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Survey of London
… across the west end. The roof is supported by shallow wood trusses carried on plain corbels with pendant terminals. … 8, 1990. 115 INSTITUTIONS Elderwood, Norwood House and Wood Vale The scattered buildings covering several acres in … was bought and very large new three-storey buildings (now Wood Vale) were erected in 18834, Mr. Coe being the architect …
Survey of London
… brick dressed with stone, with a pointed waggon vault of wood. The nave bay divisions are strongly articulated by … corbel-heads to support the groined intersections of the wood vault. Here, and in All Souls' Chapel, is the best of …
Survey of London
… Brockwell Park lies Norwood, a name derived from the North Wood which formerly covered the hilly country of north … 1802 a hermit known as Matthews the hairyman lived in the wood in a cave or excavated residence. 1 The neighbourhood … time of the Parliamentary Survey in 1647 that part of the wood in Lambeth covered some 300 acres with about 6,300 …
Survey of London
… window and above them three in the second storey. A simple wood railing guards the area to the basement and returns upon …
Survey of London
… rolls. The patterns, also, were engraved on square wood blocks, and not on cylinders. Example A has a … flowers and foliage, the design having been cut out on a wood block leaving the background as the printing surface, … this point certain. The printing, however, was from flat wood blocks, the border lines of which can be seen on two …
Survey of London: volume
… entrance doorways are approached by stone steps, and their wood doorcases are formed of pilasters supporting a pediment. … balusters and a top light. The main rooms have a plain wood dado finished with moulded rail and skirting, and … cornices, while some of the mantelpieces have moulded wood architraves and marble surrounds containing cast-iron …
Survey of London
… INSTITUTED A.D. 1784, but this lettering is now covered by wood fascias. At the edge of the kerb in front of the main …
Survey of London: volume
… of the rooms have square panelling with a heavily moulded wood cornice and chair-rail. The staircase walls are also … The entrance doorway has shaped trusses, and an ornamental wood fanlight with intersecting arched bars. Two dwarf … been rendered in cement. The entrance doorway has a carved wood pulvinated frieze with foliated consoles. The staircase …