Blickling Hall - sculpture of a bull : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Blickling Hall - sculpture of a bull / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is Blickling Hall in Norfolk - a National Trust property dating to the early 17th century.Going inside, two sides of the building before entering it. After this I put my camera away.Sculpture of a bull / cow.Blickling Hall is a Grade I listed building.Country house. Built c.1619-27 for Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Justice,to the designs of the surveyor Robert Lyminge. Remodelling 1765-85 by Thomasand William Ivory of Norwich. Red brick with stone and stucco dressings;roofs plain tiled and pantiled with lead domes to corner turrets. 2½, 3 and4 storeys, originally a double- courtyard plan, entered from the south andopen to the north. South front of seven bays, the outer bays occupied bysquare corner turrets with ogee lead-covered domes. Bays 2, 4 and 6 are threestoreys high with shaped gables to attics and canted 2-storey bay windowswith pierced parapets. Strapwork pediments to upper windows. Windowsgenerally ovolo-moulded mullion and transom with leaded glazing and ironcasements. Two transoms to first floor windows, lighting the principal rooms;windows set slightly advanced and with embellished heads of strapwork,balustrading or pediments. Frieze band with triglyphs and guttae above groundfloor window heads. Central entrance approached via a stone bridge over theformer moat: pierced stone parapet with square piers surmounted by Hobartbulls supporting shields. Two brick arches with stone dressings below. Oakentrance screen with raised and fielded panels, six to the doors and sixin the screen panels. Three lintol panels above dated 1620. Semicircularfanlight with pierced wood and iron screen. Doorway flanked by two Doriccolumns supporting frieze of bulls' heads, central keystone with figurecarving. Spandrels carved with female figures holding wreaths. Entablaturewith heraldry above. Central first floor window of 12 lights flanked by Ionicpilasters with blocking; figures of Justice and Truth on balustrade above.Moulded coping to parapet and gables with figures on keyblocks at gablepeaks. Central clock tower a reconstruction by John Adey Repton c.1830:stuccoed and colourwashed. Lower stage has pedimented windows betweenpilasters with block decoration supporting a decorated frieze; clock stagehas tapering Ionic pilasters and strapwork embellishment to clock face andwindow openings. Octagonal opensided lantern with lead covered ogee domeand finial with weather vane. Two large symmetrically-placed chimney stackseach with 8 octagonal shafts with star tops and moulded bases. At south-eastand south-west corners, C19 arcaded screens link to service ranges (q.v.).East facade has 9 bays between corner turrets; rainwater heads dated 1620.Projecting bay windows in bays 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, canted in bays 1, 3 and 5.Stone ovolo-moulded mullion and transom windows with leaded glazing; someiron lattice frames. Above the bays, shaped attic gables with 3-light windows.Continuous band above ground floor window heads decorated with triglyphs.Corner turrets have pedimented and embellished doorways with semi-circular-arched heads, those on the east front have blocked pilasters andentablatures with arms. Eaves parapet with stone coping; gable peaks havekeyblocks and figure finials. North front remodelled by William Ivory c.1779:the corner turrets and the left-hand shaped gable survive from the originalbuild. Centre three bays slightly advanced with mullion and transom windowsprojecting from wall face under pediments. Frieze of triglyphs continuesabove ground floor window heads. Stone eaves cornice with balustrade.Flanking bays with shaped gables have 2-storey square projections with large5-light windows and pierced stone parapets; two transoms to first floor windowsas elsewhere. West facade dated 1769, rebuilt by Thomas and William Ivory.13 bays, 1 and 13 being the square corner turrets. Bays 4, 7, 10 have shapedgables to attic storey with eaves parapet, coping and finials as on eastfacade. Windows generally ovolo-moulded 2 and 3 light casements with leadedglazing, some first floor windows reglazed. Transoms and pediments to firstfloor windows. All windows set slightly forward of wall face. The centreentrance bay is embellished: the first floor window has a strapwork pediment,below the window a panel commemorating the bequest of Mary Ann, Countess ofBuckinghamshire, towards the erection of the facade, 1769. Attic window onscrolled base with finials. Interior: very fine and elaborate interiors,fully described in the National Trust guide book. Original staircase extendedand reconstructed 1767 by Thomas Ivory in the new position: elaborately-carvednewels with figure-finials on pedestals; square, tapering balusters with Ioniccaps and arcading below handrail; strapwork between baluster feet. Buildingin care of the National Trust. (Pevsner The Buildings of England - North-eastNorfolk and Norwich 1962, Christopher Hussey Country Life June 7, 21, 28 1930,Blickling Hall The National Trust 1985.)Blickling Hall - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2010-04-21 12:03:07 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Blickling, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.014 sec (1/70) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.2 |