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Old and New London
… Hall. Redcross Street derived its name from a cross which stood near the end of Golden Lane, as Whitecross Street did from a stone cross, near which ran a watercourse to Moorfields. Hughson … day sprung, came to the house of one Pottier, dwelling in Red Crosse Street, without Cripplegate, of London; and when …
A Dictionary of London
… Cripplegate Ward - Cross (Holy) or Holy Rood Cripplegate Ward One of the … Square, Hart Street, Tower Street See New London Street. Cross (Holy) See Crutched Friars. Cross (Holy) or Holy Rood An old parish in Aldgate Ward, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… the church-remains, is capped with late 15th-century red brick including six merlons; three crenels are coped with … the face of the town-wall is a stone tablet with skull and cross-bones and the inscription, "This gateway was erected at … S. Elevation (Plate 151) of the hall block is faced with red brick; the ground-floor formed an open arcade (now filled …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… a tablet carved as an oval-shaped cage with skull and cross-bones and above circular cartouche-of-arms; on either …
A Survey of London
… Then is Bechlane before spoken of, on the East side of the Red crosse, and the Barbican streete, more then halfe … which he had founded at Holt, a Market town in Norfolke. Red Crosse streete. Liber S. Buttolph. The Iewes Garden or place to bury their dead. In Red crosse street on the west side from saint Giles …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 1398 Crocus was next the name given to various yellow or red powders obtained from metals by calcination, such as … use: c1300 as Crupper Sources: Inventories (mid-period). Cross bow lath [crosbowe lath] The transverse, flexible piece of a CROSS BOW to which the CROSS BOW TWINE was attached, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… London and South-Western railway and the Basingstoke canal cross the parish. The living is a vicarage, valued in the … the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, who have leased the great tithes to the …
Survey of London Monograph
… house appears to have been constructed of bricks of a deep red colour, measuring approximately 8" x 4" x 2", rising on … halberds; a helmet and two pikes; a cartouche bearing the cross of St. George and a pike; a circular shield or targe …
Survey of London Monograph
… last private owner was Sir Sidney Waterlow. We must not cross the road without mentioning the cherished tradition, of … foot upon the said globe yelding his body and leaning on a cross of wood made in the form of such a crosse as our …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… by soldiers, placed without a railing, and clad in new red coats, with black buttons, with their ensigns wrapped in … embroidered on crimson velvet, and adorned with white, red, and yellow plumes, led by the Master of the Horse; … Pell papers are the following; the first printed, and a red seal, of the lion. "You are desired to attend the funeral …