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Survey of London
… p. 37) was a pupil of Dr. Attwood. No. 18 Cheyne Walk was for the greater part of a century the home of the curious … The interest of the subject is sufficient apology for the following brief rsum of its history, and at the … once more indebted to the researches of Mr. Randall Davies for our main facts. Faulkner tells us that the name "Don …
Survey of London
… Nos. 1 to 3, and was in all likelihood specially designed for its first owner (William Morrison). The date 1718 upon … in the matter of size and importance, is quite unequalled for charm and delicacy of design and workmanship, and the … two wings to the house on the garden side. The reasons for these variations from a normal plan of the period are far …
Survey of London
… antiquity. These gates are, however, somewhat of a puzzle, for at first sight their size and importance seem incongruous … excellence. The piers seem to have been designed for large double gates; they are 11 feet apart, and would … doubt that naturally arises in the mindas to the reason for a large centre gate and two small ones in front of so …
Survey of London
… with no idea of design but merely used as a covering for the walls. Some of this panelling is of curious detail, … not a little criticism. His extensions to the house were for the purpose of providing additional "fumigatory" rooms for his baths, and the two apartments on the west side, …
Survey of London
… etc. The houses belong to the Cheyne Hospital for Sick and Incurable Children. The nurses of the hospital … have said almost as much as we can of the original houses, for in the intervening period between their erection and the … skilfully done, and their exterior, at least, preserves for us very much the appearance which is seen in old …
Survey of London
… to Chelsea will find no one to direct him if he asks for Shrewsbury House, the very memory of the old mansion of … certain that the mansion stood near enough to the roadside for the wings to reach Cheyne Walk itself. It this were so … three sides of a quadrangle, yet there are many reasons for supposing that there was originally a fourth side which …
Survey of London
… the nine houses which stand west of Don Saltero's, for the purposes of our Survey, since they were built at one … Manor House was seized by Parliament in 1653, and sold by Commissioners, it was thus described in the deed of sale:"All … in 1653, the house and premises adjoining were sold by Commissioners and Trustees appointed for that purpose to John …
A History of the County of Sussex
… from villages to towns, Stigand abandoned Selsey for Chichester. 1 Here, according to a somewhat confused … 2 From the fact that the dedication of St. Peter survived for the parochial altar in the nave of the cathedral, it … he started on the work immediately after his consecration, for he was engaged in a serious dispute with William Rufus on …
A History of the County of Sussex
… has moulded diagonal wall-ribs and a central circle for the passage of bells. The ribs are carried on carved … each face; these were walled up in the former tower except for narrow loops, but Scott left them open, covering the … faces, the two eastern being pierced with loop-lights for stair-vices. The parapets are embattled and are carried …