripartite vaulting, on faceted responds; there is a large stone fireplace of C15 design in the spine wall. The first floor, within Jocelyn's shell, has C19 detailing; Ferrey complained that much of the work to the ceilings was '.... done by an upholsterer from Bath....', but detailing is very rich, and good replica C19 patterned colourful wallpapers were installed c1970. On the E side is a suite of 3 rooms, with compartmental ceilings. The square room at the head of the stairs has a stone basket-arch fireplace with triple cusping, and retains some C18 panelling, and six 6-panel doors. The long central room has a 24-panel ceiling, and three C19 lighting pendants; at its S end a very rich pair of panelled doors opens to the square S room, in which are visible in the E wall remains of the original windows, which have been blocked externally. This room has no fireplace. The long gallery to the W of the spine wall has two fireplaces, dado panelling, and a ribbed panelled ceiling. The windows are in deep embrasures, and there are three 9-panel C19 doors. BISHOP'S HOUSE EXTERIOR: returns at the N end, being backed by the moat wall. It is in 2 parallel ranges, with a very narrow courtyard partly filled by C20 building, a cross wing containing a former hall, and opening to a porch at the S end, and a square tower on the NE corner. The S front is crenellated, and has 4 windows on 2 storeys with attic, all flush 2-light stone mullioned casements with cusped heads to the lights; at first floor 2 of the windows have C19 cast-iron small-paned casements, and there are 4 casement hipped dormers behind the parapet. To the left, in a lower wall with raked head are 2 similar casements, and set forward to the right, fronting the 3-storey N/S hall range is a low square tower with two 2-light plate-traceried windows as those in the adjacent Palace, and a round-arched C16 stone outer doorway with moulded and panelled responds and a large keystone with diamond embellishment. The porch is stone paved, with a stone bench to the left, and the inner doorway is a C15 stone 4-centred moulded arch with rosettes, hood-mould, and small diagonal pinnacles at the springing and key, above a carved angel keystone, containing a fine pair of early doors with panel, muntin and mid-rail, all with nail-heads. At the left end is a wide archway into the courtyard, on the site of the gateway seen in the Buck view. There are various lofty yellow brick stacks, including one very large stack to a coped gable in the rear range. BISHOP'S HOUSE INTERIOR: has been subdivided several times; in the front range are 2 plain rooms, then the inner hall to the porch, with the C15 doorway, a shell niche, and a stone arch matching that to the outer doorway of the porch; this gives to the main stair. N of the hall is a fine C15 oak screen with narrow panels and moulded muntins and mid-rail, and a central round-arched C20 doorway of C16 style. To the right is a large 3-light stone casement with transom, and to the left is a stone-flagged cross passage which runs through to a doorway at the moat end. The inner hall has 3 windows as in the outer hall, and the inner side of the screen has raised and moulded panels, and all members embellished, including small-scale chevron to the bressumer; the central C16 doorway has raised diamond keystone and enrichment. A dining room to the N has a peaked moulded wooden rere-arch, and opens in the NW corner to a small square study in the tower. This has a stone alcove in the N wall with a 3-light C16 casement, and in the corner access to a stone spiral stair rising the full height of the tower. There are many 6-panel doors, with raised mouldings, and with square centre panels. The main staircase is C20 with heavy turned balusters to the first floor, and a C19 straight flight with stick balusters in the upper flight. At first landing level the window contains fragments of mediaeval and C16 stained and painted glass; there is a second straight-flight stair between the ranges to the W. Rooms at first floor are generally plainly detailed; the N range had an extra floor inserted, and one bathroom has the lower part of one of the mediaeval oriels in its N wall. The second floor has a through corridor, and has many early 2-panel doors with raised mouldings. The square end room to the tower has a low relief plastered ceiling to a central rose, the window has early crown glass and a scratched date of 1822. Two of the bedrooms contain the upper parts of the oriels, and these have stone vaulted soffites, one including a carved angel keystone. Over the S range is a 6-bay collar and 2-purlin roof with original rafters, formerly with plaster; the space has 4 dormer windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: the complex building history, coupled with a splendid setting within its walled moat, makes this Palace an outstanding historic and visual document, with one of the most remarkable structures of the mediaeval period which '...represent the grandest aspect of the mediaeval way of life'.(Barley) The first-floor hall represents an outstanding example of its type, contemporary in date with those at St David's, Dyfed, and Southwark, London. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 312; Colchester LS: Wells Cathedral: A History: Shepton Mallet: 1982-: 227-244; Wood M: The English Mediaeval House: London: 1965-: 24 (PLAN); Bony J: The English Decorated Style: London: 1979-: PASSIM; Parker JH: Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells: Oxford: 1866-; Barley M: Houses and History: London: 1986-: 60-63).
Listing NGR: ST5522445760
I used a beautiful, softened by age, pillowcase for her nightgown. The detail of the embroidery is so beautiful...makes me want to embroider more and more.
The organ case, of 1931, was designed by W. D. Caroe and made by Bridgemans of Lichfield.
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Of course it's not an organ case but simply a façade. But the woodcarving is excellent.
Perpendicular church of 1470, restored in 1884, and chiefly notable for the 17th century Gwydir chapel.
Its exterior dominates the approach to the church, with heavy gothic buttresses and a battlemented roof, to which the main church seems an extension. Inside, the nave is differentiated from the chancel only by a screen and loft.
This work may have been brought from the dissolved Maenan Abbey. While the musicians' loft has lost its saints, the canopy vaulting and filigree openwork in the screen panels are exceptional.
The Gwydir chapel is a church in itself, built in 1633/4 by Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, treasurer to Queen Henrietta Maria. The roof is almost flat, known as camber-beam. The Jacobean panelling and decoration show the transition from gothic to renaissance in 17th century British churches. In the chapel is an empty coffin, said to be that of Llywelyn the Great. A knight in armour of c1440 is complete with cushion sword and lion.
The chapel is home to a set of 17th century monuments to the Wynn family. The walls are adorned with a set of memorial brasses of the same period.
Gwydir Chapel stone creature
Kanshiro Nishigaki (1613-1693)
西垣 勘四郎
A Higo School iron sukashi tsuba
Sword guard in the shape of a of dancing crane
Early Edo Period (1615-1867), 17th century.
