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A History of the County of Oxford
… also paid a beadle of beggars and provided him with red and blue livery: his duties included whipping vagrants, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… mentioned above. 47 The church of ST. ANDREW 48 is of Old Red Sandstone and comprises chancel, nave, south aisle, north …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… road the land, falling gently to 100 ft., is on the Old Red Sandstone, which also underlies the small hamlet of … numerous springs and wells in the upper beds of the Old Red Sandstone, and Lydney R.D.C. provided a piped supply to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the Rational Sick and Benefit Society, met at the White Lion. 13 A village hall opened in 1929. It was replaced by … in the 18th century. 20 By 1788 it was called the White Lion, 21 the name it retained until it closed c. 1913. 22 It … and was converted into three cottages known as Old White Lion and by the 1950s as the Square. 23 By 1839 the Bull and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… south front is a projecting chimney-stack of 17th-century red brick (this contains the Tudor fire-place) and there is … Pipe R. 4 John (Pipe R. Soc.), 142; cf. Bk. of Fees, 340. Red. Bk. of Exch. 556; Bk. of Fees, 71. Ibid. 272; cf. ibid. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 150 woodland; the soil is generally clay, alternated with red loam. The small river Devon, and the Nottingham and … Brass-foundry, erected by Vanbrugh, a lofty building of red brick, ornamented with stone, and roofed with slate, … unusually large proportions, rests upon the shoulders of a lion couchant, beautifully executed. One side of the carriage …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… the dressings are of Reigate stone and the tower is of red brick; the roofs are tiled. The S. and W. walls of the … on the outer face. The West Tower (10 ft. by 11 ft.) is of red brick and of three stages (Plate 173) with clasping … bays, divided externally by buttresses; the walls are of red brick, faced with stone. The N. wall (Plate 178) is faced …
The Environs of London
… slipped of the second. ArmsBarry of six Erm. and G. a lion rampant S. ducally crowned O. impaling, Az. two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… active operation; there are also quarries in the parish of red-sandstone for building and for the roads, and of …