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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… deposits to expose areas of heavy Jurassic clays; the S.E. edge of this upland is marked by a steep scarp, 100 ft. … older. Building accounts, dated 150911, for work done by Christ's College on their estate at Malton, include payments … (14), has been identified as the site of a mediaeval hospital. Characteristically, churches in the area lie among …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… defensive earthworks are both numerous and important. The S.W. section of the county, dealt with in the present volume, … work may be mentioned the tympanum at St. Giles Hospital, Hereford, the chancel-arch at Garway (part of the … in the district, but of these the large panel of Christ surrounded by implements of labour, at Michaelchurch …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Pre-historic and Later. The earthworks of interest in the S.E. quarter of Essex are few and most of them are in a … slight undulations in the ground near St. Peter's Chapel mark the site of the foundations of the N. and W. … are no remains, except the parish church, of the alien hospital or priory of Hornchurch. Small 17th-century …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… the College of St. Edmund, De Vaux College, Trinity Hospital, St. Nicholas's Hospital, and the trade guilds, especially the Tailors' … c. 1260, representing the Virgin kneeling before the Risen Christ. 147 The S. chapel in St. Thomas's, dedicated in 1469 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… the E. by the county boundary with West Suffolk and on the S.E. by the Icknield Way, now the A 11 road. The N.W. part is … underlying Gault Clay and Lower Chalk are now exposed. The S.E. half of the area consists of rolling chalk-land (Lower and Middle Chalk) rising gently to the S.E. to a maximum of about 200 ft. above O.D. It is dissected …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… No attempt is therefore made here to assess the county's material contribution to our picture of Roman and pre-Roman … of a figure-subject of the Magdalen washing the feet of Christ; the head of the Magdalen and the feet of Christ … alien priory there and there are some small remains of the hospital of St. John the Baptist at Bridport. The Almshouses …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the Chalk escarpment of the Downs, which traverses it from S.W. to N.E. The scarp varies in height between 200 ft. and … ft. above sea-level. The dip-slope of the escarpment falls S.E. to little more than 100 ft. at Tincleton in the S. and … Stinsford church tower [ 12]. Buckland Newton has a small Christ-in-Majesty of the 12th century [ 12]. The reredos in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… number of homestead-moats. A few mottes, such as Mortimer's Castle, Much Marcle, and Lower Court, Munsley, have … 14th-century building may be noted at Bodenham, Ledbury Hospital and Dinmore. Little of the 15th-century work is of … of the leaden bowl has an arcade with figures, probably of Christ and the Apostles. At Bishop's Frome is a large early …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… City boundary defined by the City walls, leaving St. Mary's Abbey and the S.W. side of Bootham in the North Riding. … At the City boundary close to the Burton Stone stood the Hospital and Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, from which Burton … of the 12th century normally show the fore-runners of Christ, occasionally with St. Peter and St. Paul. Not until …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… further elaborated with buttresses and one, 17 St. George's Square (297), of very high quality, had both a … (Plate 79). The timber-framed range of 1112 St. Mary's Street (349) had traceried heads to the panels between the … The Gothic Revival hardly affected Stamford. Hopkin's Hospital of c. 1770 (51) is the earliest clumsy essay in the …