Mumei, 80 x 76 x 5 mm
The tsuba features an elegant dancing crane with its wings outspread. The subdued finish exemplifies the highest standard of iron sword guards: the openwork (sukashi) is superb and well balanced, with each feather depicted in fine lines and other areas defined by thick, stout lines. The excellent patina on the jitetsu and the large featured dynamic sukashi pattern produces a very rich and elegant feeling.
This design is well known: a tsuba by Hayashi Matashichi (1613-1699) at the Eisei-Bunko Museum shows the same design and differs only from the sharper treatment of the ironwork.
There are four major Higo schools: Hirata, Hayashi, Nishigaki, and Shimizu; each school’s smiths worked under lord Hosokawa Sansai’s excellent instructions and they produced many fine pieces of tsuba and kodogu. Kanshiro, the first master of Nishigaki school, was the top student under Hirata Hikozo, who was directly employed by the daimyô.
Nishigaki Kanshiro had a special passion for iron which looks like a simple and everyday material. With his deep understanding of this metal and his techniques, he produced works of extreme elegance and beauty: his iron, warmer and more relaxed than that of Hayashi, is the key to understand the difference between this tsuba and that in the Eisei-Bunko.
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Cairndhu House, County Antrim, was built for Mr Stewart Clark at some stage after 1878. Mr Clark was a wealthy Scottish textile industrialist. He married Annie (daughter of John Smiley and sister of Sir Hugh Houston Smiley Bt). Their daughter Edith married Sir Thomas Dixon in 1906. This Mansion was also used in the 2016 movie 'Morgan'
Cairndhu comprises two storeys and many gables; though it's style is vaguely Oriental, given that it boasts ornate, openwork bargeboards and an elaborate wooden veranda and balcony running for most of the frontage. The house was later extended, in 1897-8, to the designs of Samuel P Close.
The architect of the initial phase of Clark's building may have been Mr Close. Cairndhu was extended by Mr Clark at various times, the last time reportedly being in 1906. Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon purchased Cairndhu in 1918. They added the servants' dining hall.
Sir Thomas Dixon, 2nd Baronet, married Edith, youngest daughter of Mr Stewart Clark, of Dundas Castle, South Queensferry, Scotland, and Cairndhu, in 1906, at Dalmeny Church, South Queensferry. Edith Clark was the sister of Sir John Stewart-Clark, 1st Baronet.
After their marriage, the Dixons lived for varying periods at Graymount House, Hillsborough Castle, Drumadarragh, Luttrelstown, and Lucan, before purchasing Lady Dixon’s childhood summer residence, Cairndhu.
The estate increased in size to nearly 500 acres when the adjoining properties of Droagh (formerly Sir Edward Coey’s estate) and Carnfunnock (William Chaine’s property) were purchased.
The Dixon family held many house and garden parties and entertained public dignitaries with grouse shooting in the Antrim Hills.
More improvements were made to the house including the servants' dining hall.
The house was beautiful and Cairndhu had a large workforce, with 20 indoors staff, kitchen staff, ladies maids and upstairs staff .
The land at Cairndhu was used for grazing cattle, mainly Shorthorns and Galloway cattle, which were bred for beef.
There were twenty-two gardeners and estate workers. In 1937, when Carnfunnock was merged with Cairndhu, Mr Brownlow was responsible for the management of the whole estate, which consisted of 500 acres.
In September, 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, Sir Thomas, as Mayor of Larne (1939-41), handed over his Larne residence for use as a War Hospital Supply Depot and organised the YMCA canteen at the harbour.
Lady Dixon was president of the Ulster Fund and War Hospital Supply Depot for Serving Forces (Larne Depot) with donations requested in October 1939 to purchase necessary materials.
Sir Thomas provided his land, though he and Lady Dixon were able to live independently in Cairndhu without being affected.
In 1940 Lady Dixon gave one of their three Rolls-Royces to be converted into an ambulance for first-aid parties to the Larne A.R.P. Ambulance Service.
In May, 1947, Sir Thomas celebrated his 79th birthday, and the occasion was marked by announcing a generous gift: After forty years at Cairndhu, the Dixons donated their 60-room family home, with 100 acres of the estate, to the Ministry of Health and Local Government for use as a convalescent home and hospital.
At the time, Lady Dixon said that she was very sorry to be going away from the house that her father built: “It’s too big for us now, though. It was different in the days when we could entertain.”
Sir Thomas died on holiday at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, on 10th May, 1950, aged 81.
His body was brought back on the Stranraer steam-boat en route to his last residence, Wilmont House in Dunmurry.
The funeral service was held at Belfast Cathedral before burial at Dundonald Cemetery.
His younger brother Herbert, who had already been elevated to the peerage as 1st Baron Glentoran, succeeded him in the baronetcy.
At the time of Sir Thomas’s death, his effects were valued at over £389,000.
Cairndhu was officially opened as a convalescent hospital in 1950, but funding difficulties meant that, in 1986, it was closed down by the Department of Health and Social Services.
In 1995, the Lord Rana purchased Cairndhu House and the surrounding gardens from the council.
A public consultation was held in 2018 over plans to develop the site of the derelict mansion into 'retirement village' facilities and a care home.
Church Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven (Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary), St. Mary's Church - one of the largest and most important, the Wawel Cathedral, Krakow church, Basilica since 1963 . It belongs to the most famous sights of Krakow and Polish. It is located at the northeast corner of the main square, the Marienplatz .
According to John Dlugosz Parish Church on the Market of Krakow was founded by the Bishop of Cracow Iwona Odrowąż between 1221-1222. In the years 1290-1300 was built partly on the foundations, new early Gothic style church, consecrated in 1320.
It was then completely rebuilt. In the years around 1355-1365 with the significant participation of Nicholas Wierzynka older (patrician Cracow and Sandomierz esquire carver ) was built on one level elongated presbytery opened up tall windows, which were filled with stained glass windows in the years around 1360 to 1400. With the construction of the sanctuary began work on a new main body, which had initially taken the form of a three-aisled hall. These works, however, delayed, and the original concept has changed, and finally at the end of the fourteenth century the body of the basilica was modeled on the western part of the Wawel Cathedral. Przekryty he was in the 1395-1397 cross-ribbed vault by Master Nicholas Werhnera from Prague. In the years 1435-1446 at the outer walls of the aisles were built chapels. Most of them were the work of a master of Kleparz Francis Wiechonia. At the same time the north tower was raised, designed to act as guardians of the city. In 1478, carpenter Maciej Heringk nabbed a characteristic polygonal tower cupola. The helmet is decorated with gilded crown Marian in 1666 .
