St John's Church, Henley-in-Arden - Lantern : 無料・フリー素材/写真
St John's Church, Henley-in-Arden - Lantern / ell brown
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| 説明 | One of the main reasons for going to Henley-in-Arden was this church at the centre of the town.It is the Church of St John the Baptist dating from the mid 15th century.It is in the middle of High Street, to the right of the Guildhall.It is a Grade I listed building.Church. c1450 with slightly later north aisle and earlier westtower; restored 1856 and 1900.MATERIALS: coursed dressed lias and coursed lias rubble withashlar dressings; old tile roof.PLAN: single-vessel chancel and 4-bay nave; west tower andnorth aisle.EXTERIOR: coped gables with crosses. Chancel has 5-light eastwindow with renewed Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould withhead stops; diagonal buttresses.Small C19 gabled vestry to north has tile roof and 2-lightstraight-headed window.North aisle has flying buttress to west end, cornice, parapetand coped gable; 3-light windows with no hoods, that to eastwith renewed tracery.Nave south elevation has deep plinth, off-set buttresses anddiagonal buttresses, and plain cornice; 3-light windows withrenewed tracery and foliated hood stops.West end has shallow-gabled porch with plinth, panelleddiagonal buttresses and cornice with crenellated parapet;entrance has continuous mouldings and depressed arch (otherentrances similar) and hood with beast stops, crockets andfinials, C20 paired battened doors; inner entrance has kingand queen headstops, crockets and paired 9-fielded-paneldoors; south side of porch has cusped panelling flanking2-light straight-headed window. Renewed 4-light west windowhas hood with woman and green man stops, crockets and fleuron.3-stage west tower has plinth and diagonal buttresses endingin bases to removed pinnacles; 2-light west window.Triple-chamfered cusped light to south and west, withcontinuous hoodmould; third stage has similar straight-headedlights; top stage has 2-light transomed bell-openings, thelower lights with stone infill, upper ones louvred; south sidehas stair lights and lozenge-face clock; top cornice and C19or C20 crenellated parapet.INTERIOR: nave and chancel has roof with arch-braced camberedtie beams on angel corbels, queen struts to arch-bracedcambered collars, wind braces and coupled and ashlared commonrafters; north arcade has wide shallow 4-centred arches ontall octagonal piers, east respond and west corbel in form ofwinged beast (cf Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon); chancelnorth door.South and east windows have head stops with large andelaborate headgear. Aisle has stop-chamfered members to roof;east window over entrance; 2 north windows with stops similarto arcade corbel, and north door set inside-out;double-chamfered tower arch with C19 screen.FITTINGS: C20 panelling to sanctuary, simple stalls and timberrail; early C16 pulpit with renewed stone base, panels withblind tracery over linen-fold with renewed brattished cornice;plain octagonal font with shallow C17 or C18 bowl; mostly C19fittings.MONUMENTS: marble wall tablet to Simon Kempson, d.1719, andMargaret, d.1699; panel with apron, side pilasters ending inscrolls and crest with armorial bearing. 2 early C18 floorslabs, one to Robert Clayton with armorial bearing. BrassFirst World War memorial lists causes of death.STAINED GLASS: 1879 east window; 1865 aisle east window withfigure of Hope set in grisaille; 1882 west window withpictorial Nativity; south windows of c1856 with decorativeroundels set in grisaille.SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall connecting north-west angle of towerwith the Guildhall (qv) has 4-centred entrance with plankdoor.HISTORY: believed to have Hanoverian Royal Arms to tower. Thechurch built as a chapel of ease to the parish church atWooton Wawen, and was first mentioned in 1367; the north aislewas used by the Guild of the Holy Trinity, St John theEvangelist and St John the Baptist, first mentioned in 1408.(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:1966-: 309-10; Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London:1979-: 112; Victoria County History: Styles P: VictoriaHistory of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 210-11).Church of St John the Baptist, Henley-in-Arden - Heritage GatewayA lantern. |
| 撮影日 | 2010-03-14 13:53:11 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Henley-in-Arden, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |