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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Mr. C. E. Bean in recent years. They included fragments of stone floors and part of a rough stone wall. The finds include coins of Tetricus and … tower astride the curtain where the wall turns N.E.; one stone of the S. jamb of the doorway remains; at the outer end …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… consisting of chalk, clay, and black mould: building-stone is quarried extensively. A fair for toys is held in … the moor are several freestone-quarries, and an inferior stone is found on the surface. There are two silk-mills, two … annually distributed to the poor. In 1803, a Roman mill-stone, eight feet long, was found in Artle beck, bearing the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in the later 18th century as rather cold and wet. 2 Stone was extracted for paving in the 18th century, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… have been destroyed by ploughing, but a great deal of stone rubble was noted along its line (around SP 522597; … It is up to 2 m. deep and the outer bank is faced with stone rubble. Its N. end has been damaged but the presence … At the W. end of the village, foundations of a large stone building were recorded( Med. Arch., 12(1968), 203; …
Survey of London
… three floors. It is built mainly of stock brick with stone window casings, string course, etc.; on the garden side … west) is a lofty loggia, with roof supported by four stone columns. The large garden extends almost to Church … The interior is spacious and well proportioned. A fine stone staircase, with wrought iron balustrade, leads to the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… house in the middle of the S. side. The late 16th-century stone porch was taken down and re-erected at the E. end of …
Survey of London
… but the sanctuary, or eastern arm, is vaulted in stone. It is of three bays, the main arcades elaborately …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Near the hamlet is the old manor-house; but the adjacent stone walls, barns, and out-houses have far more the aspect … are extensively wrought; and large quantities of the stone are burnt into lime, for the conveyance of which … and by canal to other places. A handsome and substantial stone mansion, of the Grecian order, called The Abbey, has …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… S. aisleportion of 12th-century moulding and a chamfered stone bracket. Secular b(2) Chantmarle, house (Plates 97, 98) … church, is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of stone and the roofs are covered with stone slates. The existing W. wing of the house was built in …