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915.—Southampton Gate: North Front. A castellated (fortified) tower with a cout of arms, various statues, and an arched entrance; a horse and cart are going through, and a man wearing a top hat pushes a barrow. [more...] |
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925.—Bodiam Castle, Sussex. The castle stands in the moat. One of a number of pictures of Bodiam Castle on this Web site. |
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926.—Arundel Castle In this wood engraving, the castle is in the middle distance, with someone squatting or perhaps sitting and fishing, in the foregroud to give a sense of scale. [more...] |
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928.—Betchworth Castle. [...] Not many months after, the earl’s brother, thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, banished in the same cause, set the crown of Richard on Bolingbroke’s head. Of course the Arundels found favour with the new king. We find the earl’s second son, John Fitzalan, had leave from him to [...]i.e. to crenellate, or fortify it]: the present old mansion stands on the castle site. (p. 254) [more...] |
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933.—Early English Foliage Bracket. A wood-engraving showing a stone bracket, a mediaeval [US: medieval] carving with grapes and leaves and two birds. |
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1023.—Howden Church The perfect Romantic Ruin, an abbey that was once a place of worship and a seat of power, and has now fallen so low that cattle graze where there was once a High Altar. [more...] |
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1023.—Howden Church (detail for use as computer desktop background image) A detail taken from the engraving of Howden Church, sized so that it makes a good screen background, or desktop wallpaper; cows graze in the ruins of a mediæval monastery. [more...] |
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1026.—Tomb of the Boy Bishop, Salisbury “But there is one monument of quite a unique character—to a chorister, or boy-bishop. (Fig. 1026.) It was discovered in the prelacy of Bishop Duppa, under the seats near the pulpit, and is now placed in the nave. The Rev. J. Gregorie, a prebend of Salisbury at the time, wrote a dissertation on the subject of boy-bishops, from which it appears that [...] [more...] |
