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Broad-eaved stucco house with twin brick stacks.
Likely date: c. 1910–1920
Style: Prairie School–inflected Craftsman (with a Colonial-Revival dormer)
What to look at: the emphatic horizontal rooflines; wide, sheltering eaves with exposed soffits; ribbony, multi-light sash; a low, flat-roofed porch that reads like an outdoor room; stucco wall planes punctured by a tall, planar chimney and a decorative stucco “shield” framing. The shingled gable-dormer adds a whiff of Colonial Revival but the house’s weight is horizontal—pure Midwestern Prairie logic.
Social meaning: this is the idiom Chicago professionals embraced after 1900—modern but not radical, honest in materials, and deliberately “domestic.” It signals the North Shore promise: health, trees, light, and a short rail commute to downtown careers in law, trading, advertising, and publishing.
How these houses mirror Wilmette’s local & national social history
Transportation makes the suburb. The Chicago & North Western (today’s Metra UP-North) and the North Shore electric lines, joined later by the L to Linden (1912), let white-collar earners live among oaks and get to Loop offices in under an hour. Architecture follows: foursquares and Prairie/Craftsman forms optimized for affordable, healthy family life within walking distance of stations.
Progressive-era domestic reform. Wide porches, sleeping porches, and sunlight were not just fashion—they were public-health and social-reform ideas expressed in wood, shingle, and stucco.
Status and memory. In the 1910s–20s, Colonial Revival signaled patriotism and continuity during wartime, boom, and bust. It dovetailed with club life, church life, and the North Shore’s self-conception as cultured and civic-minded.
Exclusion and reform. Like most affluent U.S. suburbs, Wilmette’s early 20th-century growth rode on exclusionary zoning and deed restrictions that kept lots large and populations homogeneous. Post-1960s fair-housing legislation and local activism slowly widened access, even as high costs maintained de facto exclusivity.
Landscape as identity. The big trees and deep setbacks weren’t incidental—they were selling points tied to national City Beautiful and garden-suburb ideals, reinforced locally by park districts, garden clubs, and later preservation groups.
How these houses mirror Wilmette’s local & national social history
Transportation makes the suburb. The Chicago & North Western (today’s Metra UP-North) and the North Shore electric lines, joined later by the L to Linden (1912), let white-collar earners live among oaks and get to Loop offices in under an hour. Architecture follows: foursquares and Prairie/Craftsman forms optimized for affordable, healthy family life within walking distance of stations.
Progressive-era domestic reform. Wide porches, sleeping porches, and sunlight were not just fashion—they were public-health and social-reform ideas expressed in wood, shingle, and stucco.
Status and memory. In the 1910s–20s, Colonial Revival signaled patriotism and continuity during wartime, boom, and bust. It dovetailed with club life, church life, and the North Shore’s self-conception as cultured and civic-minded.
Exclusion and reform. Like most affluent U.S. suburbs, Wilmette’s early 20th-century growth rode on exclusionary zoning and deed restrictions that kept lots large and populations homogeneous. Post-1960s fair-housing legislation and local activism slowly widened access, even as high costs maintained de facto exclusivity.
Landscape as identity. The big trees and deep setbacks weren’t incidental—they were selling points tied to national City Beautiful and garden-suburb ideals, reinforced locally by park districts, garden clubs, and later preservation groups.
A brief history of Wilmette
Indigenous & frontier origins. The lakeshore was Potawatomi homeland. The area’s name recalls Antoine Ouilmette, a French-Canadian trader whose Potawatomi wife, Archange, received land here after the 1829 Treaty of Prairie du Chien. Farming hamlets straddled what became the North Shore.
Rails, plats, and incorporation.After the Civil War, the Chicago & North Western pushed passenger service up the shore. Wilmette incorporated in 1872, a year after the Great Fire—right as Chicagoans began imagining healthier lives beyond the smoke.
Engineered landscape. The North Shore Channel (1907–10) re-plumbed regional water, ending in Wilmette Harbor; parks, parkways, and elm-lined streets completed the garden-suburb picture.
Civic and spiritual landmarks. The most visible is the Bahá’í House of Worship (begun 1921; completed 1953), a lakeside lacework of white concrete that made Wilmette an international way-point. The 1928 Spanish-style Spanish Court/Plaza del Lago previewed the auto-age shopping center.
Commuter suburb, North Shore culture. By the 1920s the pattern was set: commuters to the Loop; Northwestern University and Evanston institutions next door; excellent schools, churches and synagogues, and volunteerism as social glue. Architecture—Shingle, Prairie/Craftsman, and Colonial Revival—expressed those values in timber, shingle, and brick.
Mid-century to now. Postwar prosperity brought additions rather than teardowns; civil-rights and fair-housing battles slowly nibbled at barriers; preservation culture matured. Today Wilmette remains a textbook North Shore community: transit-served, tree-rich, architecturally eclectic, prosperous—and shaped as much by Chicago’s needs as by its own fierce attachment to neighborhood scale and canopy.
Supermarket EUROSPAR in Altheim, Austria.
Daylight.
Reopening November 2015. Client SPAR, Architects Dworschak + Mühlbachler, General Contractor Resch, Steel Work Eder, Cladding Material for Soffit EXYD-M.
Supermarkt EUROSPAR in Altheim, Oberösterreich.
