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Survey of London
… of this date; and there are in the various rooms some quaint mantelpieces of wood of the period. One fireplace is …
Survey of London
… Beauchamp Place and Ovington Square; it evokes an air of quaint, rustic cottage life at Brompton which was then soon …
Survey of London
… tiny cottages at Nos. 1129 (odd) Rutland Street having a quaint charm owing to latticework (not an original feature) …
Survey of London
… At first-floor level might be found, at least at No. 16, a quaint metal stair-guard with four bucolic figures in …
Survey of London
… in which month an auction began of 'the whole of the quaint old contents of the labyrinthine building'. Demolition …
Survey of London Monograph
… lower third of the shaft is carved with leaf and tongue of quaint pattern, and the upper part divided by a moulded band … eaves; the Tudor and keel-headed doorways; the quaint latticed windows and angle stair-turrets; the huge …
Old and New London
… Street and the Strand are flanked on the north by a row of quaint old houses, which were probably erected for the …
Old and New London
… and the rules and regulations drawn up by him are quaint and peculiar. The master, we are told, was to be … stone, and the interior contained some curious and quaint carvings and frescoes. At the beginning of the present …
Old and New London
… feet, have left impressions on my memory as distinct and quaint as any it has that way received. In all those dusty …
Old and New London
… Fire BrigadeCaptain Shaw's StatisticsSt. Mary AldermaryA Quaint EpitaphCrooked LaneAn Early "Gun Accident"St. … that, though they dye, their vertuous fame may flow." This quaint appeal seems to have had its effect, for in 1626 a Mr. … of this crypt. There used to be outside the hotel a quaint gigantic figure of seventeenth century workmanship. In …