The Old Grammar School and St Nicholas Church - Kings Norton : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Old Grammar School and St Nicholas Church - Kings Norton / ell brown
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| 説明 | winner of 2004's Restoration on the BBC, as presented by Griff Rhys JonesThe Parish Church of St Nicholas Church, Kings Norton is a church in the parish of Kings Norton, in the Church of England, Diocese of Birmingham. It is a Grade I listed building. A church has been on this site since the 11th century. The current church may have existed as early as 1213, but most likely the 13th century. The spire was built between 1446 and 1475. The side of the church was rebuilt in the 17th century. A parish was assigned to the church in 1846.The Old Grammar School is a Grade II* listed building.Probably built as the priest's house to St Nicholas's Church. Early C15 altered. Stone plinth; ground floor brick with stone quoins; first floor half-timbered. Two storeys; 3 bays, the centre one advanced, gabled and containing the porch. Ground floor apparently underbuilt when the porch was added probably in the late C16. All windows mullioned, in stone on the ground floor and in wood on the first. On the right hand return, a window with rusticated tracery. To the left, a modern staircase of C1910. Inside, some simple C17 panelling and the roof of 3 trusses forming 2 centred arches.Old Grammar School - Kings Norton - Heritage GatewayIt is a Grade I listed building.Substantial medieval church of sandstone with nave, aisles, chancel and west tower with spire, south porch. Norman origin but predominantly late C13 and C14. Major feature of C15 west tower and spire with contemporary south porch, gabled clerestory a C17 addition chancel restored with considerable reconstruction by Ewan Christian C1863. North aisle rebuilt with the old materials and vestry added to north west end in the restoration of 1872 by W J Hopkins. The chancel retains 2 reset C12 round arched windows in the north wall, and was probably rebuilt in the early C13 with a further rebuild in the C14. Major rebuilding commenced late C13 with the 7 bay north aisle arcade, the south aisle arcade being early C14 - octagonal and quatrefoil clustered shaft piers, but one circular. Arches of 2 chamfered orders. C14 chancel arch of 2 orders with ball flower ornament to inner one, south aisle windows with hood moulds C14: north aisle windows altered in 1872 restoration. The tower and spires of the C15: 4 stages, the belfry arcade to each face with 4 2-light mullioned-transomed windows, outer ones blind, all with crocketted gabled drip moulds with finials. Crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles, the graceful octagonal spire rising above in 3 stages, the south porch also C15 with remains of a crocketed image bracket above the doorway in the gable. Inside the porch the carved corner corbels indicate the original intention to vault in stone. In C1659 (dated beam) the 3 gables containing the south clerestory were added, those to the north removed in the rebuilding of the north aisle of 1872. Good C16 and C17 monuments mostly grouped under the tower, noteworthy for its strapwork the alabaster altar-tomb with recumbent effigies of Sir Richard Grevis and 1632 and his wife. The church holds a commanding position on a hillock set in a churchyard on the north side of the green. The tower is a landmark.Church of St Nicholas - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2009-04-23 15:18:46 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Kings Norton, England, UK 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix F470 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/9.7 |