Tagsüber.
Wiedereröffnung November 2015. Bauherr SPAR, Architekten Dworschak + Mühlbachler, Generalunternehmer Resch, Metallarbeiten Eder, Verkleidungsmaterial für Vordach EXYD-M.
~1500 ; rebuilt in the new church bldg. in 1877 by architect David Walker.
The "flat" panels of the soffit are not original.
An excellent article about this screen can be read @
www.buildingconservation.com/articles/llananno-rood/llana...
Artwork under the colonnade soffit of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, Howland Street, Fitzrovia, Camden, London W1T. When looking west, the score of Johann Sebastian Bach’s "The Musical Offering: Ricercar a 3" can be seen. Looking east, you will see images of 11 winners of Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine. More info.
GOC Hertfordshire's walk on 13 April 2019, an 8.3-mile point-to-point walk from St Pancras Station to Paddington Station via Somers Town, Fitzrovia, Marylebone, Mayfair, Hyde Park, Marble Arch and Paddington, which was attended by 37(!) people. We viewed 90 artworks out of a target list of 95. You can view my other photos of this event, read the original event report, find out more about the Gay Outdoor Club or see my collections.
Patron: Ahmad ibn Tulun 835-884, governor of Egypt (r.868-872), de-facto ruler of Egypt (from the Abbasid Caliphate in Iraq) (r.872-884).
Islamic Monument #220
Looking at courtyard from indoor on 2nd floor. Design of soffit is so interesting.
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Historic sites Kanayama Castle guidance facilities and Ota City Kanayama Regional Exchange Center (史跡金山城跡ガイダンス施設・太田市金山地域交流センター).
Architect : Kengo Kuma And Associates (設計：隈研吾建築都市設計事務所).
Contractor : Kanto Construction (施工：関東建設工業).
Completed : May 2009 (竣工：2009年5月).
Structured : (構造：ＲＣ造).
Costs : $ million (総工費：約億円).
Use : Museum (用途：博物館).
Height : ft (高さ：m).
Floor : 2 (階数：地上3階).
Owner : Ota City (発注者：太田市).
Floor area : 17,954 sq.ft. (延床面積：1,668㎡).
Building area : sq.ft. (建築面積：㎡).
Site area : sq.ft. (敷地面積：㎡).
Location : 40-30 Kanayamacho, Ota City, Gunma, Japan (所在地：日本国群馬県太田市金山町40-30).
Referenced :
www.city.ota.gunma.jp/005gyosei/0170-009kyoiku-bunka/gaid...
kkaa.co.jp/works/architecture/museum-of-kanayama-castle-r...
kousin242.sakura.ne.jp/wordpress016/000-2/%E7%8F%BE%E4%BB...
www.kanto-k.co.jp/business/construction-results/public-fa...
Prague, NH City Hotel, refurbishment, architects BEHF, entrance hall with footbridges, EXYD-M for soffit of footbridges.
Moxon Architects and Arup, 2021. Red-painted steel truss bridge over the Regent's Canal. Provides a slightly quicker pedestrian access to Coal Drops Yard from Pancras Square. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.
early 16th century, closely related to Hughley {Salop} {q.v.}, though the soffit is simpler ; same workshop
Supermarket EUROSPAR in Altheim, Austria.
Nighttime.
Reopening November 2015. Client SPAR, Architects Dworschak + Mühlbachler, General Contractor Resch, Steel Work Eder, Cladding Material for Soffit EXYD-M.
Supermarkt EUROSPAR in Altheim, Oberösterreich.
Nächtlich.
Wiedereröffnung November 2015. Bauherr SPAR, Architekten Dworschak + Mühlbachler, Generalunternehmer Resch, Metallarbeiten Eder, Verkleidungsmaterial für Vordach EXYD-M.
~1500 ; rebuilt in the new church bldg. in 1877 by architect David Walker.
The "flat" panels of the soffit are not original.
An excellent article about this screen can be read @
www.buildingconservation.com/articles/llananno-rood/llana...
Supermarket EUROSPAR in Altheim, Austria.
Nighttime.
Reopening November 2015. Client SPAR, Architects Dworschak + Mühlbachler, General Contractor Resch, Steel Work Eder, Cladding Material for Soffit EXYD-M.
Supermarkt EUROSPAR in Altheim, Oberösterreich.
Nächtlich.
Wiedereröffnung November 2015. Bauherr SPAR, Architekten Dworschak + Mühlbachler, Generalunternehmer Resch, Metallarbeiten Eder, Verkleidungsmaterial für Vordach EXYD-M.
Built 1853-58 at no. 25 Mitchell Street.
"Neo-Classic Vernacular, 2 storey + attic, 3 bay, hip roof with front gable and Gothic window (upper pointed section shuttered), end chimneys, (vented metal soffits, tooled sills, hammer-dressed lintels and flush quoins, Gothic window with dressed stone bracketed label, original transitional louvred shutters, (fenestration changed), c1920 Tuscan entrance porch, low stone garden wall at sidewalk." - info from the City of Guelph.
"Guelph (/ˈɡwɛlf/ GWELF; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as The Royal City, it is roughly 22 km (14 mi) east of Kitchener and 70 km (43 mi) west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wellington County Road 124. It is the seat of Wellington County, but is politically independent of it.
Guelph began as a settlement in the 1820s, established by John Galt, who was in Upper Canada as the first superintendent of the Canada Company. He based the headquarters, and his home, in the community. The area—much of which became Wellington County—was part of the Halton Block, a Crown reserve for the Six Nations Iroquois. Galt is generally considered Guelph's founder.
For many years, Guelph ranked at or near the bottom of Canada's crime severity list. However, the 2017 index showed a 15% increase from 2016. It had one of the country's lowest unemployment rates throughout the Great Recession. In late 2018, the Guelph Eramosa and Puslinch entity had an unemployment rate of 2.3%, which decreased to 1.9% by January 2019, the lowest of all Canadian cities. (The national rate at the time was 5.8%.) Much of this was attributed to its numerous manufacturing facilities, including Linamar." - info from Wikipedia.
Late June to early July, 2024 I did my 4th major cycling tour. I cycled from Ottawa to London, Ontario on a convoluted route that passed by Niagara Falls. During this journey I cycled 1,876.26 km and took 21,413 photos. As with my other tours a major focus was old architecture.
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Supermarket EUROSPAR in Altheim, Austria.
Daylight.
Reopening November 2015. Client SPAR, Architects Dworschak + Mühlbachler, General Contractor Resch, Steel Work Eder, Cladding Material for Soffit EXYD-M.
Supermarkt EUROSPAR in Altheim, Oberösterreich.
Tagsüber.
Wiedereröffnung November 2015. Bauherr SPAR, Architekten Dworschak + Mühlbachler, Generalunternehmer Resch, Metallarbeiten Eder, Verkleidungsmaterial für Vordach EXYD-M.
Engineers: W.H.Thomas and William Jacomb, 1889, originally named Putney Railway Bridge. Carries District Line trains and also pedestrians. Wrought-iron lattice girder construction on 14 cast-iron cylinders, each 10 feet in diameter. Two rusticated granite and Portland stone abutments. [Source: Grace's Guide To British Industrial History]. Here seen from the north bank of the Thames in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
Supermarket EUROSPAR in Altheim, Austria.
Nighttime.
Reopening November 2015. Client SPAR, Architects Dworschak + Mühlbachler, General Contractor Resch, Steel Work Eder, Cladding Material for Soffit EXYD-M.
Supermarkt EUROSPAR in Altheim, Oberösterreich.
Nächtlich.
Wiedereröffnung November 2015. Bauherr SPAR, Architekten Dworschak + Mühlbachler, Generalunternehmer Resch, Metallarbeiten Eder, Verkleidungsmaterial für Vordach EXYD-M.
Patron: Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah Khan, ruler of the Janid dynasty (descendants of the Astrakhan Khanate from around the modern city of Astrakhan, who ruled the Khanate between 1599-1747) and the fifth Khan of the Bukhara Khanate (r.1651-1681).
Architect: Ismail ibn Takhir ibn Mahmad Isfahani.
A late Perpendicular chest and recess in the north wall of the chancel, was possibly the tomb of John Basset of Whitechapel Bishops Nympton who died in 1485 (Cresswell)
The chest is decorated with 2 tiers of quatrefoils within twisted bead moulding; the recess has a crank-headed arch with twisted ribbon and foliage moulding, carved spandrels and a panelled soffit. The crowning armorial shield, on which no heraldry survives, is flanked by unicorn supporters (Basset) but with a puzzling neck & head of an unrecognisable animal as the crest of Pollard, which appears to have been recreated as a stag's head attired or, placing gilded metal antlers and nose (The armorial crest of the Pollards was a stag)
It was probably used as the Easter Sepulchre
Sir John Basset 1441 - 1485 of Tehidy Cornwall and Whitechapel Bishops Nympton was the son of Sir John Basset & Johanna daughter of Sir Thomas Beaumont by Philippa Dinham
He m Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Budockshyde
Children:
1. Sir John Basset / Bassett of Umberleigh 1462- 1528/9 m1 Elizabeth Dennis ; m2 Honor Grenville 1566 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/53v7j81m6v
His son John as well as being heir to his extensive paternal lands he was also heir to his maternal grandmother Joan Beaumont heiress of her parents Sir Thomas Beaumont 1450 of Shirwell and Philippa daughter of Sir John IV Dynham 1458 of Nutwell , Kingskerswell and Hartland, and of her brother Philip Beaumont dsp 1473 who m Blanche Bourchier www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/s4576a
2. Thomas 1565 / 66
3. Martin
4. Edmund
5. Ralph
1. Agnes m Thomas son of John Hatch & Elizabeth daughter of Sir Walter Gorges of Wroxhall
www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-Bassett-Jr/6000000005965344149
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel,_Bishops_Nympton
(Other scholars have assigned it to Sir Lewis Pollard (c.1465-1526), Justice of Common Pleas of Grilstone in the parish of Bishops Nympton .
Sir Lewis Pollard was the son of Robert Pollard of Roborough & Jane daughter of William Marwood of Westcott by 1st wife Elizabeth Squire
He was the grandson of John Pollard of Way Barton manor St Giles in the Wood & Eleanor flic.kr/p/CVQVWX daughter of John de Coplestone of Colebroke, Devon and Katherine de Graas.
He m Agnes daughter of Thomas Hext, a prominent lawyer of Kingston in the parish of Staverton Devon, by Florence Bonville.
Children; 11 sons & 11 daughters
1. Sir Hugh Pollard Sheriff of Devon b1495 m1 Elizabeth Valletort ; m2 Dorothy daughter of Sir Edmund Carew 1513 of Mohuns Ottery; Widow of John Stowell,
2. Sir Richard Pollard (1505–1542) of Combe Martin & Forde Abbey , Assistant of Thomas Cromwell in administering the surrender of religious houses following the Dissolution of the Monasteries; m Jacquetta daughter of John Bury of Colliton
3. John Pollard, Archdeacon of Wiltshire
4. Robert Pollard d.1576 purchased from the Crown the manor of Knowstone m Anne / Agnes .1541 daughter of Richard Chichester of Hall, Bishop's Tawton by Thomasine 1502 heiress of Hall.
5. Anthony Pollard,
6. Sir George Pollard
1. Phillippa b 1495 m Hugh 1572 flic.kr/p/q6UTHQ of Sampford Peverell son of Amyas Paulet on of Sir Amias Poulet 1538 by his 2nd wife Laura www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3qf1K7 daughter of William Kellaway of Rockbourne, Hants.
2. Anne Pollard bc 1496 m Humphrey Moore / More 1537 of Moorehays in the parish of Burlescombe / Cullompton
3. Jane 1500 - 1559 m Hugh 1559 of Afreton son of Thomas Stukeley and Anne Wood
4. Thomasine Pollard m (1st wife) Admiral Sir George Carew 1545 son of William Carew and Joan Courtenay; who m2 Mary daughter of Henry Norreys / Norris and Mary Fiennes; (Mary m2 Arthur son of Philip Champernowne and Catherine Carew & grandson of Sir John Champernowne 1457-1503 of Dartington flic.kr/p/qxdgf7 )
5. Elizabeth 1503 - 1531 m1 (2nd wife) John Crocker dc 1520 ; m2 Sir Hugh son of William Trevanion and Anne Edgecumbe
6. .......... m "Hugh" Courtenay of Powderham
7. Margaret (a nun)
He bought the manor of King's Nympton where he built a residence and established a deer park. This remained the principal seat of the family for several generations and in the south aisle of the Parish Church of St James exists at the east end the "Pollard Chapel" with 17c panelling. He also purchased the manor of Oakford in August 1507 for £203 from Sir Charles Brandon, later Duke of Suffolk. The Pollards held Oakford until 1604 when it was sold by Sir Hugh Pollard to Richard Hill alias Spurway, a clothier of Tavistock
He died on 21 October 1526 aged about 61 and was buried in the church at King's Nympton, as Risdon stated "In Nymet Church Judge Pollard lieth honourably interred, having a monument erected to his memory" , as well as a stained-glass memorial window nearby, now lost .( His reference to "Nymet" is clearly intended as Bishop's Nympton, as the passage occurs within his section on that parish, which is followed by a separate section on King's Nympton)
His will dated 4 November 1525 and bequeathed the profits of his manor of Oakford to a chantry "to pray for my soule my father my mother my uncle Maister Lewis Pollard..." He mentioned "My Lady of Canon Lege", possibly a reference to Canonsleigh Abbey. He mentioned his brother Thomas Pollard, his sons John, Richard, Antonye, his godson Lewes Stucley and "Annes my wife", whom he requested should not remarry, in which case she should inherit together with his son John the residue of all his goods. He left £6 13s 4d towards the building of a church tower at either Bishop's Nympton or King's Nympton. The will was witnessed by Antony Pollard, Squire, and Thomas Hext, gent.
In 1630 when Risdon was writing his Survey of Devon, the
now lost stained-glass window existed with the inscription:
"Orate pro bono statu Ludovici Pollard militis unius Justiciar(iorum) Domini Regis de Banco et Eliz(abetha) uxor(is) eius qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt"
(Pray for the good of Lewis Pollard, knight, one of the Justices of the Bench of the Lord King, and Elizabeth his wife who brought this window into being)
Sir Lewis Pollard was shown, probably kneeling, with ten or eleven sons behind him on one side, and on the other side his wife facing him, probably also kneeling, with 10 or 11 daughters behind her. - Prince relates: There was a tradition of long standing in this family. That his lady, glassing this window in her husband's absence at the Term in London, caused one child more than she then had to be set up there; presuming, having had one and twenty already, and usually conceiving at her husband's coming home, that she should have another - . Which, inserted in expectation, came to pass in reality.
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pollard-83
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Pollard
Pictures with thanks - copyright Lobsterthermidor CCL commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArmsPollardTombBishopsNym... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EasterSepulchreBishopsNym...
Prague, NH City Hotel, refurbishment, architects BEHF, entrance hall with footbridges, EXYD-M for soffit of footbridges.
A short walk along a stretch of the Trent & Mersey Canal in Rugeley, Staffordshire.
I got on at The Mossley (near Armitage Road) and got of halfway up Love Lane heading towards Leathermill Lane.
James Brindley was the engineer of the Trent and Mersey Canal. It was planned in 1765 and fully opened by 1777.
bridge - Rail Bridge
Rail Bridge just north of Bridge 66, Trent & Mersey Canal
Grade II listed
Viaduct over Trent and Mersey Canal at Sk 0485 1780
Listing Text
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
SK 01 NW RUGELEY TRENT AND MERSEY
CANAL
3/10002 Viaduct over Trent and
Mersey Canal at SK 0485
1780
- II
Viaduct over Trent and Mersey Canal. Mid C19. Coursed, rough-textured stone with brick arch soffit. Single span with towpath. Semicircular headed arch dramatically skewed. Rusticated stone voussoirs. Roll-moulded stone cornice above crown. 3 C20 concrete buttresses to north towpath side.
Listing NGR: SK0489817862
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
I saw this London Midland Class 170 heading over the bridge / viaduct towards Rugeley Trent Valley (it would form the 14:48 to Birmingham New Street). Unfortunately when I got back to Rugeley Trent Valley Station I missed it and had to wait for the 15:48).
Although I earlier walked to Rugeley Town Station, I wanted to go along a stretch of the canal and walk back to Rugeley Trent Valley Station.
It was the 14:32 Rugeley Town to Rugeley Trent Valley. Seen passing the canal around a minute later.
I thought about waiting for the 14:52 at Rugeley Town, but I was there around 14:09 and thought I could make the 14:48 at Rugeley Trent Valley (I missed it by a couple of minutes).
Looking forward into First Class from business highlights the L1011 ceiling and spot lights, called 'soffit' lights.
One last major project for the year involved adding new maintenance free fascia and soffits to the house. Having some handsome young construction workers doing the job was a side bonus!
~1500 ; rebuilt in the new church bldg. in 1877 by architect David Walker.
The "flat" panels of the soffit are not original.
An excellent article about this screen can be read @
www.buildingconservation.com/articles/llananno-rood/llana...
Supermarket EUROSPAR in Altheim, Austria.
Dawn.
Reopening November 2015. Client SPAR, Architects Dworschak + Mühlbachler, General Contractor Resch, Steel Work Eder, Cladding Material for Soffit EXYD-M.
Supermarkt EUROSPAR in Altheim, Oberösterreich.
Dämmerung.
Wiedereröffnung November 2015. Bauherr SPAR, Architekten Dworschak + Mühlbachler, Generalunternehmer Resch, Metallarbeiten Eder, Verkleidungsmaterial für Vordach EXYD-M.
The underside of an architrave block (the face known as a soffit) that is now built into a wall of the Villa Medici in Rome. The block would have been carried by two Corinthian columns; the view here is of the bottom face. The remains of a putto (or cupid) figure can be seen in the center entwined with acanthus leaves. The representation is identical to a block visible in the Forum of Julius Caesar in Rome from the Temple of Venus Genetrix (rebuilt during the late Flavian period, probably after the fire of A.D. 80).
~1500 ; rebuilt in the new church bldg. in 1877 by architect David Walker.
The "flat" panels of the soffit are not original.
An excellent article about this screen can be read @
www.buildingconservation.com/articles/llananno-rood/llana...
A very large and magnificent monument against the south wall of the nave, originally under the north arch of the south transept but removed to its present position in 1867. It consists of a panelled altar tomb on which are recumbent effigies of a man and wife, the former in armour with a long cloak and ruff. At the feet of the woman's figure is a kneeling figure of a daughter at prayer-desk and facing east. On either side of the tomb is a large obelisk with ball finial and spike and standing on a panelled pedestal. Behind the effigies is a wall canopy with two round arches with coffered soffits having cherub-head keystones and supporting an entablature with the cornice brought forward on four shaped brackets. The back of the arched recesses has carved enrichment, two inscribed tablets and two shields of arms and in the middle spandrel a cartouche of arms. Above the cornice is a centre-piece with carved pilasters and an achievement of arms; flanking the centre-piece are cartouches with shields of arms.
Arms:
(i) (Argent) two gimel bars sable between three spread-eagles sable (Spencer).
(ii) The same.
(iii) Quarterly, I, sable a leopard argent; 2, sable three roses argent; 3, azure a cheveron or between three falcons' heads razed or; 4, gules three pales or within a border or charged with roundels sable.
(iv) As (i).
(v) (i) impaling (iii).
(vi) As (iii).
Crests: (a) a falcon rising; (b) a lion's head razed.
In the left-hand recess behind the recumbent effigies:
Hic sitvs est Ioannes Spencer
Eqves avratvs, civis, & senator
Londinensis, eivsdemq civitatis
prætor anno d'ni mdxciiii
qvi ex Alicia Bromfeldia
vxore vnicam reliqvit filiam
Elizabeth Gvilielmo Baroni
Compton envptam, obiit 3o
die martii anno salvtis mdcix
In the right-hand recess:
Socero bene merito
Gvilielmvs baro Compton
gener posvit
An inscription at the foot of the male effigy records the fact that the tomb originally stood in the northern arch of the south transept, and was removed to its present position, restored and repaired in 1867 by Charles, 3rd Marquis of Northampton.
"Survey of London: volume 9: The parish of St Helen, Bishopsgate, part I (1924)" by Minnie Reddan and Alfred W. Clapham.
