Victoria Dock - Gloucester Docks - sculpture - The Candle - near the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum and Gloucester Yacht Club : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Victoria Dock - Gloucester Docks - sculpture - The Candle - near the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum and Gloucester Yacht Club / 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 | At the Gloucester Docks.Victoria Dock.This dock was opened in 1849 to enlarge the dock area for increasingly busy trade. Mobile shots as the batteries on my main camera were flat!Sculpture seen between the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum and Gloucester Yacht Club.Regiments of Gloucestershire Museum, Gloucester GLOUCESTER SO8218SE COMMERCIAL ROAD 844-1/11/99 (South side) 12/03/73 No.31 Regiments of Gloucestershire Museum (Formerly Listed as: COMMERCIAL ROAD (South side) Custom House) GV II HM Custom and Excise Office, now museum. Completed 1845, by Sydney Smirke for the Customs Commissioners. Minor alterations c1985 for conversion as the Regiments of Gloucestershire Museum. Ashlar to front and sides, brick at rear, slate roof, brick stack. Symmetrical double-depth block; the C20 entrance to museum at rear is approached from the Docks. EXTERIOR: two storeys and basement. Symmetrical front to Commercial Road; offset plinth, raised bands at first floor and first-floor sill levels, crowning cornice and a coped parapet; at the outer corners between the plinth and the first-floor band, and between the first-floor sill band and the crowning cornice, are long raised and chamfered quoins. On the ground floor in the centre a porch of slight projection, the open front framed by pilasters and entablature with parapet above; flanking the porch on either side a sash with a further sash widely spaced to left and right in plain openings with projecting stone sills. On the first floor the same pattern of openings with three closely spaced sashes in the centre and a architraves and floating cornices. All the sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes). Set above the centre of the parapet the royal arms carved in stone. Elevation at each end has three sashes on each floor with details are similar to the front. Rear elevation facing the Docks of brick, with late C20 glazed extension. INTERIOR: not inspected HISTORY: built in order to handle the great expansion of foreign trade passing through Gloucester Docks in the second half of the nineteenth century. Listing NGR: SO8287518393Navigation House, Gloucester GLOUCESTER SO8218SE COMMERCIAL ROAD 844-1/11/97 (South side) 12/03/73 Nos.23 AND 25 Navigation House (Formerly Listed as: COMMERCIAL ROAD (South side) Nos.23 AND 25) GV II Shown on OS map as No.23. House, now offices. 1848, for a ships' chandler; C20 alterations. Brick with front faced in ashlar, hipped slate roof, brick stack. Double-depth block. EXTERIOR: two storeys with 2-storey basement at rear. Symmetrical front, on the ground floor a doorway at each end framed by pilasters with banded rustication and moulded imposts which support an entablature at first-floor level across the width of the front, its cornice supported on consoles above the outer pilasters; the former opening between the doorways altered in 1985 by the insertion of a matching central pilaster and a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) to either side, in the doorways rectangular fanlights with margin-pane glazing, panelled doors. On the first floor raised and chamfered quoins at the outer corners and a crowning entablature; two sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with projecting sills. In the centre of the east wall, lighting the stairwell, a tall, semicircular arched sash with glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. Listing NGR: SO8291218369This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.Source: English HeritageListed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.The Candle by Wolfgang Buttress, 2011.Laser cut and etched cor ten rolled steel. |
| 撮影日 | 2014-08-09 14:50:04 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Gloucester, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | C5303 , Sony |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/1600) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.4 |
| 焦点距離 | 3 mm |