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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… wall; at the E. end of the wall there is a modern opening, over which is a blocked doorway to the former rood-loft. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… end, North and South aisles (14 ft. wide) with galleries over, and vestibules (14 ft. by 11 ft.) at the E. end of each … have clasping pilasters with modillions to the cornice over; there are plain blocked windows with round heads to the … are similar but with a cornice on the staircase side. Over the body of the church is a semi-circular barrel-vault …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… See of azure a cross-staff argent with its cross or and over all a pall argent charged with four crosses formy fitchy … Cleves gules an escarbuncle or with a scutcheon argent over all. Clifford checky or and azure a fesse gules. Cobham … Nicholas) argent (?) quartering azure (?) fretty or (?) over all a bend sable (?) with three fleurs-de-lis or (?) …
Old and New London
… with paintings, of which there are slight traces left. Over the tomb, under a glass case, is preserved an elaborate … of Henry VII.the rose, portcullis, fleurde-lis, &c. Over these angels are rows of octangular pedestals and niches … with the armorial bearings, &c., of the knights, and over them hang their banners, swords, and helmets. In front …
Old and New London
… and secondly, because it is built (almost exceptionally) over a crypt, the only other instance being at Wells, that of … spot, cannot be determined. The present building stands over a crypt which may or may not have belonged to its … the Abbey must have exercised a kind of divided control over the Chapter House, for no doubt the chapter of the monks …
Old and New London
… to a fisher on the Surrey side, and bade him carry him over, with promise of reward. The fisher complied, and saw … the legend of St. Peter and the fisherman who ferried him over the water, adds that some of the monkish writers …
Old and New London
… account of the Abbey would be incomplete were we to pass over some of the more exciting incidents attending some of … a considerable number of the English who had been gained over to act a part in the pageantry. At the opening of the … of the lay barons, attending on the occasion. The unction over, and the king being royally arrayed, he was led up to …
Old and New London
… and their canopies are cones foliaged and pinnacled. Over these there is a cantaliver cornice, of modern date, and … it has a border of eight pointed enriched panels, and over it a large heavy cornice, with a frieze inscribed "A. R. … cornice; above this is a Grecian pediment and enrichments over the dial of the clock, and in each face of the topmost …
Old and New London
… the form of a cross, and double; one (chapel) being built over the other. Such is the account that Dr. Stukely gives of … feet square. In the upper church square rooms were made over these corners: probably one was the sacristan's parvise, … convicts;" and close by this prison was "the long ditch," over which Queen Maud, the consort of Henry I., erected a …
Survey of London
… to him for preventing the new bridge proposed to be built over the river of Thames betwixt Lambeth and Westminster, … view, suggesting that the recesses in the form of alcoves over each pier, designed for shelter in bad weather, might be …