The Queen's House - Greenwich : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Queen's House - Greenwich / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is the Queen's House in Greenwich, part of the complex belonging to the National Maritime Museum (which is a member of Royal Museums Greenwich).Last look at the Queen's House.The Queen's House was commissioned by Inigo Jones between 1616 and 1635. It was the first fully classical building in Britain, and the only surviving one from the former Palace of Greenwich. It is now houses a collection of fine art.Entrance is free.Work began in 1616 for James I's queen, Anne of Denmark, but stopped in 1618 when it was only one storey high. She died in 1619.Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I, resumed construction after 1629 and was still furnishing it when the Civil War broke out in 1642. The Queen lived in exile until 1662.The whole complex is Grade I listed.National Maritime Museum, Greenwich1.4412 ROMNEY ROAD SE10(South Side)National Maritime MuseumTQ 3877 26/G53I2.Central block of the Queen's House, connected by colonnades to side wings.The Queen's House. Inigo Jones, begun 1616, completed 1637. 2 storeys, 7 windowson north-west front. Fairly low pitched leaded roof has square chimney stackswith rebated angles. Stucco lst floor with stone dressings. Rusticated stoneground floor. Moulded architrave, frieze, dentil cornice and balustraded parapetwith pilasters between bays. Sash windows with glazing bars. Moulded architraveswmth cornices to 1st floor windows. On north front double curved stair to balustradedterrace. On basement level, between wings of stair, a round arched entrancewith moulded architrave and keystone. On south front a slightly projectingcentral section wmth open 5-bay gallery divided by Ionic columns on 1st floor.Balustrades to 1st floor windows matching that of gallery. Plain reveals withtiple keystones to ground floor windows. Segmental arched entrances under colonnadesat East and West sides.Interior rather plain and solid. Original features remain, ie doors and doorcases,marble fireplaces and the Tulip Staircase so called because of tulip flowersin the wrought ironwork of the balustrade. Some enriched ceilings notably inthe galleried hall (geometrical with very high raised borders) and the latereast bridge room (geometrical with quatrefoil centre and very rich raised borders).East and west wings. By David Alexander 1807-16. Road fronts of Palladian proportions2 storey, attic and basement. Moderately low pitched, slated roof. Stuccoedwalls, stone dressings. Doric front of 6 attached columns, the outer ones square,supporting entablature and blocking course. Ovev 3 middle bays an attic storeywith 4 pilasters rising to small cornice and blocking course breaking forwardaround them. Balustraded parapet at either side and for 1st portion of returns.Banded, rusticated ground floor with cornice. Projecting rusticated stone basementwith plain plinth. Moulded reveals to low, replaced sashes with glazing barson attic and 1st floors. Ground floor windows in moulded architraves, basementwindows with large keystones, both sashes with glazing bars.On inner returns 3 projecting features, each with 4 Doric pilasters, supportentablature and blocking course. Balustraded parapet at ends. Similar fenestrationto fronts, except that basement windows at Romney Road end are round arched.Rusticated ground floor. Heavily rusticated basement, vermiculate basement tosouthern projections. Between projections 8 bays at back and 10 at front. Westwing forms left wing of symmetrical arrangement of 3 Western blocks, the farwest wing being similar. The centre block of this arrangement contains museumentrance. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 4 windows. Doric attached columns,resting on projecting rusticated basement, support entablature and balustradedparapet. Columns paired at angles and at either side of centre bay, which isfurther emphasised by pairs of projecting detached columns. Tall central entrancearch to above 1st floor level has mask on keystone and Royal arms in tympanum.Recessed panel above entablature has Naval arms under cornice and pediment.Listing NGR: TQ3871177697We returned to Queen's House to go inside the day after we visited the National Maritime Museum next door. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-10-15 11:37:52 |
| 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 (1/1300) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |
| 焦点距離 | 5 mm |