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Old and New London
… of the most eloquent auctioneers who ever wielded an ivory hammer. The Auction Mart stood opposite the Rotunda of the … half the landed property in England had passed under his hammer. Robins, with incomparable powers of blarney and soft … was at this crisis of the Olympic, Mr. Robins, causing the hammer to descend in the manner I have described, and …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… from the former Maidenhead Inn (25). 1 It has four false hammer-beam collar trusses and is largely of 1860, but …
A History of the County of York
… (N.R.), 75 or, still later, by the presence of both Thor's hammer and the cross on a York coin of Sihtric (d. 927). …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of chancel and nave with a west bell turret, 87 it had a hammer-beam roof with carved decoration. There are some …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… arched braces meeting in the centre and springing from hammer beams with curved struts that continue the lines of … rose, (5) knot, (6) shield of St. George. The ends of the hammer beams are carved with full-length figures, probably of …
Old and New London
… labour. The greater part of these were dispersed under the hammer of the auctioneer, many of the pictures going to …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… style of the 13th century, with lancet windows and a hammer-beam roof, and consists of nave, small apsidal …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… timber construction. The barn has an elaborately designed hammer-beam roof of the 15th century, with one bay in the … main trusses are supported on large moulded uprights, the hammer-beams have carved heads, and are supported by curved … forming an arch, and the spandrels and space above the hammer-beams are filled by smaller arches; between the main …