Items matching ceilings

335.—The Great Chamber, Looking North.

“It will be noticed that the ceiling is a reproduction of that in the ballroom at Knole (Fig. 294). The panelling is similar to that in the dining-room below, and all came out of the Quenby attics. It [...]

Keywords: interiors, ceilings, manors, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Hungarton; Leicestershire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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369.—The West End Of The Hall.

Kildwick Hall is a Grade II* listed Jacobean country house, and the Hall is still (Nov. 2005) very much as pictured here. “Kildwick Hall lies in the same moorland district of Yorkshire that the Brontë [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, interiors, ceilings, fireplaces

Places shown: Kildwick; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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71. Penshurst Place, Kent

Penshurst Place, Kent. The Great Hall. There’s another picture in Wharton’s book, English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans. Penshurst Place dates from the first half of the 14th Century, and was ori [...]

Keywords: manors, interiors, fireplaces, windows, ceilings

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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Methley Hall

“Methley Hall, or Methley Park, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, seven miles south-east from Leeds, is the seat of the Saviles, Earls Mexborough, which family have held the manor for several centuries [...]

Keywords: interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, colour, furniture, manors, halls

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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1731.—Gray’s Inn Hall.

o Gray’s Inn Hall (Fig. 1731) is superior to that of Lincoln’s Inn or the Inner temple, and little inferior to the Middle Temple Hall. Its chief architectural attractions are its timber roof, carved [...]

Keywords: interiors, halls, windows, ceilings, rafters

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-08-22

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Hall of Christ Church College Oxford

“Christchurch, you have no doubt heard, is the richest, most magnificent, and most celebrated of all the collegiate establishments of Oxford. It is the especial resort of the sons of the richest gentr [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, interiors, people, ceilings

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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Methley Hall, Wallpaper Version

A version of the Methley Hall coloured engraving; this version has been cropped slightly so that it’s the right size for a computer desktop background, or wallpaper. No, I don’t know why some people p [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, manors, colour, interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, furniture, wallpaper

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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Entrance to the Cave of the Elephanta

We ascended an easy flight of stone steps to a plateau one hundred and fifty feet above the sea. [...] Passing to the centre of the plateau and turning to the right, we confronted a work of human art [...]

Keywords: people, trees, temples, water, rocks, bare feet, ceilings, interiors

Places shown: Elephanta Island; Bombay; India

Added: 2006-01-03

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XV.—Scala Regia, House of Loards.

Monumental Architecture. XV.—Scala Regia, House of Lords. Sir John Soane, Architect. The Scala Regia is the ante-room and gallery (corridor) at the House of Lords in Westminster; Sir John Soane desig [...]

Keywords: interiors, ceilings, windows, entrances, stairs, steps, neoclassical, architecture

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-02-06

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