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Old and New London
… granite is used for the window-columns, and granite, marble, and glassmostly green and redis largely employed in … there is a handsome fireplace of carved white marble, brought from the old East India House; and on the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… S. wall, to Thomas Williams, 1698, grey and veined marble tablet with Ionic side-columns, drapery, entablature, …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… and began the celebrated Taj Mahal at Agra built of white marble. Fine, but very hot and close, appearance of a storm. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… stone, gravel and sand, as well as 'a good vein of marble'. 49 In 1301 40 households were assessed to the lay … and furnished with pews and open benches of oak. A small marble altar piece was presented in 1833 by Arthur … the chancel in polished Hoptonwood stone, intermixed with marble and tiles. The nave, aisle and transept were reseated …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… hall has a moulded ceiling-beam and a pavement of Purbeck marble and white limestone; part of the floor is of wood and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for 218. The church is very ancient, and contains a marble monument to Sir Richard Wallop, an ancestor of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the 17th or 18th centuries, that there was a 'modern' marble font, and that there was a 'raised place', but no …
A History of the County of Oxford
… higher ground in the north by an extensive bed of forest marble, above which are smaller outcrops of cornbrash and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Plate, p. 45): small octagonal cup-shaped bowl, of white marble, sides carved with cherubs, swags of flowers and fruit … leaves, stem, consisting of octagonal baluster of black marble, square base set diagonally, late 17th-century; cover, …