Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum - Foregate Street, Worcester - foundation stone : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum - Foregate Street, Worcester - foundation stone / ell brown
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| 説明 | A return to Foregate Street in Worcester. This time I went into the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum. The museum is free to enter.The building is Grade II* listed,City Museum and Library with Gates, WorcesterWORCESTERSO8455SE FRIAR STREET620-1/12/270 (East side)05/04/71 City Museum and Librarywith gates(Formerly Listed as:FRIAR STREET(East side)City Museum and Library(Formerly VictoriaInstitute))GV II*Museum and library with gates. 1896, by JW Simpson and MilnerAllen at a cost of around ,25,000. Red brick in Flemish bondwith moulded terracotta tiles and plain tile roof; brick leftend stack, banded and with cornice; cast-iron gates andbalustrade. Free Renaissance style. Irregular plan. 2- and 3storeys with attic, 3 bays plus tower: from left are 2 tallstoreys, 2 bays with 3-lower-storey bay at right with attic ingable set back, then corner octagonal 5-stage tower. Centralgable contains clock in elaborate cartouche. 'Victoria Regina'on cartouches; 'THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE' to central frieze;'Library and Museum' over entrance.FACADE: the central, entrance bay breaks forward and hasquoins to angles; flight of steps to cambered-arched openingand chamfered jambs with hollow- and roll-moulding to head,with three-quarter engaged Ionic columns and dentil pedimentbroken by elaborate royal arms in high relief. Double entrancegates have 'VR' motif and crown, 2 levels of bars and scrolledcrest. Within are 2 sets of double, part-glazed and panelleddoors. Windows are leaded lights in metal frame casementsthroughout. To either side of entrance are 2-light mullionwindows with moulded, eared surrounds and scroll pediments. Toleft bay on ground floor a wide 'Elizabethan' mullion andtransom window in quoined surround with 3:3:3 lights, themiddle lights have semi-circular light over containing scrollpediment, and with scrolled central apron. Above entrance atfirst floor a large 2:4:2 window and to left bay are two large4-light windows, all with mullions and transoms andsegmental-arched lights and on continuous egg and dart sillband; quoined surrounds and composite pilasters betweenwindows embellished with 'VR' motto. Continuous modillionfrieze, and pediment to gabled entrance bay with crown at apexsurmounted by figure of Victory. Arcaded balustrade with urnsat left.Right bay: plinth with moulded band surmounted to ground floorby 5-light mullion window with cornice. To first floor are two2-segmental-arched-light mullion windows in eared surroundsand with central segment. Second floor: three 2-light mullionwindows in tooled surround with egg and dart sill bandcontinuing from first floor of left and centre bays; bandedpilasters between windows rise to moulded cornice. Recessedand gabled attic storey has 3-light mullion window with tooledsurround and central pediment. Tower: on wine-glass stem hasinscription plaques to lower stage (see below) then threesingle-light transom windows in scrolled cartouche surrounds;to third and fourth stages a single light; fourth stagesurmounted by decorative band with swags and cherub heads.Upper stage has 2-light mullion windows with semi-circularlights over in pilastered surrounds and with swags over,three-quarter-engaged Doric columns between and ovolo cornice.Broached spire with cupola surmounted by cornice and weathervane. Right return to Taylor's Lane has similar, but lesselaborate treatment. 5 unequal bays, 2 and 3 storeys. Firstbay of 2 storeys has to first floor a large, 5-light mullionand transom window with 2 levels of transoms. Then a gabledbay breaks forward and has entrance: double 6-panel doors inquoined surround, the shaped hood acts as a balcony to 2-lightmullion and transom window with stick balustrade and further2-light window; 2 segmental arches over on pilasters; gablehas 5-light mullion window. Third bay has five 2-light mullionand transom windows with pilaster strips to upper band. Fourthbay similar to second bay. Fifth bay with further entrance andmainly 3-light mullion windows.Left return: 5 unequal bays, 3 with gables, 2 storeys andattics to gables. Ground floor has mullion and transom windowsof 2 and 5 lights. First stage has three oculi to first bay,2:3:2 light mullion and transom window to third bay and two3-light windows to fourth bay. Second bay is blind; fifth bayhas 2 small 2-light mullion windows. Gables have 2-lightmullion windows, except at right in ornate, broken pedimentedsurrounds and with aprons. Open arcaded balustrade and finialsto gables.INTERIOR: main feature a 2-storey entrance hall with squarepillars and Doric frieze at first floor with balustrade aroundsquare well; Ionic pillars to first floor andcompartmentalised ceiling with dentil frieze and modillioncornice. Stone cantilevered dogleg staircase at right hassquat, squared balusters and wide, shaped handrail.Renaissance motifs continue to stairs. Mosaic floor.HISTORICAL NOTE: datestone to right at base of towerinscribed, 'The Lady Mary Lygon Mayoress opened this buildingOctober 1 1896 The Rt Hon Earl Beauchamp Mayor.'During the C18 Foregate Street was known as 'the mall' andTymbs' Worcester Guide of 1802 notes, 'the Foregate Streetitself, by being well paved and sufficiently broad to admit afull circulation of air seems to be generally resorted to as afashionable promenade.'Pevsner: describes this as 'a resourceful and animated,totally asymmetrical composition in a mixed Tudor and Baroquestyle'. Simpson and Allen had, earlier in the decade, won thecompetition for the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. This is anoutstanding example of late C19 municipal architecture of thistype, in its eclectic use of style redolent of the municipallibraries of H.T. Hare, such as Wolverhampton (1902).The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum andLibrary, and Nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, Nos 33-46(consecutive) and No.49, Foregate Street (qqv) form asignificant group. The City Museum and Library also forms acomplimentary group with Worcester College, Sansome Walk (qv).(The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 324; Worcestershire HistoricalSociety Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal andSuburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcester: 1989-: 12;Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802-: 60). foundation stoneThe Lady Mary Lygon Mayoress opened this building October 1, 1896.The Rt. Hon. Earl Beauchamp Mayor |
| 撮影日 | 2015-08-08 13:03:36 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Worcester, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S2980 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/320) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |
| 焦点距離 | 5 mm |