*
SPENCER, Sir JOHN (d. 1610), lord mayor of London, was the son of Richard Spencer of Waldingfield in Suffolk. He came to London, and was so successful as a merchant that he became known as ‘Rich Spencer.’ His trade with Spain, Turkey, and Venice was very large (State Papers, Spanish, 1568–79 p. 590, Dom. 1591–4 p. 59), and he was accused in 1591 of engrossing, with two other merchants, the whole trade with Tripoli (ib. p. 67). This lends some justification for the charge made in a little book ‘written by D. Papillon, Gent,’ that Spencer became by the practice of merchandise ‘extraordinary rich, but it was by falsifying and monopolising of all manner of commodities’ (Vanity of the Lives and Passions of Men, 1651, p. 48). The same writer relates the story of a plot by a pirate of Dunkirk, with twelve of his crew, to carry off Spencer and hold him to ransom for over 50,000l. Leaving his shallop with six of his men in Barking Creek, he came with the other six to Islington, intending to seize the merchant on his way to his country house at Canonbury, which Spencer had purchased of Thomas, lord Wentworth, in 1570. The plot was frustrated by Spencer's detention that night on important business in the city. Queen Elizabeth is said to have visited him at Canonbury in 1581 (Nichols, Hist. of Canonbury House, 1788, p. 12).
Spencer was a member of the Cloth workers' Company, and was elected alderman of Langbourn ward on 9 Aug. 1587. He served the office of sheriff in 1583–4, and that of lord mayor in 1594–5. During his shrievalty he was engaged in hunting down papists in Holborn and the adjoining localities, and had to justify before the council the committal of A. Bassano and other of her majesty's musicians (State Papers, Dom. 1581–90, pp. 198, 202). On entering upon his mayoralty at the close of 1594 great scarcity prevailed, and Spencer sent his precept to the city companies to replenish their store of corn at the granaries in the Bridge House for sale to the poor. He stoutly resisted a demand by Admiral Sir John Hawkins for possession of the Bridge House for the use of the queen's navy and baking biscuits for the fleet (Welch, Hist. of the Tower Bridge, p. 99).
He kept his mayoralty at his town residence in Bishopsgate Street, the well-known Crosby Place, which he had purchased in a dilapidated state from the representatives of Antonio Bonvisi, and restored at great cost. In this sumptuous mansion during the course of 1604 Spencer entertained both the Duc de Sully (then M. de Rosny), while ambassador to England, and the youngest son of the Prince of Orange, with Barnevelt and Fulke, who came on a mission from Holland (Stow, Survey of London, 1755, i. 435). Towards the close of his mayoralty he boldly asserted the city's right, which it was feared the crown would invade, to freely elect a recorder. Before the close of his mayoralty Spencer received the honour of knighthood.
By his wife, Alice Bromfield, Spencer had an only child, Elizabeth, who in 1598 was sought in marriage by William, second lord Compton (afterwards first Earl of Northampton). Spencer strongly disapproved of the match, but Compton's influence at court enabled him to procure Spencer's imprisonment in the Fleet in March 1599 for ill-treating his daughter (State Papers, Dom. 1598–1601, p. 169). The young lady was ultimately carried off by her lover from Canonbury House in a baker's basket. The marriage quickly followed, but the alderman naturally declined to give his daughter a marriage portion. When, in May 1601, his daughter became a mother, he showed no signs of relenting (ib. 1601–3, p. 45). But some reconciliation apparently took place soon afterwards, it is said, through the interposition of Elizabeth. In May 1609 Spencer refused to contribute to an aid for James I on behalf of the young Prince Henry (ib. 1603–10, p. 508); he also delayed his contribution of 200l. to the amount subscribed by the Clothworkers' Company to the Ulster settlement, which had to be paid by his executors (Remembrancia, p. 172). Spencer was president of St. Bartholomew's Hospital from 1603 to his death.
He died, at an advanced age, on 3 March 1609–10, and his widow only survived him till 27 March. He was buried on 22 March, and Dame Alice on 7 April, in his parish church of St. Helen, Bishopsgate, where a fine monument exists to his memory. His funeral was on a most sumptuous scale (Winwood, State Papers, iii. 136). His fortune was variously estimated at from 500,000l. to 800,000l., and the splendid inheritance is said for the time to have turned the brain of his son-in-law, Lord Compton. Among other estates, he was possessed of the manors of Brooke Hall, Bower Hall, and Bocking, which he obtained from the queen on 1 Aug. 1599. True to the last to his parsimonious principles, Spencer left none of his immense wealth to objects of public benevolence or utility.
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In the 16th century there had been a tendency to depict armour in a slightly fanciful, manneristic way. It was during the 16th century that wearing armour on the battlefield gradually lost popularity, and so did the realistic depiction of it. Still, realistically depicted armour as well as the more fanciful style lived happily together.
Sir John wears plain, functional armour of the early 17th century. It looks like a mixture of both styles: the overall silhouette is correct, every single piece of armour he wears was actually worn, but the shape of most pieces is quite crude, the carver hasn't paid much attention to detail.
Realistically depicted armour in a 17th century effigy can be seen in Maastricht www.flickr.com/photos/roelipilami/1476883118/in/set-72157...
And an example of the fanciful style in a Belgian effigy: www.flickr.com/photos/roelipilami/1475764991/in/set-72157...
A very large and magnificent monument against the south wall of the nave, originally under the north arch of the south transept but removed to its present position in 1867. It consists of a panelled altar tomb on which are recumbent effigies of a man and wife, the former in armour with a long cloak and ruff. At the feet of the woman's figure is a kneeling figure of a daughter at prayer-desk and facing east. On either side of the tomb is a large obelisk with ball finial and spike and standing on a panelled pedestal. Behind the effigies is a wall canopy with two round arches with coffered soffits having cherub-head keystones and supporting an entablature with the cornice brought forward on four shaped brackets. The back of the arched recesses has carved enrichment, two inscribed tablets and two shields of arms and in the middle spandrel a cartouche of arms. Above the cornice is a centre-piece with carved pilasters and an achievement of arms; flanking the centre-piece are cartouches with shields of arms.
Arms:
(i) (Argent) two gimel bars sable between three spread-eagles sable (Spencer).
(ii) The same.
(iii) Quarterly, I, sable a leopard argent; 2, sable three roses argent; 3, azure a cheveron or between three falcons' heads razed or; 4, gules three pales or within a border or charged with roundels sable.
(iv) As (i).
(v) (i) impaling (iii).
(vi) As (iii).
Crests: (a) a falcon rising; (b) a lion's head razed.
In the left-hand recess behind the recumbent effigies:
Hic sitvs est Ioannes Spencer
Eqves avratvs, civis, & senator
Londinensis, eivsdemq civitatis
prætor anno d'ni mdxciiii
qvi ex Alicia Bromfeldia
vxore vnicam reliqvit filiam
Elizabeth Gvilielmo Baroni
Compton envptam, obiit 3o
die martii anno salvtis mdcix
In the right-hand recess:
Socero bene merito
Gvilielmvs baro Compton
gener posvit
An inscription at the foot of the male effigy records the fact that the tomb originally stood in the northern arch of the south transept, and was removed to its present position, restored and repaired in 1867 by Charles, 3rd Marquis of Northampton.
"Survey of London: volume 9: The parish of St Helen, Bishopsgate, part I (1924)" by Minnie Reddan and Alfred W. Clapham.
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SPENCER, Sir JOHN (d. 1610), lord mayor of London, was the son of Richard Spencer of Waldingfield in Suffolk. He came to London, and was so successful as a merchant that he became known as ‘Rich Spencer.’ His trade with Spain, Turkey, and Venice was very large (State Papers, Spanish, 1568–79 p. 590, Dom. 1591–4 p. 59), and he was accused in 1591 of engrossing, with two other merchants, the whole trade with Tripoli (ib. p. 67). This lends some justification for the charge made in a little book ‘written by D. Papillon, Gent,’ that Spencer became by the practice of merchandise ‘extraordinary rich, but it was by falsifying and monopolising of all manner of commodities’ (Vanity of the Lives and Passions of Men, 1651, p. 48). The same writer relates the story of a plot by a pirate of Dunkirk, with twelve of his crew, to carry off Spencer and hold him to ransom for over 50,000l. Leaving his shallop with six of his men in Barking Creek, he came with the other six to Islington, intending to seize the merchant on his way to his country house at Canonbury, which Spencer had purchased of Thomas, lord Wentworth, in 1570. The plot was frustrated by Spencer's detention that night on important business in the city. Queen Elizabeth is said to have visited him at Canonbury in 1581 (Nichols, Hist. of Canonbury House, 1788, p. 12).
Spencer was a member of the Cloth workers' Company, and was elected alderman of Langbourn ward on 9 Aug. 1587. He served the office of sheriff in 1583–4, and that of lord mayor in 1594–5. During his shrievalty he was engaged in hunting down papists in Holborn and the adjoining localities, and had to justify before the council the committal of A. Bassano and other of her majesty's musicians (State Papers, Dom. 1581–90, pp. 198, 202). On entering upon his mayoralty at the close of 1594 great scarcity prevailed, and Spencer sent his precept to the city companies to replenish their store of corn at the granaries in the Bridge House for sale to the poor. He stoutly resisted a demand by Admiral Sir John Hawkins for possession of the Bridge House for the use of the queen's navy and baking biscuits for the fleet (Welch, Hist. of the Tower Bridge, p. 99).
He kept his mayoralty at his town residence in Bishopsgate Street, the well-known Crosby Place, which he had purchased in a dilapidated state from the representatives of Antonio Bonvisi, and restored at great cost. In this sumptuous mansion during the course of 1604 Spencer entertained both the Duc de Sully (then M. de Rosny), while ambassador to England, and the youngest son of the Prince of Orange, with Barnevelt and Fulke, who came on a mission from Holland (Stow, Survey of London, 1755, i. 435). Towards the close of his mayoralty he boldly asserted the city's right, which it was feared the crown would invade, to freely elect a recorder. Before the close of his mayoralty Spencer received the honour of knighthood.
By his wife, Alice Bromfield, Spencer had an only child, Elizabeth, who in 1598 was sought in marriage by William, second lord Compton (afterwards first Earl of Northampton). Spencer strongly disapproved of the match, but Compton's influence at court enabled him to procure Spencer's imprisonment in the Fleet in March 1599 for ill-treating his daughter (State Papers, Dom. 1598–1601, p. 169). The young lady was ultimately carried off by her lover from Canonbury House in a baker's basket. The marriage quickly followed, but the alderman naturally declined to give his daughter a marriage portion. When, in May 1601, his daughter became a mother, he showed no signs of relenting (ib. 1601–3, p. 45). But some reconciliation apparently took place soon afterwards, it is said, through the interposition of Elizabeth. In May 1609 Spencer refused to contribute to an aid for James I on behalf of the young Prince Henry (ib. 1603–10, p. 508); he also delayed his contribution of 200l. to the amount subscribed by the Clothworkers' Company to the Ulster settlement, which had to be paid by his executors (Remembrancia, p. 172). Spencer was president of St. Bartholomew's Hospital from 1603 to his death.
