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Old and New London
… This gift was confirmed by letters patent by the earl's elder brother, King Edward I., in his twenty-first year, … again took up his final residence at the Savoy. In Stow's "Chronicles," under the date of 1364, we find the following … Majesty the Queen, under the superintendence of Mr. Sydney Smirke. It is small, but well-proportioned, consisting of a …
Old and New London
… Morning Chronicle and Mr. John BlackWimbledon HouseD'Oyley's WarehouseExeter StreetExeter ArcadeThe Strand Music HallThe … Lord (then "plain John") Campbell, Joseph Hume, Mr. J. R. M'Culloch, Sir John Bowring, Mr. Charles Buller, and Mr. … of old Exeter 'Change. He entrusted the work to Mr. Sydney Smirke, the wellknown architect, who designed a polygonal …
Old and New London
… been generally repaired in 1811, but in 1825 Sir Robert Smirke restored the whole south side externally and the lower … head of the cross which decorates it adorned with a lion's head, and the foot rests on the head of a lamb, the joint … in early life, the earl became one of Richard Cur de Lion's vicegerents during his absence in Palestine. He fought in …
Old and New London
… Fountain Court and the Temple FountainRuth PinchL. E. L.'s PoemFig-tree CourtThe Inner Temple LibraryPaper … and Hall, in the Tudor style, were the work of Sidney Smirke, R.A., in 1835. The library, designed by Mr. Abrahams, is 96 …
Survey of London
… and opened in 1812. Many changes have been made to Wyatt's building in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. … Property and Interests of the present Proprietors' (i.e., R. B. and T. Sheridan and Mrs. Richardson): and lastly, to … for the Brydges Street frontperhaps as an answer to Smirke's new portico at Covent Garden Theatre was not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Archaeology occupies a site on the corner of St. Giles's Street and Beaumont Street acquired by the University from … to the Neo-Greek designs of Charles Robert Cockerell, R.A., which were based on a study of the temple of Apollo at … designs were favourably reported upon by Sir Robert Smirke and had been selected as a result of a competition in …
A History of the County of Essex
… rectory of Theydon Bois was valued in about 1254 at £4 13 s. 4 d., 48 at £5 in 1257, 49 and at £4 13 s. 4 d. again in … and the second on the present site, was designed by Sydney Smirke and consecrated in 1851. 79 The cost was about £2,000; … Bartholomew's Priory, i, 481. Feet of F. Essex, i, 172. E.R. liv, 35; Newcourt, Repert. ii, 582; Cal. Pat. 1334-8, 173. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and 30,000 herrings. 44 It passed, apparently on Stigand's deposition in 1070, to William FitzOsbern, Earl of Hereford … chief landowners in Tidenham between 1923 and 1939. 84 W. R. Lysaght died in 1945 and his Tidenham property was sold by … the house was remodelled for George Ormerod by Sir Robert Smirke; 89 the alterations were probably completed by 1830 …
Old and New London
… Small-pox HospitalTottenham StreetThe Prince of Wales's TheatreSt. John's ChurchThe Hogarth ClubDressmakers' and … among its residents, in former times, Mr. Nathaniel Hone, R.A., the painter of the picture called the "Conjurer." He … 1826, had among its residents, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Robert Smirke, R.A., the architect of the General Post Office and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Fall, on the boundary of which were places called Herbert's Clough, Cart Leach, Wych Brook, and Fairhurst Sike. 9 Henry … of stone in the Early English style from designs by Smirke, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, transept, … and Parr Bridge; Census Ret. Lond. Gaz. 98. Exch. K.R. Knt's. Fees, bdle. i, No. 9, m. 3 a. Testa de Nevill (Rec. …