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Survey of London
… Whitehall Place General CHAPTER 28: WHITEHALL PLACEGENERAL The entrance … with the extension eastward of Caddick's Row as Whitehall Place, a width of 60 feet between the buildings was allowed … would have been partly excluded by the length of Whitehall Place." 6 The building of houses in Whitehall Place seems to …
Old and New London
… of WhitehallAnciently called York PlaceName of York Place changed to WhitehallWolsey's Style of Living hereVisit … courts. But of later times," continues the writer, "the place for the Court, when in town, was mostly Whitehall, a … of preface let us proceed. Whitehall was known as York Place when in the possession of Cardinal Wolsey, with whose …
Old and New London
… modern mansions of the classical style have taken the place of the old low semi-Gothic houses which previously … matron in Petronius, substituted another body in its place." On the opposite side, however, we have the testimony … times, and of cock-fighting in general, may not be out of place here. Fitzstephen, who wrote the life of Archbishop …
Old and New London
… Andrew Marvell wrote upon it the following epigram: "This place for a dial was too insecure, Since a guard and a garden … that, "in the empire of mind, she had succeeded to the place left vacant by Mrs. Hervey and Lady Mary Wortley … is said that not a sitting of that illustrious body took place at Paris which the duke did not enliven by reading out …
Old and New London
… that "he had lately, upon the soil of the said mansion-place and house, and upon ground thereunto belonging, most … stepped upon the scaffold, which was equal to the landing-place of the hall within side." The Banqueting House, … kings themselves." Gradual changes, however, have taken place in the manner of performing this ceremony. The ceremony …
Old and New London
… nothing remarkable; nor do any particular ceremonies take place within its walls; it is business, not ceremony, that is … ceremony of its removal to St. Paul's commenced. This took place on the following day, when the remains of Nelson were … placed, occupying as it does the site of the Tiltyard (or place for military exercises), of which we have already …
Magna Britannia
… from Ireland; and pig-iron from Wales. The trade of this place, and the coalworks, have already been spoken of more at … the impropriator of St. Bees, the consecration never took place, and the chapel is now occupied by the Calvinistic …
Survey of London
… end of Whitfield Street, on the west side from Colville Place, southwards. They were built some years after the rest …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and Goole canal passes close to the village. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Whitley-Booths.See … is a small brick edifice with bay-windows. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; also a school, founded in … of the Ripon Diocesan Society. In the township is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Whitley, Over WHITLEY, OVER, …