Victoria Buildings - 1 - 7 Corporation Street, Birmingham - JD Sports : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Victoria Buildings - 1 - 7 Corporation Street, Birmingham - JD Sports / ell brown
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| 説明 | Corporation Street in Birmingham on the 23rd of July 2012. The day after the Bus Interchange came into force.The last buses came down here on the 21st of July 2012.Corporation Street will be pedestrianised, and will have the Midland Metro line extended down it from Snow Hill Station to New Street Station.I took the opportunity to take buildings down here that I hadn't got before. Mainly as buses used to be in the way. Now buses will no longer be in the way.Although in 3 years the Midland Metro trams will go down here.Coming up to JD Sports.At 1 - 7 Corporation Street - Grade II listed.The following building shall be included:CORPORATION STREET1.5104SE 0786(west side)34/8 Nos 1-7 (odd)II GV2.Commercial building, c.1880. Limestone ashlar with slate mansard roof. Freestyle composition with mixture of Hispanic/Elizabethan details. 5 storeys andattic; symmetrical 5-window range. Moulded cornice over C20 shop fronts withbracketed broken-pedimented central doorway to panelled door set in semi-circular arched architrave; festooned swan-necked pediment set above richly-carved panel to tympanum. Festoons flank bracketed architrave to central pro-jecting first-floor window which has carved festoons to frieze beneath balus-traded parapet of second-floor window which has columns with foliate capitalsto swan-necked pediment. First and second floor has rounded projecting baywindows with carved detail to pediments and stone-transomed windows with flutedIonic pilasters to broad mullions. Third-floor stone-mullioned and transomedcross windows have bracketed swan-necked flanking central triangular pediments;cross windows beneath richly-carved bracketed cornice. Bracketed pediments todormer windows flanking central dormer with segmental-pedimented tablet set inbroken pediment. A striking early example of Free Style architecture.Listing NGR: SP0706786813Victoria Buildings is by W.H. Ward, of 1879-80, handsome French Renaissance. Decorated pilasters link the design to Queen's Corner, and a repeated motif of two smaller windows above one large one runs through. Two-storey rounded bays, and a great variety of pediments. The central doorway has a Michelangelo motif: broken concave pediment with a central panel topped by a broken segmental pediment.From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster |
| 撮影日 | 2012-07-23 10:59:47 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S2980 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/400) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |
| 焦点距離 | 5 mm |