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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (43 ft. by 25 ft.) has angle quoins of Roman brick and stone. It has in the N. wall two windows; the eastern is of … oak lintel; E. of the eastern window in a recess are the stone stairs to the former rood-loft. In the S. wall are four … has a moulded tie-beam with curved braces, supported by stone corbels carved with grotesque figures; on the beam is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the name of Vale-Royal, and in August 1277 laid the first stone of the new edifice, where the monks took up their abode … many great improvements have been effected in it. Several stone piers extend, some in a diverging and some in a … comprises 1534 acres. The soil is clayey and stony; and stone is quarried. Pillow-lace is made here. The living is a …
Old and New London
… being sculptured with the head of Edward VI. Bridewell stone bridge over the Fleet was painted by Hayman, Hogarth's …
Survey of London
… "Earl" of Lauderdale, whose lodgings are shown next to the Stone Gallery, was created Duke in 1672. (v) Sir Robert … (vii) Lord Crofts, whose lodging is indicated next to the Stone Gallery, died in 1677. (viii) A prominent feature in … constructed between October, 1670, and May, 1671, near the Stone Gallery, are not shown. On the other hand, the …
Survey of London
… demised to Thomas "Bryhtman" as far as the latter's stone wall 88 feet. The garden contained at the end where it … in greate with hym made for the taking downe of a Toure of Stone and bricke at the Kings place within his paleis." While … of demolitions it may be remarked that some of the stone used for Whitehall was obtained from the destruction of …
Old and New London
… the Duchess of Portsmouth's lodgings, with all the stone gallery and buildings behind and down to the Thames." …
Old and New London
… was removed in 1847. Fifteen years or so previously a stone apartment with a groined roof, no doubt a portion of …
Old and New London
… a description by command of James I., in 1624. A large stone pedestal bore four dials at the four corners, and the … 1866. The building, Italian in style, is constructed of stone, and consists of three storeys, besides offices in the …
Old and New London
… Gallery," the "Matted Gallery," the "Shield Gallery," the "Stone Gallery," the "Adam and Eve Gallery" (so named from the … had made a park, walled and environed with brick and stone; and then devised and ordained many and singular … After its demolition most of the glazed bricks and stone dressings of this historical building, rich in two …
Old and New London
… M. Digby Wyatt, R.A. The buildings are faced with Portland stone; granite is used for the window-columns, and granite, … more bulky than that belonging to the India Office. In the stone-vaulted entrances through the India Office from Charles … Office from Downing Street, are columns each of a single stone, eleven feet high; the vaulting in each case is …