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...

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.

*

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.

*

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.

*

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.

*

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...

Schwaz in Tirol/Österreich, SZentrum, Stadtsäale in Stadtgalerien, Architekturhalle Telfs mit Raimund Wulz und Manfred König, 2012.

Abgehängte Rasterdecke für Vordach und Foyer, Edelstahl, fragmentierte Spiegelbilder, alle Paneele unterschiedlich geformt, im Bau, Juni 2012, Fabrikat EXYD-M.

Schwaz in Tyrol/Austria, Civic Hall in Stadtgalerien, Architekturhalle Telfs with Raimund Wulz und Manfred König, 2012.

Suspended grid ceiling, soffit and reception area, stainless steel, fragmented mirror, each panel shaped differently, under construction, June 2012, type EXYD-M.

We dropped a soffit 8 inches to help outline the space that was anchored by this serving cabinet. We installed two piano windows to allow light in from the screen porch.

And here's the finished project. We designed this DIY light fixture for an HGTV room makeover show. Read more about the project on Re:modern's Facebook page

Design: Re:modern, San Carlos, CA

Construction: Honest Builders, Oakland, CA

Wallpaper: Owls by Abigail Edwards

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!

Victorian architecture on Cannon Street in Birmingham.

Newton Chambers is in the same building as Ted Baker. This is the entrance to Newton Chambers from Cannon Street.

It is at 43 Cannon Street.

(New Street information)

Between Needless Alley and Cannon Street an exuberant free Jacobean office and shops block of 1898 by Essex, Nicol & Goodman, in pale orange terracota with red bands. Giant three-centred arches with soffit enclose the shopfronts. Canted bay windows above. Picturesque roof-line with domed corner turrets, and a wide Flemish gable with a little serpentine balcony. The Cannon Street elevation has a three-storey tower entrance to the upper offices. Big arch with a wild soffit of almost detached, S-shaped cusping.

From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster.

The whole building is Grade II listed at the following addresses: Cannon Street: No 43 (Newton Chambers) and Nos 44 and 45. New Street: 41, 42 and 42a.

Includes Nos 41, 42, 42A New Street. Circa 1899 by Essex, Goodman and Nicol.

Pink terracotta; slate roof. Four storeys plus attic; 5 bays, the fifth

containing the entrance and wider than the others plus the corner with its

little cupola. Ground floor with modern shop fronts and the entrance with

fanlight with 4 glazed lights. First floor with 4 tripartite windows beneath

broad segmental arches. These and the arch over the entrance with pretty,

detached scrolly members and ball flower ornament and a decorated stringcourse

above. Second and third floors each with 4 tripartite windows with ause-de-panier

arches to the lights and pretty, detached scrolly members. They are linked

vertically by baluster-like shafts left and right. In the fifth bay second

and third floors each have a 4-light transomed window with ause-de-panier

arches to the lights. They are treated together as a very shallow bay window

surmounted by a round window. Moulded eaves cornice. Attic with 4 canted

bay windows, terracotta faced but timber sided. The long return to New Street

(where are the entrances to Nos 41, 42 and 42A New Street) treated similarly,

but the centre gabled and with the second and third floors with canted bay

windows and 2-light rather then tripartite windows. Once housed the Kardomah

Cafe, some of whose interior is said to remain behind the present fittings.

41, 42, And 42a New Street, Birmingham - Heritage Gateway

Above the doors of Newton Chambers. Also a lantern.

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.

*

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...

I've been thinking about taking Station Street for a while, but haven't got around to doing it. So while I was going around Birmingham New Street Station, I took these shots from Queens Drive, up above it (where the taxis are waiting).

On the left of Station Street is the Comfort Inn. Below is the Station Bar. Not so long ago it was a Holiday Inn Express.

It was built as the Market Hotel on the corner of Dudley Street and Station Street in 1883 by Plevins & Norrington. Warm orange brick with sandstone dressings and terracotta panels, a mixture of big bays and little curly pediments. Built as part-hotel, part-warehouse for H. E. Jordan, pram maker: his initials and Plevin's appear on terracotta plaques.

Above passage from Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster.

Also taken up from Queens Drive is The Old REP Theatre on Station Street.

According to Pevsner, The Old Rep Theatre is the best building on Station Street. It dates from 1912 - 13 by S N Cooke (the current theatre is on Broad Street in Centenary Square). Austere monumental-classic, fashionable for theatres cicra 1910. Giant Ionic pilasters, delicately detailed disappear into the tower-like end bays. Windows with heavy architraves and discs; Greek key and guilloche friezes. Semi-octagonal dormer like a lookout. Foyer and stairs have a heavy dado in brown and black marble contrasted with a delicate Doric entablature. Small auditorium with an extremely steep rake, because of the shallow site. Concave balcony with more Greek key on the soffit. Doric proscenium, austere and dramatic, with a huge frieze.

From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster.

Soffit of the exhibition space.

Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany.

Designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Vienna.

Opening: January 2009.

Our Shou Sugi Ban with our Walnut used as Soffit.

Hadrianeum: Detail of a soffit from the architrave of the temple erected to the Deified Hadrian, dedicated by Antoninus Pius in A.D. 145 (Hadrian died in 138).

This was my third visit to Linton, but I seem to have mislaid the exterior shots I have taken previously, but will search for them.

Linton sits beside the main road south out of Maidstone, and the village is stretched out along it.

Inside it is a calm space, with the fabulous Cornwallis chapel to the north of the chance, with contains some of the finest monuments I have seen in Kent.

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LINTON HILL

TQ 75 SE LINTON

(East Side)

3/139 Church of St. Nicholas

23.5.67

GV II*

Parish church. C14 and C15. Alterations and additions of 1860 by

R.C. Hussey in a C15 style. Ragstone, with plain tile roof. Nave,

south aisle, south porch, chancel, south chancel chapel, north chancel

chapel. Nave and south aisle extended to west and north aisle and north-

west tower added in 1860. Nave: Probably C14, extended in 1860. West

End: small blocks of evenly-coursed stone. Chamfered stone plinth.

One buttress. C19 four-light window and pointed-arched doorway with

squared hoodmould and brattished canopy. South aisle: C14, extended to

west in 1860. Re-faced in 1860 with small blocks of evenly-coursed stone.

Chamfered stone plinth. Gabled. Three C19 three-light windows; one to

west and 2 flanking porch. South porch: C19, with stonework and plinth

similar to nave. Carved bargeboards. Moulded outer and plain-chamfered

inner doorway. South chancel chapel: later C14. Roughly coursed stone

on un-dressed plinth. Two C19 windows, one blocked 2-light to south,

one 3-light to east in a C15 style. Chancel: C14, re-faced, and

probably extended, in C19. Diagonal north-east and south-east buttresses.

