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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… across the neck of the spur. The bank is 25 ft. wide and 5 ft. high, the ditch 30 ft. wide and 3 ft. deep. Plan, p. 23. A dozen small sherds of … along the inner edge of the bank are in Gloucester City Museum. The hill-fort, not shown on O.S. maps, was discovered …
Survey of London
… Buildings of the Domestic Revival and later CHAPTER XXIII - Buildings of the Domestic Revival … practice of a quite separate servants' floor. Apart from Albert Hall Mansions, discussed below, Alexandra Court at … of flats designed by his own architects, Driver and Rew of Victoria Street, and intended to be built by a limited …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… defences were very remarkable. Encircled by a broad and rapid river, which left a narrow isthmus only to defend, … in succession, the stronghold of the Roman, the Saxon, and the Norman. Coins, and other relics of their arts, attest … in Suffolke' is copied from a scarce tract in the British Museum, and the events recorded are mentioned by Stowe, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… the parish boundary between All Saints, Pavement, St. Crux and St. Sampson's, probably belonged to a lost church; a … the dedication (Raine, 188). Finds during the 19th century and in 1929 under premises in Parliament Street and Pavement, … (1891), 745, Nos. 4, 5). Pre-Conquest Stones: in Yorkshire Museum. (1) Grave-slab, 36 in. by 12 in., and (2) grave-slab, …
Survey of London
… mansion begun but not completed for Sir John Denham, poet and Surveyor General of Works, of which some parts still … from the manuscript memoir of him in Sir John Soane's Museum. This does not indicate the period, but it should be … 18668; the letters, deposited with the Academy by Sir Albert Richardson, P.P.R.A., are discussed by him in Country …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Michael) BURNETT ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Keynsham, E. division of Somerset, 2 miles (S. … belonging to a religious community. Burnham-Sutton (St. Albert) BURNHAM-SUTTON ( St. Albert), a parish, in the union … whose collection of marbles was purchased by the British Museum for 20,000. A church district named St. James', and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burntwood Manors, local government and public services MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. There was a … sold the house and 455 a. of the 1,010-a. estate to Albert Octavius Worthington, a partner in the Burton upon … the 1920s an open-air market was held in the yard of the Victoria public house in Ironstone Road, Chase Terrace. 252 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… identified by Camden with the Roman station Vernometum, and he also infers, from the meaning of the word, that here … contain red sandstone, which is quarried for building and the repair of roads, and in which numerous fossil shells … part of the township of Burslem, under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37. There are places of worship belonging to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burslem Buildings, manors and estates BURSLEM The borough of Burslem consisted by 1910 of the townships of Burslem 1 and Sneyd, Cobridge (formerly the vill of Rushton Grange), … house which was opened in 1960 as the Arnold Bennett Museum. 171 There have been three town halls in Burslem. The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burslem Local government, economic history and social life Local Government and Public Services Burslem, … market in the 1830's. 281 The Hill Works (now the Royal Victoria Pottery) on the opposite side of Westport Road from … by W. E. Gladstone in 1863, and the building, containing a museum, a picture gallery, and lecture rooms, was opened by …