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It once stood against a timber framed hall and is one of the earliest uses of home made bricks in England. Aerial view of Little Wenham Castle or Hall in Suffolk - one of the oldest houses in England. 13th century & Grade 1
Aerial image: HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince Of Wales moored in front of the Portsmouth naval base & historic dock yards
The two working drawbridges have been drawn up every night since 1510.
Aerial view of Helmingham Hall in Suffolk - UK aerial photography
Early morning aerial of the Namib Desert and the Devil’s Pitchfork.
Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia.
"View of the plain of Alsace"
Le château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg est un château fort alsacien du xiie siècle, profondément remanié au xve siècle et restauré avant la Première Guerre mondiale sous Guillaume II (Wikipedia)
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Aerial view of Elsing Hall - moated manor house in Norfolk. Built 1460-70 by Sir Hugh Hastings & restored/extended in 1852 by Thomas Jekyll. Norfolk UK aerial photography
assemblage panoramique de 13 images version "inception". Drone DJI Phantom 4
Pour voir le processus de création de l'image, rendez-vous sur cette vidéo : youtu.be/S_OC8CmNNKQ
Aerial view of a rainbow above Settle in the Yorkshire Dales - aerial imagery from a sub 250g drone.
Aerial view of the Ribblehead in North Yorkshire - completed 1874. Over 100 men lost their lives during its construction. Yorkshire UK aerial image
Cet escalier offre une vue spectaculaire vers le nord, sur le quartier Christianshavn en avant-plan et plus loin, sur le Skuespilhuset, à l’entrée du canal Nyhavn, et l'Operaen à København (Copenhague), la capitale du Danemark.
Le Skuespilhuset ou Nouveau Théâtre Royal a été construit en 2008. Quant à l’Operaen (Opéra), bâti en 2005, il se trouve à la fin de l'axe historique reliant la Marmorkirken (l'église de marbre) à la place d’Amalienborg. Les deux édifices culturels de style moderne, qui sont font presque face de part et d’autre du canal Inderhavnen, sont parmi les principaux symboles architecturaux de la spectaculaire métamorphose des anciennes zones portuaires de la ville. Dans les années 1617 à 1622, le roi Christian IV fit construire ce nouveau quartier sur pilotis au-dessus des eaux peu profondes reliant les canaux du port à l'île d'Amager. Le modèle choisi fut celui d'une cité néerlandaise avec un canal séparant la partie basse de la partie haute.
Construite en 1696, avec son plan en croix grecque, la Vor Frelsers Kirke est la première église du pays de style baroque hollandais. Ses hautes baies cintrées et ses murs de brique sombre ornés de pilastres et de bas-reliefs en font un bâtiment remarquable. La parfaite symétrie n'est brisée que par l'exceptionnel clocher, une flèche si spectaculaire érigée en 1752 par Laurids de Thurah, l'architecte de la cour (qui avait fait un voyage d'étude à Rome), sur le modèle de Sant'Ivo de Rome. Cette tour comporte un escalier en colimaçon de 400 marches dont les 150 dernières qui s’enroulent à l’extérieur offrent une belle vue à 360° de la ville. Elle est évoquée par Jules Verne dans «Voyage au centre de la terre» où ses héros s’y entraînent pour vaincre leur vertige. Une légende dit que l’architecte, s’apercevant que les marches tournaient de mauvais sens, se serait jeté du sommet.
Seaford Head Local Nature Reserve, & Sussex Wildlife Trust. Seaford Head & the Seven Sisters in East Sussex UK - aerial image
Rockingham Castle was a haunt of Charles Dickens, who was a great friend of Richard and Lavinia Watson—ancestors of the current family. The castle was arguably the inspiration for Chesney Wold in Bleak House. Rockingham Castle aerial image - Northamptonshire UK
The castle where Henry VI was born. Aerial view of Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire - Wales UK aerial image
Aerial view of St Benets Level Drainage Mill & Thurne Mill on the river Thurne - Norfolk Broads UK - www.norfolkmills.co.uk/WindmillsD/st-benets-level-drainag...
aerial view looking across Blakeney Harbour and the Holkham National Nature Reserve towards Wells next the Sea - north Norfolk aerial image
Aerial view of the Great Naval Hospital (now private homes) in Great Yarmouth. Completed in 1811, it was commissioned by the Admiralty to care for the sick and wounded of the Royal Navy's North Sea Fleet in its battles with the Napoleonic French Navy. Norfolk aerial image. www.rnhgy.org.uk/
From the air you can see just how self-contained Launde Abbey is, tucked into its own bowl of countryside in east Leicestershire. The big house sits on a terrace above the valley of the River Chater, with the old stable yard on one side, a dense belt of trees on the other and the walled kitchen garden and glasshouses laid out below. Beyond that the park rolls away in every direction, dotted with mature oaks, ponds and grazing stock, with the drive looping in from the ridge.
This quiet valley has a long history. Around the early 1120s the royal official Richard Basset and his wife Maud founded an Augustinian priory here. By the time Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the late 1530s Launde was a well-endowed religious house bringing in the thick end of four hundred pounds a year in income – serious money for a rural community. The king’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell had his eye on it and arranged for the lands to be granted to him, although he was executed before he could enjoy his prize.
It fell instead to his son Gregory Cromwell to turn the old priory into a grand country residence. He built a new house on the site, keeping part of the former priory church as a private chapel, and he and his wife Elizabeth Seymour – sister of Queen Jane Seymour – lived here until his death, when he was buried in that chapel. Their Elizabethan house set the basic footprint for the building that survives today.
Over the next two centuries the estate passed through several gentry families. In the early seventeenth century it was bought by the Smiths, then in the mid-eighteenth century by the Simpson family, who invested heavily in the park and plantations. In 1828 Mary Finch Simpson married Edward Dawson of Long Whatton and the Dawsons commissioned the architect Thomas Rickman to remodel the old house. During the 1830s he refashioned it into the tall, gabled, E-shaped country house in this photograph, giving it its present roofline, chimneys and large mullioned windows. The work and associated landscaping ran into many thousands of pounds, a major outlay for the period.
By the mid-twentieth century the upkeep of a place like this was becoming difficult. In 1957 the businessman Cecil Coleman and his wife bought Launde, paid for modernisation and repairs, and then gave house and grounds to the Church to be used as a residential retreat for the dioceses of Leicester and Peterborough. Later campaigns raised roughly a million pounds to upgrade bedrooms, services and public rooms so that the buildings could continue to earn their keep.
Today Launde Abbey is run as a Christian retreat and conference centre, welcoming groups and individuals for quiet days, courses and holidays. The aerial view shows the whole working community: the main house with its chapel wing, the old stable and service court, the rectilinear walled garden still growing fruit and vegetables, and the sheltering trees that mark the line of the former priory precinct. Nearly nine centuries after the first canons arrived, the site is still being used as a place of reflection and hospitality, only now with visiting parties arriving by car rather than on horseback – and occasionally by microlight overhead.