Minterne House - panoramic : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Minterne House - panoramic / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is Minterne House. It only dates from the early 1900s as the previous house on this site was demolished around 1900.Was home of the Churchill family, later members of the Digby family.Until the dissolution of the monastaries, Minterne was the Manor of the Abbey.After 1539 it was given to Winchester College.Winchester College rented it to the first Sir Winston Churchill, who left it to his son General Charles Churchill.Admiral Robert Digby purchased the land in 1768.The original Churchill House was demolished in 1900 because it had dry rot.The house is Grade II* listed.Minterne Magna House, Minterne MagnaST 60 SE MINTERNE MAGNA MINTERNE MAGNA VILLAGE(EAST SIDE)8/165 7-4-76 Minterne Magna House(formerly listed asMinterne House)GV II*Country House, 1904-6 by Leonard Stokes for Lord Digby. Walls ofsquared, coursed and dressed rubble and ashlar. Ham Hill stonethroughout. Stone slated roofs with stone copings and variouslypositioned ashlar stacks. Free and eclectic use of styles, theexterior being largely of 'perpendicular' gothic and 'Jacobethan'derivation whilst the interior is largely baroque and 'Adamesque'Plan: 2 storey main hall leading from a vestibule with other roomsleading from spine corridors on both floors. Servants' wings (nowflats) to west and north. Billiard room set at an angle to mainrange to the south-west. East tower of 4 storeys. Main range islargely 2 storeys with attics. South front: symmetrical; 11 baysplus billiard room wing. 3 canted bays of 2 storeys with 2 stonegables between; rusticated and pilasters. 2 and 3-light stone,mullioned and transomed windows; central round headed doorway withkeystone and bulls-eye window over; moulded cornice bearing carvings;embattled parapet. North front: U-plan with central porch; plainashlar and rusticated pilasters. 2 storey hall windows to left ofporch of 3-lights with 'perpendicular' tracery under square heads;similar first floor window over porch; other windows are stonemullioned and mullioned and transomed under square heads with labels;round porch hoods; embattled parapet with cornice below. East facade;similar mullioned fenestration with 2 storey bow window; tower flankedby capped, fluted pilasters. Internal features: hall in the baroquestyle with a barrel-vaulted roof, coupled Ionic pilasters, a carvedwooden gallery; and an elaborately carved chimney piece in marble withside-scrolls originally intended for Eaton Hall; tapestry room designedto house tapestries by Judocus de Vos with reset allegorical ceilingpainting said to be by Thornhill and a reset C18 fireplace with key-pattern inlay; other rooms with baroque and Adamesque decoration andreset Cl8 chimneypieces.Aslet, Clive, "Minterne Magna I and II", in Country Life, Feb 21st, 1980pp 498-501 and Feb 28th, 1980 pp 574-7. Newman J and Pevsner, N,Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, pp 295-6, Taylor, N,Minterne House and Leonard Stokes, manuscript notes.Listing NGR: ST6603204184Panoramic of the house. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-04-30 13:48:08 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Minterne Magna, England, United Kingdom 地図 |