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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… small freshwater shells of mussels and snails and takes a high polish. It is quarried on the Isle of Purbeck, near … Joan, with scrolls encircling a heart. In the back of a high tomb are the kneeling figures of John Croke, skinner and … carver. This superb specimen of English heraldic art is of high importance, too, as an early example of heraldic …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… map, p. xxxii). Although an Iron Age sherd has been found high in the main fill of the ditch, the earthwork is probably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Sheffield to Doncaster, is of high antiquity, and has been connected with all the different … 422 inhabitants, of whom 244 are in the township of High Coniscliffe, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Darlington, on the road to Barnard-Castle. The village of High Coniscliffe, in which stands the church, is situated on …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… and consists of an oval medallion with portrait bust in high relief framed in a garland of foliage and flowers and … an inscription panel surmounted by a portrait bust in high relief set in an oval recess having frame carved with a … and 1 ft. to 4 ft. deep, with a bank 12 ft. wide and 2 ft. high along the E. side at the N. end. The E. hollow-way 450 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… Chair: (Plate 40) In chancelcalled Queen Mary's Chair, high back with moulded side-posts finished with headless, … eastern rampart, where best preserved, is from 9 to 12 ft. high above the moat. The whole work covers an area of 17 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… clay in the north and by boulder clay in the east, 90where high ground, rising to over 30 m. (100 ft.), projects into it … 8The main street, also called Town Street c. 1800 and the high street by 1841, 9turns north-eastward past the Hall … and 26 cottages most stood on the northern part of the high street and only 3 or 4, later 5 or 6, on Low Street. …
The Church Records of St Andrew Hubbard, Eastcheap, c1450-c1570
… to the Christian burial at St Andrew Hubbard. 3, To the high altar [here], I give my ring of silver and gilt. 4, I …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… side of a church with four round-headed windows and a high-pitched tiled roof. There is an eastern chapel with a … measuring 1 in. in diameter. It represents a church with a high-pitched roof surmounted by a tower with one fair-sized …
A Dictionary of London
… intrusive, when the meaning might be that of a hall with a high pinnacled roof, or it might be so named as being on the …