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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… effigy; plain plastered recess of uncertain date; freestone effigy (Plate 63) of woman in sideless cote-hardie …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… branch of trade has ceased. There are quarries of white freestone, a woollen manufactory, a paper-mill, and two … pasture, including 16 acres of plantation. There is a fine freestone quarry, out of which Lilburne tower was built. The … village, which had fallen into decay, has been rebuilt: freestone of the upper oolite formation is quarried. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… engaged in agriculture. There are some quarries of good freestone. The village is pleasantly situated on a plain, and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The wall is faced with flint diversified by small cubes of freestone. The south aisle has four south windows, the three …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… three lime-works in operation; also several quarries of freestone. The parish is the seat of the presbytery of … and at the entrance of Lamlash bay, is the Holy Island. Freestone, limestone, slate, and an inferior kind of coal, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… local rubble and flint with ashlar and dressings of local freestone; the roofs are covered with tiles. The Chancel was … framing. In S. porchon W. wall, (4) to Mary . . ., 1697, freestone tablet with side-columns, cornice, cherub-heads and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… The walls are of flint and pebble-rubble with courses of freestone in the W. wall and with dressings of a sandy …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Contiguous to the town are some quarries of excellent freestone, resembling Portland stone, to which it is not much …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… saint, contains some quarries of limestone and white freestone, and extends about five miles along the northern … parochial in the 4th of Edward III., 1330 and rebuilt of freestone, in 1792, at the cost of about 8000; it is a …
London Bridge
… at the Ram for 3 hours, 16s. Item paid for 10 cartloads of freestone bought from William Robekyn, at 5s. the cartload, … at 9d. the thousand, 12s. Item paid for 7 cartloads of freestone, at 5s. the cartload, 35s. Item paid for battering … the Ram for 2 hours, 10s. 8d. Item paid for 1 cartload of freestone bought, 5s. Item paid for 25 large pieces of timber …