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A History of the County of Leicester
… have been used, sometimes with the addition of the letter s to form the plural: Abp., Archbishop; admin., … par., parish; Pet., Peter; pop., population; R.C., Roman Catholic; R. Cath., Roman Catholicism; Rd., Road; … 429. Smart, , 350. Smeeton Westerby, 181; sokemen, 381. Smirke, Sid., 377. Smith (Smyth), Abel, 136; Chas. Loraine, …
Survey of London
… regarded as being more truly the 'founder' of London's West End than any other individual. It was he who was … style of club-house design was introduced by Robert Smirke with his Grecian building for the United Service Club … with a projecting bay, a turret, or a domed feature. R. J. Worley's 'Elizabethan' hotch-potch on the west side of …
Survey of London
… and XXX of the Survey of London. In lying astride Nash's great artery of Regent Street it also lies across the … Victorian Somerset House. The architects responsible were R. R. Banks and C. Barry, for the Piccadilly front and … court-yard ranges housing the learned societies; Sydney Smirke, for the alterations and addition of exhibition …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of itself, locally in the hundred of Dudstone and King's-Barton, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 34 miles … erected, of Bath and Leckhampton stone, from a design by R. Smirke, Esq.; in the front is a portico of four Ionic …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in the perambulation of the Forest of Dean before Henry II's reign. 3 The history of Over bridge, spanning the western … new bridge, a single arch of stone, was designed by Robert Smirke, the commissioners having decided to employ an eminent … was written in 1982. Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i. 165v. Close R. 122731, 99. V.C.H. Glos. x. 1516. Below, Glouc. Castle. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Michaelmas (and perhaps also for the election of the M.P.s). By 1558, and perhaps from much earlier, the Boothall was … from the site. 33 The new building was designed by Robert Smirke. The front part, opening on Westgate Street by a tall … in the form of a small tomb, put up at the cost of J. R. Cleland of Rathgael House, co. Down. 87 A more substantial …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was at one time a quay on the Old Severn near St. Oswald's Priory. 2 By the late Middle Ages most of Gloucester's … to a new brick building near the basin. Designed by Sydney Smirke 88 it had a classicalstyle ashlar front to the road … Forest railway company and completed in 1854 by the G.W.R., 102 included a branch line to Over but a planned dock, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Worcester 104762, rebuilt the abbey church. 2 Eldred's church was said, in an account of c. 1600, to have been … choir was replaced by a new stone one, designed by Robert Smirke, 112 and Benson's lady chapel altarpiece was removed … politics; Glouc. 16601720, city govt. and politics. G.B.R., G 3/SO 8, Epiph. 1766; Glos. R.O., P 154/12/VE 2/1; cf. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Road. Great Stanmore civil parish was included in Hendon R.D. from 1894 until 1934. Thereafter most of both Great and … useless in the early 18th-century by the duke of Chandos's diversions around Canons 22 but the north-western stretch … in 1813. 88 By 1827 it had passed to the architect Robert Smirke, who held it with 23 a. in Great Stanmore and 108 a. …
Survey of London
… streets to be laid out as part of the Grosvenor family's development of their Mayfair lands. The very first building … own way was at Nos. 79 and 80 which were rebuilt to Sydney Smirke's designs in 18523, but opposite at No. 5 in 1863 … Cities of London and Westminster, vol. II, 1735, p. 666. R.B. S.M., Soane lectures, lecture 8, p. 6. G.L.R.O. (M), …