building – Minutiae

Centre

Looking along the pedestrianised part of Corn Road towards the old centre of Bristol just beyond All Saints church tower on the right.

Demolition in progress by Bristol’s River Avon Floating Harbour adjacent to the Cheese Lane Shot Tower a grade II listed shot tower. It was built in 1969 to manufacture lead shot, a replacement for the demolished 18th-century shot tower in Redcliffe which was the first in the world. It’s now defunct as a factory, incorporatedContinue reading “Defunct”

Severe

A severely symmetrical Georgian residential façade viewed through gateposts in Eye, Suffolk.

Sunny

Bathed in sunshine is the 100-foot high 15th-century tower with (on the left) the 14th-century south porch of the church of Saints Peter and Paul, Eye, Suffolk.

Glimpsed

The Gothic Revival tower of Temple Meads station, Bristol, glimpsed through the roof above the main entrance to the station.

Verticals

Timber-framed Tudor building and medieval church tower with strong perpendiculars in Eye, Suffolk.

Flinty

Late 15th-century flint-work patterns, including shield and (?) ciborium, on a chancel buttress, Eye church, Suffolk.

School

Ysgol y Brenin Harri VIII, Y Fenni: the new school buildings of King Henry VIII 3-19 School, Abergavenny.

Basin

Reflections of the former toll house in the canal basin, Brecon, Powys.

Porch

Wedding day floral decoration by the porch at St Meugan’s church, Llanfeugan near Brecon, surrounded by twelve ancient yews.