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A History of the County of Oxford
… other buildings; the builders of Blenheim Palace found no freestone of sufficient quality in the park, but used the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the labyrinth at Rosamund's bower, claimed that a vented freestone vault, still visible, led from the bower towards …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… in the late 16th century with walls of flint banded with freestone; in the late 17th century a wing was added with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a reddish clay, on a substratum of coarse limestone or freestone; and the surface is gently undulated. The living is … are fine portions of a sandy loam with a substratum of freestone, and also coal and limestone; in the township of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… township and partly in that of Rainow, are quarries of freestone and slate, worked to a considerable extent, the … the parish church, is a large and handsome building of freestone, in the later English style, erected in 1819 at an …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… town of Crickhowel, contains a stratum of compact greyish freestone, of which furnace hearth-stones, rollers, cisterns, … rocks. About the centre of the Cribarth rock is a bed of freestone, which has limestone both above and below it, and … thick; and forty-eight beds of blue cleft, or clunch, freestone rock, bind, &c., amounting in all to 614 feet six …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… The walls are of flint-rubble with some ironstone and freestone; the dressings of the 12th-century work are largely …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… and Martha (Fox), his wife, also to Anthony Harford, large freestone monument (Plate 92), probably by John Guldo, with … recessed in S. wall, (2) of John Harford, 1559, large freestone monument (Plate 93) with sarcophagus, effigy and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… lying east and west. The walls are of rubble masonry of freestone (the reused material) and flints with 17th-century …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… part of the parish; there is an extensive quarry of freestone on the bank of the Wansbeck, and one of whinstone …