Aston Hall in Aston Park - right side : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Aston Hall in Aston Park - right side / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is Aston Hall, including all the buildings as viewable from the front. It looks amazing with all that almost perfect snow.It is a Jacobean style mansion. Construction started in 1618 and was finished by 1631 when Sir Thomas Holte moved in. It was designed by John Thorpe. It is a Grade I listed building.It was damaged by Parliamentary troops in 1643. The house was built for Sir Thomas Holte and it remained in the Holte family until 1817, when it was sold and leased to James Watt Jr, son of the world famous James Watt.The house was purchased in 1858 by a private company (the Aston Hall and Park Company Ltd) for use as a public park and museum. After financial difficulties it was bought by the Birmingham Corporation in 1864 becoming the first historic county house to pass to municipal ownership.Washington Irving once visited it, who wrote about it as Bracebridge Hall, taking the name from Abraham Bracebridge, husband of the last member of the Holte family to live there.Rest of the info on Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Hall1618-35 for Sir Thomas Holte. A major early Jacobean house on a grand scalewith a main block facing east, the forecourt enclosed by projecting flankingwings each with a square turret breaking slightly from the inner face. Shapedgables to front of wings and across symmetrical elevation of main block whichin surmounted by an axial tower rising in 3 stages from the balustraded parapetto terminate in a 2 tier cupola: the dome on a square base over the originallower tier. Surprisingly restrained ornament to the elevations of red brickwith darker brick diaper, the stone facings and quoins reserved for the corners.Well proportioned mullion and transom windows, with 2 storey canted orielwindows crested by strapwork to the ends of the wings. The central stonedoorway, giving immediately into the centre of the hall, has Doric columns,entablature and cartouches above framed by strapwork and surmounted by ballfinials. An inscription bears the date 1618. Plans for the ground and firstfloors survive in John Thorpe's book of drawings in the Soame Museum but thereare differences in execution, particularly the plan of the hall, a provisionfor a polygonal end to the chapel on the south front and 3 bays on the westthe foundations of which survive. Alterations may well have taken place followingdamage in the Civil War. Narrow wings abut the outer faces of the main forecourtwings but were originally of one storey only at their east and west endsheightened in the late C17. An arcaded loggia flanks the chapel projectionin the centre of the south front. The west range has a 2 storey main elevationwith a flat roof ro the Long Gallery on the first floor, the main block ofthe hall rising on the third storey behind with 6 shaped gables and a chimneystack with 6 grouped octagonal shafts. Archway to loggia at south end originallyone storey but as on east front heightened late C17, corresponding archwayadded to north end in C18. The north elevation service/kitchen range withconsiderable alterations to fenestration in the late C17 and C18 and withearly C19 service one storey additions. Very fine interior with wealth ofdecorations in contrast to almost classical restraint of exterior. Much panellingand architectural framework to doorways in great hall and to many of the monumentalchimney pieces in stone end alabaster. Richly carved strapwork balustradestaircase in square well. One hundred and thirty six feet long, well preserved,long gallery. Considerable amount of original decorative plasterwork to friezeand ceilings but desceptively successful imitation Jacobean plasterwork carriedout for John Watt the younger, leasee of the Hall in the 1818 to 1848.Aston Hall - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2010-01-08 13:17:58 |
| 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 | 0.007 sec (1/150) |
| 開放F値 | f/7.1 |
| 焦点距離 | 8 mm |