Portland Bill - New Lighthouse - green grill : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Portland Bill - New Lighthouse - green grill / ell brown
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | After we left Weymouth, we went to the Isle of Portland, mainly to go to the lighthouse at Portland Bill.We may have gone when I was little, but back then the lighthouse was closed. This time it was open.The island (well it's not really an island as it is connected by a land bridge to the rest of Dorset) is where the famous Portland Stone comes from.The New Lighthouse is Grade II listed.New Lighthouse with Boundary Walls, PortlandPORTLANDSY67NE PORTLAND BILL ROAD, Portland Bill969-1/1/162 (South side)New Lighthouse with boundary wallsIILighthouse with coastguard accommodation. Opened January 11th1906, (report in Weymouth Telegram, 12.01.06), built byWakeham Brothers of Plymouth, at cost of »13,000. Paintedrender; flat roof to coastguard house assumed asphaltic. Lofty(35m)tapered shaft to heavy moulded cornice carryingcylindrical domed lantern set to balcony with cast-ironbalustrade in 12 bays; heavy moulded posts and three plainrails. Various openings in five stages, deep-set 2-lightcasements to cambered raised lintels and heavy stooled cills.Trinity House badge set to south face; entrance door on NWside. Single-storey link to flat-roofed coastguard house intwo storeys, 4 x 3 bays, mainly two light casements withtransom, to stooled cills. In second bay from south each sidea projecting square flat-roofed porch with part glazed doors;entry also in low link adjoining tower. Single-storey wingfull width north end. All set to plinth, and with heavymoulded cornice; four large stacks with heavy cappings set inon flat roof.Subsidiary Features: enclosed by rubble wall, paintedexternally, half-cylindrical coping, c 1.5m high, with pairsof square gate piers to heavy pyramidal cappings and woodengates on east and west facing link block. Similar wallscentrally back to house from each of four sides. Servicebuilding in south east corner has cast-iron ventilatorgrilles. This new lighthouse replaced the former Old Higherand Old Lower Lighthouses (qqv). It is a complete group, andan important complement historically to the two earlierbuildings.(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London:1970-: 253).Listing NGR: SY6773768376Green grill |
| 撮影日 | 2012-05-01 15:15:45 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Portland, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.008 sec (1/120) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |