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… Ancient church architecture Ancient Church Architecture. Saxon. The remains of Saxon architecture in the Devonshire churches are neither … the angles. The west door exhibits the richest specimen of Saxon architecture in Devonshire, with grotesque heads, …
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… Ancient church architecture Ancient Church Architecture. Saxon. Remains of Saxon architecture are to be seen in many of the churches of … nave of Carlisle cathedral Kirklinton is a very complete Saxon church, having undergone no alteration. The nave is a …
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… surrounded with three deep ditches, and more likely to be Saxon than either Roman or British; if the latter, it is …
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… Romans; whilst others have supposed, that they were all of Saxon or of Danish origin. Both opinions are, perhaps, in … was, probably, the fortress of the Danes, spoken of in the Saxon chronicle. That some of the encampments were …
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… Archologia 1, supposes it to have been built during the Saxon Heptarchy: great part of the walls of the keep, and …
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… is ornamented with heads of the Kings of England, from the Saxon times to the union of the houses of York and Lancaster, …
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… Antiquities Ecclesiastical Ancient Church Architecture. Saxon. Of the ecclesiastical edifices of Derbyshire, the … columns of less massy proportions than those of the later Saxon architecture, the capitals are very plain and square, … best evidence, are supposed to have been erected in the Saxon times; of which the conventual church at Ely, and the …
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… recorded among the arms or cognizances of that family. A Saxon ornament of silver, enriched with red paste, a … since at Kirk-Oswald 2, with more than 700 of the small Saxon copper coins called sticas; among which were one of …
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… by far earlier inhabitants, as not only coins, both Saxon and Roman, but stone axes, and arrowheads of flint, the … it took its present name of Papcastle from Pipard, its Saxon owner. The town of Cockermouth, which is only one mile … its modern one is derived from Bueth, one of its Saxon masters, whose castle, built as usual from the ruins of …