Birmingham Municipal Bank - Broad Street - ionic doric columns : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Birmingham Municipal Bank - Broad Street - ionic doric columns / ell brown
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| 説明 | Was walking past this bank / former bank on Broad Street and decided to take it (well it was part of the original civic plans for this site).It is / was the Birmingham Municipal Bank and is Grade II listed. It was a Lloyds TSB bank until a few years ago.It was a savings bank. It was created as the Birmingham Corporation Savings Bank by a 1916 Act of Parliament, to raise money to aid World War I. It was the only municipal bank in the country.It was suggested by local politican Neville Chamberlain in 1915. It opened in 1916, and became permenant in 1919.The name changed to Birmingham Municipal Bank in 1919.This building was designed by Thomas Cecil Howitt at 301 Broad Street, and was the banks headquarters from 1933.By 1976 it had become the Trustee Savings Bank (TSB) and by 1995 Lloyds TSB.Check out those doric columns! I think that they are ionic doric columns.Trustee Savings Bank, BirminghamSP 0686 NW BIRMINGHAM BROAD STREET(south side)997/32/10167 Former BirminghamMunicipal Bank (TSB)GV IIBank. 1931, by T. Cecil Howitt. Portland stone and granite ashlar. Roof concealed.PLAN: Rectangular plan with entrance, in recessed centre of front behind colonnade, to large rectangular banking hall surrounded by offices. Monumental classical style building.EXTERIOR: Centre of north front breaks forward With Tetrastyle colonnade of giant Ionic columns in antis with broad terminal piers, flanked by blind rusticated walls with recessed corners, the returns of the recesses have tall and narrow decorative grilles; the entablature has a tall parapet and blind attic above set back, with a carved frieze. Behind the colonnade, 5 bays, the windows with architraves, the ground floor with grilles and with roundels above; central round-arched doorway in moulded architrave with rosettes and with bronze doors and fanlight grille; flanking the doorway ornate bronze lanterns. The side elevations have 1:7:1 bays, the end bays advanced, the windows in moulded architraves, those on ground floor with cornices and pediments on consoles, the tall parapet reduced at the centre to reveal round arched attic windows.INTERIOR: Large banking hall clad in polished limestone, the arcaded side walls with barley-twist arris mouldings to the arches and with carved roundels above; the front wall has small balconettes and grilles; the ceiling is coffered.SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 116.Listing NGR: SP0636386740 |
| 撮影日 | 2009-12-19 16:11:57 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.2 sec (1/5) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.8 |