In the years 1477 - 1489 Mary century, the temple has been enriched by a masterpiece of late Gothic sculpture - a new high altar by Veit Stoss, funded by the city councilors .
In the sixteenth and seventeenth century St. Mary's Church gained new chapels, tombs and altars, in later centuries replaced. Mannerist altar of St . Agnes and Saints Catherine and Dorothy found recently in Iwanowice, Baroque altars St . And St. Joseph's. Anne's parish church in Brzeszczach near Auschwitz . At the end of the seventeenth century, the church replaced the floor and built two magnificent portals made of black Debnik limestone. In the eighteenth century at the behest of Archpriest Jack Łopackiego, the interior of the church was thoroughly modernized in the late Baroque style. When the big altars, equipment, furniture and the walls were imposed pilasters and entablature, illusionist ceiling are covered with murals by Andrzej Radwanski. From this period has also been set in the late Baroque façade porch.
In 1795 the churchyard was abolished. This is how the Marienplatz square came into existence. Some survivors of the epitaphs was transferred to the walls of the temple. In the 90s of the nineteenth century, the architect Tadeusz Stryjeński conducted a comprehensive restaurant church, during which zregotycyzowano interior. Temple gained a new decorative painting design by Jan Matejko. By executing murals collaborated, among others Stanislaw Wyspianski and Mehoffer .
Facade of the temple is enclosed in two towers:
Higher tower, known as the Watchtower " Excubiarum ", is 82 meters high. It is built on a square plan, the individual stories separate stone cornices. On the ninth floor of the octagon passes, opened up lancet arches, falling two stories of windows. Gothic towers covers the helmet , which is the work of a master Matthias Heringka of the year 1478. The helmet consists of an octagonal, sharpened needle, surrounded by a ring of eight lower turrets. From the tower, from a height of 54 meters, is played every hour bugle Mary. At the bottom, on the north side, there is a rectangular annex, located a stone staircase leading to the interior of the tower. On the left side of the entrance to the tower draws attention turned, cast in bronze plaque depicting King Jan III Sobieski. It was made based on the design by the sculptor Pius Weloński in 1883 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Vienna. The higher the tower 's bell clock to 1530 (tons Impact d ', diameter 165 cm).
Lower tower with a height of 69 meters, is the church bells. It was built on a square plan, as higher is clearly marked on the entire height of the cornices and windows, floors division. On the floor of the bell tower is a Renaissance chapel dedicated to St Paul's. Paul ( Family Kauffmannów ), which can be accessed through the Renaissance balcony, a work of Italian masters from the workshop of Bartholomew Berecciego working on Wawel Hill. Outside, above the window of the chapel, the roof is suspended trójspadowym bell " for the dying ", cast by Kacper Koerber of Wroclaw in 1736 . Helmet covers the late Renaissance Tower, constructed in 1592, consisting of an elliptical dome, mounted on an octagonal drum and lantern topped with openwork. In the corners are set four smaller domes at low , hexagonal bases. In the tower are suspended five bells :
- The oldest (gis Impact tons, diameter 105 cm, weight 11.65 kN) at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ,
- Two more, called Misjonałem (attributable to FIS 00 tons, diameter 136 cm, weight 22.2 kN) and Tenebratem (attributable to dis tons, diameter 175 cm, weight 48.5 kN) were filed between 1386 and 1390 by John Weygela the New Village at Spis ,
- And also the fourth largest, called Półzygmuntem (attributable to cis 40 tons, diameter 180 cm, weight 60 kN, heart weight 1.95 kN), is the work of John Freudental of 1438, the foundation was established through collective magnate, as evidenced by adorning it crests knights. Półzygmunt and Tenebrat are accompanied by inscriptions on the content of Marian.
- Fifth, cymbal clock, made in 1564, once cooperated with located on the taller tower clock. Activated manually by the bugle call player was using rods .
Four bells liturgy is one of the largest and oldest medieval bells teams in Poland.
Crochet tunic made of 100% cotton double mercerization, which resulted in very fine, delicate things.
The length and shape of the tunic is easily adjustable thin drawstring at the waist. Ribbon can be removed. By the tunic is well suited wide belt at the hips. It looks great on your underwear or white flesh
The case was made for an organ completed by Christian Vater of Hannover in 1731. The present instrument was made by Alfred Kern & Fils.
Very feminine accessory made from soft, cotton yarn in sand beige colour. Their pattern is openwork. The gloves are arm-shaped, long and very chic.
Sun Microsystems, Inc., today unveiled Project EcoBox, the latest in its popular line of Solarium[tm] shipping container-based products, and the cornerstone of the upcoming 3.0 release of Sun's OpenWork program, which is leading the mobile employee revolution. Project EcoBox is an ecologically-friendly variation on Sun's popular Project Blackbox and has been specially designed for "C" level executive occupancy. This newest portable "green" office will become the headquarters for Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and CTO Greg Papadopoulos, effective immediately.
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CHINESE JADE ORNAMENTS
(Left to right)
BUTTON
15th century
Ming Dynasty
White jade
Diameter 4.3 cm
Collection of Virginia B. Randolph
Illustrated p. 102 top row, left
This chrysanthemum button has a double row of delicate petals created in openwork carving. Small jade flowers ornamented women's robes but earlier, during the Tang Dynasty (618-906), they were worn in the hair.
BUTTON
Yuan Dynasty (12604368)
Greenish white jade
Diameter 7.7 cm
Collection of Virginia B. Randolph
Illustrated p. 102 top row, right
This large chrysanthemum button with a border of rui lappets, would probably have been used as a fastening for a man's robe. The reverse, carved in the form of overlapping petals, is similar to examples reportedly excavated from Yuan tombs. The chrysanthemum is the flower of mid-autumn and the symbol of joviality.
BUTTON
14th-15th Century
Yuan or Ming Dynasty
White jade
Depth 2.8 cm
Private collection
Illustrated p. 102 second row, left
This small button has five delicately carved concave petals.
