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Nearly all the architectural detail around these windows is painted on - not real stone or plasterwork
Diamond Street between 23rd Street and Elizabeth Street
Noe Valley
San Francisco
photographed 15 May 2011
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Lanhydrock is an impressive historic house in Cornwall. Built of local grey slate and granite around an inner courtyard, the house dates to 1640, though most of the current building was the result of rebuilding after a fire in 1881. Survivors from the earlier house are the impressive gatehouse, the 2-story porch, and north range, with a 116 foot long gallery.
Within the gallery is a superb 17th century plasterwork ceiling, illustrating scenes from the Old Testament mixed with depictions of unusual beasts.
Lanhydrock was the property of the Robartes family from 1620 to 1969, when the estate passed to the National Trust. The house is huge, and 50 rooms are open to visitors. The Trust has recreated the atmosphere of an Edwardian country house at Lanhydrock, and the restored kitchen and servant's quarters make a distinctive contrast with the glittering family rooms. A further contrast is provided by the children's nursery rooms.
Elaborate Plasterwork and Painted ceiling over the Grand Hall & Entrance to Kingston Lacy House, Dorset. National Trust
A decorative painting job that I did in the lobby of a large construction company. The relief work is plaster, made by someone else and I painted it to look like antique pewter.
Fan vaulted ceiling, which is an imitation of the Henry VII Chapel (Lady Chapel) in Westminster Abbey.
Wentworth Castle, Stainborough, South Yorkshire.
The Great Staircase at the north end of the east front.
The Italian Staircase, as it has come to be known, has a wrought-iron balustrade to the cantilevered stone staircase. The rich plasterwork panels are by Atari and Bagutti with medallions of Fame and Perseus and of the 1st Earl of Strafford.
In 1709, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the 2nd creation) (1682-1739) began to create an estate on a grand scale to surpass, in splendour and taste, the estate of his cousin and rival at Wentworth Woodhouse, just six miles distant.
Wentworth Castle, Stainborough, South Yorkshire.
The Great Staircase at the north end of the east front.
The Italian Staircase, as it has come to be known, has a wrought-iron balustrade to the cantilevered stone staircase. The rich plasterwork panels are by Atari and Bagutti with medallions of Fame and Perseus and of the 1st Earl of Strafford.
In 1709, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the 2nd creation) (1682-1739) began to create an estate on a grand scale to surpass, in splendour and taste, the estate of his cousin and rival at Wentworth Woodhouse, just six miles distant.
The 1894 Old Library on the High Road, designed by Newman & Newman. Currently threatened with demolition by the council as part of its library redevelopment plans, and despite it having a local listing and being within the High Road Conservation Area. January 2012
The country home of the Lords Vernon, a 17th-century craftsmanship, featuring exquisite plasterwork, wood carvings. With a amazing Great Staircase and Long Gallery.
This plasterwork can be found in the Paved Room on the first floor of the house. The original intention was for the Paved Room to be a staircase landing. The original intention was that the stairs would have continued straight up from the ground floor. However when the house was being built the decision was taken to take the stairs up in the meandering route that is seen today.
It is thought that this room was used as a small dining room. Although by the early 20th century it had been converted into a bedroom. When the National Trust first opened the house to the public in the early 1960's the bedroom furniture was removed. This room was shown with framed embroideries on the panelling and nearly completely bare of furniture. In the 1990's the decision was taken to restore the bedroom furniture.
October 2014.
Long weekend in Devon / Somerset based in Dulverton.
A stone shell keep was built on the site by the start of the 12th century. It survived a siege during the early years of the Anarchy. At the end of the 14th century the de Mohuns sold the castle to the Luttrell family. It was then expanded several times by the Luttrell family. The medieval castle walls were mostly destroyed following the siege of Dunster Castle at the end of the English Civil War, when Parliament ordered the defences to be slighted to prevent their further use. After the Civil War the castle was remodelled.
Dunster Castle became a lavish country home during the 19th century for the Luttrell family. The castle passed to the National Trust in the 20th century.
Prince Charles, the future Charles II, is known to have slept in this room in 1645 when raising troops for the Royalist army in the South West.
The room is said to be the most haunted in the castle.
Hyldon Court, Orwell Rd, Felixstowe. An early Edwardian building with assorted sea creatures, shells, swags of fruit and little cherubs displayed in the plasterwork.
There is a date on the building, which at first glance could be taken for the date of its construction. But, if you look more carefully, you can see that the date is an impossible 1338. Why? It is, in fact, a locally significant date for that is when Edward III assembled a fleet in the nearby creek in the hope of defeating our then enemy, France. The building has now been converted into apartments.
Built in 1518, Temple Newsam is Tudor-Jacobean, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. It's main claim to fame is being the birthplace of Lord Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots It's managed by Leeds City Council.
The main staircase in the house is impressive, but not as old as the house. It was designed by C.E, Kempe in 1894.
Pretty amazing reconstructed plasterwork decoration in this church in Germany, which was mostly destroyed/damaged during WW2, and rebuilt from 1945 onwards.