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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… row of three dwellings now of one storey and attics with stone walls raised recently in brick, comprise a pair of … dwellings, probably converted from a single 18th-century house of class 10 plan, to which a third room was added to …
A Survey of London
… beene a faire & strong arched gate, partly builded of hard stone of Kent, and partly of stone brought from Cane in Normandie, since the Conquest, and … shee held the same: in the which Charter, she nameth the house Christs Church, and reporteth Aeldgate to be of his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is connected by a grand railway-bridge; and by a handsome stone bridge of nine arches, of which six belong to Newcastle … in stained glass. At Bensham is a church, the first stone of which was laid in July, 1846. There are places of … and there are 2 acres of glebe, with an excellent rectory-house, surrounded by ornamental grounds. The church is in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… b(1). Parish Church of St. Peter, 100 yards E. of Gayhurst House, was re-built in 1728. It contains two of the fittings … the middle, a half-hipped gable, with a doorway of moulded stone, opening on to the flat roof. S.W. Elevation:The … elevation have been restored. The chimney stacks are of stone with moulded cornices, but are apparently almost all …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… pottery was dug up, 70 m. to the S. of the known building. Stone walls, together with more pottery and a 'road', are … lie immediately N. of the village and W. of the manor house, in the bottom and on the steep sides of an N.-draining … on the E. side of the valley, extending from the manor house to the uppermost of two rectangular ponds, now dry, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… In 112930 17 was spent in 'the making of the King's house at Geddington'. Subsequent additions and repairs were … and ruins was once a considerable building. The gate house belong ing to it is still entire' (J. Bridges, Hist of … Asp Leys on a map of Geddington of 1717 (Map at Boughton House, copy in NRO) and at that time was not in strips. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres are woodland, and the remainder arable and pasture: stone of good quality for building and for the roads, and … and is enriched with a singularly beautiful window, and stone reredos. The tower and spire are of the perpendicular … placed in a recess similarly decorated. Here is a meeting-house for Wesleyans. Gerrans (St. Gurons) GERRANS ( St. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… a respectable appearance. In this place are two old stone coffins, which lie, it seems, near the surface of the … was thrust in, I am told, to make him fit this hollowed stone, or receptacle of the dead. The covering stone, which … the earl of Chesterfield's sister, lives here in a good house, with a comfortable living for the support of of a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… in Europe; the furnaces and engine-houses are faced with stone curiously wrought and dressed: the expense of erecting … for a rent-charge of 669. 3. 1.; and there is a glebe-house. The church, dedicated to St. Cadocus, is a neat plain … stones formerly composing which are now scattered, and the stone coffins which they covered exposed to view. One of …