Items matching gothic

The Bridge at Durham

Etched by J.C. Varrall from a drawing by Thomas Hearne in the British Museum. Walter & Boutall ph. sc. The picture shows Elvet Bridge, which was originally built in the 12th century, repaired in 1500 [...]

Keywords: bridges, gothic, people, water, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: DurhamDurham; England

Added: 2005-07-12

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Wollaton Hall From the North-East

Wollaton Hall was designed by Robert Smythson and completed in the 1588. It has been described as the first English house to abandon the traditional central courtyard; instead it had a high-ceilinged [...]

Keywords: manors, gothic

Places shown: Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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21. Stokesay Castle (General View)

The hall and adjoining rooms are to the right; the south tower is in the centre; the Elizabethan gatehouse to the left. There are also pictures in Grose’s Antiquities and in Oman’s Castles. For some [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, towers, gravestones, gothic

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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The Old Well House and Parish Church, Leamington

The Parish Church of Leamington was originally a chapel-of-ease to the mother church of St. Peter’s at Wootton Wawen, in the heart of the Forest of Arden. The Church is said [in this book] to date ba [...]

Keywords: colour, churches, people, gothic

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Plate 53. Remains of the Cloisters of Margam Abbey, Glamorganshire.

Drawn by H Gastineau, engraved by H. W. Bond. Earl Marshal (Richard or William?) stayed here in 1233. The Castles of Wales site has notes on the history of this period. The Margam Stones Museum has so [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, gothic

Places shown: Port Talbot; Glamorgan; Wales

Added: 2006-06-30

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Rain-Water Head, Haddon Hall

A rain-head, collecting water from gutters and divirting it to a down-pipe, elaorately carved in the Gothic style.

Keywords: architecture, decor, gothic

Places shown: Bakewell; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2006-04-22

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Winchester College

Chamber Court, Winchester College. (From a Photograph by H. W. Salmon) Winchester College Web Site I found a reference to H. W. Salmon having a photograph used by the Illustrated London News in 1889; [...]

Keywords: gothic, towers, churches, windows

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-04-28

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Magdalen Cloisters

The tower is also featured in several paintings by Haslehust’s illustrations of Oxford.

Keywords: colleges, cloisters, entrances, courtyards, creeper, gothic, churches, towers, people, arches, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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Porch of St. Mary’s

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: entrances, colleges, churches, pillars, people, gothic

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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Niches at Oriel

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: gothic, windows, entrances, statues, colleges

Places shown: Oriel College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-17

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The Gateway of St. John’s College

From an Etching by H. Toussaint. St. John’s College, Oxford, was founded in 1555, replacing an earlier college abolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The statue of St. Bernard [I think] [...]

Keywords: colleges, gothic, arches, entrances, statues, people

Places shown: St. John’s College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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2280.—The Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge

The Pepys library holds over 3,000 volumes; the building probably dates from 1700 or so. Samuel Pepys himself wrote his name in a number of ways, including Pepis, Pepys, Peeps and Pepes. Pepys Library [...]

Keywords: colleges, people, arches, trees, gothic

Places shown: Magdalene College; Cambridge; Cambridge; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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