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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… John Houghton found that alabaster along with white rock MARBLE and lime calcinated flints were used to help the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… octagonal pillars, resting upon circular bases of Sussex marble, supposed to have been removed from a Roman temple … in a sitting posture, is beautifully represented in white marble. Two chantries were formerly existing in the church; …
Survey of London
… show that each of the five apartments had 'Italian Mold'd Marble Chimney pieces' and that the library was lit by forty … was 'an organ compleat' in the chaplain's dining-room. A marble side table is mentioned in one room and a 'larg Square … with paper at One Shilling per Yard . Statuary and veined Marble Chimney Pieces, in the Principal Rooms'. 81 On the …
Survey of London
… 286 who had built several mills for the cutting of Marble and a fair brick messuage and dwelling house there, … contains a delicately detailed fireplace with reeded white marble surround and carved panels beneath a moulded shelf. …
Survey of London
… on the present site, either of bronze in the open or of marble within a protective structure. Obeliscal and other … in 1863 most of them were found to be elaborate, placing marble statuary within a protective architectural setting … 1864, the cross fixed in June 1868, the upper groups of marble statuary put in place in the summer and autumn of …
Survey of London
… an upright kneeling figure'Albert the Good'in white marble, slightly gilded and coloured, on a high gilded … in four years for 7,781 15 s. each, Kelk supplying the marble. 322 Even divided between two artists the work was of … the Parthenon had been', after the two-foot-thick slabs of marble had been fixed in position. 320 a The work had, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… ironwork. Font: modern, but in the church is the Purbeck marble stem and one small shaft of a late 12th-century font. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… with the lenten-veil. Brass Indent: In navein grey marble slab, of man and wife and inscription-plate, early …