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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… rise in the world of 2 brothers. They worked as common stone masons on the St George's Roman Catholic cathedral, …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… South (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999), 683. The foundation stone was laid by William Woods on 2 September 1858. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… income, 213; patron, A. George, Esq. The church is a small stone edifice, with a tower of wood. Wickenby (St. Peter and … scenery diversified. There are ten quarries of excellent stone, frorn which the Sheffield manufacturers are supplied …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… with water. The town and county hall is a neat building of stone, with a campanile turret terminating in a cupola and … church, erected in 1830, is a spacious structure of blue stone with dressings of freestone, in the early English style … of government. A church, also, of which the foundation stone was laid in 1841, has been erected at Pulteney-Town. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Great Ouse, on river gravel at 77 m. above OD. Building stone, roof and flue tiles, with pottery including samian and … by large banks up to 0.5 m. high and apparently made of stone rubble. They probably represent the gardens of houses …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… yielded scattered traces of prehistoric activity, both Stone Age flint tools, 25 and some Bronze Age weapons. 26 … a former wharf on the river, partly revetted in brick and stone, 3 and has been identified as a fortification of the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… the soil as a cold white clay, or in some parts a brown stone brash loam, overlying limestone. 48 An earlier writer … of the water supply and the availability of building stone, gravel and sand, as well as 'a good vein of marble'. … limestone with a plain-tile roof and brick end-stacks on stone bases. It is T-shaped in plan, of two storeys and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and Ann (wife of John Barrell), 1697, tablet of slate and stone with carving at side, cornice and coat of arms. … On the N.E. angle is a male figure in Roman dress, in stone. Over the entrance doorway is a semi-circular pediment … of Bradbury; above it is a plastered niche containing a stone bust. The ground and first floors have each two …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the north aisle exterior, and partly dressed in Barnack stone, it comprises a chancel, aisled and clerestoried nave … a sundial. The nave roof, with braced collars resting on stone corbels carved with heads, is 15th-century. From that …