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Survey of London
… 331, 332). Its faades were of polychromatic brick with Portland-stone dressings and dark-red Italianate tiled roofs. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and library of Edward Duke, which had formed a small museum, and had been visited by the Wiltshire Archaeological …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… c. 1570, formerly in the church, is now in the British Museum. Door: In the S. doorwaytwo leaves, each of three …
The Environs of London
… on military affairs 47, which remain in MS. in the British Museum. The date of Lord Wimbledon's death is not mentioned … of George Brehold, Lieutenant of his Majesty's ship the Portland, who died in 1735; Thomas Walker, Esq. Commissioner …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… that on the S. with a ground-floor shop, the other with a museum of local antiquities. In the irregular five-bay W. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The round-headed W. doorway has an ashlar surround of Portland stone, with Tuscan pilasters, entablature and … Wiltshire I, 23643); some of their finds are in Devizes Museum. Hoare's numbered plan makes it possible to identify … bronze dagger, a bone pin and a bone pendant ( Devizes Museum Catalogue, 1964, Nos. 34950; P.P.S. (1938), 1023). …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… that Radnor spent at least 20,000 on the estate (H.M.C. Portland, V, 341; some of the money certainly went on … marriage. A letter to him from Dr. John Covel (H.M.C. Portland, V, 562) dated 17 Aug. 1718 makes it clear that the … by the end of 1720 (MS. Life of Gibbs, 91, in Soane's Museum; letter from Matthew Prior to Harley, H.M.C. Portland, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 30. Some of this material is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and dated pieces of Wincanton ware are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: G.A. Godden, An Illus. Encyclopaedia of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… her kinsman and her asserted paramour, and the manors of Portland, Weymouth, and Wyke were given on the occasion by … a select and valuable collection of works, and a small museum of natural curiosities. The sides of the quadrangle … erected in 1686, is supported on columns and arches of Portland stone, and ornamented at the north end with a statue …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… thence continued to the roof. The chamber is used as a museum of objects connected with the city and contains the … into which the poorer debtors were thrown is beneath the museum and is indicated on the outside by a blocked-up … the old-fashioned square where oncenear the present City Museum, formerly the Butcher's Shamblesstood the old cage and …