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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Newlands, in the township, is a quarry of excellent blue freestone, in appearance like marble. Carleton CARLETON, a … regular and well built. A very handsome bridge of white freestone was erected over the Eden, in 1812, from a design …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… grain, found in Penbrn parish, which is little inferior to freestone, but of a darker colour. The stratification is in … laid out, and comprehending some diversified scenery; Freestone Hall, commanding from the grounds some of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of lofty elevation. Various sculptured fragments of freestone, some glazed tiles, painted glass, and other …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… building-stones obtained are, anomalous ranges of freestone in the slate tract, one of which is worked at Cwm … the siliceous stone of the red-sandstone tract; the freestone of the coal measures; and semi-indurated shale, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… soil is tolerably adapted. There are several quarries of freestone for building, and whinstone for the roads, which … in which about sixteen persons are employed, and some freestone quarries, which are extensively wrought. Burgh … is obtained on the estate of Liddelbank; and quarries of freestone are in every direction, except at the head of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… great north road runs about a mile from the village. Good freestone is quarried. The living is a rectory, valued in the … for grazing, resting on extensive beds of limestone and freestone. It is bounded on the east and north by the small … for land in 1801. The church is a neat structure, built of freestone in 1828. The former edifice is supposed to have …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… or Sussex marble, the remains of the Chapter House of freestone. The remains are of interest as being all that is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… family, c. 162040, altar-tomb (Plates 59, 112, 113) of freestone, reassembled, and effigies of alabaster; altar-tomb …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… storeys and attics, was built c. 1830 of rubble with flush freestone dressings, and contains contemporary fittings … two storeys and attic, hipped roof, walls of rubble with freestone dressings, was still unfinished in 1835 when it was …