Kyoto Park, Holland Park
This page simply reformats the Flickr public Atom feed for purposes of finding inspiration through random exploration. These images are not being copied or stored in any way by this website, nor are any links to them or any metadata about them. All images are © their owners unless otherwise specified.
This site is a busybee project and is supported by the generosity of viewers like you.
Just Stop Oil on the Cromwell Road
Just Stop Oil start the slow walk of protest
Jump the protest and the lights
Just Stop Oil on the Cromwell Road
Just Stop Oil form up to start a protest march on the Cromwell Road
The church of Saint Simon Zelotes Architect: Joseph Peacock. The British Listed Buildings site categorizes this church constructed of rubble and ashlar dressings as “geometrical Gothic style of individual character”
The Church of St Simon Zelotes is listed at Grade II* for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: a striking and distinctive composition, it is the most complete surviving work by the High Victorian ‘rogue’ architect Joseph Peacock, which illustrates his very singular application of Gothic forms and motifs; * Craftsmanship: in the skilfully executed stone carving and restrained and elegant use of polychromy. The Lavers & Barraud east window, set within an intricately carved frame, the distinctive font, and good 1920s oak sanctuary fittings, are of particular note.
History
The development of eastern or Upper Chelsea as a residential suburb was well advanced by the mid-C19, necessitating the creation of chapels-of-ease to supplement the parish church of Chelsea, and in turn several new parishes with their respective churches. The parish church of St Simon was built at the initiative of Henry Virtue Tebbs and John Martin as ‘one among other similar means of appropriating a munificent legacy bequeathed to them by William Coles, a much respected inhabitant of Chelsea’, as commemorated by a wall table inside the church. The Builder (20 August 1859) reported that the money was raised ‘through the exertions of the Rev’d R. Burgess, rector of Upper Chelsea’ and that the first incumbent was the Rev’d Scott Moncrieff. The foundation stone was laid on 8 June 1858, and the church was consecrated on 21 March 1859. The total cost was £5,250. The dedication had changed to St Simon Zelotes (the Zealot) by 1881.
The architect was Joseph Peacock (1821-1893), whose early church work, characterised by singular, often wilful, deployment of Gothic motifs and angular forms, led the architect-historian HS Goodhart-Rendel to number him amongst the ‘rogue architects’ of High Victorian Gothic who departed from the strict academic medievalism promoted by the Ecclesiological Society, and by so doing gained considerable opprobrium from that body.
Anglican church built 1858-9 to the design of Joseph Peacock. Built by White of Pimlico. Sculpture by John Lewis Jacquet.
EXTERIOR: designed in a distinctive Geometric Gothic style. Steep pitched roofs aligned east-west, the ‘crossing’ roof is slightly lower than that of the main nave; those of the ’transepts’ and chancel are in turn slightly lower; pentice roofs to aisles. A heavy double string-course at lower level continues around the entire building. The west elevation is framed by over-scaled offset angle buttresses and surmounted by a similarly over-scaled bellcote with paired pointed bell openings and a vesica piscis. The shallow gabled porch has a trefoil-arched entrance on slender shafts; to either side of the porch are angular lancet windows. The west window is set within a large recessed blind arch whose mouldings ‘die’ into the jambs; the interior is carved with surface diaper ornament. The trefoil-headed window consists of paired two-light windows with hood moulds and carved stops, separated by a stepped buttress with an empty canopied niche; the head is inset with a rose window. A close precedent to this arrangement is seen at William Butterfield’s St Matthias, Stoke Newington (1851). The clerestory windows are in the form of barbed trefoils, a recurrent motif; below the eaves is a band of dog-tooth mouldings. The aisles have paired and single lancet-arch windows with trefoil traceried lights, hoodmoulds and carved stops, and a frieze of diaper ornament below the eaves. The north porch, framed by buttresses, has a pointed arched entrance on ring-moulded shafts and a steep gable breaking through the eaves. At the head of the left-hand buttress is a carved beast; other beasts occur at eaves level around the building. The transepts, which outwardly resemble chapels, have sheer north and south walls pierced by three very narrow lancets, and traceried windows on the east and west faces. The five-light east window is outwardly of rectangular form, with a separated triangular light marking the apex of the blind arch on the inner face. Original planked doors with iron strap-hinges to the entrances, except the west porch, which is modern. Attached to the end of the north chancel wall is a low wall and gabled entrance with wrought-iron gate and railings, providing access to the north and south galleries and vestry.
Other people's nice cars on the street - Lamborghini
Other people's nice cars on the street - Ferrari 599GTB
Other people's nice cars on the street - Mercedes S-Class
Other people's nice cars on the street - BMW M5
Other People's nice cars on the street - Jaguar XJS Convertible
Other people's nice cars on the street - Rolls Royce Silver Spirit II
Other people's nice cars on the street - Rolls Royce Silver Spirit II