2-light C19 windows to north and south.

Moulded pointed-arched south doorway. Vestry: C19. Low, and at right-

angles to chancel. North chancel chapel: C15 or early C16. Roughly

coursed galleted stone, with high moulded stone plinth. Gabled. C19

east window of 3 stepped lights and similar north window. North aisle:

1860. Chamfered stone plinth. Gabled. Two 3-light north windows.

North-west tower: 1860. Three stages, on moulded stone plinth, with

moulded off-sets between stages. Clasping buttresses. Recessed stone

spire. Two 2-light windows to each face of belfry. Small rectangular

north light to second stage and trefoil-headed lights to north and west

of bottom stage. Pointed-arched north doorway. West clock. South face

abuts nave. Interior: Structure: 3-bay south arcade to nave of doubly

plain-chamfered pointed arches; 2 east bays C14, west bay C19 in a C14

style. Columns with scroll-moulded capitals. 2-bay north arcade to nave

in a C14 style. Tower protrudes into north-west end bay. Tall pointed-

arched C15 chancel arch, with continuous outer moulding, and inner moulding

springing on each side from concave-sided semi-octagonal shaft with

moulded capital and base. Later C14 doubly plain-chamfered pointed arch

between chancel and south chapel, springing from attached semi-octagonal

columns with moulded capitals and bases. Pointed doubly plain-chamfered

arch dying into wall between south chapel and south aisle. 4-centred

doubly hollow-chamfered C15 or early C16 arch between chancel and north

chapel, inner order springing from attached semi-octagonal columns with

moulded capitals and high moulded bases. C19 arch between north chapel

and north aisle. Chamfered medieval rere-arch to blocked south window

of south chapel. Roof: Medieval crown-post roof to nave, with 3 moulded

octagonal crown-posts and ribbed C19 boarding under rafters. 2

medieval moulded octagonal crown-posts to south chapel. C19 boarded

wagon roof to chancel. Fittings: moulded cinquefoil-

headed niche with splayed reveals, to east wall of chancel. Small pointed-

arched plain-chamfered piscina adjacent to niche. Traceried wooden screen

with moulded, brattished cornice between chancel and south chapel.

Intricately-carved wooden screen under chancel arch, with vaulted wooden

canopy, enriched cornice and parapet, erected 1949. Monuments: hanging

monument on north wall of north aisle, to Sir Anthony Mayne, d.1627, and

2 wives. Alabaster, with convex corniced plinth. Three-quarter-length

figures between 4 Corinthian columns, with entablature arched over

centre. Achievements of Sir Anthony under arch, and heraldic shield

over each wife above entablature. Seated mourner (Faithful Gardener?)

above arch. Monuments within north chancel chapel: standing monument

against north wall, to Sir Anthony Mayne, d.1615, and wife. Alabaster.

Rectangular chest bearing inscription, surmounted by kneeling figures,

flanked by Corinthian columns bearing entablature with convex cornice.

Achievements above cornice. Vestiges of family tree carved and painted

on back panel. Gothic monument against north wall, to Galfridus Mann,

d.1756. Designed by Richard Bentley 1758: erected at expense of Horace

Walpole. Chest tomb on plain base, chest with trefoils in relief and with

plain central inscription in Latin. Above, a marble urn under crocketed

arch, soffit of arch panelled with quatrefoils. Tablet on north wall to

Eleanor Mann, d.1751. Rectangular, with foliated base plate. Inscribed

panel flanked by cupid terms. Moulded cornice, with flaming urn to each

end, surmounted by grey marble obelisk with white marble dragon rising

from urn. Tablet on south wall to Maria Isabella Mann, d.1823. Signed

E.H. Baily. Inscription on rectangular plinth beneath elderly mourner

seated in relief against gadrooned urn, with draped tapering back plate.

White marble tablet on south wall to Julia, Countess Cornwallis, d.1847,

by Baily. White marble on black ground, flanked by draped semi-octagonal

pilasters with moulded capitals linked by arch in relief. Tablet on west

wall to Edward Mann, d.1775. White marble on brown ground. Base-plate

with achievements. Oval inscription panel with moulded cornice surmounted

by urn against obelisk. Tablet on east wall to Charles James Mann,

d.1835 aged 22, and sister Jemima Isabella Wykeham Martin, d.1836, by

Baily. Rectangular consoled inscription panel surmounted by segmental-

headed white marble tablet on black marble base-plate, with 2 large

draped urns in relief. Free-standing white marble monument in north-

east corner, to the same Charles James Mann, signed by Baily. Young

man lying upon Grecian couch. Free-standing marble monument in south-

west corner, to Laura, Countess Cornwallis, d.1840, by Baily. Woman,

book in hand, turning on couch. (J. Newman, B.O.E. series, West Kent

and the Weald, 1980).

Listing NGR: TQ7538950165

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101250235-church-of-st-nicho...

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LINTON.

SOUTHWARD from Loose, on the opposite side of Cocks heath, lies the parish of Linton, antiently written LYLLYNGTON, and in Latin, Lilintuna, which probably took its name from the old English word, lytlan, signifying little or small, and stane, a stone, the upper part of this parish abounding with the quarry stone.

THIS PARISH lies adjoining to Cocks-heath, upon the ridge of quarry hills, the summit of which is the northern boundary of the weald of Kent, consequently almost the whole of it is within that district, only a small part of the heath being beyond it. Cocks-heath is a beautiful, and for this inclosed part of the country, an extensive plain, being about three miles in length, and in some places more than a mile in width. It is esteemed a most healthy spot, and being well watered, is generally preferred, as a situation for large encampments, it being equally commodious for the troops to march from it, on an emergency, either into the county of Sussex, or into Essex. In 1778 there were fifteen thousand men encamped on it, which did not occupy more than two thirds of the whole extent of it. Over this heath the high road from Maidstone goes through this parish and village into the Weald. The village is situated about half a mile from the heath, on the declivity of the hill, having the church and place-house on the east side of it, the prospect from which southward over the Weald, like the other situations on these hills, is very beautiful, and of great extent. The air is very healthy, the soil on the hill a loam, with the quarry stone close beneath, and below the hill a stiff strong clay, in a very miry country, and thick hedgerows interspersed with quantities of spreading oaks. About a mile below the hill the road crosses the river at Style-bridge.

ON COCKS-HEATH there grows THE PLANT, called Lunaria, or small moonwort.

The greatest part of this parish is within the bounds of the manor of East Farleigh, though the manor of Loose extends over some small part of it. The free holders of the former holding their lands in free socage tenure.

This place is not mentioned in Domesday, being most probably included in the description there given of the manor of East Farleigh.

LINTON-PLACE, antiently called Capell's-court, is the only place of consequence in this parish. It took its name originally from the family of Capell, who were proprietaries of it. They were usually called according to the custom of the time at Capell, and in Latin, De Capella, their principal residence being at Capell'scourt, in Ivechurch, in Romney-marsh, though they had large estates in several other parishes in this county. (fn. 1) One of them, John de Capella, in the reign of king Henry III. held lands in Boxley, as appears by the charter of inspeximus granted by that king to the abbey there.

Richard de Capell, his successor, died in the 15th year of king Richard II. in whose descendants this place remained till the reign of king Henry VI. when it was alienated by one of them to Richard Baysden, from which name in the reign of queen Elizabeth, it was sold to Sir Anthony Maney, of Biddenden, whose ancestors had resided there many generations. He removed his seat hither, and at his death was buried in this church, as was his son Walter Maney, esq. whose son, John Maney, was a person of great loyalty to king Charles I. in his troubles, in consideration of which he was first knighted, and afterwards created a baronet. After which he suffered much for his attachment to the king, having his estate plundered and sequestered. He bore for his arms, Party per pale, argent and sable; three chevronels between as many cinquefoils counterchanged. He passed away this seat and estate in the reign of king Charles II. to Sir Francis Withens, one of the justices of the king's bench, whose only daugh ter and heir Catherine, in 1710 carried it in marriage to Sir Thomas Twysden, bart. of East Peckham, and he died in 1712, leaving by her two daughters his coheirs. On his death his widow became intitled to this estate, and soon afterwards again carried it in marriage to brigadier-general George Jocelyn, who was a younger son of Sir Robert Jocelyn, bart. of Hertfordshire, and died in 1727; leaving by lady Twysden, three sons. The family of Jocelyn bore for their arms, Azure, a wreath, argent and sable, with four hawks bells towards the corners of the escutcheon, or. He alienated it to Robert Mann, esq. who built a small but elegant seat here, partly on the scite of the old mansion of Capell'scourt, which he pulled down, and resided in it till his death, in 1751. By his will he devised Linton place, with the parsonage and the advowson of the vicarage of Linton, among his other estates in this county, to his eldest son Edward Louisa, in tail male, with divers remainders over. He resided here and died unmarried in 1775, on which, by the above entail, it came to his next brother, Sir Horatio Mann, K. B. and baronet, envoy extraordinary at Florence, where he died in 1786, and his body being next year brought over to England, was interred in this church. In his lifetime he made over this seat, with his other estates in this parish, to his nephew Sir Horace Mann, who succeeded him likewise in the title of baronet, and he is the present possessor of it, and at times resides here.

THERE were formerly some lands in this parish which belonged to a family named Welldish, who had a chapel in this church called Welldish's chapel. Their arms were, as appears by their seals to some antient deeds, Argent, three talbots passant azure on a chief, or, a fox passant gules, which coat they bore, as is reported by tradition, to perpetuate the memory of one of their ancestors having been huntsman to William the Conqueror. After this estate had been many generations in this family, the greatest part of it was alienated to Walter Maney, esq. whose son, Sir John Maney, bart. of Linton, sold it, with the rest of his estate in this parish, in the reign of king Charles II. to Sir Francis Withins, since which it has passed in like manner as Linton-place, above-mentioned, to the Mann's, and is now in the possession of Sir Horace Mann, bart.

CHARITIES.

One of the family of MANEY, owners of Capell's-court, built and endowed an alms-house here for four poor families. Robert Mann, esq. of Linton-place, in 1749, rebuilt it, and encreased the original stipends of 13s. 4d. to each family to 20s.

LINTON is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sutton.

The church, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a small building with a spire steeple, situated on the east side of the village. The patronage of it was part of the antient possessions of the crown, and remained so till it was given to the college or hospital for poor travellers, in the west borough at Maidstone, founded by archbishop Boniface in the reign of Henry III. (fn. 2) Archbishop Walter Reynolds, about 1314, appropriated it to the use and support of the above hospital.

¶In the 19th year of king Richard II. archbishop Courtney, on his making the parish church of Maidstone collegiate, with the king's licence, gave and assigned among other estates, the advowson and patronage of this church of Lyllyngton, to that hospital appropriated, and of the king's patronage, held of the king in capite, to the master and chaplains of the abovementioned new collegiate church of Maidstone, to hold in free, pure, and perpetual alms for ever, for its better maintenance, to which appropriation Adam Mottrum, archdeacon of Canterbury, gave his assent. The collegiate church of Maidstone was dissolved by the act of the 1st year of king Edward VI. anno 1546, and was surrendered into the king's hands accordingly.

In the 8th year of king Richard II. this church was valued at 106s. 8d. per annum. In the year 1640, the vicarage of it was valued at thirty pounds per annum. In the year 1751, the clear yearly certified value of it was 61l. 7s. 8d. yearly income.

This vicarage is valued in the king's books at 7l. 13s. 4d. and the yearly tenths at 15s. 4d. The parsonage, as well as the advowson of the vicarage, were held by grant from the crown in the reign of queen Elizabeth, by Alexander Grygsby, gent. in which name they continued in 1640. In 1681, Francis Martin, gent. held them. About the year 1710, they were held by Wallace, and afterwards by Oliver, who died possessed of them in 1728; soon after which they were purchased by Robert Mann, esq. of Lintonplace. Since which they have passed in like manner as that seat to Sir Horace Mann, bart. the present owner of them.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol4/pp365-371

Patron: Bishop Ecclesio (Ecclesius) Bishop of Ravenna 522–532

watercolour stripes in baby blue

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The other side of the vault.

Soffits nailed to underside of rafters.

Photo from my website at danielsroof.com

Example of asbestos-cement boards installed as soffit panels at exterior overhang canopy.

This particular asbestos-cement material contained a thick white enamel coating with yellow-orange accent paint. Underlying substrate was gypsum board with fiberglass insulation above.

Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a Buddhist temple in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the royal palace complex of the former Kingdom of Kandy, which houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha. Since ancient times, the relic has played an important role in local politics because it is believed that whoever holds the relic holds the governance of the country. Kandy was the last capital of the Sri Lankan kings and is a World Heritage Site mainly due to the temple.

Bhikkhus of the two chapters of Malwatte and Asgiriya conduct daily worship in the inner chamber of the temple. Rituals are performed three times daily: at dawn, at noon and in the evenings. On Wednesdays, there is a symbolic bathing of the relic with a herbal preparation made from scented water and fragrant flowers called Nanumura Mangallaya. This holy water is believed to contain healing powers and is distributed among those present.

The temple sustained damage from bombings by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in 1989 and by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 1998 but was fully restored each time.

