Vicars' Hall and gateway : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Vicars' Hall and gateway / ell brown
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| 説明 | Vicar's Hall is Grade I listed. On St Andrews Street in Wells, Somerset.Assembly and dining hall for the Vicars Choral. Completed1348, being built for Bishop Ralph. Slightly extended by JMParker in mid C19. Local coursed rubble stone with Doultigashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof between stepped copedgables.PLAN: T-plan.EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. North elevations of 5 bays, of which bay4 projects as the staircase/Chequer tower. At ground floorlevel there is a 4-centre moulded-arched throughway to bays 1and 2; bay 3 has a small 2-light flat headed window withtransom; bay 5 has a pointed-arched doorway with a 3-lightflat-headed window over. First floor has an oriel window tobay 1, with a 4-light sub-arcuated transomd window, belowwhich are 4 shield panels, with parapet above; right of thisis a canopied statue niche and then two 2-lightcurvilinear-traceried windows with moulded reveals and nolabels; bay 5 has a 3-light oriel of simpler detail than thatto bay 1, and which represents a small addition of c1862.Tower projects forward for 3 bays, with corner buttresses toless than half-height, string course and battlemented parapet.At ground-floor level is a pointed moulded archway with sidecolumns and capitals to middle order, with rectangular slitwindow over at mezzanine level, and at first-floor level is a2-light perpendicular- traceried pointed arched window withoutlabel, part of a small early C15 addition over the stairway.In the SW corner of the tower wing, at junction with mainblock, is a small octagonal service stair turret, withpyramidal roof. In east return of stair tower a matching porcharch, then 3-non-glazed 2-light windows up line of stairs,small rectangular window under stairs, and three 2-lightwindows set under slight lower return parapet.South elevation to St Andrew Street in similar style, but thesecond bay from left is now obscured by the Chain Gate (qv),added in 1459, the through passage arch divided intopedestrian and waggon arches, with timber gate to the formerand wrought-iron gate, probably C19, to latter. The upperwindows are matching 2-light curvilinear-traceried windows,with timber gate to the former and wrought-iron gate probablyC19, to latter. The upper windows are matching 2-lightcurvilinear-traceried windows, with an oriel at the east end.INTERIOR: throughway has a lierne vault, with pointed archeddoorways in centre of east wall and south end of west wall.The ground-floor rooms occupied by the Freemasons, formerlythe store-room and cellar, walls and ceilings said to havebeen decorated by William Burges.The staircase porch has a lierne, almost fan, vault, and thereis a pair of C18 gates across the bottom of the stone steps,which have a heavy wall-mounted handrail, possibly medieval.The main hall has a plain wooden barrel roof with pilasterpanels, the windows have 4-centred rere arches and containsome original stained glass, other early features are thefireplace, with a painting over of medieval date, two woodstatues of apparently C14 date on the east wall, wallpanelling possibly C15/C16, a large bread bin fitting probablyof 1348, medieval benches and two restoration tables. Theadjoining kitchen has a stone floor, and retains the spit anda Somerset stone sink.Over the staircase, the Chequer room has an arch-braced collartruss roof with curved windbraces, probably of c1420-1440,features include a fireplace enlarged in c1500, a piscina, acupboard and a seal-chest, the windows, unglazed until 1912,retain their wooden shutters.Opening off this is the Muniment room with the c1420 filingcabinets, in which all the drawers are of slightly differentshape/size so that none could be replaced in wrong position.Steane refers to other surviving examples of medieval"armoires" at St George's, Windsor Castle and at WinchesterCollege.(Colchester LS: Wells Cathedral: London: 1987-; Steane J: TheArchaeology of Medieval England and Wales: London: 1985-).Vicar's Hall, Wells - Heritage GatewayWells was used as a location in the movie Hot Fuzz starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. I went to Wells around two years after the film came out (so at the cinema Wells meant nothing to me). On rewatching it on TV, I recognised Wells locations. |
| 撮影日 | 2009-03-27 12:31:33 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Wells, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix F470 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.8 |