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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… where old, are of rubble and the dressings of Barnack stone. Part of the W. wall of a late pre-Conquest church … to William Castle, 16967, and James Castle, 17(0 ?)7, head-stone with Ionic pilasters, entablature and pediment; (5) to Joseph Papworth, 1701, plain head-stone; next E. wall of S. transept, (6) to T.W., 1659, also …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 448 inhabitants, and comprising by measurement 1735 acres. Stone of good quality is quarried for building, and for the … a few years since, and a handsome altar-piece of stone has been erected.See Newton-Abbott. Woolcombe … on a plain within a mile north-west of the town, where a stone pillar has been erected, commemorative of the event. A …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… walls, a window of two cinque-foiled lights with pierced stone louvres and blind tracery in a two-centred head; in the … N. aisle, in rear arch of centre window, mason's rejected stone fragment with incised liningout for cusped window(?) head and spandrel. Loose in N. aisle, cresset-stone with four holes for wicks. In churchyard, W. of tower, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The south arcade of four bays was then rebuilt, its plain stone piers being replaced by twin shafts of polished marble with foliated capitals. The stone chancel arch was given similar shafts, their design … wooden pulpit from Clay Coton (Northants.) replaced the stone Victorian one in 1966. Recent benefactions by the Revd. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Using the Wye, ships carrying between 40 and 138 tons of stone sailed frequently between Tintern Quarry and Avonmouth … extended by him in 1873. Between 15,000 and 20,000 tons of stone were extracted each year, most being conveyed by ship …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… board school was built at Hewelsfield Common. 10 The small stone building with pointed Gothic windows was a private …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of which was waste land before inclosure in 1815, many stone cottages were built in the late 18th and early 19th … school. Brockweir Farm, which is L-shaped and built of stone, appears originally to have consisted of a rectangular … cross-passage. The only original features visible are a stone fireplace at the west end of the older range and a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 27 It was rebuilt between c. 1775 and 1813 as a square stone and rough-cast house of three stories with a hipped … many of which also date from c. 1800, 28 is a large stone barn perhaps of the 17th century and the remains of a … c. 1940 when it formed the east end of a range of stone outbuildings. It then retained its bellcot (added in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1906, and the building was closed c. 1955. 96 It is stone built and the front has round-headed openings and a … 17 Moravians still lived in the village. The church is of stone, cement-rendered, with a small bellcot. 97 The …
A History of the County of Somerset
… on the waste at the end of the road. More substantial stone-built cross-passage houses of the 16th and 17th … as late as the 1930s. 8 In the 18th century a large stone barn was built at the Grange and two-storeyed … 1838 and the 1930s; most conspicuous is the poor quality stone terrace north-west of the church, formerly an …