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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… miles N.E. of Slough, is built of flint, with some pudding-stone and clunch in the walls of the chancel; the E. angles … are of clunch and the original quoins of the nave of brown stone. The S. porch is of brick and timber. The roofs are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to the N. culminating in beds of Portland and Purbeck Stone and in the Chalk Ridgeway which rises to over 500 ft. … principal buildings of the period were built of Portland stone with gabled roofs and stone-mullioned windows ( cf. Buckler's drawing of 'an old …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… and high-crowned hat, verses and inscription carved in stone slab, small rectangular brass plate with incised figure …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and white and green vitriols, from lead-glitter, blue-stone, and iron-ores [Patents (1780)]. OED earliest date of …
A Dictionary of London
… at No.3, on the south side of Salters' Hall, by London Stone, Cannon Street (P.O. Directory). In Walbrook Ward. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… and derelict in that or the following century. Much of the stone facing has been removed and there is now little … a doorway with moulded architrave, cornice and pediment of stone. a(4). Bullgill, house 1,100 yards S.S.W. of (2), retains many of its original stone-mullioned windows. The doorway has moulded jambs and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… some being clay, and some light land. Abundance of stone is obtained for building; good flagstone is quarried, … of Langwith. The church is a large edifice with an ancient stone tower; the nave and chancel, which are of brick, were … has its source in the parish, and is crossed here by a stone bridge built in 1819. The living is a vicarage, valued …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… aisle, west tower, and south porch, is built of Cotswold stone, partly ashlar, and has a Cotswold stone roof. No part of the surviving fabric is visibly older … with a moulded outer doorway, narrow cusped side windows, stone benching, and a stoup; the lower doorway to a rood-loft …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… house of two stories and attics, which has a reset stone dated 1575 and has been much rebuilt, and King's … excessive depth of mud being attributed to the scarcity of stone, the remissness of the commissioners, and the total … two swans carved on the framing of the porch, and has two stone chimneys and a sundial dated 1604. The 'Red Talbot' was …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 20 Whitminster House is a three-story building mainly of stone and partly rough-cast. The lord's court in 1288 stood … been occupied by a tenant by 1397. 24 Two rooms, with a stone gable-end, were added to the house in 1424, 25 and the … corner of the surviving house, which is built of stone on an L-shaped plan; the range running north may mark …