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Scattered Black and Whites...
Sep. 26th, 2011 06:07 pmWriters' Group tonight, so it's just a fleeting post.
I thought I'd share some more of Shrewsbury's early buildings with you today, including this rather squint example:-
We tried to eat in the Italian restaurant that occupies the ground floor but it was crowded with folk and we couldn't get a table. Here's a close up of some of the finials that crown the gablets:-
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for. A close-up of some of the fantastic carvings that characterise the Shrewsbury Tradition, including the barley-sugar style twists:-
Now, what this says about the hypothesis about early=ornate, and late=austere, I don't know. This carving is far from austere, and the date of the building - 1598 - seems quite late to me. Perhaps they continued to build timber-framed buildings into the 17th century, and these are the late, austere ones.
I thought I'd share some more of Shrewsbury's early buildings with you today, including this rather squint example:-
And one of my particular favourites:-
We tried to eat in the Italian restaurant that occupies the ground floor but it was crowded with folk and we couldn't get a table. Here's a close up of some of the finials that crown the gablets:-
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for. A close-up of some of the fantastic carvings that characterise the Shrewsbury Tradition, including the barley-sugar style twists:-
Now, what this says about the hypothesis about early=ornate, and late=austere, I don't know. This carving is far from austere, and the date of the building - 1598 - seems quite late to me. Perhaps they continued to build timber-framed buildings into the 17th century, and these are the late, austere ones.
