Devonshire Dome Clock, Buxton
A look at the clock on the old Devonshire Royal Hospital in Buxton, Derbyshire.
The Devonshire Royal Hospital building (now popularly known as the Devonshire Dome) is a Grade II* listed 18th-century former stable block in Buxton, Derbyshire. It was built by John Carr of York and extended by architect Robert Rippon Duke who added what was then the world's largest unsupported dome, with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft). It is now the site of the Devonshire campus of the University of Derby.
Built between 1780 and 1789, the original building was designed by John Carr of York for William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. Octagonal in shape, it housed up to 110 horses and the servants of the guests of the Crescent Hotel, built in combination as part of the plan to promote Buxton as a spa town.
In 1859, the Buxton Bath Charity had persuaded the Duke of Devonshire to allow part of the building -- by then accommodating nothing like the 110 horses for which it was designed -- to be converted to a charity hospital for the use of the 'sick poor' coming in for treatment from the 'Cottonopolis' of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Devonshire estate architect, Henry Currey, architect for St Thomas's Hospital in London, converted two thirds of the building into a hospital.
In 1881, the Buxton Bath Charity trustees under their chairman Dr William Henry Robertson, persuaded William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire to give them the use of the whole building in exchange for providing new stables elsewhere in the town. Local architect Robert Rippon Duke was commissioned to design a 300-bed hospital to rival Bath and Harrogate for charity medical provision. The Cotton Districts Convalescent fund put up £25,000 for the conversion. The steel structure was clad in slate, and proposed to be supported by 22 curved steel arms. However, during construction the Tay Bridge disaster occurred on 28 December 1879, and so the number of arms was revised upwards. Railway engineer Mr Footner advised that the designers of the Tay Rail Bridge had not taken into account the stresses of lateral wind and storms.
Further changes were undertaken, with the clock tower and lodge completed in 1882, surgical wards in 1897, spa baths in 1913, and the dining room and kitchens in 1921. The building became known as the Devonshire Royal Hospital in 1934.
The Devonshire Royal was the last of the eight hydropathic hospitals in England to close when it closed in 2000.
On 31 January 2001, the University of Derby acquired the Devonshire Royal Hospital. The University received £4.7m Heritage Lottery Fund backing for the restoration and redevelopment project.
I am not sure who the maker of the clock was but it is quarter chiming as heard in this video.
The following are links to videos of other clocks I have visited:
LONDON BIG BEN
NOTTINGHAM COUNCIL HOUSE
KIDSGROVE VICTORIA HALL
MANCHESTER TOWN HALL
ECCLES TOWN HALL
HYDE TOWN HALL
DUKINFIELD TOWN HALL
STALYBRIDGE CIVIC HALL
ROCHDALE TOWN HALL
BOLTON TOWN HALL
CHORLEY TOWN HALL
DARWEN TOWN AND MARKET HALL
GREAT HARWOOD MERCER MEMORIAL
BURNLEY TOWN HALL
COLNE TOWN HALL
LANCASTER TOWN HALL
KENDAL TOWN HALL
EARLESTOWN TOWN HALL
LIVERPOOL MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
LIVERPOOL VICTORIA BUILDING
BIRKENHEAD TOWN HALL
SOUTHPORT TOWN HALL
BUXTON TOWN HALL
MARSDEN MECHANICS HALL
LINDLEY CLOCK TOWER
HALIFAX TOWN HALL
BRADFORD CITY HALL
CLECKHEATON TOWN HALL
BATLEY LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
LEEDS TOWN HALL
LEEDS THORNTON'S ARCADE
LEEDS GRAND ARCADE
HULL GUILDHALL
Buxton, Derbyshire, England - 14th & 15th August, 2016
Views Around Buxton, Derbyshire, August, 2016.
Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It has the highest elevation of any market town in England. Close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as the gateway to the Peak District National Park. To read more about Buxton, click here: .
This film features views from a walk around Buxton, it highlights the town's historic architecture, infrastructure, transport, natural features, art, history and culture.
