Church of St Thomas - High Street, Lymington - clock and bell tower : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Church of St Thomas - High Street, Lymington - clock and bell tower / ell brown
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| 説明 | The High Street in Lymington - near the St. Thomas Street end. This was as far as I went in this direction.This is the Parish Church of St Thomas the Apostle. Grade II* listed.Parish Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Lymington and PenningtonLYMINGTON693/1/25 HIGH STREET22-DEC-1953 (North side)PARISH CHURCH OF ST THOMAS THE APOSTLEGV II*Parish church, a key element in Lymington High Street, the S wall to the High Street. C13 origins (archaeological evidence in E and W ends of church); c1325 chapel with c1500 roof; tower 1670; the rest of the church was thoroughly rebuilt in the C18 and C19 and refurbished and re-roofed in 1910-1911. 1931 sacristy; 1980-1981 church hall to the designs of Roger Pinckney, attached to N side of the nave. MATERIALS: Stone rubble. N, S and W walls are cement-rendered, limestone ashlar tower with lead-roofed cupola; tiled roofs. PLAN: Nave with N and S aisles with galleries; W end organ gallery and narthex, N transept. Chancel, SE tower at E end of S aisle; NE chapel; sacristy built on N face of N transept.EXTERIOR: The chancel has diagonal buttresses with set-offs. 5-light C19 E window with Perpendicular style tracery with a transom in the head. The S side has a 3-light C19 Geometric Decorated window and a small 3-light segmental-headed window with Perpendicular style tracery. The N wall of the chancel has a very tall slit window. 2-stage tower with diagonal buttresses to the lower stage only. Moulded S doorway with C17 style round-headed panelled door. Above this the S face has a very tall square-headed 3-light window with uncusped lights. Square-headed mullioned belfry windows. The cornice below the embattled parapet is broken for 1907 clock faces. Timber arcaded cupola with lead dome and weathervane on octagonal base, in place by 1740 and possibly 1680s in origin. The S side of the church has tall 2-light windows of 1871 with Geometric Decorated tracery. Triple gable to W end, the narthex with a hammer-dressed stone plinth. 2-light windows to the N and S; 5-light W window. The N aisle render is blocked out. 3 2-light traceried windows of 1868. The N transept has a 3-light Decorated style window and 1931 sacristy with hipped roof built against it. The N chapel has angle buttresses and two tall C14 Decorated N windows, and an E window with intersecting tracery. HISTORY: The church was originally built as a Chapel of the Priory of Christchurch. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Listed at II* for exceptional interest as a church preserving archaeological evidence of its C13 origins, a good early C14 chapel with c1500 roof; a C17 tower and 3 classical galleries of the late C18 and C19. The 1910-11 roofs are attractive. Many monuments. SOURCES: Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 1967, pp 324-325; Sanderson, H, The Parish Church of St Thomas Lymington, n.d.This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.Source: English HeritageClock and bell tower, with bird flying past. Also weather vane above! |
| 撮影日 | 2013-06-23 13:13:42 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Lymington, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S2980 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/600) |
| 開放F値 | f/10.0 |