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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… on either side, and five windows almost square on the first floor; it has a plain stone plinth, a moulded brick string at first floor-level, brick quoins and a dentil-cornice. The … ground floor have moulded architraves and keystones; the first-floor windows are round-headed. (11) House, on the S. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… have segmental heads of gauged brickwork and those of the first floor have brick aprons. Above the entablature the … and lower main storey the brickwork is original; above first-floor level the brickwork of 1912 is less closely … a single flight leads to a circular billiards room on the first floor above the W. hall (Plate 37). According to the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… beam, re-used as the internal lintel, inscribed 'William War Churchwarden'; the W. window is of two four-centred … red bricks, with a diaper pattern of black bricks; on the first floor are two original windows of moulded stone, each … higher in the wall, and of two lights, also blocked; the first floor has a window of four lights similar to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… manufacture of edge-tools. A pleasure-fair is held in the first week after the festival of St. Peter. The living, once … but the sentence was not carried into effect till the first of Henry III., 1216; after which a Franciscan convent … was founded on its site. Seal and Arms. During the civil war in the reign of Charles I., Sir Edward Ford, the sheriff, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… some council houses were built in the village between the First and Second World Wars, they replaced condemned cottages, and the total … of Granby, a successful general in the Seven Years' War and owner 1750-70, spent little time there. 27 His son …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the county boundary with Suffolk. The hundred name was first recorded in Domesday Book. 1 In the 11th century 50 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was still owned with the manor in 1671 and 1732, 98 the first four presentations after 1660 were by persons other … had protestant views on redemption. 25 During the Civil War Robert Levitt (rector from 1623) fell foul of political … a private pew for the squire in the south transept. 41 The first thorough restoration took place in 1850-1 at the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… dairies and two smallholders survived but after the Second World War the thoroughbred had all. 39 The bloodstock industry in … of Broad Green. 47 Stud farming advanced greatly after the First World War as a result of the break-up of the Cheveley …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… land was sold between 1891 and 1922. 63 The school at first taught writing and Latin grammar, and entry was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Ely, their lord elsewhere in Cambridgeshire. 74 The first undertenant was perhaps Ralph Pecche (fl. 1130), 75 on … was subdivided and converted into houses before the Second World War, and the farm buildings in the 1980s. 37 The Cottons' …