Birmingham Oratory - Hagley Road - St Philip's Grammar School and The Church of the Immaculate Conception : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Birmingham Oratory - Hagley Road - St Philip's Grammar School and The Church of the Immaculate Conception / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is the Birmingham Oratory on Hagley Road and Plough and Harrow Road in Edgbaston, Birmingham.In September 2010, Pope Benedict XVI came here after beaufifying Cardinal John Henry Newman.This part of the Oratory is the The Church of the Immaculate Conception (the Oratory).It is Grade II listed.The Church of the Immaculate Conception (the Oratory) - British Listed BuildingsOn the site of the original church of 1853 which had been added to andembellished by John Hungerford Pollen in 1858-61. The present church of1903-9 by E Doran Webb, and built as a memorial to Cardinal Newman (1801-90).Stands back from the road and is approached through a gate beneath part ofSt Philip's Grammar School (qv). Limestone; copper facing to dome. Longnave with tunnel vault lit by dormer windows and carried on Corinthiancolonnades. Narrow passage aisles with side chapels in shallow bays in theouter walls. Shallow north and south transepts; wide short apsidal chancel.Over the crossing, a dome on a drum with large rectangular windows. Theinterior decoration ornate and with much use of coloured marbles and mosaicwork, some of the latter by Westlake. Altar in the north transept from thechurch of Sant Andrea della Valle in Rome. Altars beneath the choirgallery and in the chapel of St Charles Borromeo by Pollen and from the oldchurch. St Phillips chapel on the south side of the church is of 1858. Theshrine of St Philip Neri in the north-east chapel, by G B Cox, is basedon that in the Chiesa Nuova in Rome and was added c1930.On the left side is St Philip's Grammar School - now the entrance to the Oratory.It is Grade II* listed.St Philip's Grammar School - British Listed Buildings1859-61 by Henry Clutton, architect. Red brick with stone dressings; slate roof.To the road, a 2 storey block 6 bays long. The ground floor a windowless roomwith slender Tuscan columns of iron and the entrance into the courtyard behindand so into the Oratory church (qv). First floor with arched casement windowsin stone surrounds with foliated capitals and sitting on a stone string.Between bays 3 and 4 a clock face. Boldly stone bracketed eaves cornice andparapet. Within the entrance, a 2 bay quadripartite brick vaulted passagegives on to a cloistered courtyard. The vault, like the arches of the courtyard,is carried on fat round piers on high bases and with excellently carved capitalsof Romanesque character. The north side of the cloister is filled by the westfacade of the church. The south side has no arcade or cloister but, instead, alow and narrow first floor corridor lit by 4 small windows is carried out on 8boldly projecting stone brackets with transverse barrel vaults between them.Only this part of the school is listed.The side of the school with the copper dome of the church. |
| 撮影日 | 2011-06-24 09:47:41 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Edgbaston, England, UK 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.006 sec (1/170) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |