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A History of the County of Essex
… and southwards to the river Colne. From the Stour the ground rises southwards to reach a height of more than 225 … are river terrace deposits south of that, then, as the ground rises, bands of London clay, and sands and gravels. … plain along- side the Stour, before woodland on the higher ground further south was gradually cleared. Prehistoric tools …
A History of the County of Essex
… it may have been then that a passage was cut through the ground floor of the stack. There was apparently a medieval …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… section; on the E. side the jambs are square and of modern stone; on the W. side they have small attached shafts with … doorway is of 12th-century design, but entirely of modern stone. The West Tower (10 ft. by 10 ft.) is of two stages, … a tablet over one entrance. The walls are of brick, with stone dressings and a moulded stone cornice; the roofs are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… mile W. of the village. It is built of flint rubble with stone dressings, and is repaired with brick; the chancel and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… is a 13th-century lancet-window, and on the gable is a stone bell-cote with two trefoil-headed openings and a gabled … early 14th-century. Churchyard Cross: S. of chancel square stone base with socket for shaft, on larger octagonal … is exposed and re-used on the S.W. side is a moulded jamb-stone of a fireplace. Inside the building are some exposed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Ten-foot coal in operation, and several quarries of stone of good quality for building. The village is … miles in length to the collieries of Walkden. The under-ground canals and tunnels at Worsley are said to be 18 miles … of Ellesmere, by whom it is endowed. It stands on elevated ground, and consists of a nave, south aisle, chancel, and …
A History of the County of York
… not known whereabouts in the choir this stood. The massive stone choir screen, constructed between 1475 and 1505, was … had only one chantry chapel erected outside the regular ground plan of the building. Archbishop Zouche, towards the … a week, but in 1800 had been replaced by a large, square, box-shaped one, and a similar one was erected after 1829. 91 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… included some of the principal medieval sources of Purbeck stone and marble. The local stone is generally used for walls … on a T-shaped plan giving three heated rooms on the ground floor; it was enlarged in the 18th and 19th centuries. … immediately W. of Weston Farm, on apparently well-drained ground (Lower Purbeck Beds) rising gently N. They include a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… from the cathedral. 3 CHRIST CHURCH and its burial ground between Grafton and Portland roads were consecrated in … was built to the design of George Truefitt, 43 and is of stone. 44 At first it comprised an apsidal chancel and nave, … of the vicar of Holy Trinity. 75 It is of flint and stone in Gothic style and consists of a nave with baptistry, …