Within the film the following locations and features are identified: Palace Road, Buxton Railway Station, Station Road, River Wye, Hogshaw Viaduct, Spring Gardens, Fairfield Road, Ashwood Park, Terrace Road, The Crescent, St. Ann's Well, Old Hall Hotel, The Square, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton Opera House, Victorian Postbox, The Old Clubhouse, St. John's Road, The Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Devonshire Dome, The University of Derby, Palace Hotel, Poole's Cavern, Grin Low, Buxton Country Park, Solomon's Temple.
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A Walk in Buxton, Derbyshire
University of Derby, Buxton: Centre for Contemporary Hospitality & Tourism
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Case Study | Derby University
The @Devonshire Dome is one of Buxton’s most iconic buildings. The vast space is the biggest unsupported dome in Europe and was built in 1779 by the fifth Duke of Devonshire.
Its original purpose was as a grand stable block and later it was converted into a hospital. It is now part of the University of Derby housing the Buxton Campus. The students here study culinary arts, as well as event, hospitality and spa management. The Dome remains open to the public as a multi-purpose catering site, including a café, fine dining restaurant, and a banqueting facility for up to 1,000 covers.
Recently The Dome made major changes to its catering operation, building a new kitchen and refurbishing an older one. Both new facilities are designed around refrigeration from Williams.
Places to see in ( Buxton - UK )
Places to see in ( Buxton - UK )
Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It has the highest elevation – about 960 feet above sea level – of any market town in England. Close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as the gateway to the Peak District National Park. A municipal borough until 1974, Buxton was then merged with other localities lying primarily to the north, including Glossop, to form the local government district and borough of High Peak within the county of Derbyshire. Economically, Buxton is within the sphere of influence of Greater Manchester.
Buxton is home to Poole's Cavern, an extensive limestone cavern open to the public, and St Ann's Well, fed by the geothermal spring bottled and sold internationally by Buxton Mineral Water Company. Also in the town is the Buxton Opera House, which hosts several music and theatre festivals each year. The Devonshire Campus of the University of Derby is housed in one of the town's historic buildings. Buxton is twinned with two towns: Oignies in France and Bad Nauheim in Germany.
Cultural events include the annual Buxton Festival, among other festivals and performances held in the Buxton Opera House, with shows running at other venues alongside this. Buxton Museum & Art Gallery offers year-round exhibitions. Buxton railway station is served by the former L&NWR and LMS line via Whaley Bridge. It has frequent trains to Stockport and the nearby city of Manchester. Buxton buses include services into the Peak District National Park. Other buses run to the nearby towns of Whaley Bridge, Chapel en le Frith, New Mills and Glossop, and the High Peak 'Transpeak' service offers an hourly link southwards to Taddington, Matlock, Derby and Nottingham and northwards to Stockport and Manchester. There is also a High Peak bus directly from Manchester Airport to Buxton.
Alot to see in ( Buxton - UK ) such as :
Poole's Cavern
Solomon's Temple, Buxton
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Axe Edge Moor
Errwood Reservoir
Errwood Hall
Chrome Hill
Parkhouse Hill
Go Ape Buxton
Shutlingsloe
The Green Man Gallery
Shining Tor
Trentabank Reservoir
Windgather Rocks
St Anne's Well
Buxton Town Hall
Fernilee Reservoir
High Wheeldon
Toddbrook Reservoir
Buxton Botanical Conservatory
Buxton Country Park
Pavilion Gardens
( Buxton - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Buxton . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Buxton - UK
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Buxton - Peak District Villages
Presents the new Buxton video covering the beautiful places to see and visit in this town. The Derbyshire Peak District market town of Buxton has a number of claims to fame; as well as being the Capital of the High Peak, it is also at over 1000ft above sea-level the highest town of its size in England, and has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries, venerated by those who have come for the reputedly magical curative powers of its Spa waters. Buxton History Our Neolithic ancestors had already populated the surrounding hills, leaving the marks of their passing at ancient gathering places like the Bull Ring, and at nearby Arbor Low over three thousand years before the Romans arrived in 70 AD and founded the settlement which they called Aqua Arnemeteia, meaning, The Waters of the Goddess of the Grove.
These sacred waters of the Goddess include the wonderful River Wye, the most delightful of Derbyshire rivers which rises at Axe Edge, and filters down through Featherbed Moss on it's way to collect the Burbage Brook, before running culverted beneath the streets of modern Buxton and cavorting in gurgling leaps and cascades down through Ashwood Dale. Buxton is built on a series of small hills and the grassy slopes in the middle of town lend themselves to relaxation, providing an excellent vantage point from which to view the town, with Serpentine Walks and shaded seating areas along the banks of the Wye through Ashwood Park, to the east of Spring Gardens. The Romans built baths here above the thermal waters of what later became St. Anne's Well, famously visited by medieval pilgrims seeking a cure for their ills, and popularised further in Tudor times by Mary Queen of Scots who took its healing waters as a cure for her rheumatism whilst being held captive at Chatsworth by the Earl of Shrewsbury during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st.
The town's growth and prosperity were assured from the eighteenth century by the addition of its remarkable wealth of architecture, courtesy of the Fifth Duke of Devonshire who engaged John Carr to build the magnificent Georgian Crescent, rivalling and imitating the famous Crescent at Bath in Somerset. Carr of York was also responsible for the Devonshire Hospital which was originally designed & constructed as a Riding School for the Duke of Devonshire at the end of the 18th century. It became a hospital in 1859, and it's huge dome, which is the largest unsupported slate dome in the world was added in 1881, the area beneath was used for the exercise of patients in rehabilitation.In recent years the building has become home to the University of Derby.
Buxton was confirmed as a centre of excellence and culture, becoming a retreat and country holiday resort for the gentry during the Victorian era with the advent of public travel and communication. Once again the Duke of Devonshire had a major hand in development and many large hotels were built to cater for the influx of visitors when the railways came to town, and the Pavilion Gardens were laid out and opened in 1871. The twenty three acres of the Pavilion Gardens includes ornamental lakes, putting greens, children's play areas with a paddling pool and miniature railway, whilst the whole is dotted with colourful arbours and flower beds, with shaded walks beneath mature trees, and the gardens are a sheer delight in the summer.
Places we recommend :
Knotlow Farm - Camping And Caravanning Site
The Westminster Hotel
Buxton Opera House
Wild Park Brailsford
Little Rascals Indoor Play Centre
Hargate Hall Self Catering Apartments
Poole's Cavern
Please also see more information on the new site
Peak District Edge Hotel
The Peak District
The Peak District is one of the most visited national parks in the UK, ideal for studying your degree in hospitality, events or tourism. Home to our Buxton campus. Buxton is a vibrant spa town with a lively arts scene including the Opera House, arts theatres, a museum and annual festivals of music, arts, literature and food. Love the great outdoors? There’s an array of activities on your doorstep, including abseiling, mountain biking, rock climbing and kayaking. Prefer to head to the city? Good transport links mean it’s less than an hour to Derby, Manchester or Sheffield.
Buxton
Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It has the highest elevation of any market town in England. Close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as the gateway to the Peak District National Park. A municipal borough until 1974, Buxton was then merged with other localities lying primarily to the north, including Glossop, to form the local government district and borough of High Peak within the county of Derbyshire. Economically, Buxton is within the sphere of influence of Greater Manchester.
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Buxton Crescent Heritage Trades Project
A video record of the half-day course held for local trades people to show some of the heritage skills involved in the restoration of Buxton's historic Crescent.
Buxton Crescent Project
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Centre for hands on experience
Centre for Contemporary Hospitality and Tourism students gaining practical experience working at a gala dinner at the Devonshire Dome
Hospitality Management at the University of Derby
Develop your professional, leadership and business management skills in our acclaimed restaurant, our renowned event catering operation, and in our partner hotels.
We are ranked top 5 for Hospitality, Event Management and Tourism in the Guardian University Guide 2020.
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Spa Management Seminar
12 hour seminar for hospitality students
FINAL COMPILE COOK OFF MPEG4.mp4
EXCEL AWARDS Young Chef of the Year 2010. 4 minute film presenting the finalist's cook off, held at University of Derby, Buxton.