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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… also, but the latter contain, reset in the W. room, a wood elliptical tympanum with radiating fluting from the old … panelled frieze and a cornice. The bedroom next N.W. has a wood bolection-moulded fireplace-surround of c. 1700 and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Hall alias Brodyates on the South and East 4 s.' 8 Anthony Wood, taking this from Twyne without acknowledgement, states … 14 In 1781 it was purchased in fee from Magdalen for 18. Wood says that Summaster was the first to make chambers for … of the refectory. Bodl. Lib. Twyne MS. xxii, fol. 353. Wood, Colleges and Halls, iii, 623. Macleane, op. cit., p. …
Survey of London
… covered with a geometrical arabesque pattern in metal on wood, with the top corners rounded (Plate 87). Room No. 15 … The mantelpiece is in mottled grey marble, with a carved wood overmantel, surmounted with a decorative circular panel, … the cornice mouldings enriched. In Room No. 7 is a carved wood fireplace with cross palm leaves and rosettes to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of which 3000 are arable, 2000 meadow or pasture, and 600 wood. There are also 1200 acres of common or waste. The … This place, the name of which signifies "the head of the wood," is situated near the South Wales railway, and on the … banks of this impetuous stream are richly clothed with wood to the water's edge, and the river, concealed in its …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to the Drinkwater family. Agecroft Hall, a fine large wood-and-plaster mansion principally of the age of Elizabeth, … The parish comprises about 1600 acres, of which 600 are wood, and the remainder arable and pasture; the soil is … 21,338 acres; about 2000 acres are moorland, 100 wood and plantations, and of the remainder about onethird is …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… great richness and fertility. About 1000 acres lie under wood; some thousands are mere barren heath, moor, and moss, … height; the bases of many of them are clothed with copse wood, and the acclivities and summits of these afford … has been erected, which is applied to the preparation of wood for the use of the mines, and for various other …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… At this price the combs would almost certainly have been WOOD COMBs, the cheapest sort available. The mark-up from … this price such a comb would almost certainly have been a WOOD COMB, the cheapest sort available. Not found in the OED … earliest date of use: 1546 Found made of BRASS, PEWTER, WOOD Found in units of DOZEN Found rated by the GROSS …
A History of the County of Stafford
… been Clay Field, Prince Field, 'Manstonshill', Mill Field, Wood Field, and 'Lowtherne' Field, 1 all of which are still … in Teddesley Hay, with 'stray common' thence into 'Cannock Wood'. 33 They also had common on Penkridge Heath adjoining … Broad Moor, 'Williford', Bowes Moor, Hazel Mill Green, Wood Brook, Little Home, and 'Lomfordes' Brook. 35 All these …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1754. 114 Lord Hatherton owned quarries at Wolgarston, Wood Bank, and Quarry Heath by 1862, 115 and the stone used … from Penkridge. 116 The firm of Ingram was quarrying at Wood Bank and Quarry Heath between at least 1892 and 1912, … then used by squatters as a caravan site, while those at Wood Bank were being used as a rubbish tip by the Cannock …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… At the western end of the nave is a minstrelgallery in wood of the 16th century. There are places of worship for … of a gallery at the west end, is some very curious carved wood-work, representing the legend of St. Monacella; it is … demesne is almost surrounded by hills richly clothed with wood to their very summits; and within it the chapel of …