BELT PLAQUE, DAISHI
16th Century
Ming Dynasty
White jade
Width 2.5 cm
Height 2.8 cm
Private collection
Illustrated p. 102 second row, right
This rectangular belt plaque is carved in two layers of open work with a design of flowering prunus and a peony on a foliated ground, framed by a border of "pearls."
BUTTON
14th-15th century
Yuan or Ming Dynasty
Mutton fat jade
Diameter 3.8 cm
Collection of Virginia B. Randolph
Illustrated p. 102 third row, left
Made for a woman's garment, this small button is in the form of a five petaled prunus, or plum, blossom. Five-petaled jade prunus flowers have been recovered from Yuan tombs.
BUTTON OR BELT ORNAMENT
14th-15th century
Yuan or Ming Dynasty
Greenish-white jade
Length 9 cm
Width 5 cm
Collection of Virginia B. Randolph
Illustrated p. 102 third row, right
Two overlapping chrysanthemums are carved on both the front and reverse. Small holes for attaching the ornament to a garment or belt are integrated into the design in such a way as to be virtually invisible.
SNUFF BOTTLE, BIYANHU (PI-YEN-HU)
18th Century
Qing Dynasty
White jade; coral
Height 7.5 cm
Width 5.0 cm
Private collection
Illustrated p. 102 bottom row, left
Snuff bottles were carried in the voluminous sleeves of robes or in drawstring pouches suspended from the girdle. This bottle of a flattened, rectangular form is well-hollowed and has a coral stopper.
WOMAN'S BANGLE, ZHUO, (CHUO)
15th century, possibly earlier
Ming Dynasty
Greenish white jade
Length 7.4 cm
Width 6.8 cm
Collection of Virginia B. Randolph
Illustrated p. 102 bottom row, right
This simple but elegantly fashioned oval bangle conforms to the natural shape of the wrist and was comfortable to wear.
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A visit to the National Trust property of Tyntesfield in North Somerset, on the way down for the mid autumn holiday in Dorset.
It is to the west of Bristol and the M5.
Between the Chaplain's House and Tyntesfield House was a distant view to a church. St Andrew's Church, Backwell.
Grade I Listed Building
Description
ST 46 NE BACKWELL CHURCH LANE (north-west side)
6/21 CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
11.10.61
G.V. I
Parish Church (Anglican). C12, altered and enlarged C13, C15; altered C16 and
repaired C17. West tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, north and
south chapels; chancel. Coursed, squared rubble with freestone dressings,
ashlar tower; lead and stone slate roofs with coped raised verges. West
tower: C15, restored 1928; 4 stages with setback buttresses which terminate in
clustered pinnacles on the 3rd stage, clustered and setback pinnacles on the 4th
stage, terminating in square turrets set diagonally, surmounted by openwork
spires; projecting stair turret to north-east which is square on the first stage
and half-octagonal above; blocked 2-light windows on second and third stages,
cusped heads to tracery and hoodmoulds with lozenge stops, the mullion of the 3rd
stage windows has a pierced quatrefoil in a circle at the base (inscription to
the left of the 2nd stage window on the west wide); two single-light windows to
bell chamber, pierced quatrefoils in arches, 4-centred heads to the windows which
are both under a single ogee hoodmould which breaks through the parapet; 5-light
west window (restored) with cusped heads to the tracery; west door in moulded
surround; south-east buttress bears plaque which reads: "I.B./I.C./C.W./1713".
South aisle and chapel: plain parapet; 3 windows all in a Perpendicular style
(restored), 4-lights to west and 3-lights to east window; projecting square rood
stair turret with embattled parapet; east window has cusped 4-centred heads to
the tracery and daggers above; relieving arch over blocked window immediately
east of porch; carved gargoyles empty into downpipes with hoppers dated
"EIIR/1953". Nave: sanctus bellcote over east gable, crocketed pinnacles.
South porch: circa 1300 with embattled parapet and diagonal buttresses; south
doorway of 5 orders, ovolo moulding alternating with chamfers - roll moulded
hoodmould on small fluted corbel to west. Chancel has angle buttresses and
3-light windows; priest's door in heavy roll moulded surround, hoodmould with
carved head stops; restored 3-light Perpendicular style east window. Rodney
Chapel: embattled parapet, east gable with trefoil headed window; 3-light
restored Perpendicular style window; north doorway in chamfered surround with
depressed 4-centred head. North aisle: plain parapet; four 2-, 3- and 4-light
windows, all in Perpendicular style; cusped ogee heads to two 4-light westernmost
windows; north door in chamfered, 4-centre headed surround. Interior. South
porch: blocked door to left (now missing) has a chamfered surround and pointed
head, corbel with leaf ornament to right; stoup to right of door with pointed
surround; plank and cross battened south door of late C15. Nave: 5 bay
arcades, the westernmost part dying into the later west wall, octagonal piers and
caps and chamfered, pointed arches. C15 tower arch of 2 wave mouldings.
Chancel arch rests on thickened east piers of arcade: sharply pointed arch;
carved heads on piers and square squints through piers. Restored Perpendicular
style roofs, those of the arcades rest on carved corbel heads; arch-braced roof
to nave, with a 2-light dormer window at the south-east corner (possibly to light
the rood); two blocked doors to rood stair turret, the lower one has an ogee and
hollow moulded surround. Single bay to north and south chapels but no capital
to east pier. Single bay chancel: triple sedilia with colonnettes and pointed
arches under a linked hoodmould on carved stops, piscina of similar details but
with an outer roll moulding which has a fillet; ogee headed niche to left of
piscina; two shallow niches on east wall; in the north-east corner is a door
with a double ogee moulded surround and a 4-centred head. Rodney Chapel:
inscribed and dated 1536, resto red 1933; 3 bay screen of depressed arches with
a doorway to the left and two 3-light cusped lights to the right, above are arms
and everything is surmounted by a crocketted gable with pinnacles; 2-light
trefoil headed squint to right with fragment of C11 carving; inside is a cusped
rere-arch to the screen and a roof of 5 cusped transverse ribs. Pulpit is late
C19. Font; C12, restored 1907, circular bowl with cable moulding, circular
stem with foliate moulding on base. The pews are all 1933. The rood screen is
early C16: blank arcaded base with cusped tracery and quatrefoils in circles;
pierced tracery to upper part, decorative heads; pointed 4-centred heads to
doorways. Brass chandelier, dated 1786. Monuments. Rodney tomb: the effigy
is that of Sir Walter Rodney, died 1466 but the tomb chest is mid-C14; 5-bay
blank arcade of cusped, ogee headed niches, angels bear arms, band of fleurons
above. Rodney Chapel: Elizabeth Harvey, early C17, aedicular with a small
obelisk finial; Rice Davis, died 1638, brass and marble plaques, flanked by
ashlar terms, moulded frieze and cornice with arms above. North aisle: Joseph
Whitchurch, died 1792, by Tyley of Bristol, inscribed marble plaque, a weeping
woman rests on an urn; Anthony Biggs, died 1752, marble, broken pediment on
brackets; Joseph Hitchman, died 1765, classical marble plaque. South aisle -
two to the Simmons family, the lower one 1835, a marble plaque with a draped urn,
the upper one with a weeping woman; Charles Biggs, died 1775, marble tablet,
flanked by urns. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and
Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST4931168337
THE BISHOP'S PALACE AND BISHOP'S HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1382873
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1953
County: Somerset
District: Mendip (District Authority)
Parish: Wells
Diocese of Bath and Wells
National Grid Reference: ST 55207 45781
Details
WELLS
Bishop's Palace and House. Begun in c1210 by Bishop Jocelyn but principally from c1230, restored, divided and upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey 1846-54; north wing (now Bishop's residence) added in C15 by Bishop Bekynton, modified C18, and c1810 by Bishop Beadon. Local stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Doulting ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, stone chimney stacks. PALACE EXTERIOR: the main palace now used for public functions and meetings is in 2 storeys with attics, in 7 bays. Plinth, string course between floors, wide buttresses with 2 offsets to bays 2 and 6, coped gables to bays 2, 4 and 6, paired octagonal stacks with openwork cappings to bays 3 and 5. Ground floor has 2-light trefoil-headed plate tracery windows to all but bay 4, similar windows to first floor with added quatrefoil windows with trefoil-arched labels, smaller versions of these windows to attic gables; central porch added c1824, has angled corner buttresses, gable with string and central panel of arms crowned with a mitre, the entrance through a moulded pointed- arched door flanked by two early C19 light fittings. The E wall is in 5 and-a-half bays, with large buttresses to 2 stepped offsets. The first 2 bays have lancets to the ground floor only, but bays 3, 4, and 5 have large 2-light windows with quatrefoil over, and lancets to the ground floor. The last half-bay has a corner stair-turret with stepped offsets. Far right is a deep gabled wing with a large stone-mullioned oriel above a panelled apron with shields of arms, carried on a deep moulded bracket, and with very large buttresses. A tower is set-back from this, adjacent to the moat, with 2 and 3-light cusped casements on 3 floors. PALACE INTERIOR: the original plan was with hall, solar, gallery and undercroft, the long range divided by a spine wall at each level; this remains the layout, with the addition of an upper floor (not inspected). The ground floor is entered through the central porch to a narrow gallery in 6 bays of quadripartite ribbed vaulting, carried on corbel capitals. In the central wall is a large C16 stone fireplace, brought in the late C19 from the former solar. The S wall has a doorway with Y-tracery to its head, and a corner door gives to Bishop Burnell's chapel (qv). The floor is of stone flags. At the N end is a very fine Jacobean open well stair with large square newels, including a double newel at the top landing, supporting carved griffons and with openwork pendants, panelled plaster soffite, painted dado panelling, and a compartmented ceiling with pendants. The undercroft beyond the wall is in 2x5 bays with a central row of Purbeck shafts to quadripartite vaulting, on faceted responds; there is a large stone fireplace of C15 design in the spine wall. The first floor, within Jocelyn's shell, has C19 detailing; Ferrey complained that much of the work to the ceilings was '.... done by an upholsterer from Bath....', but detailing is very rich, and good replica C19 patterned colourful wallpapers were installed c1970. On the E side is a suite of 3 rooms, with compartmental ceilings. The square room at the head of the stairs has a stone basket-arch fireplace with triple cusping, and retains some C18 panelling, and six 6-panel doors. The long central room has a 24-panel ceiling, and three C19 lighting pendants; at its S end a very rich pair of panelled doors opens to the square S room, in which are visible in the E wall remains of the original windows, which have been blocked externally. This room has no fireplace. The long gallery to the W of the spine wall has two fireplaces, dado panelling, and a ribbed panelled ceiling. The windows are in deep embrasures, and there are three 9-panel C19 doors. BISHOP'S HOUSE EXTERIOR: returns at the N end, being backed by the moat wall. It is in 2 parallel ranges, with a very narrow courtyard partly filled by C20 building, a cross wing containing a former hall, and opening to a porch at the S end, and a square tower on the NE corner. The S front is crenellated, and has 4 windows on 2 storeys with attic, all flush 2-light stone mullioned casements with cusped heads to the lights; at first floor 2 of the windows have C19 cast-iron small-paned casements, and there are 4 casement hipped dormers behind the parapet. To the left, in a lower wall with raked head are 2 similar casements, and set forward to the right, fronting the 3-storey N/S