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A History of the County of Hertford
… the Frith are two very large commons situated on the high ground on the north-east side of the manor. In 1357 the wood … butchers' stalls. It stood upon oak posts, was open on the ground story, and had a loft or room above. In the front of … abutting on the street. The building is of red brick with stone dressings to the doors and to some of the windows. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… on a Gothic plan and has a West Tower. The walls are of stone and brick except the early part of the W. tower, which … are diagonal buttresses, now covered with paint. To the ground stage above the modern entrance doorway is a … rusticated stone quoins at the angles of the tower. The ground stage has in the E. wall a square-headed doorway with …
Old and New London
… taper's lights are gone, Grey moss has clad the altar-stone, The holy image is o'erthrown, The bell has ceased to … church. In Wilkinson's work above mentioned is engraved a ground-plan of the site and precincts of Bermondsey Abbey, copied from a survey made in 1679. It exhibits a ground-plot of the old conventual church, with gardens …
Old and New London
… annuities. The new church, constructed chiefly of Portland stone, was completed in 1740. It has a nave, with side … London and Greenwich Railway Company provided a piece of ground in Bermondsey Street on which a new school-house was … of the building was an octagonal tower, containing, on the ground-floor, a porch open on three sides, and leading to a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… 1627. Recess: In chancelin E. wall, square stone locker, possibly 14th-century. ConditionPoor; bad …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… scattered village of Berrick Salome occupies gently rising ground a mile or so north of Benson, its clunch-rubble and … display a variety of materials including brick, render, stone, and timber-cladding, while in the 1980S-90S several … windows in the nave and transept may be of similar date. Box pews were provided in 1636, a parish chest in 1638, and a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… cobbles with brick dressings and with a thatched roof. The stone part has a panel inscribed FB 1726. Farther north-east … have been rebuilt. The entrance opens into a hall which is stone-paved and contains an early-17th-century staircase; … nave. At some later date the condition of the tower gave ground for anxiety, and massive buttresses, each of two …
A Dictionary of London
… (Street). . Bethlehem Church Yard See Bethlem Burying Ground. . Bethlehem Hospital See Old Bethlehem Hospital. . … Elizabeth. See Old Bethlehem Hospital. . Bethlem Burying Ground On the east side of Moorfields, extending east to New … M. 1677). Enclosed by Sir Thomas Roe in 1569 for a burial ground and called "New Churchyard near Bethelem" (Strype, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… It has a long east-west range of c. 1500 with walls of stone on the ground floor and of timber framing above. 88 No wall of so … Fox, 1760'; W.R.O. 488/7, agreement, 1782. W.R.O. 1171, box 20, map of Berwick Bassett, 1728: the date of the map is …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… to which, from the English side, is over a handsome stone bridge of fifteen arches, built in the reigns of James … house, for officers' barracks; but that building and the ground adjoining, formerly the site of the palace of the … is supposed to have been derived from the nature of the ground on which the castle of the family of Biggar was …