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Magna Britannia
… antiquities Ancient Church Architecture. Saxon.Several of the Cornish churches retain traces of Saxon architecture, and some of them exhibit curious … date, representing the favourite subject of the root of Jesse, at the bottom of the middle light, with several …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… 1970 Accommodating the divine: the form and function of religious buildings in Latial and Etruscan settlements … transmission and transformation in the visual culture of Babylonia, Iran and Bactria, c.330-c.100 B.C. Wood, Rachel … of the built landscape in the later Roman world. Simon, Jesse D.Phil., Oxford. (Mod. Hist.). Supervised by …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… Scottish Warrants. See the explanatory heading in Calendar of S.P. Domestic, 1702, p. 451, and the explanatory note, … first underkeeper of her Majesty's wardrobe "and of the tapestry hangings, plate, plenishing and other moveables … to be Keeper of the Great Wardrobe in Scotland and of all "tapestry hangings, silver plate, plenishing vessels, napery …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… explanatory note to the similar Table for 1702 in Vol. I of this calendar, pp. 412, 413. From S.P. Dom., Entry Book … Mortlack in Surrey, where the art and industry of making tapestry was intended to be carried on." The grant contained … the messuages referred to in such petition were used for tapestry making before the time of King Charles II's patents, …
Magna Britannia
… Roman Antiquities. British Antiquities. The barren moors of Derbyshire abound with rude masses of gritstone, and single stones of large sizes appearing … eve. The Abb de la Rue, in his Memoir on the celebrated tapestry of Bayeux, printed in the Archologia 19 supposes, …
Magna Britannia
… Antiquities Castles Ancient Castles. Ancient Castles.] Of Egremont-Castle, which was built by Willam de Meschines, … arch, having a square tower over it: and a piece of wall, in which are two pointed windows of a later date. … apparently by the same hand: on the ceiling is the root of Jesse, represented as we frequently see it in painted glass, …
Magna Britannia
… most remarkable ancient mansion in this county, in point of antiquity and preservation is Haddon-hall, formerly the … over the doors, which are of the rudest workmanship. The tapestry of the great bed-chamber is comparatively modern, it … a profusion of light. The hall is hung with very curious tapestry which appears to be as ancient as the fifteenth …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Apethorpe AN INVENTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENTS IN NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE … by Parishes 1 APETHORPE (Fig. 17) Apethorpe is a parish of 723 hectares in Rockingham Forest, the village lying near … two rooms separated by a stair. The N. room, called the Tapestry Hall in 1892, now contains the staircase …
The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey
… 1572") is the following statement (fo. 38/27): "The manor of Parme, a myle and a halfe from Holmes Chappell, was somtyme the lord of Bostoke's land with 4 wytchowses in the Myddlewyche. The said Ricardus de Bostoke dyd gyve the same to thabbey of Vale Regalis, with landes in Stanthorle, to be prayed for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… see under Furniture. Cupolas or Lanterns. Dedication of Churches. Domestic Architecture. (By Centuries.) Doors. … Earthworks. Boundary Banks and Mounds, see also Lines of Entrenchment below. Contour Camps. Enclosures. Fishponds. … Linces, Linchets and Lynchets, see under "Linchets." Lines of Entrenchment, see also Boundary Banks above. Moated …