hall range is a low square tower with two 2-light plate-traceried windows as those in the adjacent Palace, and a round-arched C16 stone outer doorway with moulded and panelled responds and a large keystone with diamond embellishment. The porch is stone paved, with a stone bench to the left, and the inner doorway is a C15 stone 4-centred moulded arch with rosettes, hood-mould, and small diagonal pinnacles at the springing and key, above a carved angel keystone, containing a fine pair of early doors with panel, muntin and mid-rail, all with nail-heads. At the left end is a wide archway into the courtyard, on the site of the gateway seen in the Buck view. There are various lofty yellow brick stacks, including one very large stack to a coped gable in the rear range. BISHOP'S HOUSE INTERIOR: has been subdivided several times; in the front range are 2 plain rooms, then the inner hall to the porch, with the C15 doorway, a shell niche, and a stone arch matching that to the outer doorway of the porch; this gives to the main stair. N of the hall is a fine C15 oak screen with narrow panels and moulded muntins and mid-rail, and a central round-arched C20 doorway of C16 style. To the right is a large 3-light stone casement with transom, and to the left is a stone-flagged cross passage which runs through to a doorway at the moat end. The inner hall has 3 windows as in the outer hall, and the inner side of the screen has raised and moulded panels, and all members embellished, including small-scale chevron to the bressumer; the central C16 doorway has raised diamond keystone and enrichment. A dining room to the N has a peaked moulded wooden rere-arch, and opens in the NW corner to a small square study in the tower. This has a stone alcove in the N wall with a 3-light C16 casement, and in the corner access to a stone spiral stair rising the full height of the tower. There are many 6-panel doors, with raised mouldings, and with square centre panels. The main staircase is C20 with heavy turned balusters to the first floor, and a C19 straight flight with stick balusters in the upper flight. At first landing level the window contains fragments of mediaeval and C16 stained and painted glass; there is a second straight-flight stair between the ranges to the W. Rooms at first floor are generally plainly detailed; the N range had an extra floor inserted, and one bathroom has the lower part of one of the mediaeval oriels in its N wall. The second floor has a through corridor, and has many early 2-panel doors with raised mouldings. The square end room to the tower has a low relief plastered ceiling to a central rose, the window has early crown glass and a scratched date of 1822. Two of the bedrooms contain the upper parts of the oriels, and these have stone vaulted soffites, one including a carved angel keystone. Over the S range is a 6-bay collar and 2-purlin roof with original rafters, formerly with plaster; the space has 4 dormer windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: the complex building history, coupled with a splendid setting within its walled moat, makes this Palace an outstanding historic and visual document, with one of the most remarkable structures of the mediaeval period which '...represent the grandest aspect of the mediaeval way of life'.(Barley) The first-floor hall represents an outstanding example of its type, contemporary in date with those at St David's, Dyfed, and Southwark, London. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 312; Colchester LS: Wells Cathedral: A History: Shepton Mallet: 1982-: 227-244; Wood M: The English Mediaeval House: London: 1965-: 24 (PLAN); Bony J: The English Decorated Style: London: 1979-: PASSIM; Parker JH: Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells: Oxford: 1866-; Barley M: Houses and History: London: 1986-: 60-63).
Listing NGR: ST5522445760
The woodwork was made in 1778 by Jean Elshoecht of Sint Winoksbergen, called Bergues in French. He was paid 350 French crowns.
THE BISHOP'S PALACE AND BISHOP'S HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1382873
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1953
County: Somerset
District: Mendip (District Authority)
Parish: Wells
Diocese of Bath and Wells
National Grid Reference: ST 55207 45781
Details
WELLS
Bishop's Palace and House. Begun in c1210 by Bishop Jocelyn but principally from c1230, restored, divided and upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey 1846-54; north wing (now Bishop's residence) added in C15 by Bishop Bekynton, modified C18, and c1810 by Bishop Beadon. Local stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Doulting ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, stone chimney stacks. PALACE EXTERIOR: the main palace now used for public functions and meetings is in 2 storeys with attics, in 7 bays. Plinth, string course between floors, wide buttresses with 2 offsets to bays 2 and 6, coped gables to bays 2, 4 and 6, paired octagonal stacks with openwork cappings to bays 3 and 5. Ground floor has 2-light trefoil-headed plate tracery windows to all but bay 4, similar windows to first floor with added quatrefoil windows with trefoil-arched labels, smaller versions of these windows to attic gables; central porch added c1824, has angled corner buttresses, gable with string and central panel of arms crowned with a mitre, the entrance through a moulded pointed- arched door flanked by two early C19 light fittings. The E wall is in 5 and-a-half bays, with large buttresses to 2 stepped offsets. The first 2 bays have lancets to the ground floor only, but bays 3, 4, and 5 have large 2-light windows with quatrefoil over, and lancets to the ground floor. The last half-bay has a corner stair-turret with stepped offsets. Far right is a deep gabled wing with a large stone-mullioned oriel above a panelled apron with shields of arms, carried on a deep moulded bracket, and with very large buttresses. A tower is set-back from this, adjacent to the moat, with 2 and 3-light cusped casements on 3 floors. PALACE INTERIOR: the original plan was with hall, solar, gallery and undercroft, the long range divided by a spine wall at each level; this remains the layout, with the addition of an upper floor (not inspected). The ground floor is entered through the central porch to a narrow gallery in 6 bays of quadripartite ribbed vaulting, carried on corbel capitals. In the central wall is a large C16 stone fireplace, brought in the late C19 from the former solar. The S wall has a doorway with Y-tracery to its head, and a corner door gives to Bishop Burnell's chapel (qv). The floor is of stone flags. At the N end is a very fine Jacobean open well stair with large square newels, including a double newel at the top landing, supporting carved griffons and with openwork pendants, panelled plaster soffite, painted dado panelling, and a compartmented ceiling with pendants. The undercroft beyond the wall is in 2x5 bays with a central row of Purbeck shafts to quadripartite vaulting, on faceted responds; there is a large stone fireplace of C15 design in the spine wall. The first floor, within Jocelyn's shell, has C19 detailing; Ferrey complained that much of the work to the ceilings was '.... done by an upholsterer from Bath....', but detailing is very rich, and