セント・ポール大聖堂(St Paul’s Cathedral, London)外壁に付随する鉄製装飾門 (wrought iron gate) の一つ。
・装飾門(Gate)
・黒い鉄製の格子門で、中央に円形の装飾文様。
・バロック様式らしい曲線や花模様があしらわれていた。
・石造の門柱(Pillars)
・左右に白い石の門柱が立ち、その上に大きな装飾壺(ウルン, urn)が。
・壺には花綱(ガーランド)を持つ顔(マスク)の装飾が施されており、華やかさを添える。
・背景の建物
・背後に見えるのはセント・ポールの外壁の一部(石積みと装飾帯)。
移動して西正面側の入口付近を。正面左右の塔のうち、左に当たる北西塔(North West Tower) が見えた。
セント・ポール大聖堂(St Paul’s Cathedral, London)の案内板。 「These gardens are laid out as the footprint of the Chapter House and Cloister of the Medieval Cathedral which was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. The actual remains lie a few feet below.
The Chapter House and Cloister, designed by the royal mason William Ramsey in 1332, were among the first real examples of the Perpendicular style which was to dominate English architecture for the next two hundred years.
Both the octagonal Chapter House and the square Cloister were two-storied buildings enabling the prominent buttresses to act also as very large windows on the first floorabove an open undercroft. In the Chapter Room, which was surrounded on the first floor by an open cloistered walk, it was here that the Chapter or governing body of theCathedral held its meetings.」
「Become part of the history of St Paul’s」(セント・ポールの歴史の一部になろう)
「Experience more」(さらなる体験を)
・案内文
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リチャード・ランドル・バージェス艦長(Captain Richard Rundle Burges, 1754–1797)」 の記念碑。カンパーダウン海戦の英雄としての顕彰碑であると。
「Sacred to the memory of Richard Rundle Burges Esquire, Commander of His Majesty’s Ship The Ardent, who fell in the 43rd year of his age, while bravely supporting thehonour of the British flag, in a daring and successful attempt to break the enemy’s line,near Camperdown, on the 11th of October 1797. His skill, coolness, and intrepidity eminently contributed to a victory equally advantageous and glorious to his country. That grateful country, by the unanimous act of her legislature, high in enrols his name, who under the blessing of Providence, have established and maintained her navalsuperiority, and her exalted rank among nations.」