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30 Jul 14 - 08:05 AM (#3646560) Subject: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Big Al Whittle just saw a picture of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow....stunningly beautiful! |
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30 Jul 14 - 08:40 AM (#3646572) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Backwoodsman It's beautiful inside too. And a great museum. The university's behind it, and it's very nice too. |
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30 Jul 14 - 08:53 AM (#3646575) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Uncle_DaveO What are the chances of a link to a picture of this beautiful building? Dave Oesterreich
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30 Jul 14 - 09:02 AM (#3646578) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: MGM·Lion Of course, 'most' is a sticky concept. In a way it has to be a matter of mood. If one feels late-Victorian-gothic-redbrick-ish, then Kelvingrove is, indeed a good contender. If one feels Between-Wars Art Deco, then maybe Broadcasting House, or Memorial Court in Clare College, Cambridge; if C17, same college's Old Court, or St Paul's; if Tudor-ish, the the Cloister Court in Queens', or if Gothic, King's Chapel is an obvious. {Oxonians will obviously produce their own, rival, list}. If it's Art Nouveau time, maybe Selfridges? And have we, after all these years, ever outdone Stonehenge? ~~ which would probably be my #1 contender... But may well be back with some more suggestions after a bit more thought & recollection. ≈Michael≈ |
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30 Jul 14 - 09:04 AM (#3646579) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: MGM·Lion Uncle Dave -- I reminded myself by bringing it up on Wikipedia, where there are good pix. |
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30 Jul 14 - 09:50 AM (#3646585) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: maeve Kelvingrove |
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30 Jul 14 - 10:07 AM (#3646592) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: akenaton Sorry Al...I have been inside the "Art Galleries" many times it contains some wonderful pictures from the Glasgow School Glasgow boys but the building is much too ornate for my taste. There is a story that the architect committed suicide when the building was constructed with the front facing into Kelvingrove Park and the rear entrance facing the main thoroughfare of Argyll Street. (The wrang wey roon) The oft told story is apparently untrue! |
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30 Jul 14 - 10:08 AM (#3646593) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,Ed Nothing north of Watford Gap then, MtheGM? You may have a point with Stonehenge, but surely it's a structure rather than a building? Durham Cathedral must be up there. |
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30 Jul 14 - 10:35 AM (#3646598) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Mo the caller The one that gives me a lift when I see it from the Moor is the first glimpse of Whitby Abbey. But that's setting and associations. Not sure that any building can match natural beauty. |
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30 Jul 14 - 10:38 AM (#3646599) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Backwoodsman If we're talking cathedrals, Lincoln takes a very great deal of beating, IMHO. |
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30 Jul 14 - 10:38 AM (#3646600) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,Ed Not sure that any building can match natural beauty I don't think that anyone said it could, Mo. But that wasn't the question, was it? |
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30 Jul 14 - 11:26 AM (#3646613) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST, topsie Kelvingrove is not to my taste. The Glasgow School of Art, though, is/was stunning. I hope they manage to restore it. |
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30 Jul 14 - 11:32 AM (#3646616) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: MGM·Lion Made clear, Ed: wasn't trying to be exhaustive. But have also happy recollections of Durham Castle & Cathedral; Whitby Abbey; all those beautiful Georgian edifices in Edinburgh; Edinburgh Castle. Nearer home [just a few miles from where I sit, indeed], Ely Cathedral. Peterboro ditto. And I am one of those who love the wonderfully OTT St Pancras Stn. But there are so many beautiful, in different ways, buildings. How about we hear it for the wonderful 30 St Mary Axe ~ aka Swiss Re ~ aka The Gherkin? Always have a rise of spirit when coach from Cambridge to London carries me past that. And, waiting on Embankment to catch it home, can gaze across river to beautiful County Hall (1911-1939). ~M~ |
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30 Jul 14 - 11:44 AM (#3646620) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Mo the caller "Not sure that any building can match natural beauty I don't think that anyone said it could, Mo. But that wasn't the question, was it?" No it wasn't the question, but thinking about the question led to pondering about beauty and made me realise that that I've never thought of any building in those terms. Motorway Bridges have a certain 'fit for purpose'-ness, I suppose. St Georges Hall Liverpool has an ornate splendour, they had to spend their ill-gotten gains somewhere. |
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30 Jul 14 - 11:55 AM (#3646628) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: MGM·Lion Ah, now: If we are counting bridges:- Severn; London; Tower; Blackfriars; Westminster; Dartford Crossing; Humber; Forth x 2 [road & rail]; Bridge of Sighs, Cambridge [St John's College]; Magdalen, Oxford ...... |
