St Thomas Street, Weymouth - Head Post Office : 無料・フリー素材/写真
St Thomas Street, Weymouth - Head Post Office / 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.A walk around the town centre.Various banks, and pubs to be found here amongst the shops.Post Office in Weymouth now on St Thomas Street.It was the Head Post Office. Grade II listed.Head Post Office 67, WeymouthWEYMOUTHSY6778NE ST THOMAS STREET873-1/23/353 (West side)No.67Head Post OfficeGV IIHead post office. Early C20. Flemish bond brickwork withPortland stone dressings, slate roof. A large block with longfrontage to St Thomas Street, and a shorter return to Lower StAlban Street; the corner is taken on a quadrant with a cupola,flanked by high pedimented gables carried on giant pairedIonic pilasters. Robust Edwardian Baroque, reminiscent ofThomas Archer's work.EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Windows are mainly glazing-bar sashes.The pedimented bays flanking the corner have a Palladianwindow above 2 deep sashes in architraves, with very deeptriple keystones, and Gibbsian blocks.Ground floor, in banded ashlar, has a large lunette withtriple light, bold scrolled keystone, and raised keystones tothe architrave.Stone cupola with ball finial has 4 small arched lights underpediments, set to the curve, in banded ashlar above a blindbalustrade.The moulded open pediments with guttae modillions are linkedround the quadrant, with 3 small lights in Doric mullionsbelow the architrave; a sill band threads the giant pilastersand reappears as sill band to the Palladian lights.At first floor is a single tall sash as to each side, and thedoorway with open pediment on banded Ionic columns is setacross the angle, with a pair of doors in an arch.Front to St Thomas Street has single and paired sashes inplain reveals, with deep keystones and moulded stone sills atsecond floor, plus stone aprons at first floor, and in archedmoulded surrounds with keystones at ground floor; the archkeystones rise to a continuous plain stone band. In the thirdbay is a pair of panelled doors in a bolection-mould surround,under an entablature with small lunette over, and a furtherdoor and surround, with transom panel above, in the end bay tothe right, which is slightly set back from the remainder.The return frontage is similar, but with lunette windows tothe ground floor, and with an inserted bay to a segmentalmoulded head and banded pilasters, with a further doorway. Astone cornice to concealed eaves gutter. The end returns to abrick bay with 3 windows and a blocked doorway, then sets backto the rear of the main range, which is in painted brick withsimple detailing.INTERIOR: the principal office interior has been transformedin the late C20.A bold design which dominates a prominent corner position: itmakes few concessions to the surroundings, but also takes thecorner as a firm urban statement.Listing NGR: SY6790478932 |
| 撮影日 | 2012-05-01 13:37:08 |
| 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 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/7.1 |