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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… clunch dressings, and has longand-short work, of Barnack stone, at the S.E. angle of the nave; in the E. gable is some …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Westminster. (3). Old Bond Street. In March, 1894, a stone culvert with joints of brick, set in cement, was found, … Sloane had a bellshaped glass vase that was found in a stone coffin among ashes in digging the foundations of the … Assoc., XXVII, 522. (7). Hyde Park. The original Ossulton Stone, said to have been a Roman "geometric stone," formerly …
Old and New London
… half-brother to Henry III.; it is an altar-tomb of stone, surmounted by a broken sarcophagus, on which is a … Henry VII. is represented in stained glass. Between the stone ceiling and the roof there is a spacious chamber … here alluded to was composed of a single piece of basaltic stone, known as touchstone. To this altar Henry in his will …
Old and New London
… the third and fourth priors. The seats all round are of stone, and on the backs of these is a series of paintings of … and the exterior has been freed from the wooden and stone encumbrances which for so long a period of vandalism … exclusive occupation of the Crown. In this chamber is a stone altar that seems to have escaped destruction by the …
Old and New London
… been destroyed by fire. In 1220 Henry III. laid the first stone of a chapel, which was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, … a long epitaph, till within the last century, marked the stone where he lay, and another inscription was engraved on the stone where he fell. The Abbey was shut up for four months. …
Old and New London
… and Prebends proceeded, and arrived at the foot of the stone steps ascending to the throne, where they made another …
Old and New London
… of the roof, still continuing the Gothic manner in the stone-work and tracery. Something," he adds, "must be done to … pediment is only boarded, but ought undoubtedly to be of stone." The north side of the church is supported by nine … heathen gods aside, And shortly there, I fear, see rise In stone the whole Pantheon." Over the west door, and …
Old and New London
… boye that sold papers and prynted bokes with horlying of a stone, and yt hym under the ere in Westmynster Hall; the boy … ther in the Abbey; the boy ys a hossear sune aboyff London-stone." We have given at the commencement of this chapter Dr. … of George II., there were remains of "a prodigious strong stone building, of two hundred and ninety feet square, or …
Survey of London
… The original plan was to build a wooden superstructure on stone piers, but in 1739 the commissioners decided to have a bridge built entirely of stone. The foundations were laid in caissons, the first time … bodies into the river. 93 The bridge was built of Portland stone. A contemporary manuscript description of it runs: This …
Survey of London
… a gallery or showrooms for products of Coade's Artificial Stone Factory. It bore a tablet inscribed Coade's Row, 1798, … a boarded inclosure about four feet in height, painted as stone-work, is forty-four feet in diameter; the area is … of the church, is built in Kentish ragstone with Portland stone dressings, and is designed in the Early English style; …