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30 Jul 14 - 11:58 AM (#3646631) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: MGM·Lion ... & with Cambridge in mind again: New Court [aka The Wedding Cake] St John's; New Court [aka The Typewriter], Christ's... ≈M≈ |
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30 Jul 14 - 12:10 PM (#3646634) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Musket Noticing a brewery normally warns the cockles of my heart. Any will do, except Batemans. More seriously, Hardwick Hall does it for me. It must have been a wonder of the world when they built the new hall in Elizabethan times. All that glass. |
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30 Jul 14 - 12:21 PM (#3646644) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Big Al Whittle theres something very romantic about Blackpool Tower -indeed all of Blackpool has a strange bastard beauty. you look up at the windows of the tower and you can imagine all those showbiz and musichall legends. down the road theres the oldoyster bar where my Grandma ate oysters on her honeymoon in 1903 - still in business. down Regents Road you can see in the house where George Joseph Smith drowned one of his unlucky brides in the bath. the next morning the landlady heard him consoling himself, by drunkenly playing nearer my God to Thee on her harmonium and knocking back whisky. |
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30 Jul 14 - 12:37 PM (#3646649) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,Ed If we're including structures as well as buildings, I propose the majestic Lovell Telescope |
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30 Jul 14 - 01:09 PM (#3646667) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,Shimrod Basically, anything Georgian. The architects of that period had the most sublime taste and sense of proportion. Stamford, in Lincolnshire, is a Georgian gem (and quite a few others - like Bath, of course, which I am not so familiar with). But my favourite Georgian buildings of all are here in Manchester, where I live. There are little pockets of Georgian loveliness among all the horrible Victorian/20th - 21st century 'clutter'. My favourite is a little row of shops/workshops on Port Street in the Northern Quarter. Just ordinary vernacular buildings but gorgeous - and they have recently been quite tastefully restored. |
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30 Jul 14 - 01:17 PM (#3646673) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST Do you mean these, Shimrod? |
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30 Jul 14 - 01:22 PM (#3646678) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Joe Offer Most beautiful "building" in Britain? I vote for the Forth Bridge. -Joe- |
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30 Jul 14 - 01:33 PM (#3646685) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Backwoodsman Drahn 'em in the barth, Al. |
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30 Jul 14 - 01:36 PM (#3646686) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,DTM From Piccadilly Circus, the beauty of Regent Street's Georgian facades sweeping off in a gentle curve is a sight to behold. Also, Eileen Donan Castle (despite its overexposure on shortbread tins, etc) is up there with the best. |
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30 Jul 14 - 02:30 PM (#3646707) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: akenaton Agree with Shim Georgian proportion was magnificent. Unfortunately, here in Scotland, many of the great Georgian houses have been ruined by Victorian additions and "embellishment". Scottish Parliament Building Edinburgh |
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30 Jul 14 - 04:56 PM (#3646747) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Bill D In watching Antiques Roadshow, I have seen so many amazingly beautiful & impressive places that I'd be at a loss to choose one....and with the history of Britain, there are thousands of beautiful places that are NOT cathedrals, castles or museums. I could easily spend years just visiting places like Mey, Balmoral & such. The US has far fewer 'classic' buildings. |
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30 Jul 14 - 05:05 PM (#3646750) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST, topsie If we are counting bridges, why not piers? This is Clevedon pier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevedon_Pier#mediaviewer/File:Clevedon_Pier_2013.jpg |
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30 Jul 14 - 05:20 PM (#3646757) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,Shimrod Hi Guest, Yes, those are the buildings that I was referring to. |
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30 Jul 14 - 08:11 PM (#3646780) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Steve Shaw I love cathedrals and I've been to a lot of 'em, though not all. We went to Hereford Cathedral a couple of years ago and were given, unexpectedly, a private guided tour by the fellow who was in charge of it (can't remember his title, wot wiv being an atheist an' all that). The Mappa Mundi is in there too. We loved it. But I also love the Mersey Funnel, aka Paddy's Wigwam, in Liverpool (the Metropolitan Cathedral). It might be a bit odd from the outside, but buildings aren't just outsides. It's the most wonderful place to sit inside and contemplate stuff, even if you're only contemplating where to get your next espresso. The light in there is glorious. |
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31 Jul 14 - 12:56 AM (#3646824) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: michaelr York Minster's a bit nice. |