He died, at an advanced age, on 3 March 1609–10, and his widow only survived him till 27 March. He was buried on 22 March, and Dame Alice on 7 April, in his parish church of St. Helen, Bishopsgate, where a fine monument exists to his memory. His funeral was on a most sumptuous scale (Winwood, State Papers, iii. 136). His fortune was variously estimated at from 500,000l. to 800,000l., and the splendid inheritance is said for the time to have turned the brain of his son-in-law, Lord Compton. Among other estates, he was possessed of the manors of Brooke Hall, Bower Hall, and Bocking, which he obtained from the queen on 1 Aug. 1599. True to the last to his parsimonious principles, Spencer left none of his immense wealth to objects of public benevolence or utility.
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In the 16th century there had been a tendency to depict armour in a slightly fanciful, manneristic way. It was during the 16th century that wearing armour on the battlefield gradually lost popularity, and so did the realistic depiction of it. Still, realistically depicted armour as well as the more fanciful style lived happily together.
Sir John wears plain, functional armour of the early 17th century. It looks like a mixture of both styles: the overall silhouette is correct, every single piece of armour he wears was actually worn, but the shape of most pieces is quite crude, the carver hasn't paid much attention to detail.
Realistically depicted armour in a 17th century effigy can be seen in Maastricht www.flickr.com/photos/roelipilami/1476883118/in/set-72157...
And an example of the fanciful style in a Belgian effigy: www.flickr.com/photos/roelipilami/1475764991/in/set-72157...
One last major project for the year involved adding new maintenance free fascia and soffits to the house. Having some handsome young construction workers doing the job was a side bonus!
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AWIB-ISAW: The Arch of Titus (III)
Detail of the Arch of Titus, depicting the soffit and an image of Titus. by Tom Elliott (1988)
photographed place: Roma (Rome) [http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423025]
Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World as part of the Ancient World Image Bank (AWIB). Further information: [http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/awib.htm].
27, Fournier Street, London, was built under a lease of 1726. The area around Christ Church, Spitalfields, previously a tenter ground and market garden, was bought by two lawyers, Charles Wood of Lincoln's Inn and Simon Michell of the Middle Temple, and developed between 1718 and 1728 as what has become known as the Wood-Mitchell estate. The lease for No. 17 was granted by Wood and Michell on 30 March 1725 to William Tayler, joiner, witnessed by Marmaduke Smith of Princes (Princelet) Street, carpenter. The house was described as newly built by the lessee. No. 17 is constructed of stock brick with red brick dressings. It is three windows wide, and has three storeys with basement and attic. The sash windows have segmental arches of rubbed red brick. The wooden doorcase is in part original. It has carved brackets, a panelled soffit to the hood and flat Doric pilasters that are much broader than the brackets they support. In 1879 this house and its neighbour, no. 17, were combined as a mission for converting Jews ('Christ's Mission to the Jews'), and internal walls were taken out to create a Gospel Hall linking the two houses. Recent work by Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust has reinstated the staircase at No. 15 and returned the houses to their original footprint.
Built 1853-58 at no. 25 Mitchell Street.
"Neo-Classic Vernacular, 2 storey + attic, 3 bay, hip roof with front gable and Gothic window (upper pointed section shuttered), end chimneys, (vented metal soffits, tooled sills, hammer-dressed lintels and flush quoins, Gothic window with dressed stone bracketed label, original transitional louvred shutters, (fenestration changed), c1920 Tuscan entrance porch, low stone garden wall at sidewalk." - info from the City of Guelph.
"Guelph (/ˈɡwɛlf/ GWELF; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as The Royal City, it is roughly 22 km (14 mi) east of Kitchener and 70 km (43 mi) west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wellington County Road 124. It is the seat of Wellington County, but is politically independent of it.
Guelph began as a settlement in the 1820s, established by John Galt, who was in Upper Canada as the first superintendent of the Canada Company. He based the headquarters, and his home, in the community. The area—much of which became Wellington County—was part of the Halton Block, a Crown reserve for the Six Nations Iroquois. Galt is generally considered Guelph's founder.
For many years, Guelph ranked at or near the bottom of Canada's crime severity list. However, the 2017 index showed a 15% increase from 2016. It had one of the country's lowest unemployment rates throughout the Great Recession. In late 2018, the Guelph Eramosa and Puslinch entity had an unemployment rate of 2.3%, which decreased to 1.9% by January 2019, the lowest of all Canadian cities. (The national rate at the time was 5.8%.) Much of this was attributed to its numerous manufacturing facilities, including Linamar." - info from Wikipedia.
Late June to early July, 2024 I did my 4th major cycling tour. I cycled from Ottawa to London, Ontario on a convoluted route that passed by Niagara Falls. During this journey I cycled 1,876.26 km and took 21,413 photos. As with my other tours a major focus was old architecture.
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