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Gothic Tower


Gothic Tower
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Copyright: Sandy McLachlan (SunnysideSandy) Silver Note Writer [C: 8 W: 3 N: 65] (397)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-08-24
Categories: Architecture
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-03-12 13:43
Viewed: 462
Points: 3
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This is one of the towers at Mount Stuart on the isle of Bute, off the West coast of Scotland.

Mount Stuart is most recently famous for hosting the wedding of Paul McCartney's daughter Stella.

During the nineteenth century Britain witnessed a Gothic architectural revival. Across the land buildings rose, Cathedral like, as monuments to an obsession with the medieval past. Mount Stuart is arguably the finest piece of domestic architecture to come out of this movement.

In 1877 the heart of the old Mount Stuart, a building of the reign of Queen Anne, was destroyed by fire. Under the direction of the 3rd Marquess of Bute and his architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson a new house arose from the ashes of the old - a Gothic palace which fused powerful architecture with intricate details and lavish designs.

Yet the house was never finished, much only being completed in an ambitious restoration programme begun by the late 6th Marquess in the 1980s, a programme which continues to this day.

More info here:

http://www.mountstuart.com/
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Bella representación arquitectónica. Un gótico más moderno con esos ventanales decorados tan altos a imitación del gótico flamígero de la época.
Buenos colores y estupenda composición Sandy.
Saludos, JL.

Hi Sandy, I love the pov and compo you got on this old tower. The sky is a bit overblown, though, as well as not getting the very tip which was cut off. A filter would probably fix the sky, either an ND Grad Grey or ND Grad Blue. TFS.

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