{"id":96,"date":"2014-06-10T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T13:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2014-09-09T13:29:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:29:39","slug":"the-decagonal-pyramid-obscura-of-ingestre-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/2014\/06\/the-decagonal-pyramid-obscura-of-ingestre-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decagonal Pyramid Obscura of Ingestre House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Camera Obscura in the West Midlands! Once you start scratching the surface they're everywhere!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/\u200ewww.aaronchetwynd.com_Feature-+-Outdoor.pdf.jpg\" alt=\"\u200ewww.aaronchetwynd.com_Feature-+-Outdoor.pdf\" width=\"911\" height=\"763\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/\u200ewww.aaronchetwynd.com_Feature-+-Outdoor.pdf.jpg 911w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/\u200ewww.aaronchetwynd.com_Feature-+-Outdoor.pdf-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/\u200ewww.aaronchetwynd.com_Feature-+-Outdoor.pdf-624x522.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This beauty was built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronchetwynd.com\">Aaron Chetwynd Architects<\/a> as part of the Ingestre Follies heritage trail at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingestrearts.org.uk\/what-we-offer\/day-visits\/heritage-days\/\">Ingestre Hall<\/a> near Stafford. The architect's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/architectadvice\/sets\/72157627416416672\">photos<\/a> are from 2010 and it popped up in my Instagram feed today so it's definitely still there. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035604518_52fbe02559_b.jpg\" alt=\"6035604518_52fbe02559_b\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035604518_52fbe02559_b.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035604518_52fbe02559_b-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035604518_52fbe02559_b-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035058185_fecd5863b3_b.jpg\" alt=\"6035058185_fecd5863b3_b\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035058185_fecd5863b3_b.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035058185_fecd5863b3_b-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035058185_fecd5863b3_b-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While this is a permanent structure we really like the simplicity of the pyramid design. It's something we've been thinking of for when we do our <a href=\"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/the-plan\/\">temporary Oscura Sheds in 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035608894_a6ac823845_b.jpg\" alt=\"6035608894_a6ac823845_b\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035608894_a6ac823845_b.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035608894_a6ac823845_b-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/06\/6035608894_a6ac823845_b-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/architectadvice\/sets\/72157627416416672\">All photos from the Architect.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Camera Obscura in the West Midlands! Once you start scratching the surface they're everywhere! This beauty was built by Aaron Chetwynd Architects as part of the Ingestre Follies heritage trail at Ingestre Hall near Stafford. The architect's photos are from 2010 and it popped up in my Instagram feed today so it's definitely still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}