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Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… less durable stone but were easier to work, while the White Hill quarries on College farm produced stone flooring. … afford to belong. The Filkins branch of the local 'Red, White and Blue club', founded in 1879, served also as a men's … initiatives included friendly societies such as the Red, White and Blue Club, which paid benefits and funeral expenses …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… (Fig. 3). 4 The soil, predominantly stonebrash overlying White Limestone and Forest Marble, is best suited to sheep … church each Sunday morning. All the staff in uniform wore white gloves. They filled most of the south side of the …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… the higher ground around Holwell lies on Forest Marble and White Limestone. 1 Alluvium along the river valleys and …
Survey of London
… stock brick with red brick dressings. The windows have white-painted glazing-bars and the coved main cornice is painted white, the only other notable decorative element being the lofty arcade of shallow segmental-headed recesses with white keystones on the top storey, containing flatheaded …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Edmund Hallson Gorman their son, 1834, wall-monument of white and grey marbles with clustered flanking columns, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… brick, relieved by copings and architectural ornaments of white sandstone, and in the Elizabethan style; the centre and …
The Environs of London
… and its alliances 35. On the same wall is a monument of white marble to the memory of Sir John Roberts, Bart. patron … the error of calling the nunnery at Bromley a Convent of White Monks. See Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 576. Pat. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… style, and in the chancel is an elegant monument of white marble to Sir William and Lady Villiers. George …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… inhabitants. This parish, the name of which implies "the White Mount," is pleasantly situated near the Vale of Teivy. … parish, is a small cromlech, under part of which grows a white thorn, which, it is said, has gradually raised the …
Survey of London
… is added by the striping of the red brickwork with white bands of stone. All the detailing, however, is …