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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of its possessor, John, Lord Hussey, being attainted of high treason, and beheaded at Lincoln, for joining a … one of whom received it by grant from Henry I., as lord high chamberlain of England; the site of their magnificent … a chancel, with a tower at the west end, about eighty feet high, supported by angular buttresses with pinnacles. …
A History of the County of Essex
… the purchase was given by W. D. Pearson, viscount Cowdray, high steward of the borough. 20 Eudes the sewer was probably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… when over 300 people, including the Chief Baron and the High Sheriff, died of gaol fever, 31 the building was … at its base, 81 ft. in diameter at the top, and 64 ft. high having been heightened in the 13th century when the well …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on heavy clay land, the ridges still stand up to 0.5 m. high and many access-ways and headlands are preserved. In the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… of two storeys, divided by an entablature; it stands on a high plinth, pierced by segmental-headed windows lighting the … is a screen-wall only, hiding the buttresses of the high roofs. The East End has a central semi-circular apse … a semi-circular projecting porch in the middle, one storey high with a plain entablature supported on four free and two …
A Survey of London
… a seruiceable Gentleman named Iohn Hawkins Esquire, in the high streete neare vnto the Strand, who being taken and … makers, and other, first to builde low sheddes, but now high Houses, which doe hide that beautifull side of the …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… factory, behind Ochiltree House, 13 in what is now Upper High Street. 1 As there was no major source of water at the … horsehair factory east of the Methodist chapel in Upper High Street in the 1880s may have been an annexe to Boyd's … occupied the Ansford factory and new warehouse on their High Street site and the washing yard in Mill Lane. 16 In …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… probably the reason for the siting of the castle there, on high ground to monitor movement. The church ministered to … to become Mill Lane and continues as Woodcock Street and High Street to meet the Sherborne turnpike at Townsend. This … 3 The raised pavements which are a marked feature of Upper High Street, Fore Street, and South Cary may represent …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… The stone building was 7 ft in diameter and 10 ft high, its roof capped with a small beehive dome and with …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… The family were parish benefactors. A brotherhood and a high cross light were recorded in the 1540s. 19 John Knight, … house was repaired and the churchyard was fenced with a high dyke or bank and a hedge. 6 The church has a silver … 4 It stood in Horner's, later Pither's yard, south-east of High Street and, although the building of a new chapel was …