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31 Jul 14 - 01:36 AM (#3646830) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Joe Offer And then there are railway stations. My favorite is St. Pancras. I might like King's Cross even better, but the hideous modern addition on the front ruins the building entirely. It certainly is beautiful on the outside. Oh, and Glasgow Central Railway Station is another fascinating building. -Joe- |
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31 Jul 14 - 01:45 AM (#3646831) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Backwoodsman But that 'hideous modern addition' is a huge functional improvement to King's Cross, Joe, and a far, far nicer place for its frequent users. |
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31 Jul 14 - 02:55 AM (#3646857) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Joe Offer Yeah, Backwoodsman, but couldn't they have made King's Cross a bit less hideous while still functional? I like even less what they did with Euston Station. After I tired Micca out so much he wouldn't walk with me any more, I spent a day visiting London railway stations. I really enjoyed it. Victoria and Paddington, yes: Liverpool, no. -Joe- |
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31 Jul 14 - 02:58 AM (#3646858) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Musket I love the new Kings Cross, from a user point of view. Far better place to just miss your train than before... I recently did some work that had me cross The Humber Bridge twice a day a couple of times a week for over a year. The approach from the south early in the morning, especially with it still lit but sunrise on it, is rather stunning to say the least. |
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31 Jul 14 - 03:02 AM (#3646860) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Joe Offer I admit I found King's Cross easy to use, and the inside is still beautiful. Platform 9-3/4 was especially memorable for this American tourist. -Joe- |
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31 Jul 14 - 04:37 AM (#3646889) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Big Al Whittle I agree Musket - the approach to Hull is glorious. it used to be even better, because there were no service stations on that stretch of motorway - so you were always dying for a wee. consequently the sight of the bridge meant that relief was not far away. |
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31 Jul 14 - 04:53 AM (#3646893) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Jack Blandiver Norwich Cathedral for me, followed by a smattering of Norfolk country churches, like those at Salle, Trunch, Cley-juxta-Mare, Cawston etc. happily untouched by the ravages of Victorian Gothic. Of old, the most beautiful was Blyth Power Station, sadly no more! |
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31 Jul 14 - 06:16 AM (#3646913) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,Raggytash There are many buildings that are more aesthetically pleasing than Durham Cathedral, but when one considers when it was built, the technology available to the architects and masons at the time, it has to be (IMHO) the most pleasing building on the eye. The sheer magnificence of the structure, mainly built between 1080 and 1135 warms the heart of even this jaded atheist. |
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31 Jul 14 - 08:01 AM (#3646947) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,HiLo Salisbury Cathedral for me, just awe inspiring. |
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31 Jul 14 - 10:12 AM (#3647004) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Bill D J.K. Rowling bought Killiechassie House, near Aberfeldy , which is a candidate for place on a list of "most beautiful private homes".... and in fact, made the top 100 in someone's list. |
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31 Jul 14 - 10:21 AM (#3647008) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Stu Euston Station is a box, and it's always nice to get out and into the streets of Bloomsbury. I have several favourites. Maes Howe in Orkney is a quite incredible place, with runes and pictures carved on the inside by a party of Vikings holed up in there during a two-week (!) storm. I too love cathedrals, and I particularly like Edinburgh for it's carvings. Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral impresses with size, but Winchester is my favourite. Castles: Manorbeir, Stokesay and Conwy are particular favourites but I saw Carew Castle when I was a boy and the memory has never left me. Must get back there. Aside from that: The Natural History Museum in Kensington, The Rotunda in Brum, various pubs, Villa Park. |
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31 Jul 14 - 12:42 PM (#3647053) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Q (Frank Staplin) UK has many attractive buildings and homes, but Kelvingrove Gallery reminds me of some of the buildings constructed in India during the 19th century. |
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31 Jul 14 - 01:51 PM (#3647073) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,achmelvich maybe like any other artwork , our enjoyment is subjective. i'm always impressed going to the bell in bath or the ceilidh place in ullapool. glasgow has kelvingrove indeed but the kibble palace at the botanic gardens moves me like nowhere else. as you go from cockermouth to loweswater (and the fabulous kirkstile inn) there is a farmhouse off the road to the left, just past scale hall, with grasmoor end in the background - just sits beautifully in the curve of the land in front of it. much better than durham cathedral that looks impressive from the outside but isn't much inside (like dunnottar castle?) i quite like the shed by the car park at achmelvich - yes, it's all subjective eventually, innit? |
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31 Jul 14 - 02:22 PM (#3647081) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,Ed yes, it's all subjective eventually, innit? Well, self evidently so. I'd be grateful if you didn't type 'innit' ever again. I like the fact that a lot of those suggesting cathedrals (myself included) are atheist. I'm also a big fan of simple chapels, such as this one near where I live: Forest Chapel, Macclesfield Forest |
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31 Jul 14 - 02:43 PM (#3647086) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,achmelvich if you like the outside of a building does it matter that much what is in it? |
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31 Jul 14 - 03:48 PM (#3647102) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Stu I love Forest Chapel too, especially when the rushes are strewn on the floor. And theSavage Tower in Macclesfield is a gem. |
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31 Jul 14 - 04:31 PM (#3647108) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Jack Blandiver I'm an atheist medieval church fiend. Here's to St Mary and St David, Kilpeck - the jewel in the crown of the Herefordshire Romanesque, circa 1140, that looks like it was carved last week. The first time I went there I was expecting Rosslyn scale palaver & gift shops - what I found was a deserted farmyard and a perfect summer day of unspoiled excellence when I had the place to myself for three hours. Another favourite : All Saints, Tudeley for the windows alone. |
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01 Aug 14 - 03:07 AM (#3647226) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,Ian The hidden gem. A Catholic Church hidden down a side street in Central Manchester. Not visible as you walk down the road until you are outside ,it hence the name. Can't remember its real name. |
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01 Aug 14 - 03:09 AM (#3647228) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: akenaton Achmelvich....:0) |
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01 Aug 14 - 03:12 AM (#3647229) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST Theres a song or a tune called Kelvingrove isnt there? |
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01 Aug 14 - 03:44 AM (#3647240) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,achmelvich akenaton...? we could suggest which of all the bars in britain is the most attractive inn. it wouldn't necessarily have to be the local but we'd have to try harder than usual to be subjective |
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01 Aug 14 - 04:30 AM (#3647249) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Big Al Whittle I love that bit in Hannah and her sisters where one of the sisters is going out with an architect, and there is short sequence when he takes her round some of the most beautiful buildings in New York. |
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01 Aug 14 - 05:45 AM (#3647264) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: MGM·Lion Guest 3 above ~~ The tune 'Kelvingrove' is the one used for the song 'The Shearing's Not For You'. ≈M≈ |
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01 Aug 14 - 05:50 AM (#3647266) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: MGM·Lion ... in BT under title - THE SHEARIN'S NAE FOR YOU, MY BONNIE LASSIE O |
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01 Aug 14 - 07:54 AM (#3647294) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Nick My house. Beauty is in the eye of the freeholder. |
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01 Aug 14 - 08:01 AM (#3647297) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST, topsie One of my favourites is the Palm House at Kew. I used to fantasise about hiding among the ferns at closing time, and spending the night there. |
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01 Aug 14 - 08:13 AM (#3647299) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Noreen Worcester Guildhall is one of the most impressive, and overlooked in this sort of discussion- particularly as it's in the middle of the High Street between Debenhams and TKMax :) Some of the carvings are 17th century, and the gilded weaponry sparkles in the sun. |
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01 Aug 14 - 08:23 AM (#3647304) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: billybob St David's Cathedral, in the most perfect setting. |
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01 Aug 14 - 11:10 AM (#3647344) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: Steve Shaw I heard all six Brandenburg Concertos played in St David's Cathedral on a perfect late May evening in 1983. As for Achmelvich the place, that little shack of a youth hostel almost on the beach (which I haven't been to since 1976) holds great memories. Things like that matter too! |
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01 Aug 14 - 06:40 PM (#3647498) Subject: RE: BS: the most beautiful building in Britain? From: GUEST,achmelvich i just watched 2 programmes on bbc 2/i-player . history of our streets about duke street in glasgow and the moray estate in edinburgh. what great tv - and history; sociology; architecture; politics etc...anyway the old tenements in scotland -especially when sandblasted - are beautiful, as are the splendid georgian terraces up there. made me very nostalgic. what is the point of living by the lakes if i can't afford the petrol money to go walking there? (yes, i know that sounds daft but i know what i mean) |
