Former Free Library & Technical College - Hagley Road, Stourbridge : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Former Free Library & Technical College - Hagley Road, Stourbridge / ell brown
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| 説明 | Victorian buildings at the bottom of Hagley Road in Stourbridge, West Midlands.This building is the former Free Library & Technical College.On the corner of Church Street and Hagley Road.It was Grade II listed in 1989 under the title Stourbridge College of Art.But the whole building is currently To Let, for office, leisure, studio and storage usage.Stourbridge College of Art, DudleyHAGLEY ROAD1.5106SO 9084 1/103 Stourbridge Collegeof ArtGVII2.College of Art, formerly town library and technical college. 1903-4 and 1908-9 byFrederick Woodward. Red brick with terracotta dressings and Cumberland and Welsh slateroofs with various brick stacks. In Netherlandish Renaissance style. Complex planwith various ranges occupying corner site. Mostly of 3 storeys, basement and attic.Entrance to corner on right has elaborate terracotta archway surmounted by relief figureswithin a tympanum. Steps lead to part-glazed doors filled with elaborate stained glassincluding portrait roundels of Kelvin, Shakespeare, Rubens and Mozart. Tall basket-arched windows over, with moulded terracotta frames and ornamental cornice hoods.Coped Dutch gable. To right a canted battlemented section containing the staircasewith similar elaborately ornamented window frames. Further to right, facing HagleyRoad, a 2-storey range in similar style. On right an elaborate terracotta archwayleading to door, and a clock tower over with clock faces within balconied arches and adomed open belvedere on top. Behind this section rises the second span of the range facingChurch Street. Wide sash windows, some with terracotta decoration. On the roof ridgean elaborate domed lantern. To left of the front entrance the end of the range facingChurch Street which has a large polygonal 2-storey bay with battlemented parapet andlarge arched window over. To left the front facing Church Street which is a 9-windowrange with 4 slightly projecting gabled sections and similar fenestration with elaborateterracotta window surrounds. Further doorway in 2nd gable from left. 2 elaboratedomed lanterns on roof. Interior: glazed doors and partitions, staircase withdecorative cast-iron balustrade and a fine and extensive series of stained glass windowsin art-nouveau style, one signed S Evans, Stained Glass Works, West Smethwick. Theseare most elaborate on the stairs but continue on both the Hagley Road and Church Streetfronts and are a very important feature of the building. Andrew Carnegie contributed£3,000 to the library's foundation and a further £700 to the 1908 newsroom extension.Listing NGR: SO9038184050 |
| 撮影日 | 2013-04-28 11:06:50 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Stourbridge, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S2980 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/850) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |
| 焦点距離 | 5 mm |