Manor Photography

Spherical Panoramics and Virtual Tours Gallery

Included here are samples of our work including virtual tours created for clients, and others just for fun! Any spherical panorama can be flattened to produce an equirectangular image, or displayed as a spherical 'mirror ball'. Examples of these are seen below. Click on the image to start the tour (opens in a new window). The pop up windows contain interactive 360°x180° spherical panoramas. Click and drag in the window to take control, or use the buttons to move around and zoom in or out.

Inside a VW Camper Van

Virtual tours aren't just for large spaces! Click on the image below to open the virtual tour inside a VW camper van.

Artsite, Theatre Square, Swindon

Click on the panoramic image, below, to view the virtual tour of the David Bent exhibition in Artsite, Theatre Square.

Click on the panoramic image, below, to view the virtual tour of the Enchantment exhibition in Artsite, Theatre Square. Showing until 30 May 2009.

The Haunted Boiler Room in the Shaftesbury Centre

This virtual tour takes you into the haunted boiler room of the Shaftesbury Centre in Percy Street, Swindon. Click on the image, below, to be transported there for the full 360°x180° experience.

The Pear Tree at Purton

The Pear Tree is a beautiful and historic country hotel set in seven acres of Wiltshire gardens and countryside. This virtual tour shows the power of hotspots linking between locations. Be sure to click on the garden pond!

Brussels

A few selected sights around the beautiful city of Brussels. Click on one of the spheres, below, to view the virtual tour at each of these places. If you only have time to see one, then choose the Grand Place (the largest mirror ball at the bottom).
 

Rodbourne Green

Rodbourne Green is the old village green, church and manor of the village previously known as Rodbourne Cheney. Although it officially became part of Swindon in 1928, the area maintains its village atmosphere and real sense of community seldom found elsewhere. The virtual tour covers the medieval church, 16th century manor house and nearby arboretum. Click on one of the spheres, below, to start the virtual tour at each of these places.
 

Malmesbury Abbey

Malmesbury Abbey is about one third of its original size, the rest of it having fallen down around the turn of the 16th Century! These virtual tours were created for the Abbey's web site. The Abbey is a stunning building and the centre of a thriving church community.

Maud Heath's Causeway

Maud Heath was a widow who lived near Chippenham. In 1474 she bequeathed a gift of land to provide funds for the building and maintenance of a causeway across the muddy fields to Chippenham market. This monument to Maud was erected at the top of Wick Hill in 1838.

Bradford-on-Avon Tithe Barn

The medieval tithe barn is a remarkable building. Inside can be seen the original threshing floor and the massive but inticate roof structure which supports a cotswold stone tile roof. This virtual tour contains hotspots to a short tour around Barton Farm Country Park.