Venetian Window - Architecture of Stoke-on-Trent
 

   

Venetian Window

Venetian (Palladian) Window

in architecture, three-part window composed of a large, arched central section flanked by two narrower, shorter sections having square tops. This type of window, popular in 17th- and 18th-century English versions of Italian designs, was inspired by the so-called Palladian motif, similar three-part openings having been featured in the work of the 16th-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio; his basilica at Vicenza, designed in 1546, was especially rich in these. It is also sometimes called a Venetian window.

 




 


 Rear of St. John the Baptist parish church - Burslem

Woodbank St and Cross Hill photo - 2000

View from the rear of the church, the church was extended in 1788 by the addition of an apsidal chancel to create more seating capacity. The east facing window is of the typical Venetian style - so loved by potteries architects. 

St. John's Church is a listed building

on St. John's church

on churches and chapels of Stoke-on-Trent


Wade Heath Pottery Works
Westport Road, Burslem photo taken 1999

This pottery works is a listed building

The corner frontage of the old Enoch Wood Fountain Works
 The corner frontage of the old Enoch Wood Fountain Works
restored in 2000 as flats.
detail of the main entrance to the works
showing the restored Venetian window and cupola

on Wood's Fountain Place Works

Grove Junior School - Northwood, Keelings Road
Grove Junior School - Northwood, Keelings Road
note the ornate boiler chimney with the cupola top
and the Venetian window to the centre gable

 

The Boundary Works, King Street
 The Boundary Works, King Street
the Boundary Works, dated 1819, (next to the Phoenix Works) and one of the best. Seventeen bays, with a five-bay centre raised to two and a half stories. Archway, Venetian window, tripartite window, gable.

 

In Sutherland Road, Longton is the Aynsley Pottery, dated 1861 - and yet still entirely the Georgian type. Fifteen bays, the centre the usual archway, one Venetian window, but a tripartite window above it, because the building now is of three, no longer of two floors.

Aynsley's Portland Works in Sutherland Road, Longton.
Aynsley's Portland Works in Sutherland Road, Longton.
 - Photo Mr.Elliott, February 1975 -
Staffs past tracks

 

Details of the window
 Details of the window

Now demolished - behind Broad Street, Hanley is the building for Mason's Ironstone China, datable by style to c.1815. It was a full twenty-five bays long, of two storeys, with a three-bay pediment and a Venetian window beneath it. In the end elevation also a Venetian window.

 

Front elevation of Mason's Ironstone Works
 Front elevation of Mason's Ironstone Works
showing the Venetian window

 photo - c. Potworks / Godden

 

 

 

 

 

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