The Argent Centre - Frederick Street - Jewellery Quarter - sign : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Argent Centre - Frederick Street - Jewellery Quarter - sign / ell brown
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The Argent Centre on the corner of Legge Lane and Frederick Stret in the Jewellery Quarter.View from Frederick Street.The building is Grade II* listed. Listed as Premises Occupied by Gallen Kamp (Argent Works), Birmingham FREDERICK STREET 1. 5104 Hockley B1 Premises occupied by Gallen Kamp (Argent works) SP 0687 SW 28/8 II* 2. Corner site with Legge Lane. The former Argent Works of 1862-63, architect J G Poland. A large 3 and 4 storey L-plan works enclosing single storey shed on 2 sides. Built as a pen manufacturing for Q E Wiley who also installed a Turkish Baths in the 4 storey block at the end of the Frederick Street range. Red brick with stone and gault and buff brick dressings, banding and chequerwork achieving a lively polychromy. The arcaded elevations take their inspiration from Florentine - Lombard early Renaissance palazzi with corner towers to the 9 bay Legge Lane front and the Hamman providing a similar emphasis to the end of the 22 bay Frederick Street range. The ground floor is slightly battered, its carcaded windows with polychrome voussoirs. A billet mould string course forms the base of the principal 2 storey arcade containing 2 light windows divided by colonettes, those on second floor with stone plate tracery in the arches. Stone machicolated main cornice with low parapet, originally pierced and later heightened in plain brick nearly to the eaves of the tower belvederes. The latter had tiled spires which have been truncated. The Hamman block has plain sash windows in the narrower bays of its arcade corresponding to those in corner towers and with the same arcaded lights to its belvedere storey. The pedimented doorway to Legge Lane is C1900 insertion. Modern waggon entrance to Frederick Street. Segmental arched doorway to former Hamman contained in right hand of 3 large ground floor arches. The fireproof construction is of some interest, the floors consisting of flat hollow brick arches with wrought iron tie rods linked to right L iron skewbacks, the floors are paved with brick internally and the flat roof was asphalted. The chimney stack rising to the rear of the former Hamman is square and tapered with polychrome banding to the cap. This stack served the engine of the manufactory, excess steam being used for the baths. The Argent Works are the large in the inner jewellry quarter area and Legge Lane elevation dominates Newhall Hill. For details of construction see "The Building News" 21 Aug 1863, p 650. Listing NGR: SP0609387387The Argent Centre is built on the site where Washington Irving conceived the Rip Van Winkle story.Sign for The Argent Centre.Note that the architect was J G Bland (not Poland as the English Heritage listing says) |
| 撮影日 | 2012-12-28 11:12:57 |
| 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 | 0.022 sec (1/45) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.6 |