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Survey of London
… over the panelling, but preserves its wood cornice. On the first floor the back room and "powder room" are covered with …
Survey of London
… only remaining houses of a terrace of five which were at first called Church Row and afterwards Prospect Place. They … curved glazing bars, are fitted in the room above on the first floor, and open on to the adjoining hospital. The back … who painted here his well-known picture, "The Light of the World." On Plate 92 the window of his studio is marked with …
Survey of London
… lines of the cresting, enclosing the monogram of the first owner, Richard Chapman, in which the delicate leaf … its most familiar feature, is the large bay window to the first and second floors that has been inserted in the centre … by Edmund L. Wratten We will now turn to the interior. The first door opens upon a little hall, paved diagonally with …
Survey of London
… House. The eastern part consists of a house built in the first half of the 18th century, and recessed some distance … This, almost certainly, contained the long gallery on the first floor, as it would measure in total length (between the … "Mrs. State, late Dr. Butler." It is probable that the first name should be Tate, since Faulkner tells us that the …
Survey of London
… in the town of Chelsey, consisting of three cellars in the first floor, three halls, three parlours, three kitchens, two … and nine other rooms, with a large staircase, in the first story; three drawing rooms, seventeen chambers and four … apartments were designed on a large scale. In the Civil War he warmly espoused the cause of Charles I., and having …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… with shallow square buttresses at the angles of the first and second stages and an embattled parapet. All the … and veil head-dress, inscription and two shields, the first with arms of Cave impaling a coat of six quarters, the … daughter of William Wollaston of Shenton, Leicestershire, first wife of Sir John Chester, fourth baronet, Latin …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Saxon see was at Selsey, and it was to this see that the first Norman bishop, Stigand, was consecrated in 1070. Either … a sword issuing from His mouth proper. The church as at first planned consisted of a nave of eight bays with aisles … Magdalene by Dean Pigou (18871892), and (since the Great War) the chapels of St. John, SS. Thomas and Edmund, and St. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… head, and there is a blocked doorway to the former first floor. The third stagethe ringing chamberis lighted in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by an iron spiral staircase in the transept. It was first built by Renatus Harris in 1678, but has been altered … and north of this a series of circular medallions; the first, a large one, contained a portrait of William the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… for the soul of William, Earl of Arundel, 2 possibly the first Earl, who died in 1176. There was also a chantry for … Miller in memory of his son who was killed in the Great War. It has a modern altar and other fittings and is screened … shows outside in the wide-jointed masonry of the first period. The face is set back to the later plane under …