Superbly designer finished second floor, 120 square meters, 2 bedroom apartment in a quiet street in Hamrun a corner away from all amenities. Very well lit with gypsum soffits everywhere and plastered walls following a complete overhaul in 2008.

Layout consists of kitchen living dining, large master bedroom with laundry closet and ensuite with bath, spare toilet with shower and second bedroom with closet/box room. Long balcony on facade and nice wide terrace at back for clothes hanging. Gres ceramic and laminate parquet flooring. Being sold as fully furnished and ready to move into, including quality appliances (Bosch, Ariston and Hoover), light fittings. New aluminium apertures throughout, with travertine marble all around the windows.

See complete list below for furniture and items included.

Living Dining:

Joinwell 'CaliaItalia' 6 seater corner sofa with corner coffee table and reclining head rests

Isamu Noguchi Coffee table

TV wall unit

CD & DVD wall rack

6 person table (extendable for 8)

6 chairs

Dining area sideboard

Kitchen

Wall Wine rack

Walnut doors to rooms

Full length mirror

Coat hanger

Curtains and sheers

Kitchen:

Fithome kitchen

Corian counter top and moulded sink from Shaker

Ariston convection oven

Ariston hob

Fumes extractor

Foster sink faucet

Bosch fridge freezer

Master bedroom:

Queen size bed

Fully equipped glass Sliding door wardrobe

7 days

2 chests of drawers

2 blanket boxes

2 bedside tables

3 wall shelves

curtains

Laminate parquet flooring

Pocket (hiding) sliding doors into ensuite and living

Laundry Closet

4 wall mounted shoe racks

Indoor folding clothes hanging rack

Hoover washing machine

Chest of drawers

Wall shelving

Bathrooms:

GSI and Incea sanitary ware

Frattini faucets

Gres ceramic tiles

With vanities and wall mirrors

Second bedroom:

Wardrobe

Single bed

Wall shelving

Bedside table

Desk and Chair

Chest of drawers

Other general features:

Wired data (internet) network in bedrooms and living

TV and telephone points in bedrooms, living and kitchen

'Air conditioner ready' with power and drains in living and bedrooms

Shared ownership of common areas

Shared ownership of airspace over apartment block

Saw a nice wood soffit the other day. Probably ipe i would guess. The nails/fasteners were very nice and flush. Pre-drilled perhaps?

Our rear living room window, now repainted, from the outside. The only true single-pane window left in the house; this one would be over $1000 to replace thanks to government building codes requiring much more expensive tempered glass to be used, because this window is over stairs and could hurt someone on the stairs when it breaks. So government safety regulations actually made it so expensive to replace that we changed our mind and didn't -- actually making things less safe and less energy efficient. This is how government regulation often has the opposite effect, and is not a magic answer to all societal problems.

Oops, painted this window shut too.

Sacrificial boards are used a lot in my house. I guess it's an "old wood window thing". I paid a good $5+ for another piece of crown moulding to put over the sill. The idea is that the sacrificial wood rots before the actual sill. In this window's case, the old sacrificial board was so rotten you could rip it off the nails and into pieces with your pinky finger. The sill itself was rotted out too. I spent a week or two building it up with successive layers of Elmer's wood filler. It kept raining on my wood filler and I'd have to start over! Eventually, though, it was built up enough to be flat enough to nail a NEW sacrificial board to. Hopefully this is the last paint job this sill will ever need. At some point in the future when we have more disposable income, we'll replace this window. (We need about $5,000 in new windows, so it's going to be awhile...)

You can also see the chimney to our old boiler. I actually had an ex-friend argue with me in the past about whether that that's what this was. Not sure why people think I don't know my own house. This chimney once tried to kill me by being blocked up and filling the house with diesel fumes. Fortunately the smoke was thick enough to break the laser on our cd player, turning the music off so that I was able to hear the carbon monoxide alarm. I was sleeping in the basement. Carolyn was upstairs. I probably would have left her a widow if that alarm hadn't gone off. We don't use a boiler or CD players anymore. Heat pumps are way safer in terms of CO2.

You can also see the soffit damage due to raccoons, as well as some leftover rope from the "roof tarp years". That rope came in handy when painting!

The gutters for this part of the house rotted off. Estimate for just that one ~6-foot section of gutter to be replaced? $500! Ouch! The parts are less than $100! I've seen gutter crimpers in use. It shouldn't cost THAT much. I think if I just had "a guy" come do it, instead of a licensed business -- that it would be way cheaper.

boiler chimney, house maintenance, living room window, raccoon damage, sacrificial board, soffit.

back yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

October 14, 2011.

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BACKSTORY: So our homeowners insurance (Farmers) got dropped due to having peeling paint on our window sills (among other things). Weak. It was a LOT of work AND money for us to repaint all our sills. Wood windows SUCK!! Modern vinyl windows are MAINTANENCE-FREE!! Wood windows... You gotta re-glaze the panes when they fall out, and then the wood itself is always going to slowly rot away. We already had our cats knock a pane out, so we already had glazing compound for pane repairs. This came in handy when we painted our various window sills, as some also needed glazing compound.

It was quite a pain because it cost so much money and had our living room in disarray for so many months, and the whole insurance basis for the situation was pretty bullshitty in the first place. We're not going to make a property damage claim due to moisture that occurs because our windows let in moisture because their paint was peeling! Ridiculous... Is paint really all that's holding us back from having property damage through our windows? I DON'T THINK SO, as no moisture was getting in prior to repainting. Just total hassling from Farmers *AND* Progressive Insurance. NationWide, however, appears to finally be on my side.

Montreux, Eurotel Riviera, Restaurant Safran, Soffit, Detail, Architect Linea Lombardo, Material EXYD

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H.T. Klugel Architectural Sheet Metal Works was established in Emporia,, Virginia in 1914 at the junction of two rail lines—the Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern Railroad. This location was to figure in the expansion of his business. Klugel, a tinsmith, was from Danville, Illinois, learning the trade from his father. His shop produced a variety of goods for local needs such as cornices, gutters, drain pipes, stove flues, marquees, decorative details, and others. A customer, who might need prefabricated pressed metal ceilings, he would have them select from catalogs. They would arrive by rail, facilitating his installation of items for his customers. His business supplied contractors all over southeastern Virginia. The sheet metal façade of his own shop became an advertisement for his goods and skills, displaying a variety of metal ornaments such as swags, circles, geometric patterns and lions’ heads. The structure is a unique example of a decorative sheet metal façade for a store, and it was all produced in Emporia. Ads were painted on the brick sides of the building. The building is styled as Edwardian Classicism in the nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places. As an architectural viewing amateur, I’m not certain what this is, even after reading about it. The building was added to the Register April 2, 1973 with identification #73002208. The nomination form is available at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources

www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Emporia/109-0005_Kl...

