Aston Hall - Pan sculpture : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Aston Hall - Pan sculpture / ell brown
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | A look around the outside of Aston Hall. I was there for the Birmingham Heritage Week Siege event, but was also an opportunity to get exterior photos of the hall that I didn't get on previous visits to Aston Park.The area of Aston Park with colourful flowers, the Pan sculpture and stone vases.Also a look at the back of Aston Hall.Grade I listed buildingAston HallListing TextASTON PARK1. Aston PARK5104 Aston B6Aston Hall[formerly listed asAston Hall (City ofBirmingham Museums)]SP 08 NE 7/4 25.4.52I2.1618-35 for Sir Thomas Holte. A major early Jacobean house on a grand scalewith a main block facing east, the forecourt enclosed by projecting flankingwings each with a square turret breaking slightly from the inner face. Shapedgables to front of wings and across symmetrical elevation of main block whichin surmounted by an axial tower rising in 3 stages from the balustraded parapetto terminate in a 2 tier cupola: the dome on a square base over the originallower tier. Surprisingly restrained ornament to the elevations of red brickwith darker brick diaper, the stone facings and quoins reserved for the corners.Well proportioned mullion and transom windows, with 2 storey canted orielwindows crested by strapwork to the ends of the wings. The central stonedoorway, giving immediately into the centre of the hall, has Doric columns,entablature and cartouches above framed by strapwork and surmounted by ballfinials. An inscription bears the date 1618. Plans for the ground and firstfloors survive in John Thorpe's book of drawings in the Soame Museum but thereare differences in execution, particularly the plan of the hall, a provisionfor a polygonal end to the chapel on the south front and 3 bays on the westthe foundations of which survive. Alterations may well have taken place followingdamage in the Civil War. Narrow wings abut the outer faces of the main forecourtwings but were originally of one storey only at their east and west endsheightened in the late C17. An arcaded loggia flanks the chapel projectionin the centre of the south front. The west range has a 2 storey main elevationwith a flat roof ro the Long Gallery on the first floor, the main block ofthe hall rising on the third storey behind with 6 shaped gables and a chimneystack with 6 grouped octagonal shafts. Archway to loggia at south end originallyone storey but as on east front heightened late C17, corresponding archwayadded to north end in C18. The north elevation service/kitchen range withconsiderable alterations to fenestration in the late C17 and C18 and withearly C19 service one storey additions. Very fine interior with wealth ofdecorations in contrast to almost classical restraint of exterior. Much panellingand architectural framework to doorways in great hall and to many of the monumentalchimney pieces in stone end alabaster. Richly carved strapwork balustradestaircase in square well. One hundred and thirty six feet long, well preserved,long gallery. Considerable amount of original decorative plasterwork to friezeand ceilings but desceptively successful imitation Jacobean plasterwork carriedout for John Watt the younger, leasee of the Hall in the 1818 to 1848.Listing NGR: SP0792989845This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-09-16 13:15:20 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham City, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | DMC-FZ72 , Panasonic |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.9 |