good replica C19 patterned colourful wallpapers were installed c1970. On the E side is a suite of 3 rooms, with compartmental ceilings. The square room at the head of the stairs has a stone basket-arch fireplace with triple cusping, and retains some C18 panelling, and six 6-panel doors. The long central room has a 24-panel ceiling, and three C19 lighting pendants; at its S end a very rich pair of panelled doors opens to the square S room, in which are visible in the E wall remains of the original windows, which have been blocked externally. This room has no fireplace. The long gallery to the W of the spine wall has two fireplaces, dado panelling, and a ribbed panelled ceiling. The windows are in deep embrasures, and there are three 9-panel C19 doors. BISHOP'S HOUSE EXTERIOR: returns at the N end, being backed by the moat wall. It is in 2 parallel ranges, with a very narrow courtyard partly filled by C20 building, a cross wing containing a former hall, and opening to a porch at the S end, and a square tower on the NE corner. The S front is crenellated, and has 4 windows on 2 storeys with attic, all flush 2-light stone mullioned casements with cusped heads to the lights; at first floor 2 of the windows have C19 cast-iron small-paned casements, and there are 4 casement hipped dormers behind the parapet. To the left, in a lower wall with raked head are 2 similar casements, and set forward to the right, fronting the 3-storey N/S hall range is a low square tower with two 2-light plate-traceried windows as those in the adjacent Palace, and a round-arched C16 stone outer doorway with moulded and panelled responds and a large keystone with diamond embellishment. The porch is stone paved, with a stone bench to the left, and the inner doorway is a C15 stone 4-centred moulded arch with rosettes, hood-mould, and small diagonal pinnacles at the springing and key, above a carved angel keystone, containing a fine pair of early doors with panel, muntin and mid-rail, all with nail-heads. At the left end is a wide archway into the courtyard, on the site of the gateway seen in the Buck view. There are various lofty yellow brick stacks, including one very large stack to a coped gable in the rear range. BISHOP'S HOUSE INTERIOR: has been subdivided several times; in the front range are 2 plain rooms, then the inner hall to the porch, with the C15 doorway, a shell niche, and a stone arch matching that to the outer doorway of the porch; this gives to the main stair. N of the hall is a fine C15 oak screen with narrow panels and moulded muntins and mid-rail, and a central round-arched C20 doorway of C16 style. To the right is a large 3-light stone casement with transom, and to the left is a stone-flagged cross passage which runs through to a doorway at the moat end. The inner hall has 3 windows as in the outer hall, and the inner side of the screen has raised and moulded panels, and all members embellished, including small-scale chevron to the bressumer; the central C16 doorway has raised diamond keystone and enrichment. A dining room to the N has a peaked moulded wooden rere-arch, and opens in the NW corner to a small square study in the tower. This has a stone alcove in the N wall with a 3-light C16 casement, and in the corner access to a stone spiral stair rising the full height of the tower. There are many 6-panel doors, with raised mouldings, and with square centre panels. The main staircase is C20 with heavy turned balusters to the first floor, and a C19 straight flight with stick balusters in the upper flight. At first landing level the window contains fragments of mediaeval and C16 stained and painted glass; there is a second straight-flight stair between the ranges to the W. Rooms at first floor are generally plainly detailed; the N range had an extra floor inserted, and one bathroom has the lower part of one of the mediaeval oriels in its N wall. The second floor has a through corridor, and has many early 2-panel doors with raised mouldings. The square end room to the tower has a low relief plastered ceiling to a central rose, the window has early crown glass and a scratched date of 1822. Two of the bedrooms contain the upper parts of the oriels, and these have stone vaulted soffites, one including a carved angel keystone. Over the S range is a 6-bay collar and 2-purlin roof with original rafters, formerly with plaster; the space has 4 dormer windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: the complex building history, coupled with a splendid setting within its walled moat, makes this Palace an outstanding historic and visual document, with one of the most remarkable structures of the mediaeval period which '...represent the grandest aspect of the mediaeval way of life'.(Barley) The first-floor hall represents an outstanding example of its type, contemporary in date with those at St David's, Dyfed, and Southwark, London. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 312; Colchester LS: Wells Cathedral: A History: Shepton Mallet: 1982-: 227-244; Wood M: The English Mediaeval House: London: 1965-: 24 (PLAN); Bony J: The English Decorated Style: London: 1979-: PASSIM; Parker JH: Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells: Oxford: 1866-; Barley M: Houses and History: London: 1986-: 60-63).
Listing NGR: ST5522445760
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Bishop's Palace and House. Begun in c1210 by Bishop Jocelyn but principally from c1230, restored, divided and upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey 1846-54; north wing (now Bishop's residence) added in C15 by Bishop Bekynton, modified C18, and c1810 by Bishop Beadon. Local stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Doulting ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, stone chimney stacks. PALACE EXTERIOR: the main palace now used for public functions and meetings is in 2 storeys with attics, in 7 bays. Plinth, string course between floors, wide buttresses with 2 offsets to bays 2 and 6, coped gables to bays 2, 4 and 6, paired octagonal stacks with openwork cappings to bays 3 and 5... HOUSE EXTERIOR: returns at the N end, being backed by the moat wall. It is in 2 parallel ranges, with a very narrow courtyard partly filled by C20 building, a cross wing containing a former hall, and opening to a porch at the S end, and a square tower on the NE corner. The S front is crenellated, and has 4 windows on 2 storeys with attic, all flush 2-light stone mullioned casements with cusped heads to the lights; at first floor 2 of the windows have C19 cast-iron small-paned casements, and there are 4 casement hipped dormers behind the parapet.... HISTORICAL NOTE: the complex building history, coupled with a splendid setting within its walled moat, makes this Palace an outstanding historic and visual document, with one of the most remarkable structures of the mediaeval period which '...represent the grandest aspect of the mediaeval way of life'.(Barley) The first-floor hall represents an outstanding example of its type, contemporary in date with those at St David's, Dyfed, and Southwark, London. EH Listing
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The woodwork was made in 1778 by Jean Elshoecht of Sint Winoksbergen, called Bergues in French. He was paid 350 French crowns.
