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Survey of London
… It is constructed of reinforced concrete with facings of Portland stone and grey Cornish granite, the granite being …
Old and New London
… has two faades; the principal one, in Piccadilly, is of Portland stone, decorated in the style of the French … The frontage in Jermyn Street is of brick, picked out with Portland stone. The great dining-room, capable of … the splendid line of Regent Street, the Quadrant, and Portland Place, until he reaches the Regent's Parkbeautifully …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… [Throsby] Welbec Abbey, The seat of his grace the duke of Portland, sometime since that of the duke of Newcastle. As a … surviving daughter of this marriage brought it into the Portland family, by her marriage with his grace William duke of Portland, in 1734. This seat being a favorite place of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… while in four surrounding niches are busts of the Duke of Portland and Mr. Frederick Montague, of Edmund Burke and Sir …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… ConditionGood. c(37). House (Plate 28), on the W. side of Portland Street, opposite (36), is of two storeys, … good. S. side c(41). Cottage, nearly opposite the end of Portland Street, is of two storeys, timber-framed, and with …
A History of the County of Stafford
… to the building of the tower, the façade was pointed in Portland cement and the vestry enlarged. 61 In 1892 the pews …
Survey of London
… planned. The entrance gateway, on the south side, was of Portland stone, and ornamented with sculpted fetters. These …
Survey of London
… though reported in the architectural press as being of Portland stone. 139 Ingeniously, the ends of intermediate …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Wadham Coll., matric. 12 May, 1626, aged 17; 4th earl of Portland, baptised 9 Oct., 1609; died s.p. about 1688. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… works to the north-east of Westbury town by the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers. Chalk was to be excavated from …