IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Wide Street, PORTLAND, DT5 2JP
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Wide Street, DT5 2JP by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (207 Images Found)
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Distance
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Easton, gate
At the south-western entrance to Inmosthay Quarries.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 30 Aug 2014
0.05 miles
5
Easton, John Baxter Pavilion
On Wide Street; headquarters of Portland Red Triangle Cricket Club: http://www.prtcc.com/
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 30 Aug 2014
0.08 miles
8
Portland: St George Reforne
To my mind there is nothing simple or rural about this Georgian church. It's grander than any church in Weymouth (a major resort in Georgian times), and wouldn't be out of place in Bath or Cheltenham, or one of London's Georgian squares. It must once have been surrounded by fields, but now rises out of a desolate landscape of worked-out quarries - and the vast necropolis seen here.
The church was designed and built by a local mason, Thomas Gilbert, work starting in 1754 (Newman & Pevsner, 'The Buildings of England: Dorset'). According to Susann Palmer, the Portland archaeologist and historian, Gilbert's father had business contacts with Sir Christopher Wren - supplying him with stone. Whether the young Portlander received any direct guidance from Wren seems not to be known. He must, in any case, have been a man of considerable nerve and determination.
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 4 May 2011
0.09 miles
9
Easton, obelisk
In St. George's churchyard; eroded, but probably dated 1893. See also Image
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 30 Aug 2014
0.09 miles
10
St. George's Church and cemetery, Isle of Portland
See Image
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 31 Dec 1991
0.09 miles