Municipal Buildings - High Street East, Dorchester : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Municipal Buildings - High Street East, Dorchester / ell brown
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| 説明 | Dorchester - the county town of Dorset. There has been a settlement here since Roman times. There was plenty of museums to visit, although we only went to a couple of them.The High Street in Dorchester.This is the Grade II* listed Municipal Buildings.Municipal Buildings, DorchesterHIGH STREET EAST1.5191 (North Side)SY 6990 7/228 Municipal BuildingsIIGVThis property shall be upgraded to grade II*------------------------------------HIGH EAST STREET1.5191(North Side)Municipal BuildingsSY 6990 7/228II GV2.l847-8. Clock tower: l864 (at which time the original lantern on roof was removed).Portal: 1876. Architect: Benjamin Ferrey. Builder: Samuel Slade. Former TownHall. Broadmayne brick, with ashlar limestone dressings (Bath above, Portlandbelow). Pitched tile roof with moulded ashlar gable coping and polygonal finials.Moulded ashlar eaves cornice with crenellated parapet. 5 mullion and transomwindows with iron glazing bars on 1st floor. 4 pointed arches with hoodmouldson ground floor, originally an open market, now glazed. Central gabled portalon colonettes with crocketed capitals, carrying relief of Borough Arms.South west corner has oriel turret with chamfered corners taken on polygonalclasping buttress and squinches with traceried panels: band of traceried panellingat eaves Level: corbelled-out bulge at clocks' level: lead spire with sprocketedeaves, half- hipped lucarnes and weather vane.West elevation has 2 arches at ground floor level, and segmental 2 storey orielabove with crenellated parapet, panelled centre section and fixed windows withglazing bars.2 storey extension in similar style to rear.Its neo-Tudor detail and (especially on west front) its predominant verticalsresemble Clyffe Hall, Tincleton, more than Ferrey's other work in Dorset.The Municipal Buildings and Nos 28 to 33 (consec) form a group.Listing NGR: SY6928290759The plaque calls it the Corn Exchange. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-04-30 11:33:06 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Dorchester, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/340) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |