Photograph taken of the inner courtyard of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. It's a whopper of a house, owned by the Duke of Devonshire. Although I adore visiting these amazing places, am quite uncomfortable by the lavish wealth some people reside in through an accident of birth. Now I've got that out of the way, onto the photograph! Image shows a facade of one of the four inner courtyard walls. It was taken from a corridor outside the chapel inside the house. There are three sets of four tall rectangular windows across three storeys. Each window is made of four x seven glass panes with gold edge between each, except the lowest row which is four x six. The top windows have a fancy stone mini balcony, bit like the pointless Juilet balconies on new build apartments, but fancy. The facade is stone and features the usual Italianate features of pediments (like decorative hats), cornice (patterned horizontal stone strips where you'd find a plastic gutter on a terraced house) and beams (flat stone horizontal strips between storeys). All the window frames are gold and shine in the sunshine. There are three long thing stone reliefs between the middle floor windows featuring a tangled mass of faces, plants, drums and other things not clear enough on the image to see. Blue sky overhead and a flat slab stone courtyard floor below. I could probably write four pages of descriptions but won't bore you further. In summary, it's stone, symmetrical, has fancy twiddles here and there, and big windows in gold frames.
Symmetrical Symphony
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