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A History of the County of Oxford
… rural character, during the 20th century the parish's northern part was transformed by the creation and expansion … (Glos.) to Witney, was opened in 1873, with a small red-brick station (called Alvescot Station) by the Alvescot road … while an early 4th-century Roman coin and extensive Roman brick and tile scatters have been found near Street way …
A History of the County of Oxford
… retained burial rights until the 1580s. The benefice's relative poverty ensured that the church was served usually … appropriated half the church to Osney abbey at Ralph's 'presentation', implying that Ralph had retained some … were still 22 members, and a purpose-built chapel of red brick, with 90 sittings, was erected a little to the west of …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… Street and No. 13 Brown Street, of two storeys with brick outer walls and tiled roofs, are mainly of the 17th and … 1 The outline of the mediaeval tenement, some 113 ft. (N.S.) by 75 ft., is recognisable in the boundaries on O.S., … the six E. bays of the S. elevation have 17th-century brick facades with wooden cornices and hipped, tile-covered …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Black Notley 8. BLACK NOTLEY. (F.a.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxiv. N.W. (b)xxxiv. N.E. (c)xxv. S.W.). Black … the angle-buttresses of the chancel are of 17th-century brick. The roofs are covered with tiles. The Nave was built … DescriptionThe Chancel (28 ft. by 22 ft.) has brick angle-buttresses of which one has stone panels with the …
Survey of London
… as Lambeth Butts, is divided into five sections on Horwood's map (179199 edition) known as Broad Street, Lambeth Butts, … of land, formerly part of Cotmansfield and then used as nursery ground, for the erection of a parochial chapel … church is designed in Gothic style and is built in grey brick with stone dressings. It has a stone octagonal spirelet …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was considered to be a delicacy, as is evidenced in the nursery rhyme 'four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie ... … of named products were also quite common, likeYOUNG's BLACKING BALL, elsewhere called 'Elastic fine Blacking' [Tradecards (1792)], and Scheffer's Cakes for 'making shining Liquid Blacking for Shoes or …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Coleridge, Stanborough and Coleridge, and S. divisions of Devon, 5 miles (W. by N.) from Dartmouth; … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 15. 8. 9.; net income, 122; patron, Sir H. P. … occupy a spacious quadrangle, are handsomely built of brick, with quoins and cornices of stone, and are surrounded …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Chaigley 2,015. A detached part of Aighton called Lennox's Farm was in 1883 transferred to Dutton, within which … as narrated below. To the ancient 'fifteenth' 38 s. was contributed, when the hundred in all paid 37 1 s. 7 d., 9 and to the county lay a proportionate sum. The …
Old and New London
… EscapesQueen Elizabeth at Lord Herbert's MarriageOld Blackfriars BridgeJohnson and MylneLaying of … Phillips and his WorksPainters in BlackfriarsThe King's Printing Office Printing House SquareThe Times and its … adversary. Apothecaries' Hall, the grave stone and brick building, in Water Lane, Blackfriars, was erected in …
Survey of London
… traffic in 1769. It was made free of toll in 1785. Mylne's bridge lasted just over 100 years. Its decay was hastened … (Plate 82). Nos. 7483 and 8588 These are late 18th-century brick houses though the ground floor fronts of Nos. 75, 79, … than the others in this group. They are of yellow stock brick and comprise four storeys and basements. Nos. 181 and …