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unusual facts about porch



Almonry

At Bishopstone church, Wiltshire, it is a sort of covered porch attached to the south transept, but not communicating with the interior of the church.

Alverstoke

The original church was entirely replaced by the present structure, as designed by Henry Woodyer in the decorated style, when rebuilt 1863–85: its chancel was completed in 1865, and extends to three bays, two having arches to the north and south chapels; its wide nave by Woodyer was constructed in 1885 and has five arches and a south porch.

Araeosystyle

Araeosystyle (Gr. αραιος, "widely spaced", and συστυλος, "with columns set close together"), an architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation is alternately wide and narrow, as in the case of the western porch of St Paul's Cathedral and the east front of the Louvre by Perrault.

Arreton Manor

Sir Thomas Bennet added the new porch and oak panelling in the major rooms.

Bentham, North Yorkshire

The present building was built in the 1870s by Richard Norman Shaw, and includes an ancient coffin slab dating from about 1340; the Kirkbeck Stone dating from the 17th century; a 15th-century bell hanging in the porch; and a reredos in Caen stone with marble panels.

Chacombe

The house has a large Elizabethan porch and a late-17th-century staircase, and was remodelled in the Georgian era.

Charles and Grace Parker House

Architecture critic Larry Millett calls it one of Purcell and Elmslie's greatest houses, citing the broad gabled roof, the groupings of windows, the side porch, and the detail surrounding the entry.

Chicksands Priory

Elements of the original building remain, but it has been altered over the years, not least in 1740 by the architect Isaac Ware and in 1813 by James Wyatt, who designed the entrance hall, staircase and porch in the Gothic Revival style.

College of Matrons

Above the porched main entrance, set in a roof level gable end, is a brightly painted Royal Coat of Arms from the Stuart period, with drapes of fruit on each side.

Comet Donati

Abraham Lincoln, then a candidate for a seat in the U.S. Senate, sat up on the porch of his hotel in Jonesboro, Illinois to see "Donti's Comet" on September 14, 1858, the night before the third of his historic debates with Stephen Douglas.

Curtilage

In Jardines, the Court specifically named a front porch as a prime example of curtliage; even though Girl Scouts or salespersons can knock on the front door, they must leave immediately if there is no answer.

David Bazan

The DVD contains interviews and intimate live performances filmed in his home studio, on his front porch, and while driving around in his Ford Bronco.

David Cheriton

In August 1998, Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page met with Bechtolsheim on Cheriton's front porch.

Dentil

In the porch of the Studion cathedral at Constantinople, the dentil and the interval between are equal in width, and the interval is splayed back from top to bottom; this is the form it takes in what is known as the Venetian dentil, which was copied from the Byzantine dentil in Santa Sophia, Constantinople.

Doulting

It has a two-storey porch which incorporates a carving of the Green Man into its vaulting.

Eaten Alive

Clara makes her way to a decrepit hotel where she encounters the mentally disturbed proprietor Judd (Neville Brand) and his pet Nile crocodile in the swamp beside the porch.

Eight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values that Build Strong Communities

It recounts the eight lessons that he learned while growing up in the Mississippi Delta, United States, lessons he attributes to the "front porch wisdom" of the people in his community.

Flamboyant

Église Notre-Dame, Louviers, Normandy, France (especially the south nave façade and porch)

Front porch campaign

While McKinley was at his Canton, Ohio, home conducting his "front-porch campaign", Mark Hanna was out raising millions to help with the campaign.

Fylfot

A most unusual example of its usage is to be found in the porch of the parish church of Great Canfield, Essex, England.

Gunston Hall

The classical lines of the porch exactly follow those of a Roman medal of the Temple of Tyche in Eumenia, Asia Minor, only engraved once.

The front porch of Gunston Hall is William Buckland's "most individualistic design", according to Great Georgian Houses of America, as copied by the Historic American Buildings Survey.

Hank Cramer

Northwest Public Radio "Inland Folk" named "Songs From Maurie's Porch" one of the Top Ten Folk CDs of 2006

James Prinsep

Prinsep Ghat, a Palladian porch on the bank of the Hooghly River designed by W. Fitzgerald in 1843, was erected in his memory by the citizens of Calcutta.

