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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… the West Tower was re-built in early 13th-century style at the beginning of the 19th century, and in 1867 the South … W. wall is a modern doorway with a square head formed by a stone lintel, diapered on the face, and of the 12th century, … aislein modern recess at W. end, (1) recumbent effigy, in stone, of lady in ruff and close-fitting head-dress, etc., …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… 2 was found below the farm in Tyley Bottom (ST 7794). A stone votive tablet 3 depicting three Celtic mother-goddesses …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, stands at the E. end of the village green; the walls are of stone rubble, partly irregular and partly squared; the dressings are of stone. The roof of the nave is covered with slate, and that …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… on the E. side of the parish. The walls are of local stone and flint rubble with freestone dressings; the roofs … on the N. side of the nave; this chapel was destroyed at some uncertain date. The church was restored in the 19th … the two main floors are each of four transomed lights. The gables are each crowned with a single chimney-shaft. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, has been rebuilt, at the expense (with the exception of a small donation from … to Durham. Wreckington Hall is a handsome mansion of stone. The village forms the southern extremity of the … There is an abundance of excellent coal, and also stone. The river Douglas passes on the south, separating the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… dressings are of limestone, clunch, Barnack, and a hard stone resembling purbeck; the roof of the chancel is tiled; … Architectural DescriptionThe Chancel (41 ft. by 18 ft. at the E. end and 21 ft. at the W. end) has chamfered quoins … storeys and the two bays the full height of the house; the gables have enriched bargeboards, and those of the two bays …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… river Tern, and the road from Allscott to Watling Street at Norton. The western boundary of the parish and of Charlton … the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley Hill by 975, and southwards around Cluddley, … 1896, 204 (copy in S.R.O., q. sess. rec. box 148); date stone reset in bar of Gate inn. B.L. Maps, O.S.D. 208. Return …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The great … to the vicar. The church is a venerable edifice of red stone, substantially built and in good repair. … water, here maybe traced some foundations of an ancient stone building, supposed to have been a bridge. The Roman …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… ironworks in 1754. 69 The woodland then remaining, at the Nabb and on Cockshutt Piece, was coppiced 70 but by … about the size of potatoes, next a regular stratum of stone, and below that large lumps of ironstone weighing up to … nearby Donnington Wood blast furnaces. In 1805 'black rock stone' was brought from Lord Craven's land in Little Dawley. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 20 CHURCH. The inhabitants of Wrockwardine Wood appear at times to have used churches and chapels of ease nearer … By 1900 the living's value had fallen to £180; it remained at that level in 1917. By 1932 it had risen to £360. 34 In … of a west tower, nave, and chancel, of red brick with some stone dressing. Of plain Georgian design with roundheaded …