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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… N. aisle, (1) square bowl with blind arcading of coupled round-headed sinkings on each face, the lower edge shaped for … pedestal, late 12th-century, pedestal and base modern; (2) round bowl, the face with shallow-cut arcading of interlacing round-headed arches with pellets in the spandrels and heads …
Old and New London
… present traffic-lines. Further to the north came sweeping round another large cutting in which was to be made the … The fight, nevertheless, came off, and in the first round Sayers's right arm was broken; but still, with this …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Teddington, &c., on the Thames, and the district round Heston. The soil includes hazel loam, rich and mellow, … towardes the time of Harvest, a man may beholde the fields round about, so sweetely to address themselves, to the … (4) wheat on clover lay, with one ploughing. II.-District round Norwood, Hayes, &c.:- ( a) In the common fields: (1) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bodicote, Wigginton, &c. 2. 166,000 acres of stonebrash round Blenheim, Black Bourton, Chesterton, from Witney to … farming districts they vary from 100 to 450 acres, but round villages and where the land is more enclosed a farm of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… but whereas it was available, if rationed, all the year round in the north, it was provided in the south only at hay …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the market, is of stone, supported on circular arches and round Tuscan columns. The parish comprises by measurement … to which the interior, with a flat ceiling supported on round Tuscan pillars separating the aisles from the nave, …
Survey of London
… Foot long, with two Stories of Windows, and a Gallery runs round the whole in the second Story, for the taking down … including the decoration and furnishing of the 'round room' on the first floor, and it seems clear that they … to Chambers: 'Upon full consideration about furnishing the round room (in which you have exceeded my utmost wish) I am …
Survey of London
… to the above but have single balconies to each window and round-headed doors and windows to the ground floor. The …
Survey of London
… John Gibson. Grey had had the idea that the statuary round the obelisk should be by various hands, 29 and had … as the granite was delivered, 'the masons were crowded round these masses, and worked incessantly in relays, night … that the memorial should be placed in the centre of the Round Pond, approached by four causeways. 206 In part, the …
Survey of London
… of relief, bringing some of their work virtually into the round. The maximum of twelve inches was increased to fourteen … Mosaic was also used for the dedicatory legend extending round the canopy below the cornice. In July 1869 it was … was not observed by W. F. Yeames in the mosaic frieze round the Albert Hall, where his 'workers in stone' included …