As a factory for tin goods, the building was intended to be utilitarian. Originally ell-shaped, a cinderblock addition has made the structure rectangular. The flat-roofed building with parapets on the sides is made of American bond brick, which is not visible viewing only the front façade. A color combination of silver and black is used throughout the façade ornamentation. At the top of the front façade is a pediment mounted on two short pedestals, each flanked by volutes. Inside the pediment is floral ornamentation. Beneath the pediment a panel shows what I call a sun-burst motif (the nomination form refers to this a part of a patera—( www.decorartsnow.com/2013/05/28/design-dictionary-patera-... ). Another pedestal is above the pediment and is topped by a finial in the shape of an onion dome. Below the pediment is an inscription within panels of various sizes—1902 H. T. Klugel 1914”. To each side of this inscription is a balustrade with two pedestals topped by small onion dome finials. The cornice just below has dentils and modillions or brackets. The horizontal second level with a geometric sheet metal design has three distinct areas: the middle with the inscription “Architectural Sheet Metal Work” on the patterned background and flanked with roundels that show keystone motifs; the right section shows a raised panel with the words “Skylights” and the left shows a raised panel with the writing “Cornices”. Below each of these latter two sections are swags of flowers and drapery. The first level contains two arched entrances both with soffit and with double doors; the central entrance is recessed. Just above the arch of the center door is a keystone. On either side of the main entrance are figures of lion’s heads with floral decoration; a pattern of circles is below each of the lion’s heads. The windows are arched as well and contain fan tracery.

For a fascinating read on ornamental architectural materials, check out the following:

www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/ideasv51/simpson.htm

[This is a series of 10 photos] This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work.

H.T. Klugel Architectural Sheet Metal Works was established in Emporia,, Virginia in 1914 at the junction of two rail lines—the Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern Railroad. This location was to figure in the expansion of his business. Klugel, a tinsmith, was from Danville, Illinois, learning the trade from his father. His shop produced a variety of goods for local needs such as cornices, gutters, drain pipes, stove flues, marquees, decorative details, and others. A customer, who might need prefabricated pressed metal ceilings, he would have them select from catalogs. They would arrive by rail, facilitating his installation of items for his customers. His business supplied contractors all over southeastern Virginia. The sheet metal façade of his own shop became an advertisement for his goods and skills, displaying a variety of metal ornaments such as swags, circles, geometric patterns and lions’ heads. The structure is a unique example of a decorative sheet metal façade for a store, and it was all produced in Emporia. Ads were painted on the brick sides of the building. The building is styled as Edwardian Classicism in the nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places. As an architectural viewing amateur, I’m not certain what this is, even after reading about it. The building was added to the Register April 2, 1973 with identification #73002208. The nomination form is available at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources

www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Emporia/109-0005_Kl...

As a factory for tin goods, the building was intended to be utilitarian. Originally ell-shaped, a cinderblock addition has made the structure rectangular. The flat-roofed building with parapets on the sides is made of American bond brick, which is not visible viewing only the front façade. A color combination of silver and black is used throughout the façade ornamentation. At the top of the front façade is a pediment mounted on two short pedestals, each flanked by volutes. Inside the pediment is floral ornamentation. Beneath the pediment a panel shows what I call a sun-burst motif (the nomination form refers to this a part of a patera—( www.decorartsnow.com/2013/05/28/design-dictionary-patera-... ). Another pedestal is above the pediment and is topped by a finial in the shape of an onion dome. Below the pediment is an inscription within panels of various sizes—1902 H. T. Klugel 1914”. To each side of this inscription is a balustrade with two pedestals topped by small onion dome finials. The cornice just below has dentils and modillions or brackets. The horizontal second level with a geometric sheet metal design has three distinct areas: the middle with the inscription “Architectural Sheet Metal Work” on the patterned background and flanked with roundels that show keystone motifs; the right section shows a raised panel with the words “Skylights” and the left shows a raised panel with the writing “Cornices”. Below each of these latter two sections are swags of flowers and drapery. The first level contains two arched entrances both with soffit and with double doors; the central entrance is recessed. Just above the arch of the center door is a keystone. On either side of the main entrance are figures of lion’s heads with floral decoration; a pattern of circles is below each of the lion’s heads. The windows are arched as well and contain fan tracery.

For a fascinating read on ornamental architectural materials, check out the following:

www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/ideasv51/simpson.htm

Way the hell up there! Note how the ladder is balanced by placing its feet inside of cinder blocks (with bricks in the holes to reduce wiggle). Typically the way I held on while painting was to hook a finger behind the trim around window sills or attic vents (or hold on to the edge of the roof), while painting with the other hand. When you're up so high you can't reach the ladder, you paint with no hands on ladder.

See the roof edge to my left? Painted. To my right? Still to paint.

You can also see how we are in the middle of painting the window sill (and it's trim--partially painted in this pic) below, as well as where I used Elmer's wood filler to build successive filling layers in the bottom right of the sill where it had almost completely rotted out.

Extra paint on the brushes at the end of the day went to fence post tops, then fence posts, then fence tops, then sides, then bottoms. We ended up doing the entire fence with "done for the day" brushes, even though we hadn't intended to paint the fence.

The small ladder came from Matthew, and saved us a LOT LOT LOT of effort in this job. Compelled us to buy a comparable wooden ladder for $5 at a yard sale later that summer.

Some irony on my t-shirt: It's the company that paid my wages that paid for buying this house [which only required having $7000 liquid cash, and only spending $3000 of it] :)

Chair on the bottom right? Set of 4 found on a streetside near our house.

Gutter on the bottom right? Later painted gray as well.

Clint.

painting soffit.

caulk, chair, cinder blocks, gutter, house maintenance, ladders, paint brushes, window, wood filler.

roof, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

June 20, 2011.

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BACKSTORY: You people with modern houses don't know how good you've got it. Did you ever stop to appreciate your plastic soffits? No, you probably don't even know what a soffit is. I used to be in that blissful ignorance. But then Farmers (and, later, Progressive) dropped our homeowners insurance for having, among other things, peeling paint on our window sills. In 2005 or so, we installed siding on our house at a cost of $9,000 to avoid having to spend $7,000 on painting our house. But siding doesn't include window sills! And now they're peeling. Tasked with weeks of evening and weekend painting, it makes sense to also paint the soffits while painting the window sills. Pretty much the last vestiges of the green color our house used to be are gone -- it's now almost all gray.

An "after" pic of the window/door/soffit/gutter/fence painting and gutter repairs, and the now-cleared stone steps with solar lights (still not recommended for guests, though).

