Dorset County Museum and Church of St Peter - High Street West, Dorchester : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Dorset County Museum and Church of St Peter - High Street West, Dorchester / ell brown
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 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.The Dorset County Museum on the left. Would have liked to go inside, but never did.Grade II listed.Dorset County Museum, DorchesterHIGH WEST STREET1.5l91(North Side)Dorset County MuseumSY 6990 7/245II GV2.1881-3. Architects: G R Crickmay and Son of Weymouth. Portland with Ham stonedressings. Pitched slate roof. 2 storeys. 2 stringcourses, moulded batterat 1st floor cill level, moulded dripstone at eaves level, crenellated parapet.Central shallow canted 2 storey bay with 7 light mullion and transom window,each light with depressed arched head, upper window with 2 transoms and Perpendiculartracery in upper lights: crenellated parapet. Above this is gable with mouldedcoping, in which is set a 3 light mullion and transom window with hoodmould,and above it a trefoil-headed panel with Borough Arms and date of 1881. Righthand bay has on ground floor 1 single light window with transom and Perpendiculartracery above it. On corner of 1st floor is nearly circular 4-light oriel oncarved foliate squinches with stringcourse carried round it as a transom,Perpendicular tracery in upper lights, ornamental frieze and battered stoneroof. Left hand bay has panelled double doors set in deeply moulded 4-centredarch with circles and foliage in spandrels, and 3 moulded panels with escutcheonsof arms above, the whole flanked by 2 slender buttresses of square sectionset diagonally, with applied ogee gablets and traceried panels, and toppedby crocketed finials [c.f. the archetypal C.15 Dorset church tower]. Abovethis door is another single-light window with transom and Perpendicular traceryabove it. Oblong chimneys of which end stacks are attached polygonal shaftswith cornicing.Interior has an aisled hall carried on cast iron columns taking galleries aboveaisles, and then taking semi-circular transverse arches to roof. Elaboratetracery patterns to main trusses and to the brackets spanning the aisle bays.Nos 48 to 65A (consec)including the Shire Hall, Holy Trinity Church, the Museum,St. Peter's Church and monument to William Barnes in churchyard immediately southof West Tower form a group.Listing NGR: SY6922190765On the right is the Church of St Peter. Grade I listed.Church of St Peter. Railings on East and South Sides of Churchyard, Dorchester104390738/7/1 HIGH WEST STREET08-MAY-50 (North side)CHURCH OF ST PETER RAILINGS ONEAST AND SOUTH SIDES OF CHURCHYARDGV IHIGH WEST STREET1 .5191(North Side)Church of St Peter.Railings on east andsouth sides of churchyardSY 6990 7/1 8.5.50.I {GV}2.Building in 1420/1. North and south chapels slightly later. Vestry and chancel added in 1856-7 by John Hicks and Thomas Hardy. C12 south doorway reset in C15 church. Hammer-dressed limestone with Ham stone ashlar dressings. Pitched stone slate roof to nave, tiles to chancel, lean-to over aisles. Moulded plinth and eaves cornices. Parapet to aisle roofs, crenellated along south side and around vestry. Buttress, with set-backs, very fine grotesques on the eaves cornice, and crocketed pinnacles placed diagonally above each buttress. Perpendicular tracery in all windows. Tower with moulded plinth, 2 strings, eaves cornice and crenellated parapet. Polygonal stair tower at north east corner. Angle buttresses with set backs, gargoyles at the eaves cornice and crocketed pinnacles placed diagonally above each. Upper stage has tall bell openings with transoms and Perpendicular tracery. Pitch-roofed porch to south doorway, which is a re-set pointed arch with 2 orders of zig-zag and 1 order of foliage. Many monuments of which the following are outstanding. 2 C14 effigies of recumbent knights (presumably reset) in window embrasures of south chapel. 1 C14 tomb chest (presumably reset) in chancel north wall; quartrefoil-panelled front, cusped ogee arched recess with flanking crocketed pinnacles. Sarcophagus of Sir John and Lady Williams of Herringstone (1617) in north chapel: canopy taken on Corinthian columns with mound arched centre. Semi-reclining effigy of Denzil, Lord Holles,in north aisle: gadrooned sarcophagus in curtained, aedicule flanked by weeping putti (similarities between this and the Strode monument of 1698 at Beaminster,and the Digby monument of 1698 at Sherborne suggest Nost as a possible sculptor).Jacobean wooden pulpit. Reredos (1894-7) by C E Ponting of Marlborough. Royal Arms with "CR" monogram under tower. Victorian benches and tiles in chancel. Iron railings and gates with spear finials and elaborate open-work iron piers.Nos 48 to 65A (consec) including the Shire Hall, Holy Trinity Church, the Museum, St Peter's Church and Monument to William Barnes in church yard immediately south of West Tower form a group.Listing NGR: SY6925090750 |
| 撮影日 | 2012-04-30 12:25:18 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| タグ | |
| 撮影地 | Dorchester, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |