St Margaret's Church, Saturday Market Place, King's Lynn : 無料・フリー素材/写真
St Margaret's Church, Saturday Market Place, King's Lynn / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is the Church of St Margaret in Saturday Market Place, King's Lynn.It is a Grade I listed building.Benedictine Priory founded 1095, now a parish church. Rebuiltduring C13, altered continuously since. Exterior mostly C15.Central lantern and south-west spire collapsed 1741.Substantial internal rebuilding 1745-46 by MatthewBrettingham. Restored 1875 by Scott.Limestone. Lead roofs.Twin west towers, nave, aisles, transepts with crossing tower,aisled chancel. West front with central arched door undercrenellated surround. Above is a Perpendicular 7-light window.3-stage south-west tower complete to ringing chamber by c1260:bundled buttresses, Norman interlace to lower stages gives wayto trefoiled C13 arcading, then to 2-light ringing chamberwindows, terminating in bar tracery of the C14 belfry stage.Crenellated parapet with pinnacles. North-west tower alsoNorman in lower courses but rebuilt 1453: indeterminate stagedivisions, clasping buttresses, small 3-light Perpendicularwindows. Crenellated parapet.Remains of an outer north aisle abut, lit through a 5-lightwest window. 5-bay nave aisles and clerestory added 1472-83,the north aisle by Roger Cony. 3-light Perpendicular windowsunder basket arches. Short projecting transepts with hints ofNorman work. Large Perpendicular principal windows.Squat crossing tower which carried a timber lantern untilstorm of 1741. 3-bay north chancel aisle 1394, 5-bay southaisle 1433. Three-light windows and basket arches again.10-bay chancel clerestory with similar fenestration. Chanceleast end has polygonal tower buttresses gripping the corners.Rose east window of 1875.INTERIOR. 6-bay nave arcade. West bay is round-arched oncompound piers with scalloped, stiff-leaf and water-leafcapitals and undercut arch mouldings. South-west tower withbundled piers. North-west tower with Perpendicular piers anddetails. Remainder of arcade of quatrefoil piers standing onNorman bases. Roof is 1745: tie beams on arched braces.Stiff-leaf capitals to crossing arch piers. Chancel clerestoryhas wall passage and remains of Early English arcading.C14 screens between chancel and its aisles, C16 screen innorth transept. Mid C18 pulpit. Organ case by Sneltzer, 1754.The 2 largest brasses in England. One to Adam Walsoken andwife of 1349, both in civil dress. No space undecorated; postwindmill depicted in lower left predella scene. Flemish. Otherto Robert Braunche and 2 wives. 1364. Civil dress. Similardecorative frenzy and also Flemish. Church of St Margaret, King's Lynn - Heritage GatewayMost of the church on the left was rebuilt in the early 19th century as the Trinity Chapel, replacing the earlier Gild Chapel. |
| 撮影日 | 2010-04-24 10:56:21 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | King's Lynn, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/400) |
| 開放F値 | f/7.1 |