Louviers

The 16th century porch on the south side is an example of Late Gothic Flamboyant architecture.

Midford Castle

In 1810, the castle was bought by one of the Conollys of Castletown House in County Kildare, who added the porch (said to give the clubs symbol its stalk) and built the nearby stables and chapel, known as the priory.

Nailsea Court

The porch has a 4-centred arched door opening and a frieze with Greek fret carving.

National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District

The principal facade faces the harbor with an enclosed porch supported by paired Tuscan columns.

Nicholas Stone

The obvious European, and thus Catholic, design of the porch was later to cause problems for the porch's patron Archbishop Laud because at the centre of the scrolled pediment was placed a statue of the Virgin and Child, a composition considered to be Roman Catholic idolatry, and later used against the Archbishop at his trial for treason in 1641 following the grand Remonstrance.

Parker's Back

The story starts with Parker and his Biblically-named wife, Sarah Ruth, on the front porch in of their country house.

Porch sitting

The Don Knotts Show had a regular feature, The Front Porch, in which the host and his guest would sit in rocking chairs in a porch and talk philosophically.

Qavam House

The mirrored porch was a focal point of the house, overlooking the Eram Garden that was designed with fountains, date palms, and flowering plants.

Schuylkill Fishing Company

The door onto the porch was flanked by a piano and by a tall case clock made by Peter Stretch about 1740, father of the Schuylkill Fishing Company's first Governor, Thomas Stretch, which had been donated by Governor William Fisher Lewis.

Shib Narayan Das

On behalf of the NUCLEUS the same flag was unfurled by A. S. M. Abdur Rab along with AFM Mahbubul Haq, Das and other student league leaders from the roof top of the western porch of the Arts Faculty of DU, on March 2, 1971, shortly before the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Solomon's Temple, Aizawl Mizoram, India

Above the porch, on all four sides, there are tall pillars, carrying Seven David’s stars representing angels/messengers of the Seven Churches of Revelation (Rev. 1:20).

St Bartholomew's Church, Welby

The Perpendicular "tall" south porch is surmounted by crocketed pinnacles on its gable canopy corners, which Pevsner describes as "oversized".

St Gregory's Church, Vale of Lune

The doorway to the porch is on the west side, over which is a small gable containing the Ingmire Hall cross.

St Michael and St Mary Magdalene's Church, Easthampstead

On 9th June 2013, a new stained glass window in the porch, by the artist Thomas Denny, was unveiled by John Nike OBE DL.

St. Brides Wentloog

St Brides church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and an unusually fine perpendicular embattled western tower containing 6 bells, four of which are dated 1734 and bear inscriptions.

Stoke Dry

A myth claims that the Gunpowder Plot conspirators met in a small room above the porch; the only basis for this is that the manor was part of the estate of Sir Everard Digby.

The Back Porch Majority

The Back Porch Majority also launched the musical careers of some of its members, including singer/guitarist Kin Vassy, who went on to record with Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Dolly Parton and Frank Zappa.

The Front Porch Country Band

The Front Porch Country Band performed the world premiere of their multimedia Christmas production, "Christmas Once Upon A Time," on December 12, 2009 at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Wawasee Yacht Club

With membership increasing, and with the financial support of Eli Lilly, the porch was enclosed for meetings.

Weston-on-the-Green

The architect R. Phené Spiers restored the building in the 1870s, repairing the tower and adding the south porch and new seating.

Whitchurch-on-Thames

In 1858 the Gothic Revival architect Henry Woodyer completely rebuilt the church, retaining only the Norman south door, Perpendicular Gothic south porch and a few other items.

Whitton, North Lincolnshire

A drawing, by Nattes, of 1794 shows a dilapidated structure with a south aisle and a south porch.

Worshipful Company of Mercers

The Hall was extensively refurbished during the period 1877 to 1881 (the porch of the 1676 building is now incorporated into the facade of Swanage town hall).

Yaxley, Suffolk

Pevsner said of the 12th Century Church that the north porch was 'one of the most swagger in Suffolk'.


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