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Greenway House (NT) - plasterwork overmantel - "The overmantel is believed to be from the earlier house, Greenway Court, and depicts a text from the book of Daniel showing the fiery furnace and the characters of Sharddrach, Meshach and Abendnego" (NT)
Currently I am working on a design for a local business specialized in plasterworks. Given the businesses brandingcolors (wich are black, grey and white) it's actually a black & white-job wich is diffirent from designing whith all sorts of (sometimes distracting) colours. In this case, I'm experimenting with all kinds of shapes (plastertools) and even some texture (paintwork). I find it very hard to do somehow, but this one's making most chance of getting through the entire process of development unchanged ;)
King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1676-90.
Grade l listed.
Plasterwork Ceiling, c1681 - detail.
Plasterwork of the highest quality by craftsmen who had worked for Sir Christopher Wren.
The church was originally built as a chapel to serve the people gathering at Tunbridge Wells to drink the water, and as such was one of the first permanent buildings constructed on the site. Thomas Neale, who began the commercial development of the town was also involved in the construction of the church. As the town grew up around it, the church was extended to cope with the growing numbers of town dwellers and spa visitors. It became a parish church in 1889.
Plasterwork above the mantle (overmantle) in the Kenmore dining room. Stucco work of this type was rare in Colonial America. Kemore's examples are considered the best. The piece depicts the Aesop's fable of the Fox and the Crow.
National Historic Landmark. National Register of Historic Places 69000325
Inside the excellent Birmingham City Art Gallery.
Taken with Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens on Panasonic G1.
Plas Mawr, High Street, Conwy.
Grade l listed.
The most complete large Elizabethan town house in Wales, exceptional for its state of preservation and with interior plasterwork of national importance.
The Great Chamber Ceiling.
In the great chamber is a fireplace with marble chimney piece incorporating a corbelled lintel, and plaster overmantel with the garter arms and monogram of Elizabeth I. Around the room is a frieze of cartoon-like caryatids below the cornice. The ribbed ceiling incorporates geometrical patterns, including ribs radiating from roundels that incorporate heraldic devices.
Plas Mawr was built in stages between 1576 and c1585. Robert Wynn had acquired a 'mansion house' from Hugh Merche in 1570, and in the 1st phase, dated 1576-77, added a wing to the existing house which is now the north wing of the main house. The old 'mansion house' was subsequently demolished and in 1580 an entrance range and south wing were added in its place that, with the north wing of 1576-77, formed a U-shaped house facing Crown Lane and enclosing a rear courtyard. Finally, in 1585 Wynn obtained the plot on the corner of High Street and Crown Lane. This allowed him to build a separate gatehouse facing High Street, which now became the main entrance to Plas Mawr, superseding the original entrance in the relatively narrow Crown Lane. A lower courtyard is between gatehouse and main house. The house and gatehouse are among the earliest examples of the fashion for crow-stepped gables. The main house was lavishly decorated with plasterwork, a relatively recent innovation in Wales.
The house remained in the family until after 1683 when Elin Wynn married Robert Wynne of Bodysgallen, and thereafter Plas Mawr was only a minor family house. Ownership later passed by marriage to the Mostyn family. Subsequent use of the building made surprisingly little impact on its original interiors. In the C18 part of the gatehouse was used as a courthouse, and the main house was subdivided into tenements. Between 1839 and 1886 part of the south wing was occupied by a school. The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art took the building as their headquarters in 1887, and used it as a gallery. In 1993 Plas Mawr was placed in the guardianship of the state,and has since undergone substantial restoration.