Victoria Memorial

 

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architect was William Emerson

located in Kolkata, Western Bengal, India, at a madan on the bank of Hooghly river  built between 1906 and 1921 Indo-Saracenic revivalist style style which  which uses a mixture of British and Mughal Mughal elements  elements with Venetian,, Egyptian Venetian Egyptian,, Deccani Deccani and  and Islamic Islamic architectural  architectural influences. 338 feet (103 m) by 228 feet (69 m) and rises to a height of 184 feet (56 m). constructed of white Makrana marble Mahal with its dome, four subsidiaries, octagonal-domed chattris chattris,, In design it echos the Taj Mahal with high portals, terrace, and domed corner towers. gardens of the Victoria Memorial were designed by Lord Redesdale and Redesdale and David Prain. Prain. 64 acres (260,000 m ) [

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walls the decoration is provided by wall panels, depicting scenes from the life and being of queen Victoria and texts from imperial proclamations. Saracenic touches: touches: carving round the window arches, arches, which reveal the sympathies of both archi architects tects involved. The 'H' shaped memorial consists of numerous hybrid features; it has It Italian-style alian-style statues over its entrances, Mughal domes in its corners and tall elegant open curved colonnades along its

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sides GROUND PLAN:

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high entrance followed by a porco, which is topped by terraces.

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The porco is connected with a passageway towards the central queen hall and at the both side have sculpture gallery at the le and picture gallery at the right.

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The Queen’s hall is topped by a huge dome - inuence of Islamic architecture of India

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The farthest side of the hall decorated with rows of colonnade. c olonnade.

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main hall is succeeded by the rectangular prince hall.

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At the le side of the prince hall, darbar hall is situated, which was generally used for meeng or discussion.

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DOME:

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clustered with four subsidiaries octagonal domed charis, the high portals, the terrace, and the

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domed corner towers.  Atop the central dome of the Victoria Memorial is the the 16 ft (4.9 m) figure of the Angel of

Victory - black bronze angel, holding a bugle in her hand was placed at the apex of the

dome, ive meters tall and weighing 3,500 kg is ixed to its pedestal with ball bearings and can rotate when the wind speed is high enough.

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sculptures including Art   Art ,  Architecture  Architecture,, Justice Justice,, and Surrounding the dome are allegorical sculptures including Charity  and  and above the North Porch are Motherhood , Prudence Prudence and  and Learning . ELEVATION:

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The building, covering an area of 103.02m by 69.49m, is 56.08m high up to the base of the gure

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of Victory, which is another 4.88m high 

COLONNADE:

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Two rows of colonnade decorated the both side of the central hall and supported the open air terrace. The colonnades are le open and outside of the enclosed architectural secon.

 

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