THE BISHOP'S PALACE AND BISHOP'S HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1382873
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1953
County: Somerset
District: Mendip (District Authority)
Parish: Wells
Diocese of Bath and Wells
National Grid Reference: ST 55207 45781
Details
WELLS
Bishop's Palace and House. Begun in c1210 by Bishop Jocelyn but principally from c1230, restored, divided and upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey 1846-54; north wing (now Bishop's residence) added in C15 by Bishop Bekynton, modified C18, and c1810 by Bishop Beadon. Local stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Doulting ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, stone chimney stacks. PALACE EXTERIOR: the main palace now used for public functions and meetings is in 2 storeys with attics, in 7 bays. Plinth, string course between floors, wide buttresses with 2 offsets to bays 2 and 6, coped gables to bays 2, 4 and 6, paired octagonal stacks with openwork cappings to bays 3 and 5. Ground floor has 2-light trefoil-headed plate tracery windows to all but bay 4, similar windows to first floor with added quatrefoil windows with trefoil-arched labels, smaller versions of these windows to attic gables; central porch added c1824, has angled corner buttresses, gable with string and central panel of arms crowned with a mitre, the entrance through a moulded pointed- arched door flanked by two early C19 light fittings. The E wall is in 5 and-a-half bays, with large buttresses to 2 stepped offsets. The first 2 bays have lancets to the ground floor only, but bays 3, 4, and 5 have large 2-light windows with quatrefoil over, and lancets to the ground floor. The last half-bay has a corner stair-turret with stepped offsets. Far right is a deep gabled wing with a large stone-mullioned oriel above a panelled apron with shields of arms, carried on a deep moulded bracket, and with very large buttresses. A tower is set-back from this, adjacent to the moat, with 2 and 3-light cusped casements on 3 floors. PALACE INTERIOR: the original plan was with hall, solar, gallery and undercroft, the long range divided by a spine wall at each level; this remains the layout, with the addition of an upper floor (not inspected). The ground floor is entered through the central porch to a narrow gallery in 6 bays of quadripartite ribbed vaulting, carried on corbel capitals. In the central wall is a large C16 stone fireplace, brought in the late C19 from the former solar. The S wall has a doorway with Y-tracery to its head, and a corner door gives to Bishop Burnell's chapel (qv). The floor is of stone flags. At the N end is a very fine Jacobean open well stair with large square newels, including a double newel at the top landing, supporting carved griffons and with openwork pendants, panelled plaster soffite, painted dado panelling, and a compartmented ceiling with pendants. The undercroft beyond the wall is in 2x5 bays with a central row of Purbeck shafts to quadripartite vaulting, on faceted responds; there is a large stone fireplace of C15 design in the spine wall. The first floor, within Jocelyn's shell, has C19 detailing; Ferrey complained that much of the work to the ceilings was '.... done by an upholsterer from Bath....', but detailing is very rich, and good replica C19 patterned colourful wallpapers were installed c1970. On the E side is a suite of 3 rooms, with compartmental ceilings. The square room at the head of the stairs has a stone basket-arch fireplace with triple cusping, and retains some C18 panelling, and six 6-panel doors. The long central room has a 24-panel ceiling, and three C19 lighting pendants; at its S end a very rich pair of panelled doors opens to the square S room, in which are visible in the E wall remains of the original windows, which have been blocked externally. This room has no fireplace. The long gallery to the W of the spine wall has two fireplaces, dado panelling, and a ribbed panelled ceiling. The windows are in deep embrasures, and there are three 9-panel C19 doors. BISHOP'S HOUSE EXTERIOR: returns at the N end, being backed by the moat wall. It is in 2 parallel ranges, with a very narrow courtyard partly filled by C20 building, a cross wing containing a former hall, and opening to a porch at the S end, and a square tower on the NE corner. The S front is crenellated, and has 4 windows on 2 storeys with attic, all flush 2-light stone mullioned casements with cusped heads to the lights; at first floor 2 of the windows have C19 cast-iron small-paned casements, and there are 4 casement hipped dormers behind the parapet. To the left, in a lower wall with raked head are 2 similar casements, and set forward to the right, fronting the 3-storey N/S hall range is a low square tower with two 2-light plate-traceried windows as those in the adjacent Palace, and a round-arched C16 stone outer doorway with moulded and panelled responds and a large keystone with diamond embellishment. The porch is stone paved, with a stone bench to the left, and the inner doorway is a C15 stone 4-centred moulded arch with rosettes, hood-mould, and small diagonal pinnacles at the springing and key, above a carved angel keystone, containing a fine pair of early doors with panel, muntin and mid-rail, all with nail-heads. At the left end is a wide archway into the courtyard, on the site of the gateway seen in the Buck view. There are various lofty yellow brick stacks, including one very large stack to a coped gable in the rear range. BISHOP'S HOUSE INTERIOR: has been subdivided several times; in the front range are 2 plain rooms, then the inner hall to the porch, with the C15 doorway, a shell niche, and a stone arch matching that to the outer doorway of the porch; this gives to the main stair. N of the hall is a fine C15 oak screen with narrow panels and moulded muntins and mid-rail, and a central round-arched C20 doorway of C16 style. To the right is a large 3-light stone casement with transom, and to the left is a stone-flagged cross passage which runs through to a doorway at the moat end. The inner hall has 3 windows as in the outer hall, and the inner side of the screen has raised and moulded panels, and all members embellished, including small-scale chevron to the bressumer; the central C16 doorway has raised diamond keystone and enrichment. A dining room to the N has a peaked moulded wooden rere-arch, and opens in the NW corner to a small square study in the tower. This has a stone alcove in the N wall with a 3-light C16 casement, and in the corner access to a stone spiral stair rising the full height of the tower. There are many 6-panel doors, with raised mouldings, and with square centre panels. The main staircase is C20 with heavy turned balusters to the first floor, and a C19 straight flight with stick balusters in the upper flight. At first landing level the window contains fragments of mediaeval and C16 stained and painted glass; there is a second straight-flight stair between the ranges to the W. Rooms at first floor are generally plainly detailed; the N range had an extra floor inserted, and one bathroom has the lower part of one of the mediaeval oriels in its N wall. The second floor has a through corridor, and has many early 2-panel doors with raised mouldings. The square end room to the tower has a low relief plastered ceiling to a central rose, the window has early crown glass and a scratched date of 1822. Two of the bedrooms contain the upper parts of the oriels, and these have stone vaulted soffites, one including a carved angel keystone. Over the S range is a 6-bay collar and 2-purlin roof with original rafters, formerly with plaster; the space has 4 dormer windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: the complex building history, coupled with a splendid setting within its walled moat, makes this Palace an outstanding historic and visual document, with one of the most remarkable structures of the mediaeval period which '...represent the grandest aspect of the mediaeval way of life'.(Barley) The first-floor hall represents an outstanding example of its type, contemporary in date with those at St David's, Dyfed, and Southwark, London. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 312; Colchester LS: Wells Cathedral: A History: Shepton Mallet: 1982-: 227-244; Wood M: The English Mediaeval House: London: 1965-: 24 (PLAN); Bony J: The English Decorated Style: London: 1979-: PASSIM; Parker JH: Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells: Oxford: 1866-; Barley M: Houses and History: London: 1986-: 60-63).
Listing NGR: ST5522445760
Das Goldene Wunder, as the altar is called, measures 5.65x7.4m when fully opened, and contains 36 painted panels & 30 sculptured panels, plus a number of painted panels on the ousides of the closed shutters. It was commissioned in 1521 from Jan Gilleszoon Wrage, sculptor, and Adriaan van Overbeck, painter, of Antwerpen. Here panel 13, "mater dolorosa", bordered by scenes from Jesus's life.