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Thomas Earp (sculptor)
Thomas Earp (1828–1893) was a British sculptor and architectural carver who was active in the late 19th century. His best known work is his 1863 reproduction of the Eleanor Cross which stands at Charing Cross in London. He specialised in sculpture for Gothic Revival churches and worked closely with the architect George Edmund Street in the 1860s and 1870s. Early life and career Earp was born in Nottingham, England. He studied at the Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design, Nottingham School of Art and Design and after completing his studies in the early 1850s went to work for the building contractor George Myers (builder), George Myers (who himself worked extensively for Pugin) in London. Around 1851 Earp founded his own architectural sculpture practice. By 1864 he was established at 1 Kennington Road, Lambeth, and employed 24 people. One of his projects, a marble and alabaster reredos, pulpit and baptismal font for the Huntley, Gloucestershire, Church of St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambeth Walk
Lambeth Walk is a street in Lambeth, London, England, off Lambeth Road. It was at the heart of a working class residential area and there was a street market. The area was originally developed with wells and a recreation ground. Houses followed in the 19th century. After some bomb damage during the Blitz in World War II on 18 September 1940, the area became rather run-down and was subsequently rebuilt. Some older buildings survive, including the Henry Moore Sculpture Studios, image adjacent. Notable buildings Lambeth Walk starts as a turning off the Lambeth Road (A3203) between Kennington Road and the main railway line into London Waterloo station. On the junction with Lambeth Road is the former Lambeth Walk pub. On the opposite corner is the modern hall of the Lambeth Mission church (now shared with St Mary's church) and International House, now a hall of residence of the University of Westminster. Turning into Lambeth Walk, at no 5 is the Lambeth Walk Group Practice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brettenham, Norfolk
Brettenham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Brettenham is located east of Thetford and south-west of Norwich. History Brettenham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for ''Bretta's'' village or farmstead. In the Domesday Book, Brettenham is recorded as a settlement of 40 households in the hundred of Shropham. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of Roger Bigod, St. Etheldreda's Abbey in Ely, Eudo Dapifer and John, Nephew of Walderan. Listed buildings within Brettenham include 1, 2 and 3 Kilverstone Road which were cottages built for workers on Shadwell Estate in the 1870s and The Manor House (Seventeenth Century) and an accompanying barn (Nineteenth Century). Parts of Snarehill Airfield spill into Brettenham Parish. This was a training base used by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War which later transitioned to use as a decoy site in the Second World War. In 2010, some concrete structures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadwell Court
Shadwell Court is a country house in Brettenham, Norfolk, Brettenham, Norfolk, England, dating originally from the 18th century. Built for the Buxton baronets, the house was massively enlarged in two stages in the 19th century; in 1840–42 by Edward Blore and then in 1856–60 by Samuel Sanders Teulon. The house and grounds now form part of the Shadwell Racing, Shadwell Nunnery Stud, owned by Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum until his death in March 2021. Shadwell Court is a Listed building, Grade I listed building and was called a "work of genius" and "a dazzling display of Victorian architecture, Victorian fireworks" by historian Mark Girouard. In 2019, the court was included in the Heritage at Risk Register due to concerns over the deterioration of its fabric. History The Buxton baronets, Buxton baronetage was created for Sir Robert Buxton, 1st Baronet, Robert Buxton in 1800. His grandfather, John Buxton along with his distant relative Edward Lovett Pearce, had built the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Honeyman (architect)
John Honeyman (11 August 1831 – 8 January 1914) was a Scottish architect.John Honeyman - He designed several notable buildings in Scotland, mostly churches, and worked alongside as a partner for several years. Early life John Honeyman was born at 21 Carlton Place, Glasgow, in 1831, the third son of John Honeyman JP and Isabel ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most-populous city in Europe, and comprises Wards of Glasgow, 23 wards which represent the areas of the city within Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for finance, shopping, industry, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian eras. In , it had an estimated population as a defined locality of . More than 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to more than 1,800,000 people (its defined functional urban area total was almost the same in 2020), around a third of Scotland's population. The city has a population density of 3,562 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Silas Church, Glasgow
St Silas Church is an evangelical Anglican church in the Woodlands area of Glasgow, Scotland, adjacent to Kelvingrove Park and the University of Glasgow. The congregation was founded in 1864 and holds to the theology of the Thirty-nine Articles in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The church is a category B listed building. History Although the church was founded as an Anglican chapel in Scotland in 1864 due to concerns about the Oxford Movement's sway on the Scottish Episcopal Church it remained independent from the denomination. It became the last of what at its height was 11 Anglican churches to join The Scottish Episcopal Church in 1982. The church then left the denomination in 2019 following their perception that the denomination had departed from the authoritative teachings of the Bible. Following this decision the Church joined the Anglican Convocation in Europe (ACE), a diocese of the Anglican Network in Europe (ANiE). During the ministry of J.C. Ryle as bishop of Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leith
Leith (; ) is a port area in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith and is home to the Port of Leith. The earliest surviving historical references are in the royal charter authorising the construction of Holyrood Abbey in 1128 in which it is termed ''Inverlet'' (Inverleith). After centuries of control by Edinburgh, Leith was made a separate burgh in 1833 only to be merged into Edinburgh in 1920. Leith is located on the southern coast of the Firth of Forth and lies within the City of Edinburgh council area; since 2007 Leith (Edinburgh ward), it has formed one of 17 multi-member Wards of the United Kingdom, wards of the city. History As the major port serving Edinburgh, Leith has seen many significant events in Scottish history. First settlement The earliest evidence of settlement in Leith comes from several archaeological digs undertaken in The Shore, Leith, The Shore area in the late 20th century. Amongst the finds were medieval wharf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reredos
A reredos ( , , ) is a large altarpiece, a screen, or decoration placed behind the altar in a Church (building), church. It often includes religious images. The term ''reredos'' may also be used for similar structures, if elaborate, in secular architecture, for example very grand carved chimneypieces. It also refers to a simple, low stone wall placed behind a hearth. Description A reredos can be made of stone, wood, metal, ivory, or a combination of materials. The images may be painted, carved, gilded, composed of mosaics, and/or embedded with Niche (architecture), niches for statues. Sometimes a tapestry or another fabric such as silk or velvet is used. Derivation and history of the term ''Reredos'' is Etymology, derived through Middle English from the 14th-century Anglo-Norman ''areredos'', which in turn is from''arere'' 'behind' +''dos'' 'back', from Latin . (Despite its appearance, the first part of the word is not formed by doubling the prefix "re-", but by an archaic spell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St James The Less, Pimlico
St James the Less is a Church of England parish church in Pimlico, Westminster, built in 1858–61 by George Edmund Street in the Gothic Revival style. A Grade I listed building, it has been described as "one of the finest Gothic Revival churches anywhere". The church was constructed predominantly in brick with embellishments from other types of stone. Its most prominent external feature is its free-standing Italian-style tower, while its interior incorporates design themes which Street observed in medieval Gothic buildings in continental Europe. History The church was Street's first commission in London, which he took on after his widely admired work in the diocese of Oxford and at All Saints, Boyne Hill, Maidenhead, where he delivered buildings in Polychrome brickwork, polychromatic red brick and stone. He had also published in 1855, to considerable acclaim, his book ''Brick and Marble Architecture in Italy''. In 1858, he was commissioned by the three daughters of the Bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Saints, Middleton Cheney - Mausoleum - Geograph
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