Shire Hall, Foregate Street, Worcester - Statue of Queen Victoria : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Shire Hall, Foregate Street, Worcester - Statue of Queen Victoria / ell brown
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| 説明 | Buildings on Foregate Street in Worcester, near the station.Some of these photos I was using my cameras aperture setting (that's why the white sky is so bright in some).This is Shire Hall on Foregate Street in Worcester with a statue of Queen Victoria outside it. Taken from outside the railings.Shire Hall is Grade II* listed.WORCESTERSO8455SE FOREGATE STREET620-1/12/273 (East side)22/05/54 Shire HallGV II*Shire Hall. c1834-5 with later additions and alterationsincluding those c1895 and c1995. Architects, Charles Day,County Surveyor, and Henry Rowe of Worcester. Ashlar overbrick with stucco scored in imitation of ashlar over brick toadditions; concealed roof. Entrance lobby with full-widthgreat hall and 2 rear courts with stairwell between. GreekRevival. Single tall storey, 3 bays with single-storey,single-bay outer ranges. Centre projects with 4 steps tohexastyle portico with giant fluted Ionic columns and Doricpilasters supporting dentil entablature with pediment. Outerbays have giant Doric pilasters on continuous plinth to endswith continuous entablature and coped parapet. Centralentrance, tall panelled double doors and panelled overlight intooled entablature. Returns of centre block, and end bays havestained glass windows in tooled surrounds with cornices andcontinuous sill band. Further entrance to left return: double4-panel doors with sidelights and divided overlight.INTERIOR: great hall rises through 2 storeys and has oakpanelling to lower part with surmounting cornice; double,panelled doors with blind lunettes over, those giving accessto courts have Art Nouveau masks representing Justice; galleryat rear on console brackets has cast-iron balusters;barrel-vaulted ceiling with coffering; lateral windows havestained glass with coats of arms within architraves with Doricpilasters and shallow central pediments. Staircase has narrowwell and cast-iron balusters with wreathed oak handrail. CourtOne is largely original and has panelling to lower stage withflush beading; gallery to 3 sides with ornate cast-ironbalusters, to rear wall a blind arcade of Doric pilasters;judges' bench has canopy on scrolled corbels; benches.HISTORICAL NOTE: by the early C19 it was realised that theGuildhall (qv) was too small to contain all that it did,particularly when the County Court Assizes were being held. In1829 the County sought legal advice to see if it would bepossible to extend the courts belonging to the City; this wasnot permitted but instead a special act of parliament wasgranted to enable the County to purchase land in ForegateStreet on which the new Shire Hall and Judges Lodgings (qv)were built at a cost of ,32,000.An outstanding example of early C19 government architecture.Pevsner, describes this as 'This is an impeccable Greciandesign, in the Smirke taste, of fine ashlar stone ... with ...excellent Schinkelish detail.'Abuts Judges' Lodgings, Sansome Walk (qv).(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 323; Old Worcester - People andPlaces: Gwilliam H W: Old Worcester - People and Places:Worcester: 1977-: 85).The statue of Queen Victoria - similar to the one in Leamington Spa and Birmingham, but might be older.Grade II listed statue.Statue of Queen Victoria Approximately 15 Metres to West of Shire Hall, WorcesterWORCESTERSO8455SE FOREGATE STREET620-1/12/275 (East side)05/04/71 Statue of Queen Victoriaapproximately 15 metresto west of Shire Hall(Formerly Listed as:FOREGATE STREET(East side)N Wing Pavilion, S WingPavilion, Statue ofQueen Victoria, Judges'Lodgings...)GV IIStatue of Queen Victoria on plinth. 1887. Signed to rear rightangle of plinth: T BROCK SCULP RA LONDON. Grey granite plinthand white marble statue. Stepped base to plinth surmounted bystatue of Queen, standing, in robes of state and carrying orband sceptre. Inscribed on plinth: This state of / QueenVictoria / was erected / by her loyal subjects / of the countyof Worcester / in commemoration of / the completion of 50years / of Her Majesty's happy reign / 1887.HISTORICAL NOTE: Thomas Brock was one of the leading sculptorsof public statues of the period and as responsible for theVictoria Memorial, The Mall, London (1901-24). During the C18Foregate Street was known as 'the mall' and Tymbs' WorcesterGuide of 1802 notes, 'the Foregate Street itself, by beingwell paved and sufficiently broad to admit a full circulationof air seems to be generally resorted to as a fashionablepromenade.'The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum andLibrary and Nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, Nos 33-46(consecutive) and No.49, Foregate Street (qqv) form asignificant group.(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers:Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping ofGeorgian Worcester: 1989-: 12; Tymbs: Worcester Guide:Worcester: 1802-: 60). |
| 撮影日 | 2011-11-18 11:16:57 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Worcester, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.006 sec (1/180) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.9 |