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A History of the County of Hampshire
… vaults and the east gable of the presbytery, and added the flying buttresses and the high wooden vault there. He also … south aisles; the high vault is also of his time and the flying buttresses over the aisle roofs. The great altar … to the space over the aisle vaults, from which the heavy flying buttresses which take the thrust of the high vaults …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… its continuous series of large clear story windows and flying buttresses and the lofty domed stair turrets at the … rooms. The contract provides also for the building of the flying buttresses, of the quire 'crest' or pierced parapet, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… by 15 ins.) carved in high relief with figure of angel flying with face turned backwards and feet turned upwards, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… some 7 ft. long. This acted as a kind of decoy, for a bird flying down would find difficulty in making its way out, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the town during the First World War and later used as a flying training school. The factory became a repair unit for …
A History of the County of Essex
… for general trade. 6 Wivenhoe reached the peak of its fame for yacht- and ship- building in the 1870s, before the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the parish. 28 Wolvercote was the scene of an early flying accident in 1912 when two officers of the Royal Flying Corps were killed near Toll Bridge. They are …
A History of the County of Essex
… with transepts, characterized by semi-circular windows and flying-buttresses. In 1875 the Union church opened a Sunday … Bridge) was over 300. 119 The church was wrecked by flying bombs in 1944, and, instead of rebuilding, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ajax shield': Thomas Warton assumed in the 1780s, when the fame of Woodstock jewellery was at its height, that the …