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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 85-6. It has the advantage over other HARDWOOD, such as OAK, that it was relatively fast growing, so that 'Ash, at thirty or forty Years, is worth as much as an oak at seventy' [Houghton]. It was defined as a TIMBER TREE … were growing near to navigable water as in 'a Parcel of Oak and Ash Timber fit for Building ... standing ... not more …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… in a square head. Lower down, on the same side, is a carved panel, partly cut away by a 17th-century window; it … floor level, of one trefoiled ogee light; near it is a carved gargoyle-head on the parapet-string; the W. projection … head with a flat-sided sub-head; on the jambs are two carved heads of a man and woman and above the doorway is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the early English style, with a square tower, contains an oak pulpit richly carved, and an elegant octagonal font, supported on a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 22nd Nov. 1259; it contains many ancient stalls of carved oak. During some recent repairs, part of an old breviary was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. The Royal Oak, open in 1840 and 1851, and the Queens Arms, recorded in … underwood in Whitley. Pedwell wood (30 a.), planted with oak, ash, hazel, maple, and thorn, was said to be saleable … of Glastonbury 1456-92. Fragments of medieval glass, some carved benches, and a stone pulpit survived in the 1820s. 31 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… a gable with a low parapet, small foiled kneelers, and the carved stumps of gable-crosses. In the E. wall is a … and labels are moulded, and the internal label has stops carved as busts, of a woman, and of a knight in armour with … now on the first floor, has terminal figures and a richly carved frieze and middle panel. Two other rooms on the ground …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… of one trefoiled light. Fittings Communion Table: with carved and 'gouty' reeded legs with Ionic capitals and fluted …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… a doorway in the passage between the main rooms is some oak framing, round four original panels carved with foliage and heads, two male and two female; all … of the W. wing is a 16th-century bay window with a moulded oak frame. Inside the building, the Hall, the Screens, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… 1330, is small, of two trefoiled ogee lights, with tracery carved from one stone; the external label and the rear arch … the others have square heads; each window is closed by an oak shutter, closely pierced with holes. The Roof of the nave … locks, probably 17th-century. Chair: in chancel, with high carved back, curved arms, moulded legs, plain rails, mid …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… with king-posts; on the N. side the trusses rest on oak posts, owing to the insecurity of the N. wall. Fittings Book: Bible of 1683, oak leather-covered binding with pierced brass mountings. … Recess: In chancelin N. wall, square-headed recess with oak lintel, date uncertain, now covered by modern panelling. …