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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… 12th-century light, moulded, and with a zig-zag pattern round it outside; it has been much restored and is now …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… by single colossal Roman-Doric pilasters. In each bay is a round-headed doorway below, and a window of similar shape … carry a plain architrave and cornice, also returned round the building, the cornice alone rising in a pediment … over the middle bay; the tympanum contains two small round windows. The pediment projects from a plain obtusely …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… also Brasses); fragments of carved stonework, (1) half-round spiral column, and (2) carved quarter-round capital, 12th-century, (3) moulded capital of shaft, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1700)]. They were most probably bands or straps to go round a wheel; for example as the driving band of a SPINNING … now, for 'whipping' the end of a ROPE, that is binding it round to stop fraying. It is not always easy to distinguish … described as BENGAL, BLACK, INDIAN, laced, neck, NEW, OLD, ROUND, trimmed, VENUS, WHITE Found made of ALAMODE, CAMBRIC, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… capitals. The windows in the N. wall and the string course round the walls are of the same date, c. 1230. The S. windows …
A History of the County of Hertford
… windows in the north wall, together with the string course round the walls, are of this date. The tower was rebuilt … beard (which has been broken off), resting on a helmet. Round his neck are two massive chains, from the lower of … transept in marble of various colours, consisting of a round arch surmounted by a broken entablature and supported …
A History of the County of Hertford
… central ones having a spiral brick ornamental band running round them. The principal entrance is by a brick porch in the … principal windows have a slightly projecting brick margin round them, 8 in. wide, and are finished with a flat arch … or therein. The fact that remains of a moat still exist round the present site would point to the house having been …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… stringcourse, and plinth. The windows and doorways are round-headed, except for circular windows over the doorways. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… all the vessels that accompanied Captain Cookin his voyage round the world were built here. After the peace in 1815, …