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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… ConditionGood, much restored. Secular (2). Lambeth Palace, house, chapel, gatehouse, etc., stands N. of the church. … the 19th century. The Chapel. The walls are of pudding-stone and freestone partly faced with ashlar; the dressings are of Reigate-stone and Purbeck-marble; the roof is covered with lead. The …
The Environs of London
… and another wounded 8. This information was given to the House of Commons. On the other side it is said, that the … in the annexed plate. The arches are built with stone, as is the chapel. The roof of the latter is of wood, … 1435 37. The expence of building this tower, which is of stone, amounted to about 278l. On the west side is a Gothic …
Survey of London
… certain that from the time of the establishment of a town house of the Archbishops of Canterbury at Lambeth there must … been a constant plying across the river between Lambeth House (or Palace) and the King's palace at Westminster, … of it. In 1828 two bills, one for the construction of a stone bridge, to be called the Royal Clarence Bridge, and the …
Survey of London
… Hubert Walter to found a college of secular clerks, with a house for an archiepiscopal residence, away from Canterbury … consisted of a weekly allowance of 15 quartern loaves, 9 stone of beef and 5s., which were divided and distributed … copings to the battlements, quoins and bands, are all in stone, much of which has been renewed in modern times. The …
Survey of London
… sick in 1625 he left the Palace and went to his wife's house in Kennington. 244 This house is marked on the plan of … the door. On the back of the older part of the house is a stone tablet inscribed GULIELMUS VYSE, RECTOR PRIMUM PONENTE … built in yellow stock brick with two continuous moulded stone bands at parapet gutter level. The entrances have …
Survey of London
… occupation of Sir John Shorter. In 1718 this ground and a house on it called Belvidere (Plate 37a) were opened to the … doorways. Above the entablature was a lion made of Coade stone (see p. 60) which stood on a substantial base incised … and entablature which was surmounted by a lion of Coade stone (Plate 32). The lion had been missing for some years …
A History of the County of Surrey
… was one of the settlements which lay with church and manor-house close to the river bank. Stangate is supposed to mark … simple chamfered section, three slender shafts of Purbeck stone with caps and bases of the same giving central support … the west wall. The east and west windows were fitted with stone seats. The south wall was blank excepting the west bay, …
Old and New London
… Bolton," Governor of Lambeth MarshBelvedere RoadBelvedere House and GardensCuper's GardensCumberland GardensThe … us that on "Narrow Wall" is a manufactory of artificial stone, established in 1769 by Mr. Coade. "The preparation," … burnt, and is intended to answer every purpose of carved stone. It is possessed of the peculiar property of resisting …
Old and New London
… A. C. Coxe, in his "Impressions of England," "seemed to house the decent and comely spirit of religion itself: and … chiefly built of a fine red brick, and are supported by stone buttresses, edged and coped with stone. The "great gate" is enumerated among the buildings of …
A History of the County of Surrey
… afterwards granted to them there, and in 1333 a mansion-house was built for their accommodation by Hamo de Hethe, … of London in 1820. The buildings are of red brick with stone dressings in Tudor style. In the middle gable are the … it gave its namederived from a probable dolmen, Brixi's stone, which was a well-known landmarkto the hundred, was not …