Royal Hotel - The Esplanade, Weymouth : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Royal Hotel - The Esplanade, Weymouth / ell brown
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| 説明 | It was such a nice day, that we headed to Weymouth and Portland. Lucky to have blue skys as well after previous rainy days.This is the Royal Hotel in Weymouth.Grade II listed.Royal Hotel and Queens Ballroom 90 and 91, WeymouthWEYMOUTHSY6879 ESPLANADE873-1/21/151 (West side)14/06/74 Nos.90 AND 91Royal Hotel and Queen's Ballroom(Formerly Listed as:ESPLANADENos.90 AND 91The Royal Hotel, Gloucester Row)GV IIHotel. Begun 1897, completed 1899, by C Orlando Law. Redbrick, Portland stone dressings, slate and lead roofs.STYLE: in a vigorous Northern Renaissance style with Flemishdetails.PLAN: the large symmetrical main building has a short returnwing of full height to the right, and is connected by a long,wide central one-storey lobby, and a former carriage house, tothe ballroom across the back (in Gloucester Mews). The mainstaircase, with later inserted lift, lies to the left of thelobby. The bedrooms are paired to full-width centralcorridors.EXTERIOR: main front is 4 storeys, attics and basement, in3:4:1:4:3 pattern of fenestration, mainly casements. There areoctagonal end pavilions and a central gabled bay slightlybrought forward; a 'triumphal arch' portico is flanked bylarge glazed verandah bays. Four 2-light casement dormers eachside have low pedimented fronts, with returned cornice mould;at this level the octagons have small-paned lights in archedheads and decorative tympana, with small paired columns to thecorners, blind balustrade, and deep coved cornice withbrackets to ogee-curve decorative lead cupolas carrying smallturrets with pyramidal capping and flagstaff. The centralgable, with banded brick and stonework and terminal panel, hassmall paired deep-set lights with pediment.The fourth floor lights form a continuous frieze band, with2-light windows under flat elliptical arches carried oncolumns to lion-head corbels below the sill band. At thecorner turrets the treatment is simplified, but with a boldcornice, and the central unit has 2 deep lights with transom,under a decorative frieze, and on a railed balcony above a2-storey curved bow.Second-floor windows are 2-light, full-depth, with transom,and under a transom light, with crown-like lintels; these 4openings each side give to a continuous balcony with flatelliptical plan, and iron balustrade, above 2 bows at first floor.The turrets have plain sashes, and the central bay a stoneflat bow window with curved end lights, and segmental heads,under a moulded cornice. At first floor are paired bows, eachwith 3 pairs of French windows to a continuous balcony withiron balustrade. At this level the brickwork is banded withstone, and the windows each have 3 stone voussoirs. Theturrets are similarly treated, but with 2-light windows toarched heads.The central bay has a stone bow similar to that at secondfloor. The central portico on 6 steps with nosings has pairedIonic columns to a central elliptical arch with keystone,flanked by vertical oval oculi, and to a moulded cornice, withbalcony rail and stone balustrade above. This covers C20glazed doors with original paned side-lights, and columnresponds, echoing the outer detail. To each side are 2 widebays, divided by paired pilasters, with 3 small-pane transomlights forming a frieze above 4 vertical panes; the end lightsare bowed, with curved glass.Below the main glazing are panels of rich cast-iron work, withsunburst and ship motifs, below which are open balustradesgiving some light to the basement windows set back below. Theturrets at ground floor have plain sashes with pediments, anda canted light connects with the main glazing.The return wing has a series of 2-light dormers above a stoneeaves course and a deep plain frieze, and several deep stacksin brick with some stone banding. Set back to left of streetfront is a single bay with wide carriage arch.The rear wall has 3 bays to the left of the staircase, with 3dormers, and a further 2 on the return wing. Large 3-lightcasements with transom, and to segmental heads, at staggeredlevels, light the staircase, which has been raised to a lifthousing. To the right are 5 regular bays in 5 storeys, toparapet, with 4-pane sashes to segmental heads. INTERIOR: the central lobby has 4 bays of compartmentalceiling to plaster moulded beams and enrichment, on 3 pairs offree-standing Ionic columns to high podia, then a flatsegmental-vaulted deep room which ends with a large stonefireplace with a dragon in high relief above the arched fireopening. To right in the front lobby is a fireplace in darkveined marble, with mantelshelf on paired brackets. To left isthe stair well with quarter landings, good turned newels andbalustrades, and dentil cornices. At the main floor landingswide elliptical arches give to the corridors. Most doors areoriginal, with 6-panel (arranged as 1 over 2,1 and 2) to thelower floors, and 4 panel above.At the rear of the main hotel, with frontage to GloucesterMews, is the former Queen's Ballroom. Brick, with some stonedressings, and hipped slate roof. One storey, in 7 baysdivided by brick pilasters, paired at the ends, and steppedbrick eaves course. 6 of the bays have large arched openings,with triple keystone, over 3-light windows with 3 transomlevels, and arched heads to the lowest lights. Stone bands tothe jambs are not carried through the pilasters; moulded stonesills are on brackets. Bay 2 contains a wide pair of doorswith small-pane side lights and overlight under a mouldedsegmental hood on pilasters in bold Art Nouveau form. Abovethe door are 3 small 6-pane lights to a continuous sill band.INTERIOR: not inspected.This is a forceful building, in the manner of Richard NormanShaw's more monumental work in this style and demonstrating acharacteristic late Victorian approach to urban development. Aplaque on the front records that it is on the site of theformer Royal Hotel patronised by George III. In the lobby is astone panel, set into the reception desk, inscribed: Thefoundation stone of the Royal Hotel Weymouth was laid on 22April 1897 by Charles Jesty Esq., Mayor. Opened 16 May 1899'Domes on the top of the hotel. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-05-01 11:27:22 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Weymouth, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |