Privett and Basing Park toposolids extracted with Forma and
brought into Revit. Saved as a separate file and linked into the Hampshire
Churches map. Here I can explore various overlays in 2D and 3D to identify
Basing Park as it was in 1900, reveal the folds in the landscape, see how the
House and the church face each other across a valley.
This is the conception of a Victorian gin distiller who employed Blomfield for
the church. Fascinating stuff. I do enjoy this work. So far I have placed the
church and a few trees. We will be setting up a sheet soon.
Holy Trinity, Privett in its setting. Image softened with Pixlr. Looking south, and you can see the sea on the horizon. I don't think this is possible in real life. Maybe from the top of the bell tower on a clear day.
Half of the sheet layout for Holy Trinity, Privett. Yes, I know, I’m cramming an awful lot into a sheet but that’s the point of comparative analysis. Try to encapsulate each church onto a single page, then you can flip through those pages and start to get a feel for the totality of a particular body of work. In this case Churches in “greater Hampshire” by Sir Arthur Blomfield. In the top half are assembly views of a Revit family that represents the church within the larger project (a map of Hampshire)
Below three perspectives. One interior, then a view looking across the road, and finally a high-level shot looking the other way. None of this is finished, but it’s quite far advanced. It would be good to have a lych-gate family, perhaps a couple of families to represent typical designs. Most of these churches have one. Also a wall around the churchyard and some headstones, again maybe 3 or 4 types.
The other half of the sheet for Holy Trinity, Privett. I
cropped off all the empty space which will be filled at some point (text,
photographs, details ?) What remains is to maps. On the right and ordinance
survey map from 1900 overlayed with the Forma/Revit contours as a smaller
square. Roads and streams as model lines from the mapping stage of my study.
It would seem that Privett lies on the watershed with water draining North
towards the Kennet/Thames rivers which lead to London and the estuary which was
so important to England's trade over the centuries. To the south it drains via
the river Meon into the Solent Estuary another major historic waterway with
major ports at Southampton and Portsmouth. Contour labeling doesn't work on the
linked file, but spot elevations do. Hence the levels around the edge of the
square. Basing Park is prominent in the top half with the village of Privett
towards the bottom left of the contoured area.
The image on the left zooms in on the village, with the church in place, some
indicative trees (apparently lining a drainage ditch between fields) and the
beginnings of some other buildings. Farmsteads, vicarage, almshouses. Nor real
high street with shops. This is a somewhat dispersed rural village as far as I
can tell. More work needed.