The gutter guards are now 100% covering the front gutters, and are uniform in their coverage. Had to cut some into custom-sized pieces to get full coverage. The front-left gutter is also AMAZINGLY straight compared to the "before" picture, thanks to re-doing (and adding new) gutter nails/crews. The front-right gutter, while still obviously damaged, is in way better shape before -- it had actually pulled the end of my roof off, and I had to nail my actual roof frame back together!! Gutter-caulk was successful in making it so that you can stand at our front door in the rain without getting water on you anymore! The gutter guts! It hasn't done that in years!

When we first moved in, the front looked like this: www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/90504353/ and this: www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/90504591/ (and also www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/96737295/ but you can't see the green in that picture)

In case you're wondering how a gutter gets damaged: www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/4481727978/

Note the condition of the shingles. Progressive insurance (Homesite insurance) dropped our insurance giving us a list of reasons. We fixed the items on that list. They then dropped us a 2nd time for new reasons not included in the first list, including "curling shingles" on my roof. The shingles certainly aren't perfect, but do these look like something that's going to fly off my roof and cost an insurance company a lot of money? Of course, we survived Hurricane Irene AND the post-Irene flood storms JUST FINE ... With zero water in our house. Progressive did not even cite our roof the first time they dropped us. Quite simply, Progressive Insurance/Homesite insurance are ASSHOLES. The roof sure as hell does not need to be re-done if it is functioning just fine. Plus, I just patched it with roof cement to strengthen it up even more! Be smart. Stay away from Progressive. Their low prices aren't worth it. The State Corporation Commission has been notified, but since Virginia is a Republican state, our regulatory agencies barely have any teeth.

camping chairs, cooler, groceries, gutter guards, house maintenance, ladder, storm door, windows.

after gutter repair. after painting.

front yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

August 22, 2011.

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BACKSTORY: After all of the first-world-bullshit we had to go through (described in the backstories of the other pictuers), it was nice to be able to take this "after" picture, and be done with it (for this year, anyway)! (Next year: Retaining wall repair, concrete wall patching.)

Zaha Hadid Design in Rome, Italy

This is the Digbeth Campus of South Birmingham College. This section is the Grade II listed 224 - 225 High Street in Digbeth. Now a part of South Birmingham College, Digbeth Campus.

This particular building is 224 - 225 High Street, in Digbeth.

Building dated to circa 1860. Brick-built with stone dressings and a hipped slate roof with elaborate bracketted eaves. It has five storeys with seven bays to the front, an additional bay to the corner and seven bays to the left-hand return in Milk Street. To the ground floor there are, probably original, shopfronts. To the first, second and third floor are sash windows wiwth shoulders and keystones with incised decoration and brick arch soffits. To the third floor there are square sash windows.

Circa 1860. Polychromatic brick with stone dressings; slate roof. Five storeys; 7 bays plus the corner and another 7 bays on the left-hand return in Milk Street. Ground floor with apparently original shop fronts. Panelled pilasters supporting an entablature with boldly bracketed cornice. First, second and third floors with sash windows with shoulders and keystones with incised decoration and elaborately cut brick arch soffits and bold sills. Lavishly bracketted moulded cornice at second floor level. Fourth storey with square sash windows. Elaborate bracketted eaves cornice. The windows mostly blocked up.

224 - 225 High Street, Digbeth - Heritage Gateway

Pevsner describes it as a crusty brick block of shops and warehouse of 1869 by Thomas Fawdry, restored in 2003 as part of a bulky creative arts centre development by Nichol Thomas.

QEHP:.

Architect.

Faircloth, FH.

Construction period.

1902–1909, Childers Pharmaceutical Museum & Tourist Information Centre (1902 - 1909).

`The former Gaydon's Pharmacy is one of a row of shops erected in 1902 to the design of Bundaberg architect FW Faircloth, following a fire that destroyed most of the south side of Churchill Street, the main street of Childers. Faircloth was responsible for much of the new building following the fire, the effects of which transformed the appearance of Childers. Extended to two storeys in 1909, the pharmacy housed several important services to the town and, retaining extremely intact contents, has become a pharmaceutical museum in recent years..

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Childers is located in what was once the heart of the Isis Scrub. Following logging of the dense Scrub in the 1870s, Childers was promoted in the 1880s by Maryborough interests as an agricultural district. The land in the immediate vicinity of the present town of Childers was surveyed in 1882 into 50 acre farm blocks. There was no official town survey; Childers developed following private subdivision at the railhead of the 1887 extension line from Isis Junction. This was opened on 31 October 1887, and was intended principally to facilitate the transport of timber from the scrub..

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The coming of the railway not only promoted the development of the town of Childers; it also proved the catalyst for the establishment of a sugar industry in the district in the late 1880s. At the opening of the railway to Childers, Robert Cran, owner of Maryborough's Yengarie mill, announced that he would erect a double crushing juice mill at Doolbi, to supply his mill at Yengarie. This was completed in 1890, with the juice being brought in railway tankers from the Isis. Further expansion of the sugar industry in the Isis was closely related to the activities of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, which erected a central crushing mill in the district 1893-94, and began crushing in 1895. By 1895, at least three other mills had been established in the Isis, with another two under construction, and Childers had emerged as the flourishing centre of a substantial sugar-growing district..

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Thomas Gaydon arrived in Childers in 1894, four years after completing his pharmaceutical apprenticeship in Brisbane, and established 'The Isis Pharmacy' as one of the first shops in the main street. He and William Hood needed to clear the block with axes and mattocks. Hood set up as a tobacconist and stationer. In September 1899, resub 18 of sub 3 of portion 840 was transferred to Thomas Gaydon and William Hood as joint tenants. This was probably the land on which their adjoining timber shops were built..

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1902 was a very dry year and Childers had no fire brigade. In 23 March, a catastrophic fire swept through the south side of the main street in town, where virtually all the buildings were timber and closely built. Those stores destroyed were: S Oakley, bootmaker; FD Cooper, commission agent; R Graham, fruiterer; ME Gosley, tailor; Foley, hairdresser; M Redmond, Palace Hotel; WB Jones, auctioneer; W Couzens, fruiterer; H Newman, general storekeeper; WJ Overell and Son, general merchants; P Christensen, cabinet maker; W Hood, stationer; T Gaydon, chemist; W Lloyd, hairdresser; Mrs Dunne, fruiterer; Federal Jewellery Company; Dunn Bros, saddlers; H Wegner, bootmaker. The Bundaberg architect F H Faircloth was engaged to redesign new premises and called tenders for the erection of eight brick shops, including Gaydons, in June 1902..

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Frederic Herbert (Herb) Faircloth was born in Maryborough in 1870 and was a pupil of German-trained Bundaberg architect Anton Hettrich. Faircloth set up his own practice in Bundaberg in 1893 and was very successful, eventually being responsible for the design of almost every major building in Bundaberg. He was also to have a major effect on the appearance and character of Childers..

