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A History of the County of Essex
… storey, above which the two upper storeys are unified by a giant attached portico and pilasters at the angles. Attached …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Dyke, near Bank Barrow (8). Cerne Abbas (28) The Cerne Giant, a turf-cut figure 180 ft. high. (29) Earthwork called the Trendle, E. of the Giant. (3035) Banks, Settlements, etc., distributed over the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… reflect the interrupted history of its construction. Four giant pilasters divide the faade into a central group of five …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Osmund's eve. 55 The chief feature of this pageant was the giant with attendant sword and mace bearers, the figure and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… important place of the island. On a promontory called the Giant's Castle, are traces of a fortress, thought to be of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… bay windows have elaborate friezes. At each corner are giant pilasters, Corinthian at the front, Tuscan at the rear. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… magnify, or reduce their size, with ease, to that of a giant or a dwarf. Here is a coffee house and other public … Ooze or gulphy DUN, Or Trent, which like, some earth-born giant, spreads His thirty arms along the indented meads." …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… a new hall (165) in Swayne's chequer. Here were kept the 'Giant' and 'HobNob', pageant properties which were taken out …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… (Wilts.) where a lynchet of the system is aligned with the Giant's Cave long barrow. It is not known if fields other … of the mounds or in their ditches. Another long barrow, Giant's Cave, Luckington, Wilts., just outside the area …