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Windsor Ruins near Alcorn, Mississippi
Smith Coffee Daniell II, a successful cotton planter, completed construction of Windsor in 1861. Daniell owned 21,000 acres of plantation land in Louisiana and Mississippi. Ironically, he died in April 1861, only weeks after completing his mansion. His wife and children continued to live at Windsor but were left to suffer the loss of much of the family’s holdings during the Civil War.
Windsor’s basic style was Greek Revival but with added details borrowed from Italiante and Gothic architecture. The house contained 23 rooms, with an above-ground basement, two residential floors, and an attic. The ell-shaped extension on the east side, attached to a single row of columns extending from the main square, contained the kitchen, pantry, and dining room. Rainwater stored in large tanks in the attic supplied two bathrooms. A cupola, from which the Mississippi River could be viewed, was centered on top of the roof.
The mansion survived the Civil War only to be destroyed by accidental fire on February 17, 1890. All was lost except for the columns and the ironwork. One flight of metal stairs from Windsor is now installed at Oakland Chapel on the campus of nearby Alcorn State University. All of the Daniell family’s photographs and drawings of the mansion were lost in the fire. In 1991, historians discovered a drawing of Windsor sketched in 1863 by a Union soldier in Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s army.
Descendants of the Daniell family donated Windsor Ruins to the State of Mississippi in 1974. Today the site is administered by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it has been used by a succession of monarchs and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. The castle's lavish, early 19th-century State Apartments are architecturally significant, described by art historian Hugh Roberts as "a superb and unrivalled sequence of rooms widely regarded as the finest and most complete expression of later Georgian taste". The castle includes the 15th-century St George's Chapel, considered by historian John Robinson to be "one of the supreme achievements of English Perpendicular Gothic" design. More than five hundred people live and work in Windsor, making it the largest inhabited castle in the world.
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O CASTELO DE WINDSOR - A Torre Redonda: Round Tower - Abriga o arquivo e o acervo fotográfico reais, fechados ao público.
É uma das residências preferidas da realeza britânica, nele passam muitos fins de semana, Páscoa e outras datas. É o maior Castelo do mundo habitado. A Rainha Vitória (1819-1901) e o Príncipe Alberto, fizeram do Castelo de Windsor a sua residência. Com as doenças e pestes que assolavam Londres, a Rainha Vitória deixa o Palácio de Buckingham e decide morar no Castelo de Windsor, lá permaneceu até sua morte. Arte, luxo... muitas das salas do Castelo têm peças de arte fabulosas, incluindo pinturas de Rubens, Holbein, Van Dyke, Rembrandt e Lawrence, bem como tapeçaria, porcelana, esculturas e armaduras. Os 200 hectares do Home Park ficam na parte de trás do Castelo e incluem o sítio de Frogmore, onde a Rainha Victoria e o Príncipe Albert foram sepultados.
O Castelo de Windsor é a mais antiga residência real britânica continuamente habitada. Foi construído originalmente em madeira, em 1080, por Guilherme, o Conquistador que reinou desde 1066 até à sua morte em 1087. O seu Castelo de material original erguia-se no local da atual “Torre Redonda”. Este Castelo formava parte do anel de castelos defensivos em volta de Londres. O local era ideal, alto e a apenas um dia de viagem da base militar na Torre de Londres. As alterações feitas pelos monarcas com o passar dos anos, fazem do Castelo uma vitrine das mudanças de gosto da realeza. Jorge V apreciava tanto o Castelo que, em 1917, elegeu Windsor como sobrenome da família real.
Entre os eventos expressivos que ocorreram nas dependências do Castelo, destacam-se: o casamento de Henrique I e sua segunda esposa, Adeliza (1121). O nascimento do Rei Eduardo III (1312): “Eduardo de Windsor”. O casamento de Eduardo, o Príncipe Negro e Joana de Kent (1361). O sepultamento do Rei Eduardo IV (1483). O casamento do futuro Rei Eduardo VII e Alexandra da Dinamarca (1863). O sepultamento do Rei Jorge VI (1952). O casamento do Príncipe Edward e Sophie Rhys-Jones (1999). O sepultamento da Rainha-mãe Elizabeth, consorte de Jorge VI e mãe de Isabel II (2002). O aniversário de 21 anos do Príncipe William de Gales (2003).
Windsor Elementary School students, parents, faculty and staff wore their pink in support of finding a cure for breast cancer on Oct. 31. They paraded around the exterior of the school carrying signs they made showing their support.
I admit a bit of photo trickery has been used to spice up the colours a little in this Windsor Christmas scene
"Windsor Lodge" 6-14 Darley Street, Darlinghurst. One Bedroom Unit No 48 SOLD 2 March 2021 with view to the east and St. Vincent's Hospital through picture window.
Windsor Elementary School students, parents, faculty and staff wore their pink in support of finding a cure for breast cancer on Oct. 31. They paraded around the exterior of the school carrying signs they made showing their support.
The Town Hall as we know it today was commenced in 1687, the foundation stone being laid on 5th September 1687. It was designed by Sir Thomas Fitz, (Fiddes), Surveyor to the Cinque Ports. Sir Thomas died before the work was finished, and it was completed by Sir Christopher Wren and ready for occupation on 17th October 1689. The design of the building allowed for a corn market beneath the meeting chamber above. Many have wondered about the four pillars in the centre of the Corn Market, for they do not actually support the ceiling. Rumour has it that the council were concerned that the unsupported floor of the chamber may collapse, but Sir Christopher Wren, to prove a point, left the additional columns short of the ceiling. The pillars are of Portland Stone. In the large council chamber are a number of excellent paintings of Royal and other persons, including portraits of King George V and Queen Mary, presented by Their Majesties to the Corporation.
More recently the town hall was the venue for the marriage of Prince Charles and Camila Parker Bowles.
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Legoland Windsor, is a child-oriented theme park and resort in Windsor, Berkshire in England, themed around the Lego toy system.
I am visiting Windsor Castle as the first stop of a 3-stop all-day Golden Tours itinerary, that will also take me to Stonehenge and Oxford by motorcoach.
A group of schoolgirls pose together just outside the moat for the Round Tower.
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