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The new shops were masonry rather than timber, a choice no doubt influenced by the fire, and were elegant single story buildings with large glass shop fronts. Striped curved awnings across the footpath were supported by decorative posts with cast iron infill. Each shop had a separate roof , some lit by lanterns and the individual tenancies were also marked by the visual separation of the facades by the use of classic revival pediments, urns, and balustrades. Gaydon's building with its broken semi-circular pediment matched the adjoining Hood's shop..

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Around 1909 an upper floor was added. This addition included the adjoining shop, so that a new and larger decorative pediment was created. A photograph dating from around 1913 shows that other tenants, including a bootmaker and the New Zealand Insurance Company, also used Gaydon's building. The upper floor was lit by a lantern and a pair of large compound windows and so had excellent light for its use a dental surgery by Thomas Gaydon, who in addition to his work as a pharmacist, also practised as a dentist, photographer and anaesthetist to the local hospital. He was a public spirited man and also served as president of the Chamber of Commerce, School of Arts, hospital and School committees at various times. He was the second chairman of the Isis Shire Council in 1919 and served in this role again between 1924 and 1930..

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Following the death of Thomas Gaydon in 1935, the property was transferred to his two sons, T. Geoffrey Gaydon (a dentist) and S. Noel Gaydon (a chemist) who both practised from the premises. In 1938 Mervyn G Hooper joined the staff as a chemist and went into partnership with Noel Gaydon in 1956. When Noel Gaydon died in 1966, Hooper continued the business and the property was transferred to his wife in 1973. In 1982 Mervyn Hooper died and the then pharmacy was operated as a gift shop (with all pharmaceutical material retained) by his widow Isbell (known as Isa) Hooper. In 1987 the shop ceased trading and was acquired by the present owner..

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The Shire leased the building, after purchasing the contents, catalogued items and carried out conservation work. In 1989 Gaydons Pharmacy opened as a pharmaceutical museum with an art gallery on the upper floor. The work undertaken by the Isis Shire Council to prepare the building for use as a museum, tourist office, and gallery received a National Trust of Queensland John Herbert Award for Conservation Action in 1989.'

Waterloo Bridge Undercroft

Architect: Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

Engineers: Ernest Buckton and John Cueral of Rendel Palmer & Tritton.

1942-45

Main entrance and soffit of the exhibition space in the evening.

Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany.

Designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Vienna.

Opening: January 2009.

Our rear living room window, now repainted, from the outside. The only true single-pane window left in the house; this one would be over $1000 to replace thanks to government building codes requiring much more expensive tempered glass to be used, because this window is over stairs and could hurt someone on the stairs when it breaks. So government safety regulations actually made it so expensive to replace that we changed our mind and didn't -- actually making things less safe and less energy efficient. This is how government regulation often has the opposite effect, and is not a magic answer to all societal problems.

Oops, painted this window shut too.

Sacrificial boards are used a lot in my house. I guess it's an "old wood window thing". I paid a good $5+ for another piece of crown moulding to put over the sill. The idea is that the sacrificial wood rots before the actual sill. In this window's case, the old sacrificial board was so rotten you could rip it off the nails and into pieces with your pinky finger. The sill itself was rotted out too. I spent a week or two building it up with successive layers of Elmer's wood filler. It kept raining on my wood filler and I'd have to start over! Eventually, though, it was built up enough to be flat enough to nail a NEW sacrificial board to. Hopefully this is the last paint job this sill will ever need. At some point in the future when we have more disposable income, we'll replace this window. (We need about $5,000 in new windows, so it's going to be awhile...)

You can also see the chimney to our old boiler. I actually had an ex-friend argue with me in the past about whether that that's what this was. Not sure why people think I don't know my own house. This chimney once tried to kill me by being blocked up and filling the house with diesel fumes. Fortunately the smoke was thick enough to break the laser on our cd player, turning the music off so that I was able to hear the carbon monoxide alarm. I was sleeping in the basement. Carolyn was upstairs. I probably would have left her a widow if that alarm hadn't gone off. We don't use a boiler or CD players anymore. Heat pumps are way safer in terms of CO2.

You can also see the soffit damage due to raccoons, as well as some leftover rope from the "roof tarp years". That rope came in handy when painting!

The gutters for this part of the house rotted off. Estimate for just that one ~6-foot section of gutter to be replaced? $500! Ouch! The parts are less than $100! I've seen gutter crimpers in use. It shouldn't cost THAT much. I think if I just had "a guy" come do it, instead of a licensed business -- that it would be way cheaper.

boiler chimney, house maintenance, living room window, raccoon damage, sacrificial board, soffit.

back yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

October 14, 2011.

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BACKSTORY: So our homeowners insurance (Farmers) got dropped due to having peeling paint on our window sills (among other things). Weak. It was a LOT of work AND money for us to repaint all our sills. Wood windows SUCK!! Modern vinyl windows are MAINTANENCE-FREE!! Wood windows... You gotta re-glaze the panes when they fall out, and then the wood itself is always going to slowly rot away. We already had our cats knock a pane out, so we already had glazing compound for pane repairs. This came in handy when we painted our various window sills, as some also needed glazing compound.

It was quite a pain because it cost so much money and had our living room in disarray for so many months, and the whole insurance basis for the situation was pretty bullshitty in the first place. We're not going to make a property damage claim due to moisture that occurs because our windows let in moisture because their paint was peeling! Ridiculous... Is paint really all that's holding us back from having property damage through our windows? I DON'T THINK SO, as no moisture was getting in prior to repainting. Just total hassling from Farmers *AND* Progressive Insurance. NationWide, however, appears to finally be on my side.

HA37

COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS GIVING VIEW OF MIDDLE HILL FARMHOUSE 1989

2 colour photographs, overlapped to give complete view of Middle Hill Farmhouse in derelict condition. From the internal ‘Cruck Beam’ and cob wall, the building is thought to date from the 17th century, and possibly altered or modernised in the 1850s, and again in the early 1900s, this is a typical example of the condition that the estate properties were allowed to fall into. It is obvious, that little or, very little maintenance was carried out for many years, resulting in this condition, with some buildings collapsing completely. It is known that the house was empty for 20yrs prior to 1987.

It would appear that the larger, right-hand side would have been the farmhouse, with larger windows and probably better equipped interior. The left-hand smaller, side was probably a tied or rented cottage for farm workers, or married family members. Electricity was installed in the village in the late 1950s, and, as only one supply cable can be seen to the right of the left-hand porch, it is assumed that by that time it was one property. The top of the overhead supply pole can be seen above the apex of the roof on the right. From the missing rendering over the ground-floor centre window, it shows a square cut wooden beam, with no characteristic ‘Estate’ exposed beam finish chamfer, so common in other properties of the village, another definite indication of an ‘earlier than 1850s’ construction. The window sills appear to be cast concrete, an obvious later addition. Both porches are roofed in corrugated with formed steel sheet copings, the solid construction of the left-hand porch, with exposed batten ends and rounded barge boards, and the broken render above the right-hand porch (once sealing lead flashing), suggests they were both once slated, a style also seen on other estate buildings.

