Entrance Gatehouse to Market Hall, Hereford High Town, constructed about 1860 with a pyramidal effect. Rusticated archway with atropaic guardian deity as keystone. Triglyphs support blind balustrading, then two figures in niches flank a round-headed window. Two pilasters support a moulded arch or tympanum with the royal coat of arms, below the clock tower andContinue reading “Market”
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Fosse
The Fosse, a Georgian town house incorporating a variety of architectural styles, located on Castle Green, Hereford. Completed in 1825, from a date on the façade. Named from Latin fossa, ‘a ditch’, because built on part of the moat of Hereford’s demolished castle (only a pond remains, opposite the façade).
Gamma
Pavement in north transept, Hereford Cathedral Maze-like Escher pattern made from svastika good luck symbols, also called the crux gammata or gammadion, from resembling four conjoined Greek gamma letters
Cirque
2/2 Window display Bridge Street, Crickhowell
Beady
1/ Window display Stuffed squirrel in a window
Turret
Tower Bridge, Glanusk Estate, Crickhowell, Powys
Colourful
Dredger and friend, Monmouthshire and Brecon canal, Llangattock
Revival
Gothic revival façade, Tower Bridge, Glanusk Estate, Crickhowell, Powys
Trapeze
Window display, Bridge Street, Crickhowell
Repurposed
Courtyard, Upper House Farm, Crickhowell, looking towards the Tudor period Rumsey Place.
Minutiae 