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Survey of London
… specified. The bigger houses were outwardly quite flat and plain, only the pedimented palace front on the south side of … organize London's new police force. Of five storeys, with plain stock-brick internal elevations under flat roofs, the … little-altered (Ill. 335). 80 At Nos 23 and 24 is a plain four-storey building of 1929, built for and by Philip …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the county presents the appearance of a large elevated plain; but on a nearer approach its surface is found to be … north of the Kennet and Avon canal, and Salisbury Downs or Plain, consisting of nearly all the county southward of that … excellent water, of which those descending from Salisbury Plain take a direction towards Wilton and Salisbury. The …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… with single-light windows above. An E. extension had two plain sashed windows in each storey and was probably of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and Ebbesborne Wake. 95 The chapel in Crow Lane is a plain red-brick building of late 18th- or early 19th-century …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and moulded, and has a moulded label on the S. face; the plain splayed responds are of one order. The chancel-arch, of … arches are of two hollow-chamfered orders, with a plain label on the S. face; the details of the W. bay differ … orders; the jambs have each two shafts, the outer shafts plain, with cushion capitals and bases, and the inner shafts …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the 13th century; it is two-centred and of two orders with plain voussoirs. The E. respond has attached shafts with … caps of the E. respond are scalloped and the W. corbel is plain. The S. clearstorey of the 13th-century E. bay is … the crossing is of depressed semicircular form and of two plain orders; the inner order springs from double attached …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… is a round-headed window with a moulded architrave with plain imposts and keystone. Further W. are two larger … architraves and aprons as on the E.; between them is a plain round-headed doorway. The South Porch has a round-headed archway with plain imposts and keystone; above is a moulded string-course …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… is round-headed and of the 18th century. The W. wall is in plain Georgian style to harmonise with the W. front and has a … rusticated, those at the extremities of the elevation are plain; there are stone platbands at the upper floor levels, … eared architraves. The quoins of the main block are of plain stone; platbands at the upper floor levels resemble …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cross, which by 1846 was a tall stone stump set in a plain base. The cross survived in 1885 but has since … heightened in 1793. 51 From being described in 1791 as 'plain without, but very handsome within', including a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Crown; net income, 100. The church is a neat plain structure, with a tower. St. Swithin's is a discharged … by a late headmaster, Dr. Burton. The schoolroom is a plain brick building, erected in 1687, at an expense of 2600: …