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A Survey of London
… Budge Furre, and of Skinners dwelling there), then vp by S. Anthonies Church through Aetheling (or Noble street) as … this parish also was a Grammar schoole by commaundement of king Henrie the sixt, which schoole was of olde time kept in … Sowtham had chauntries there. A shed or standing for the king called crown silde.; Crounsilde.; K. Henry the eight …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… (1) Parish Church of St. Mary le Bow stands on the S. side of Cheapside between Bow Lane and Bow Churchyard. The … by Sir Christopher Wren in 167080, at a cost of 8,071 18 s. 1 d.; the tower was built 167183 at an additional cost of … his wife, 1733; (2) to Mary Woolnough, 1673; (3) to John King, 1704, and others later; (4) to Richard Chase, 1708, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Corfe Castle 11 CORFE CASTLE (9682) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 97 NW, bSY 97 NE, cSY 98 SW, dSY 98 SE, eSY 98 … areas of land still marked by continuous hedges and field walls. On the N. side of the Corfe valley are Corfe … Ecclesiastical d(1) The Parish Church of St. Edward, King and Martyr, stands in Corfe Castle village. The walls …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Corfe Mullen 12 CORFE MULLEN (9798) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 99 SE, bSY 99 NE) The parish, covering just … Stour in the N. to an apex on Upton Heath 3 m. to the S. The extreme N. part of the parish is occupied by the flood plain of the river. To the S. is a small area of rather broken country, on Reading Beds …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Corfe-Castle, Wareham division of Dorset, 23 miles (E. S. E.) from Dorchester, and 120 (S. W.) from London; … de Rivers, Earl of Devonshire, who held it against the king: it was frequently the residence of King John, who here … burial-ground was discovered a few years since, in a field on the summit of the high ground on the south of the …
Survey of London
… have sometimes made it necessary to give Horwood's enumeration (as in Swallow Street). The information about … corrected by some counterpart leases of Lord Burlington's, recitals in a larger number of counterpart leases of the … 0 25' (Colonel) John Ligonier esquire do. Colonel (later Field-Marshal, Earl) Ligonier 172330 (on removal to N. Audley …
Survey of London
… Academy of Music in 1719 205 and his subscription to Gay's Poems of 1720. The fourth storey had already been added in … perhaps did not occupy the house. 208 In July 1723 Bagenal's mortgagees leased the house for seven years from midsummer … four open lunettes. The cast wall, affording the largest field, is divided by the Composite pilasters into three bays, …
Survey of London
… other two, is an unusually complete specimen of builder's design. The buildings at either side of this group are all … the first-floor rooms, which now form part of No. 18 (Buck's Club). The panelling is raised-andfielded with one-fillet … topmost flight only a dado. No. 18 Clifford Street: Buck's Club This house differed from almost all the others on the …
Survey of London
… granted by him, some in about 1780 and others in the 1790's, repairing leases were granted by his heir, the fifth Duke … and merchant tailor of London, by Richard Wilson of King's Lynn, gentleman. The area covered by this chapter was … 6 From about this time the name Crab or Crabtree Field (or Park) was sometimes given to the Ten Acres or to …
Survey of London
… of Vitruvius Britannicus and the first volume of Leoni's own Palladio, but he had subscribed to the second volume of … published in 1717 and later subscribed to Leoni's Alberti in 1726. He was also, like Burlington, an original … represented by the names Duesbury, Messrs. Gillow, Messrs. King & Co., Martyr, Joseph Spode, Thomas Waring, and Wedgwood …