Gaol House, Saturday Market Place, King's Lynn : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Gaol House, Saturday Market Place, King's Lynn / ell brown
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Back to Saturday Market Place.On the right is a former prison called Gaol House. Now a museum.It dates to 1784 and housed the towns gaoler, replacing an earlier gaoler's house. There were some prison cells in the late 18th century. It was a Police Station until 1954.Gaol House is Grade II* listed.Courthouse and prison, now offices and exhibition centre. 1784by William Tuck. Gault brick with ashlar dressings. Plaintiled roof. 3 storeys in 5 bays. Rusticated quoins and stringcourses between each floor. Central rusticated field risinginto first floor to terminate in an open pediment: archeddoorway to ground floor below a recessed panel containing ironshackles and chains. Under pediment is a barred lunette. Thisgrille pattern repeated in fanlight of the panelled door.Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewbackarches. Low parapet with a stone achievement bearing a sundialarm. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks. INTERIOR.Prison yard to rear entered through an iron-clad lattice doorwith original fittings. Rectangular yard enclosed by highwalls of surrounding buildings now contains brick cell blockof 1937. Within west and north walls of court are four C18cells. Round-headed brick openings contain iron-clad timberdoors flanked by shuttered iron lattice grilles. 3 westerncells have groin-vaulted interiors, northern one has flatbrick ceiling.Gaol House - King's Lynn - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2010-04-24 12:00:31 |
| 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 (1/340) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |