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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… towards its E. edge, a large pit contained burnt clay, oak charcoal, over 700 bronze fragments including parts of a … flask, sherds of samian ware, a button, a bead and carved objects of steatite, cremated bone and an unburnt bone …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish; is a very ancient building with curiously-carved wainscoting. The living is a rectory, valued in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… at Woodmancote Place, and in 1800 and 1803 at the Royal Oak inn in Shermanbury. A reeve was mentioned in 1680 and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… transept survive. Set into the W. spur wall are two large carved brackets of the 14th century, one relating to a former … recesses with trefoil heads, central pillar with capital carved with volutes and a mask stop, sunk quatrefoil with … ovolo-moulded surrounds to the windows and an axial beam carved with a diamond pattern. On a building behind is a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and early 17th-century rear wing incorporate elaborately carved wooden lintels. 7. Nos. 58-66 Oxford Street In 1279 … master, are of the 17th century of earlier and retain fine carved wood lintels. The site, which carried no separate … the Duke of Wellington and, shortly before 1830, the Royal Oak. 40 In 1879 it was let with the adjacent house and shop …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tower, removed in 1948, were replaced. 12 Before 1731 the carved octagonal 14th-century font was removed from the … screen, but erected a reredos of Bath stone in place of a carved oak reredos with Corinthian columns given by the duke of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… attic gables, notably no. 20 High Street which retains carved bargeboards. Many incorporate a type of elaborately carved wood lintel which, from its quality and its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the town's name and setting: wood is invoked by the oak tree crest and the supporting woodwoses, stock by the … tree stump, and the park by the stags' heads and border of oak leaves, sometimes depicted as oak trees. 36 The motto, Ramosa Cornua Cervi (the branching …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the earlier work, but in freestone, and with a decorative carved corbel at the springing on the W. The S. arcade was … cross with enriched head and foliated stem; (4) ridged and carved on each side with a pair of wyverns with intertwined … a fireplace-surround made up of various pieces of carved oak mostly of the 17th century. The original iron firegrate …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of moulded stone, having a shouldered arch and spandrels carved with cusped panels. As the chimney appears to be …