Old Royal Naval College from the grounds of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich - Queen Mary Court : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Old Royal Naval College from the grounds of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich - Queen Mary Court / ell brown
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| 説明 | First look at the Old Royal Naval College from the grounds outside the National Maritime Museum.Queen Mary Court on the right.All Grade I listed buildings.Queen Mary Court ListingRoyal Naval College Queen Mary's Quarter, Greenwich1.4412 ROMNEY ROAD SE10(North Side)Royal Naval College"Queen Mary's Quarter"TQ 3877 26/G107BI2.Begun 1699 with chapel and inner colonnade to designs of Sir Christopher Wren.Completed by Sir John Vanbrugh 1728. East front Portland stone ashlar. 4 storeys,25 bays. Slightly projecting 5-bay centrepiece (with balustraded parapet) and3-bay ends with pedimented gables. Hipped roof of moderate pitch, leaded toNorth, slated to South. Dentilled eaves cornice right across; blocking courseover intermediate sections. Bands at 1st and 3rd floor levels and at 1st floorcills. Rusticated ground floor. Piano nobile comprises 1st and low 2nd floor,both included in arcading of centre and ends, with 2nd floor windows lUnettes.All other windows recessed square headed sashes with glazing bars, those in centreand ends with moulded architraves. South front 4 storeys and basement, 11 windows.Enriched entablature and parapet. Slightly projecting ppedimented end bays withpilasters on 3rd floor and quoins below. Bands at 3rd floor level and 1st floorcills. Rusticated ground floor. Above ground floor windows in moulded architraves,those on jrd floor shouldered. Console bracketed broken cornices and triplekeystones to 2nd floor windows. Modified Gibbs surround and console bracketedcornice to 1st floor windows. Windows in outer bays in tall, round arched recessesrunning up into pediment, with oval attic window. In left bay 3rd floor windowflanked by round arched niches. Below this the return of inner colonnade, 6pairs of Tuscan columns (the outer ones square) with entablature and balustradedparapet over. The whole inner (West) return is a long colonnade of paired columnswith balustraded upper floor set back behind them and ending in a tower of 2stages with drum and dome above. Lover stage square, 1-bay with wide open pedimentand high round arched window with flanking niches. Upper stage round, of Corinthiancolumns, with diagonal projections. Low drum with raised eaves for clock face.Ribbed lead dome with oval windows in lower part, columned cupola with vane above.Inside, the chapel, damaged by fire in 1779; and in 1789 redecorated by James(Athenian) Stuart and William Newton. Octagonal vestibule with coved ceiling.Tall flight of curved, dimishing steps. 8-bay chapel with wood galleries bothsides resting on wide, curved brackets. Low, segmental ceiling has 3 cofferedroundels in borders. Organ gallery at West end resting on Ionic Order withbalustrade, highly enriched. Original organ by Samuel Green, 1789. All thatremains of original decoration are 2 tall pairs of Corinthian columns at eitherend framing entrance and altarpiece painting by Benjamin West. Very rich classicalornament throughout in shallow relief and in grisaille. In gallery ends doubledoors in rich surrounds under flattened, coffered ½-domes. Round pulpit, on4 fluted Corinthian columns, has carved Coade stone medallions by Benjamin West,and graceful curved stair.Listing NGR: TQ3867777909 |
| 撮影日 | 2012-10-14 11:36:14 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | London, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S2980 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/750) |
| 開放F値 | f/9.0 |