Birmingham Oratory - Hagley Road - St Philip's Grammar School and The Oratory Priests' House : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Birmingham Oratory - Hagley Road - St Philip's Grammar School and The Oratory Priests' House / 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.On the right side is the The Oratory Priests' House at 141 Hagley Road.It is Grade II * listed and was the home of John Henry Newman.The Oratory Priests' House 141 - British Listed Buildings1850-1. Red brick with stone dressings; slate roof. Three storeys; 5 bays withquoins left and right. In an Italian Renaissance style. Grould floor withcentral panelled door within stone surround with cornice and superimposedsegment headed panel flanked by vaults and 4 windws with stone eared andcorniced surrounds. Guilloche band at first floor level and a moulded band atfirst sill level. First floor with 5 windows, the central one with eared andcorniced surround, the others with simple moulded surrounds. Cornice band atsecond floor level. Second floor with 5 almost square windows, the centre witheared surround, the others with simple surrounds. Eaves cornice with dentilsand mouldings. The home from 1852 to 1890 of John Henry, Cardinal Newman withhis rooms preserved in original condition.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 school and the Oratory Priest's House |
| 撮影日 | 2011-06-24 09:51:39 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/280) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |