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The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… as well as the lower portions of the wall of the prior's house. Of the seventeenth century there remains the brick … from side to side. Below the arcading is a wide band of chequer pattern flint and stone work with a wide expanse of … is placed an arched stone doorway, with a broad band of chequer work in the upper portion. On the jambs of this …
A History of the County of Cumberland
… was instructed to supply them with twenty oaks as the king's gift for the construction of their church, and in the … to repair thither in person, and take it to the king's use in satisfaction of the late bishop's debts to him. Two years afterwards King Edward gave to the …
Survey of London Monograph
… The history of the Queen's House To 1678 THE HISTORY OF THE QUEEN'S HOUSE Carved frieze in the Queen's Cabinet The First Phase The Queen's House, built as a link …
Survey of London
… as the more ornate, of the two was that called the King's Gate or the Cockpit Gate. It is more generally known as the … seems very little to be said for this tradition. 3 Holbein's first stay in England was in 15278, when the building of … 1536 that any trace is found of his being in the King's service, and the first reference to him in the Household …
A History of the County of Oxford
… name from the village of Lewknor. The name means 'Leofeca's slope', and the hill now called 'The Knapp', just south of … Plumbridge, Postcombe, Studdridge, and Padnells or Padnal's fee in the parish of Rotherfield Greys; Sydenham; and … ordered to give him seisin of the 4 hundreds. 17 On Cygony's death between 1243 and 1244, 18 Henry III gave Benson and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 3 There used also to be a water-mill, known as Beeston's Mill, or the King's Mill, since it was used for grinding wheat for the garrison … and of the distant hills of the Isle of Wight. The King's Stairs lead down to a shingle beach, whence in former times …
Survey of London
… for a site. By 1852 the aim had declined from St. James's to Pimlico or Argyll House east of Regent Street. 2 Then in … central metropolitan position, was not impressed by Faber's apologia for Brompton as the Madeira of London, and thought … they would be far enough from Chelsea chapel [St. Mary's, then on the site of the present No. 105 Cadogan Gardens] …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the allotment of them among those members, with Mr. Somner's explanation and observations on them. In this treatise are … the dorter; to have the chapel with the closet, the old chequer, with all manner of chambers thereunto belonging, … the dean was assigned, the chapel with the closet, the old chequer, with the chambers belonging to it, with the corn …
Old and New London
… The Regent's Park CHAPTER XXI. THE REGENT'S PARK: THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, &c. "What a dainty life the … and VillasLord Hertford and the Giants from St. Dunstan's ChurchMr. Bishop's ObservatoryExplosion on the Regent's …
Survey of London
… Street. The ground at the south-west corner of St. Martin's Lane was, however, in various ownerships and had to be … part of Trafalgar Square. (iii) The King's Head and The Chequer. The extreme south-west corner of St. Martin's Lane … when the sign of the Rose had been changed to that of the Chequer, George Carleton, who had acquired the freehold of …