Flamsteed House - Royal Observatory Greenwich - The One o'clock time signal : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Flamsteed House - Royal Observatory Greenwich - The One o'clock time signal / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is Flamsteed House at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. One gallery inside houses Harrison's sea clocks.It is the oldest of the observatory buildings here. Dating back to the time of Charles II (although he never came here).In 1676 the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed moved in to this building. He worked at the Observatory for 43 years!The building had become widely known as ‘Flamsteed House’ even before his death there in 1719. Grade I listed building.Royal Observatory Flamsteed House, Greenwich1.4412 GREENWICH PARK SE10Royal ObservatoryFlamsteed HouseTQ 3877 26/G54I2.1675-6 with later additions, attributed to Sir Christopher Wren. Main Northfront of 2 storeys. 3 window centre with square 3-storey angle towers. Projectingeaves cornices and domed caps with high vanes to towers. Red brick with whitestone quoins, both to towers and to main building. Very tall 1st floor withprojecting cornice and balustrade over between towers. Very long plain centralwindow in chamfered stone architrave. Wrought iron balcony. Side windows inmoulded, shouldered architraves. Stone string at 1st floor level. 7-windowground floor. Parapet with stone coping has scrolled ramped inner part sweepingup almost to cornice of main block. Moulded architraves to ground floor windows.Door at left opening to walled terrace blocked at either end by 2-storey, 1-windowC18 pavilions in similar style with domes. Rear elevation a large canted baywith coved and moulded cornice and balustraded parapet. 1st floor only visibleas 1-storey C19 brick extension masks ground floor. Entrance on East, in angleat right, has porch protection with roof sloping up to front parapet. Side andrear windows very long casements in shouldered, moulded stone architraves. BeneathEast window a plaque in richly carved baroque stone frame with serpentine openpediment, bears Latin inscription stating that Charles II founded the observatoryin 1676. Inside a staircase with barley-sugar twist columns leads to the octagonroom containing historic portraits, telescopes and clocks. Coved, octagonalceiling centre wth decorative border. Moulded and coved cornice with garlandsin high relief and royal ciphers. A later staircase leads down to the rear extensionnow laid out as a museum of historic astronomical instruments.Listing NGR: TQ3888877321The one o'clock time signal is above the Octagon Room. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-10-14 12:13:33 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | London, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S2980 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/680) |
| 開放F値 | f/9.0 |