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Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… an exceptionally fine central tower, and incorporating high-quality late Anglo-Saxon figure sculpture. This has been … an earlier church on the same site. If so it suggests a high-status patron, possibly one of the estate's comital … resident. The local Besyles family maintained a high-status (and semi-fortified) manor house at Radcot, where …
Survey of London
… by a swan-neck pediment on carved consoles. In the high-pitched roof was a single large dormer window with a … were all overcrowded and insanitary; the death rate was high and in 1854 there were many cases of cholera in Berwick … roof. No. 4 next door, two windows wide and four storeys high, carries the inscription 'JP1828' between the first and …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… of Iron Age defences extended S. from Cooper's Hill to High Brotheridge, Cranham, 1 covering a total of some 200 … the ridge at E. and W. The bank is 18 ft. wide and 2 ft. high; the ditch on the S. side is a further 2 ft. deep and …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… 1 leagues. 14 Early woods mentioned in the parish included High wood ( Overwode), Hayes' coppice ( le hey), and … and the ruins of one were visible close to the boundary of High wood in 2007. 18 The hamlet of Woodend, recorded in the … platform, dates from the 14th century and displays very high-quality timberwork. 1 The manor house, set within a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… comprising only a nave and chancel, is surrounded by a high wall, and exhibits some remains of Norman architecture, … is near the church, and is of oval form, about 50 feet high and 700 yards round the base: it is thought to have been …
Survey of London
… continuation of St. Leonard's-street, which commences from High-street, near the church, and the old manor house above … some distance. Bromley Hall is about half a-mile from the High-street. Bibliographical references. No description of …
Survey of London
… Road, but the price of 5,000 was considered to be too high, and the directors therefore decided to try to buy only …
Survey of London
… of disease. Each room is occupied by a family, at a high rent, and the doctor is a constant visitor. 18 At this … the grand Mortimer House, built in its own grounds with a high brick wall on two sides, together with the gardens of …
Survey of London
… fixed in the church to survive. By 1872 also the old high pews had given way to lower ones in oak. In that year …
Survey of London
… for instance Harrods wished in 1911 to arrange a kitchen high up on the Hans Road front, they were for a time baulked … land. 145 Directories show that early inhabitants were of high standing, with two Members of Parliament, one dowager … 146 The houses of Beaufort Gardens are of an orthodox high-class Kensington type, with four main storeys and a full …