Town Hall - Market Street, Tamworth - statue of Sir Robert Peel : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Town Hall - Market Street, Tamworth - statue of Sir Robert Peel / ell brown
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| 説明 | The Town Hall and the statue of Sir Robert Peel on Market Street in TamworthThe Town Hall is Grade II* listed.Town Hall, Tamworth TAMWORTH SK2003NE MARKET STREET 670-1/9/128 Town Hall 11/05/50 GV II* Town Hall and butter market. 1701; extension of 1811 was rebuilt 1845. For Sir Thomas Guy. Chequer brick with ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof with brick lateral stacks. 2-storey rectangular structure with arcaded ground floor and 2-storey extension to rear. Ground floor has 2-bay arcade on Doric columns with archivolts and keystones, string course above; 1st floor has quoins and top modillioned cornice and pediment; 2 round-arched windows with keystones over small-paned glazing flank architraved plaque with pediment and inscription recording erection; Sir T.Guy's coat of arms to apron; oval cartouche with town arms above; clock face to pediment. Roof has hexagonal louvre with modillioned cornice and ogival cupola with wind vane. 5-window returns have 1st floor windows with rubbed brick flat arches and keystones over small-paned cross-casements; left return has blind window and lateral stack. Extension has 2-window range and 3-window returns: older brick work to plinth; platt band over ground floor and boxed eaves; entrance to left return up steps has ashlar doorcase with pilasters and entablature and 6-panel door; windows with rubbed brick flat arches and keystones over small-paned cross-casements; 2 lateral stacks to right return. INTERIOR: open ground floor has longitudinal arcade supporting chamfered beams; rooms have cornices and architraved windows; open-well stair with stick balusters and wreathed handrail; 1st floor council chamber has ceiling with fluted fans to angles, air vents to angles and flanking fireplace, which is early C19, marble with grate; 1814 Royal Arms opposite gallery with turned balusters and moulded rail; paired 6-panel doors; roof to 1701 part has pegged collar trusses with diagonal braces, trusses to former hip remain. History: Sir Thomas Guy was an important local benefactor, founder of the Guy's Almshouses, Tamworth, and of Guy's Hospital, London. Sir Robert Peel P.M. helped fund the addition, and he made his Tamworth Manifesto address here in 1835. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 278). Listing NGR: SK2072803960The statue of Sir Robert Peel outside the Town Hall.Born in 1788. Elected in 1830 as an MP for Tamworth. He represented the town until his death in 1850.The statue is Grade II listed.Statue of Sir Robert Peel, TamworthTAMWORTHSK2003NE MARKET STREET670-1/9/127 Statue of Sir Robert Peel09/11/72GV IIStatue. 1853. By Matthew Noble. Bronze statue on ashlarplinth. Battered plinth has inscription and panelled returns;statue of standing figure in contemporary dress with longcloak. Sir Robert Peel Bart of Drayton Manor, 1788-1850, wasmember of parliament for Tamworth 1830-50 and Prime Minister1841-1846.(H.Wood: Borough by Prescription: Tamworth: 1958-: P.64-65).Listing NGR: SK2069303968 |
| 撮影日 | 2012-03-10 11:18:35 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Tamworth, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.01 sec (1/105) |
| 開放F値 | f/7.1 |