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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… The walls are of flint and pebble-rubble and pudding-stone; the chancel is mostly of brick, and the tower is … timber-construction is exposed, and two of the rooms have stone fireplaces with flat four-centred heads. The walls and …
A Dictionary of London
… The site is now occupied by the Great Eastern and North London Railway lines. Westmoreland Alley See Westmoreland … Westsmithfield Tower A tower so called in the Tower of London, 1461 (Cal. P.R. Ed. IV. 1461-7, p. 85). Westwherf Tenement of Adam le Blound with wharf near London Bridge, 1308 (Ct IH. W. I. 198). No later mention. …
Survey of London
… Road, linking the West India Docks to the City of London. 106 The dock company's engineer, Ralph Walker, was … 120 The adoption of motorized fire engines by the London Fire Brigade led to a reduction in the number of … was closed in that year and the building was sold to the London Salvage Corps for 3,000. 122 The Corps carried out …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… before 1886 except for one retained by the rector. 26 London House was built probably in the 1850s on the site of a … squatter settlement on the edge of the common, 27 named London, signifying remoteness, from the early 18th century. … farms, two mills, and two public houses, mainly of Keinton stone, chipped smooth, and thatched, and most forming a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… roof-tiles with red mortar. There were three pieces of stone, each a yard long and 7 in. in width, flat on one edge, … and modern mullions; the jambs and heads of lights are of stone. Between the windows is a doorway with an early 16th-century head of brick and earlier jambs of stone. There is no structural division between the chancel …
Survey of London
… rest of Farringdon Road in volume xlvi of the Survey of London. Coldbath Fields: the BaynesWarner or Jervoise estate … Robert Morris, a man with particular knowledge of London estates, who concluded that it was impossible to split … with eccentric, outsize detailing in red artificial stone. The buildings, latterly known as Springfield Court, …
Survey of London
… quieter than I supposed any were in this monstrous place [London]. The people go to bed early; after half past ten, … boundary (Ill. 426) nor its line as simplified under the London Boroughs Act of 1900, when the civil parishes were … above ground: Pevsner in 1952 noted one with 'pretty Coade stone decoration'. 41 In one such house, unidentifiable but …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to parapet level. Reset in the N. parapet is a carved stone of uncertain date; an inscription stone in the S. parapet records that the bridge was built in … comprising an 18th-century extension; a date-stone in the chimney stack is inscribed G.C. 1712. Inside, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… and with ashlar dressings, and roof-coverings of tile and stone-slate. The Nave is of mid 12th-century origin and the … 12th-century N. doorway has plain ashlar jambs and a heavy stone lintel with a cambered upper surface supporting a … his wife Elizabeth Mary, 1835, marble tablet by Bedfored, London. In churchyard, two paces S. of nave, (2), (3), (4), …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in the gaps in the plastering; the dressings are of free-stone and the roofs of tile. The 11th-century church … carved head of a bishop, perhaps from the end of a drip-stone. In each side wall are two plain lancets with pointed …