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Survey of London
… Regent's Park. They were built by George Thompson in 1826 and have a porticoed front to the west. The east front on … four arched openings, the two to the south being windows and the two to the north doorways. On the second floor over … string-course. (Plate 83.) The houses immediately south and north of the above, Nos. 11 to 27 and Nos. 35 to 53, are …
Survey of London
… 34 - THE ALBERT EMBANKMENT [See plates 114, 118, 119, 121 and 122.] The Victoria and the Albert Embankments were constructed at about the same … factors; M.P.s wished to improve the view from the windows and terrace of the newly completed Palace of Westminster; old …
Survey of London
… Albert Memorial Design and commissioning CHAPTER X - Albert Memorial THE Prince … rides in Rotten Row to see my own face staring at me, and if (as is very likely) it became an artistic monstrosity, … it would upset my equanimity to be permanently ridiculed and laughed at in effigy.' 1 The story of the memorial that …
Survey of London
… Plates 41b, 42b, 47a In respect of the Prince's statue and the groups, where the artists were chosen by the Queen, … sculptors had to observe the general indications of size and treatment given in Scott's submitted design (wherein the sculpture was drawn by J. R. Clayton and G. G. Scott junior 227). Further and more significantly, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… road two miles (3.2 km.) north of the South Downs, and forms a salient of Bramber rape into Lewes rape. In 1881 it had 1,763 a., and in 1971 the area was given as 713 ha. 2 In 1985 some land … in shape, c. 2½ miles (4 km.) from north to south and 1¼ miles (2 km.) from east to west. The western boundary …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 61 The benefice was a rectory by 1291. 62 Between 1958 and 1971 it was held in plurality with Woodmancote, and between 1971 and 1976 with Hurstpierpoint. After 1976 it formed part of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Albourne Place farm, it included the former Albourne park and comprised 400 a., 66 and in 1787, when it had 260 a., it was leased for 21 years. … Brighton and Lewes. 10 In the 1940s and 1950s he and his sons farmed Inholmes, Yew Tree House, Bishops Place, High …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Albourne Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of ALBOURNE was held of Stretham … to have descended with Lancing from c. 1200 until 1499, 93 and thereafter with Broadwater until 1510, 94 being held by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… 6 in. (a)XVII N.E., (b)XVII S.E.) Alconbury is a parish and large village (Plate 15) 4 m. N.W. of Huntingdon. The church and bridge are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of SS. Peter and Paul stands at the N. end of the village. The walls of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Aldbourn (St. Michael) ALDBOURN ( St. Michael), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Hungerford, … with brasses, to a knight and his lady, and their nine sons and three daughters; both executed in the richest style … a market and a fair, derives its name from an ancient ford on the river Dee; the stream divides it on the west from …