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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This having afterwards become a place of retreat for the West Saxon kings, and the territory having passed into the … in the reign of Edward IV., stands on an eminence south-west of the town, and serves only as a land-mark: it is built … is a handsome porch. About a mile and a half to the west of Abbotsbury is an ancient intrenchment, occupying an …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… middle of the 14th century. Early in the 16th century the West Tower was added. The South Porch was added probably in … two-centred arch and label with defaced head-stops. The West Tower (8 ft. square) is of red brick, with some …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… The church was restored in the 19th century, when the West Tower and North Vestry were added and the South Porch …
A History of the County of Essex
… The parish church of ST. EDMUND consists of nave, chancel, west tower, north vestry, and south porch. The walls are of … style but the south doorway has been completely rebuilt. West of the doorways are single-light windows which are … the arched braces and the moulded wall-posts. At the west end are indications of the former bell turret, 'a little …
A History of the County of Essex
… Abbess Roding and Beauchamp Roding (q.v.) form the south-west part of the area known before the Norman Conquest as … 6 It was bounded on the north by White Roding, on the west by Matching and Little Laver, and on the east by the … Roding to the south ran from the river near Pig's Bridge west and south-west to the Little Laver boundary north of …
A History of the County of Essex
… family like Barnston and Berners Roding (Essex) and West Horsley (Surr.). 78 In 1336 Berwick Berners was conveyed … of James was granted the manor for 500 marks. 83 Like West Horsley it passed with Anne to her second husband John … of the house are the remains of a moat and at the north-west corner of the site is a railed-in enclosure which was …
A History of the County of Essex
… wall of the forecourt. It stood immediately to the west of the present Anchor House. An oil painting of the … pulpit set between two tall round-headed windows. To the west of the church stood the Sunday school. 83 Anchor House, … dates from the late 17th or early 18th century. To the west of it, near the site of the former church, are the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… by Llandewy, on the north-east by Llanano, and on the west by St. Harmon's. It is intersected by the road from … containing 120 sittings: it has a small belfry at the west end, under which a gallery was erected in 1830, at the … storehouses, at an expense of about 6000. The pier on the west was one hundred yards in length, and the other ninety, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN SOUTH-WEST HEREFORDSHIRE ACCREDITED TO A DATE BEFORE 1714 Arranged …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… abbey of Kelso. It is pleasantly seated in a valley on the west bank of the Nethan, a fine stream tributary to the … the Camilla loch, in the parish of Auchtertool, on the west, flows through the lower lands into the river Tiel, near … from north to south, and a mile in breadth, from east to west; the surface rises abruptly from the coast to the higher …