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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the municipal borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, lies on the W. side of Weymouth Bay; it extends 6 miles N.S. and 5 … house doorway has a semicircular head with keystone and impost blocks, and a glazed fanlight. Each of the upper … the W. has intertwined beasts. Above the jambs are moulded impost blocks. Fittings Corbels: two, reset in W. wall of S. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… in 1902, and the nave in 1906. The church is interesting on account of the late 12th-century work in the N. arcade and … responds, the easternmost arch rests on a plain chamfered impost, and the westernmost on a grooved and chamfered impost which was probably on a respond before the tower was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… now destroyed, and there is evidence of an early vestry on the site of the present one; very shortly after these … the E. respond is of similar section and has a moulded impost; the W. respond has three attached shafts with simply … (Plate 5); the 13th-century E. respond has a moulded impost and a tapering corbel under the inner order; the W. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… bSY 78 NW) Whitcombe is a small parish of some 750 acres on the Dorchester-Wareham road 2 miles S.E. of Dorchester. … Reading and Bagshot Beds in the E. the whole parish lies on Chalk. The only settlement, now comprising the church, … A relief of a horseman and building remains recently found on Whitcombe Hill may indicate a rural shrine in the Roman …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… century, and in 1885 the North Vestry was added, possibly on the site of a former chapel. The pre-conquest headstone … at the Restoration; it is two-centred and has a plain impost, possibly original on the E. side. In the S. wall are three windows, the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Ecclesiastical b(2). Parish Church of St. Martin stands on the W. side of the village. The walls are of flint-rubble … The 11th-century chancel-arch is of two plain orders on the W., and has a semi-circular head with slightly … head; the tympanum, now plastered, is carried on an oak lintel; E. of the eastern window in a recess are …
Old and New London
… destroyed by the Great FireThe Flogging in BridewellSermon on Madame CreswellHogarth and the "Harlot's … to the river, with gas works at its foot and mean shops on either side was once the centre of a district full of … a bullying coward, whose wife keeps lodgings, sells cherry brandy, and is of more than doubtful virtue. He had formerly …
Survey of London
… came to England about 1665, and has left his impressions on record. One of the places that he visited was Whitehall. … gallery and of the Queen's riverside apartments must, on the other hand, have resulted in a great improvement … goeing up to the King's Guard Chamber wherein ale and Brandy is now Sold, to the dishonor of the Court, at the …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… with Dowdeswell, which crossed it. The Roman villa (3), on the other hand, was succeeded by Saxon settlement in its … immediate vicinity. A terrace-way just W. of the villa, is on a possible line of the White Way from Corinium; coffin … included the base of a small stone column, a broken impost with a rosette carved on one face (Plate 30), a block …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Widdington is an agricultural parish and small village on a by-road about 5 m. S. of Saffron Walden. The principal … has foliage and fruit, with a bird eating fruit partly on the adjoining splay; on the splay adjoining the W. capital is a grotesque head …