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Below Cliff House is a cliff top rotunda or grotto. It was built in 9154 and consits of an observation platfrom above a shell grotto and gives a great view of the estaury
Portmeirion is a model village built by its founder, the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. He wanted to demonstrate that a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling it, and that architecture in sympathy with its surroundings could be good business. His motto was "Cherish the past, Adorn the present, Construct for the future".
Clough acquired the site in 1925 for around £20,000. It was then, as Clough wrote, "a neglected wilderness. Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion: Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site. Clough sometimes later suggested the development was unplanned but drawings and models suggest otherwise. It appears that he had quite a well defined vision for the village from the outset and that to a large extent he stuck to it. Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
www.portmeirion-village.com/visit/clough-williams-ellis/h...
Single exposure on roll film of blurred child running through candlelit shell grotto; book cover for The Realm of Shells, by Sonia Overall and published by Fourth Estate Ltd (to be launched on Saturday 14 January 2006).
Inside Margate's Shell Grotto
Margate's Shell Grotto was discovered in 1835, although its actual age and origin is unknown.
The grotto is a 70ft passageway ending at the Altar Room, a small rectangular chamber 15 by 20ft.
The grotto gets its name from the 4.6m shells that decorate the interior with geometric patterns and stylised imagery.
Taken and originally posted in 2015.
The god Mercury seems to be racing about his business in the Shell Grotto in Munich's Residenz palace. The grotto was rebuilt after WWII, when it was destroyed by bombs.
Below Cliff House is a cliff top rotunda or grotto. It was built in 9154 and consits of an observation platfrom above a shell grotto and gives a great view of the estaury
Portmeirion is a model village built by its founder, the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. He wanted to demonstrate that a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling it, and that architecture in sympathy with its surroundings could be good business. His motto was "Cherish the past, Adorn the present, Construct for the future".
Clough acquired the site in 1925 for around £20,000. It was then, as Clough wrote, "a neglected wilderness. Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion: Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site. Clough sometimes later suggested the development was unplanned but drawings and models suggest otherwise. It appears that he had quite a well defined vision for the village from the outset and that to a large extent he stuck to it. Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
www.portmeirion-village.com/visit/clough-williams-ellis/h...
The god Mercury seems to be racing about his business in the Shell Grotto in Munich's Residenz palace. The grotto was rebuilt after WWII, when it was destroyed by bombs.
Below Cliff House is a cliff top rotunda or grotto. It was built in 9154 and consits of an observation platfrom above a shell grotto and gives a great view of the estaury
Portmeirion is a model village built by its founder, the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. He wanted to demonstrate that a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling it, and that architecture in sympathy with its surroundings could be good business. His motto was "Cherish the past, Adorn the present, Construct for the future".
Clough acquired the site in 1925 for around £20,000. It was then, as Clough wrote, "a neglected wilderness. Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion: Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site. Clough sometimes later suggested the development was unplanned but drawings and models suggest otherwise. It appears that he had quite a well defined vision for the village from the outset and that to a large extent he stuck to it. Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
www.portmeirion-village.com/visit/clough-williams-ellis/h...
Discovered in 1835, Margate's Shell Grotto is an astonishing find; 21 metres of winding passages decorated with 4.6 million shells. The walls are covered in images of gods and goddesses, trees of life and patterns of whelks, mussels and oysters. Some think it is an ancient Pagan grotto, others that it is simply an ornate Regency folly; but with no definitive explanation or history, the Shell Grotto is Kent's greatest mystery.