Free Library and Museum, Bird Street, Lichfield : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Free Library and Museum, Bird Street, Lichfield / ell brown
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| 説明 | Gardens in Lichfield near the Minster Pool.On Bird Street is the Free Library and Museum. Grade II listed.Art Gallery and Attached Balustrades, LichfieldLICHFIELDSK1109NW BIRD STREET1094-1/4/38 (West side)11/02/93 Former Public Library and ArtGallery and attached balustradesGV IIPublic library and museum. 1857-9. By Bidlake and Lovatt.Brick with buff brick facades, ashlar dressings; parapetedroof. Right-angle plan with inset octagonal entrance tower toangle to left. Renaissance style.2 storeys with basement; 3-window range. Panelled brick plinthover basement; rusticated end piers and cornice to impostlevel and cornice over ground floor; top dentilled brickfrieze and modillioned ashlar cornice. Entrance tower hasrusticated piers and entablature to ground floor; high plinthand entablature to 1st floor, and cupola with dentilledcornice and domical vault with wind vane.Round-headed entrance has tall key to plain fanlight over C20door; flanking round-headed windows with brick archivolts andashlar keys; plinth has square ashlar plaque inscribed: FREE/LIBRARY/ AND/ MUSEUM, flanking roundels; 1st floor has 3round-headed windows; round-headed openings to cupola.3-window range has windows with rubbed brick flat arches and8-pane sashes with 2 ashlar antae with lotus capitals, tympanaabove have archivolts and keys; 1st floor has blind arcadingof 3 pairs of round arches with ashlar colonnettes; two C20buttresses with continuations of cornices.Left return facing Museum Gardens is 6-window range, thewindows grouped in pairs with C20 buttresses between. Ashlarstatue of sailor with HMS POWERFUL to his hat band on corbelto right end; said to date from the Boer War, origin unknown.Rear is simpler, with lean-to projection with blocked widesegmental-headed entrance and flanking niches. Right return isplain, with C20 addition to rear. Entrance tower flanked bylow brick walls and ashlar balustrading of 4-centred arches,piers with chamfered angles, similar in style to those tocauseway (qv).INTERIOR: geometrical stair with slender iron balusters andwreathed handrail; top-lit 1st floor.(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:1974-: P.192; Clayton H: Cathedral City: Lichfield: 1977-:P.102-5).Listing NGR: SK1140909629 |
| 撮影日 | 2012-01-08 12:22:14 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Lichfield, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.011 sec (1/90) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |