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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by small craft to the foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast and served … 72 In 11656, however, the weavers began to pay 1 mark of gold (6) 'de Gersuma pro consuetudinis libertatibus suis …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was created by Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the … The mayor keeps his robe and wears with it the gold chain of office presented by the citizens in 1879. 118 …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The cathedral CATHEDRAL The history of the Old Minster of Winchester, setting aside the legends of King Lucius, may … roundels gules and a label azure with a mitre or upon each pendant. The lower parts of the north and south walls are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… S.E.) Windermere is a large parish on the E. side of the lake and adjoining Ambleside on the S. The principal … Calgarth Hall, the old parish church being in the parish of Bowness. Secular b(1). Calgarth Hall, on the E. bank of the lake nearly 1 m. N.W. of the modern church of St. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle Architectural history ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CASTLE The castle of Windsor appears first in history in the Domesday Survey in … particular is a most valuable document, and forms a useful pendant to the large coloured drawing made by Norden in 1607 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor … chapel and afterwards received as a gift from the king a gold cup adorned with pearls and with a piece of unicorn's …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 88 NW) Winfrith Newburgh is a roughly rectangular parish of 5,015 acres lying across the S. edge of the S. Dorset … S.E. window, two fragments each with red rose on field of gold leaves, 15th-century. Inscription: see West Tower. … a semicircular wooden arch with lion-headed key block and pendant spans the base of the stair. N.E. of the front block …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… N.E. (c)xxiv. S.W.) Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of All Saints, stands on the W. side of the village; the walls are of limestone rubble, with dressings and detail of stone and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… CAME (7088) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 68 NE, bSY 78 NW) The parish of Winterborne Came, covering some 1,560 acres immediately S.S.E. of Dorchester, lies across the valley of the South … a cornice supported by enriched brackets with masks and pendant swags below them, and a female head and flowers in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… WINTERBORNE HERRINGSTON (O.S. 6 ins. SY 68 NE) The parish of Winterborne Herringston covers less than 600 acres, stretching from the S. boundary of Dorchester across the South Winterborne and on to the N. … and angular, surrounding a central stem. The central pendant (Plate 193) has four curved bands enclosing an apple …