The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is the famous church at Sandringham, where the Queen and the royal family go to on Christmas Day each year. They walk from Sandringham House, through the gates to here.There was a lot of tourists here, some also taking photos of it.The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II* listed building.Parish church, medieval, restored by S.S. Teulon 1855 and A. Blomfield 1890.Dark shell carstone with stone dressings, tiled roof. West tower, nave,chancel and south porch; additions of south transept, north aisle and organbay, vestibule to south chancel. Tower with stepped diagonal buttresses,embattled parapet with carstone flushwork, crocketted finials, gargoyle tosouth; polygonal turret to south-east; west window of 3 lights with paneltracery under basket head, retangular sound holes, segmental headedtraceried double square bell openings and clock face of 1898 to all 4 faces.C15 2 storeyed porch with diagonal buttresses, 4-centred arch with roundshafts part renewed, carstone flushwork to either side, central tall nicheabove with ogee head, flanking trefoil headed lights; single trefoil headedlights to porch returns. Porch interior: roof renewed, floor to upperstorey lost, reset marble slab now mural with brass arms and inscriptionto Wm. Cobbis, 1546; south doorway with continuous moulded 4-centred arch.South nave window of 3 lights with panel tracery under 4-centred head.South transept of 1890 with similar window reset, both with figure stops;C19 2-light window with panel tracery to east of transept. South chancelwith C19 single light with tracery of 2 daggers. Vestibule c1896 acrosspriests door, in carstone with stone embattled parapet, 2-light window toleft, door to right, vestibule the private entrance of H.M. Queen. C19 setback angle buttresses to chancel, 3-light window with panel tracery, 1909.C19 additions to north: vestry with embattled parapet, 2-bay north aislewith 2 gables and window as south aisle, gabled organ bay with blockeddoorway, all with diagonal buttresses. C19 gable crosses to porch, chanceland nave. Interior: arch braced nave roof with angel corbels, gildedbosses and quatrefoil frieze of 1921; continuous 4-centred arches to 2 baynorth arcade and to south transept of 1890; arch in north aisle betweenbays; chamfered chancel arch with polygonal jambs, painted hammerbeam chancelroof of 1890; tall tower arch with continuous roll and wave mouldings;panelling to nave, C15 style painted panelling to chancel with Gothickcanopies and saints of 1920, panelling to tower with gilded frieze andangels. C15 glass of saints in tracery panels of south window and northwest window of aisle, some C17 glass in north aisle. Silver reredos of 1911showing the Appearance of the Risen Christ inscribed "IN MEMORY OF EDWARDVII THE PEACEMAKER", silver altar of 1920 incorporating the Royal achievement;metal rails with silver angels; Wineglass pulpit of 1924 with silver panels;10 relief rondels around walls depicting members of the Royal family fromPrincess Alice 1879 to King George VI in bronze 1952. P. Ashton: A Guideto Church of St. Mary Magdelene, Sandringham, 1957 Pitkin Pictorial.Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2010-04-18 15:42:47 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Sandringham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/240) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.0 |