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Survey of London
… 11. Font. The font is a beautiful octagonal fluted bowl of white marble on a baluster stem (Plates 25 26), and … Mr. Edward Bringhurst." The baluster is fractured and the bowl may have been restored. 12. Gallery. The present …
Survey of London
… 1823. A square inscription tablet of white marble with black surround. 2. LUCY SMITH, 1781, and ANNE WILTON, 1781. … MARY RUSH, 1854. An elliptical tablet of white marble with black surround. 4. THOMAS HURD, 1823: FREDERICA HURD, 1824. A … marble with cornice and pedimental head on a ground of black marble. 5. CATHERINE RUSH, 1846. An elliptical …
Survey of London
… JOHN LAWRENCE, 1638. An inscribed slab of touchstone, or black marble, is surrounded by a wide border of alabaster … each side, the whole being supported by a moulded ledge of black marble with a shield of arms in the centre. A simple … attired in grave clothes, and rising from a coffin of black marble. There is a similar monument to Lady Salter in …
Survey of London
… STANLEY, 1632. An elaborate altar tomb of alabaster and black marble, very beautifully executed, stands before the … Plate No. 59), and of this only three inscribed slabs of black marble remain. The monument stood in the south aisle … sons. The ribbon on which their names are inscribed in black letter alone remains; it runs as follows, beginning …
Survey of London
… rosettes. Above and beneath the tablet is a background of black marble with shaped outline, and against the upper part … apparel to the recess which encloses a sarcophagus of black marble, supporting the reclining figure of Lady Cheyne, … on the entrance to the vault, and another slab of polished black marble, which was apparently in this position, is now …
The Environs of London
… epitaph for himself, which is engraved upon a tablet of black marble on the south wall of the chancel at Chelsea. It … sydes were 18 staffe torchys, carryed by 18 poore men in black gownes. Then next aftre the corps, as chiefe morner, … at the blackfreers, where was 2 greate barges coverd with black, garnysshed with schoocheons, thone for the morners and …
The Environs of London
… maser, qweshions of tynsel and of sylk, vestments of black velvet, and of sattin, with velvet crosses, velvet … the year 1691. It is about 110 feet in length, paved with black and white marble, and wainscotted with Dutch oak. The …
The Environs of London
… rest will be particularized by Comus drinking out of his bowl." Ibid. Sept. 3. "Comus intends to appear with several …
Old and New London
… Another remarkable old inn in the same street was the "Black Lion," which was situated opposite the rectory garden … who at that time resided principally at Chelsea. THE "BLACK LION," CHURCH STREET, CHELSEA, IN 1820. At No. 72, …
Old and New London
… in length, by about thirty in width, and is paved with black and white marble. The pews for the various officers of … clothed in red jackets, blue breeches, blue stockings, and black caps; and the girls in red gowns, blue petticoats, …