The main roofs, apart from some gaps showing in the coping joints, and the cast iron guttering, appear to be in quite reasonable condition, however the downpipe terminating, on the right, part way up the outside wall would soon allow damp to penetrate, it probably originally discharged into a water butt. Note, on right-hand section, unclipped and sagging cable fixed to soffit, a cable running from left-hand porch apex to right, and a cable running adjacent to downpipe, all probably supplying outbuildings or outside lights, as the buildings were always in use for rearing and milking, etc.

It is recorded in the ‘Rental of the Troyte Estates 1876’ (see HA18), that Richard Heard rented ‘Cowlands (Cowlings?) & parts of Pontishayes & Lower & Middle Hill in Huntsham. Part of Higher and Lower Westcombe, less £3 & £1.15.0 (£1.75p) allowed for land planted’ for £149.5.0 (£149.25p) per ½ year, and that a Henry Salisbury rented ‘Cottage Middle Hill’ for £1.6.0 (£1.30p) per ½ year.

See also HA38,39.

Roy Arnott, 2004

This is South & City College Birmingham - Digbeth Campus. Was formerly South Birmingham College (before the merged with City College Birmingham).

This particular building is 224 - 225 High Street, in Digbeth. Milk Street view of the former warehouse.

Building dated to circa 1860. Brick-built with stone dressings and a hipped slate roof with elaborate bracketted eaves. It has five storeys with seven bays to the front, an additional bay to the corner and seven bays to the left-hand return in Milk Street. To the ground floor there are, probably original, shopfronts. To the first, second and third floor are sash windows wiwth shoulders and keystones with incised decoration and brick arch soffits. To the third floor there are square sash windows.

Circa 1860. Polychromatic brick with stone dressings; slate roof. Five storeys; 7 bays plus the corner and another 7 bays on the left-hand return in Milk Street. Ground floor with apparently original shop fronts. Panelled pilasters supporting an entablature with boldly bracketed cornice. First, second and third floors with sash windows with shoulders and keystones with incised decoration and elaborately cut brick arch soffits and bold sills. Lavishly bracketted moulded cornice at second floor level. Fourth storey with square sash windows. Elaborate bracketted eaves cornice. The windows mostly blocked up.

224 - 225 High Street, Digbeth - Heritage Gateway

Pevsner describes it as a crusty brick block of shops and warehouse of 1869 by Thomas Fawdry, restored in 2003 as part of a bulky creative arts centre development by Nichol Thomas.

Photo of copper soffit & penetration trim detail around timber roof support.

TECU® Oxid copper roof cladding from KME.

Double-standing seam roof cladding technique, angle-seam to fascia trim on rotunda, cross-welt seams to canopy soffit.

Parsons Brinckerhoff Architects, Bristol.

Installer: Boss Metals Ltd, Chobham.

Realised: Autumn 2010.

We still need to install the ceiling trim, we're going for a craftsman style with the mldg.

To see an explanation of what we used, etc. click on this link, it will take you to my entire "Beadboard Ceiling Project" set on Flickr.

www.flickr.com/photos/jen-becker/sets/72157626024612971/

Superbly designer finished second floor, 120 square meters, 2 bedroom apartment in a quiet street in Hamrun a corner away from all amenities. Very well lit with gypsum soffits everywhere and plastered walls following a complete overhaul in 2008.

Layout consists of kitchen living dining, large master bedroom with laundry closet and ensuite with bath, spare toilet with shower and second bedroom with closet/box room. Long balcony on facade and nice wide terrace at back for clothes hanging. Gres ceramic and laminate parquet flooring. Being sold as fully furnished and ready to move into, including quality appliances (Bosch, Ariston and Hoover), light fittings. New aluminium apertures throughout, with travertine marble all around the windows.

See complete list below for furniture and items included.

Living Dining:

Joinwell 'CaliaItalia' 6 seater corner sofa with corner coffee table and reclining head rests

Isamu Noguchi Coffee table

TV wall unit

CD & DVD wall rack

6 person table (extendable for 8)

6 chairs

Dining area sideboard

Kitchen

Wall Wine rack

Walnut doors to rooms

Full length mirror

Coat hanger

Curtains and sheers

Kitchen:

Fithome kitchen

Corian counter top and moulded sink from Shaker

Ariston convection oven

Ariston hob

Fumes extractor

Foster sink faucet

Bosch fridge freezer

Master bedroom:

Queen size bed

Fully equipped glass Sliding door wardrobe

7 days

2 chests of drawers

2 blanket boxes

2 bedside tables

3 wall shelves

curtains

Laminate parquet flooring

Pocket (hiding) sliding doors into ensuite and living

Laundry Closet

4 wall mounted shoe racks

Indoor folding clothes hanging rack

Hoover washing machine

Chest of drawers

Wall shelving

Bathrooms:

GSI and Incea sanitary ware

Frattini faucets

Gres ceramic tiles

With vanities and wall mirrors

Second bedroom:

Wardrobe

Single bed

Wall shelving

Bedside table

Desk and Chair

Chest of drawers

Other general features:

Wired data (internet) network in bedrooms and living

TV and telephone points in bedrooms, living and kitchen

'Air conditioner ready' with power and drains in living and bedrooms

Shared ownership of common areas

Shared ownership of airspace over apartment block

To see an explanation of what we used, etc. click on this link, it will take you to my entire "Beadboard Ceiling Project" set on Flickr.

www.flickr.com/photos/jen-becker/sets/72157626024612971/

The Old REP Theatre - Station Street, Birmingham.

This is the first time I have taken it at street level, despite walking past it many times over the years.

My original 2010 shots were taken from above on Queens Drive.

The Old Rep Theatre on Station Street. It dates from 1912 - 13 by S N Cooke (the current theatre is on Broad Street in Centenary Square). Austere monumental-classic, fashionable for theatres circa 1910. Giant Ionic pilasters, delicately detailed disappear into the tower-like end bays. Windows with heavy architraves and discs; Greek key and guilloche friezes. Semi-octagonal dormer like a lookout. Foyer and stairs have a heavy dado in brown and black marble contrasted with a delicate Doric entablature. Small auditorium with an extremely steep rake, because of the shallow site. Concave balcony with more Greek key on the soffit. Doric proscenium, austere and dramatic, with a huge frieze.

From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster.