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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Preface SECTIONAL PREFACE TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY The part of Northamptonshire described in this volume covers an area … recognised in field-walking may also lead to conclusions about the pattern of past settlement which may be false. For … though they remained intact for centuries owing to their position on land which in medieval times was marginal. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… (i) EARTHWORKS ETC., PREHISTORIC AND LATER The tracts of coastal downland and interior woodland, heath or parkland … belong the important alterations at Forde Abbey with their elaborate plaster ceilings. Good examples of the last … 18th-century inscription (4) at Cerne Abbas is in black-letter. There is the indent of a highly remarkable brass now …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… in the Inventory. Topography and Geology The part of Dorset which is described in this volume has an area of … of those that do survive are Romano-British, at least in their final phase, but since none has been excavated the … in Pulham church, consists of three lines of black-letter dated 1433; a somewhat similar brass at Tincleton is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… to be richer in pre-historic earthworks than those parts of the county neighbouring on the Welsh hills. The camps on … third at Holmer, are remarkable as standing detached from their respective churches. The outer N. chapel at Ledbury is … of Celtic origin, now in Hereford Museum. It was found about 1860 in a pond adjacent to the Marden churchyard, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… Sectional Preface The Mediaeval Suburbs The present City of York includes considerable areas that have been absorbed … were several religious houses: the Carmelites had their first house here before moving to Hungate in 1295; the … to have the privilege of pontificalia and a seat in Parliament. It was one of only four Benedictine Abbeys in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… Style During the Middle Ages domestic buildings of stone, on surviving evidence, were built in coursed … stopped as much as 2 ft. above floor level came into use about the middle of the century. Several houses were built … to have been largely rebuilt as faithful reproductions of their 17th-century predecessors (Plates 160163). Windows Few …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… Building Materials and Construction Stone The outcrop of Jurassic rock running from Yorkshire to Somerset provides … to have been done mainly by masons, several of whom had their own quarries. In 1624 Robert Spademan provided stone … 10 miles away, seems to have been used in the town. After about the middle of the 14th century the hard shelly Barnack …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… Cambridge is without a good building stone, though bands of reasonably hard stone of irregular occurrence nearby … led to the expedient of facing such walling outside with rendering, brickwork, or imported stone; in 1295, for … came from Reach. The chalk also provides flints, though their use in Cambridge is very limited, and the hard stratum …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… Cambridge city and none that is certainly representative of the pre-Roman period, but this is scarcely surprising in … below the present Magdalene Bridge and entered the town at about the centre of the southern side. It will have issued … this period on the further fringes, but the evidence for their extent and for the existence also of a third, alongside …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the following discussion is based on a small number of churches. A forthcoming volume, devoted entirely to … can be gained from surviving features which illustrate their shape in cross section. The 12th-century eaves course … of 6.5 m., and the line of a matching roof with a pitch of about forty-five degrees is outlined by a weathering on the …