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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… A S. aisle and the present S. arcade were built early in the 13th century. The North Aisle and N. arcade were built … W. at the same time; the Chancel was rebuilt c. 1340. Late in the 14th or early in the 15th century the South Aisle was rebuilt and widened, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Whaddon 220. WHADDON. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xiv. S.E. (b)xix. N.E.) Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish … Nave above the arcades may belong to a church built early in the 12th century; c. 1190 a North Aisle was added, and the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the 'staple' part had been taken away; a form of TOPPINGS. In [Acts (1785)] it was prohibited for use in making CABLE. OED earliest date of use: 1778 See also … The contexts of the three examples of wheel bands in the Dictionary Archive are not helpful, except to suggest …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… Wheathampstead 144. WHEATHAMPSTEAD. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxvii. N.E. (b)xxvii. S.E. (c)xxviii. N.W. (d)xxviii. … Ecclesiastical c(1). Parish Church of St. Helen, stands in the middle of the village. It is built of flint rubble … 13th century. The South Aisle of the nave was added early in the 14th century. A little later in the century the west …
A History of the County of Hertford
… The church of ST. HELEN, 196 WHEATHAMPSTEAD, stands in the midst of the village, surrounded by a large churchyard … with a lichgate at the eastern entrance, erected in 1887. It consists of a chancel of three bays, with a north … and a smaller one on the north. The church was restored in 18656 under the superintendence of Mr. Edward Browning, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… was ancient demesne of the crown, 18 and was granted in words that amounted to a tenure in frankalmoign by Edward the Confessor under a charter dated … mentioned above there are a few seventeenth-century family coats of arms in the windows of the tapestried room over the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Giles) WHITACRE, NETHER ( St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Meriden, Coleshill division of the hundred of … to Tamworth passes through, and the Birmingham and Hampton-in-Arden branches of the Derby railway meet and have a … are of red brick, and the mouldings, enrichments, and coats-of-arms, in all which it abounds, of blue brick, made …
Old and New London
… Lane and the Old Clothes SalesA Lucky FindPoverty in WhitechapelThe London HospitalThe Danish ChurchThe … many-coloured dinginess, as regards female attire. Dress-coats, frock-coats, great-coats, livery and gamekeepers' coats, paletots, …
Old and New London
… "Fortunes of Nigel"Shadwell's Squire of AlsatiaA Riot in WhitefriarsElizabethan Edicts against the Ruffians of … ResidenceQueen Katherine's Trial Her Behaviour in CourtPersecution of the First CongregationalistsGranaries … is greater than ever. Some debtors run up and down without coats, others with still more conspicuous deficiencies. Some …
Old and New London
… Henry VIII., Act IV., sc. 1. The most Polite Court in EuropeA School of Manners and MoralsHistorical Account of … westwards through Spring Gardens into St. James's Park, or in a south-west direction past Whitehall towards the … Stuarts, that we are treading on ground which is most rich in historic memories. In fact, it may be said without fear of …