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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… In chancelrecess with moulded jambs and ogee head, round drain, 14th-century. Miscellanea: In nave portion of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… been restored; below the sill is a moulded internal string-course. In the N. wall is an arcade of the end of the 13th … in relief holding a heart; in modern recess adjoining, a round oak box (4 in. by 4 in.) with incised lines and rebated … further W. ( b) with chamfered jambs and two-centred head, round drain with front cut away, late 13th-century. In N. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… and in recent years has been re-roofed. There is a plinth round the whole building, a moulded brick string-course at the level of the first floor and oversailing …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… wire-mill, and a paper manufactory. The Holywell race-course, long distinguished as a fashionable resort, is … from its rise, flows over a rocky bed, in a part of its course entirely destitute of vegetation, and without any … which clothe its precipitous banks, and pursues a winding course to the river Tawe. Though this fall is of much greater …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… modern. Consecration Crosses: Ten formy crosses in sunk round panels on external wall-faces as follows on chancel, on … in. originally), 2 ft. 6 in. tall, top part rectangular to round or oval, remaining sides each with nimbed bust under … was built c. 1800. The W. front has a central porch with round-headed doorway and cornice. The windows are of two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in 1370, the central tower was taken down, and in the course of eight years completely rebuilt. The whole edifice … stages, die away under the cornice that is carried round the upper part of the towers. The North and South sides … pinnacles, and a delicately pierced parapet is continued round the walls of the nave: the transepts, which are in the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… visitor in the 1720s commented on the many gardeners round London who 'offer all sorts of young trees ... for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… motte and remains of the mediaeval curtain wall and towers round part of the bailey, which now contains the Debtors' … were four semicircular towers; at the S. angle there was a round tower. Another tower at the W. angle had disappeared, … also made. 58 Since about 1790 it has had at its centre a round or oval lawn, popularly known as the 'Eye of the …