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Survey of London
… for charm and delicacy of design and workmanship, and the stone path from gate to doorway binds the whole into a … balusters to each tread, over a shaped bracket. The old stone and marble paving remains. Passing between two fluted …
Survey of London
… two smaller ones by fine brick piers surmounted by a good stone cornice and vases of quite exceptional excellence. The … The approach was by a wide flight of steps with stone balusters and low wall. The pavement was of tesselated …
Survey of London
… wood gates with stout iron grilles, 1 the brick piers and stone ball finials, and the large front doorway with its plain overdoor, fanlight and flight of stone steps. Impressive as the entrance front is, it is … of steps, the dignified garden doorway, the wide-jointed stone paving and the beautifully proportioned windows give an …
Survey of London
… the Laureate, whom Faulkner also places in Church Lane: and as we know that our row was in existence in 1689, …
Survey of London
… rather of the Lincoln's Inn gateway in Chancery Lane than of a Georgian front. The effect is, perhaps, …
Survey of London
… the stable yard of Shrewsbury House, and he adds that "the stone framework of the gate is still visible in a garden in … builder, who had obtained possession, and now not a stone remains to show where it once stood Seges ubi Troja … somewhat to overstate the fact. The building was not of stone but of brick, and we have already shown that some …
Survey of London
… village (by land) being from Knightsbridge and down Church Lane. The Duke of Hamilton seems to have built his new house … John Hay; 1768, Viscount Clare; 17751783, Anne Lane; 17901797, Thomas Rowntree. No. 20a.17601761, Rev. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… of St. Laurence, in the middle of the village, is built of stone rubble; the roofs are covered with lead, except that of … by his wife Elizabeth [Lovett] in 1576, large monument, of stone (see Plate, p. 43), having enriched sarcophagus, with … the church, is a house of three storeys; the walls are of stone; the roofs are tiled. The plan is L-shaped, the wings …
A History of the County of Sussex
… later. The reset doorway in the Residentiary in Canon Lane may possibly have been the original west doorway, … the piers and arcades being scaled and refaced with Caen stone ashlar, including the outer orders of the arches … in rebuilding' and 'voussoirs of superiorly dressed Caen stone have been inserted every two feet in the arch . . . to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… tower CANON GATE The CANON GATE, or gatehouse to Canon Lane, on the west side of South Street, adjoining the Vicars' Close, is built of flints with stone dressings and is of two stories. Walcott gives the date … tower was restored in 19028 at a cost of 2,300, when the stone facing was chemically treated, and the two west …