Items matching norman architecture (results page 1)

1. Castor, Northamptonshire, from the South-West. A Norman Church with alterations and additions of each succeeding style. Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Early Norman [church] towers sometimes recieved an additional stage within a brief space. Castor (Fig. 1) is a magnificent example of this, and here the upper stage was certainly not contemplated whe [...]

Keywords: churches, norman architecture, towers, church architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Castor; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2010-10-12

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The grand Door of Barfreston Church in Kent. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

On some of these arches is commonly over the key-stone represented God the Father, or our Saviour surrounded with angels; and below a melange of foliage, animals, often ludicrous, and sometimes even i [...]

Keywords: entrances, norman architecture, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Barfreston; Kent; England

Added: 2008-04-23

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Jedburgh Abbey In Search of Scotland (1929)

So these abbeys—Kelso, Jedburgh, Dryburgh, and Melrose—as close together as the abbeys of Yorkshire, preached the gospel of love in a land of hate. They were situated gallantly in the front line like [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, norman architecture, colour

Places shown: Jedburgh; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2008-01-13

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105.—General View of the Ruin of Pevensey Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Anderida, the sea-fort of Sussex, is held by some to be Hastings, by others to be East Bourn. It is not our purpose to enter upon any controversial discussion of such matters; but it appears to us [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, roman remains, norman architecture, trees, people, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-06-22

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110.—Sally Port, Pevensey. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The ponderous walls of the Roman dominion are almost merged in the greater interest of the moated keep of the Norman conquest. It will be sufficient for us here to present engravings of the Norman wor [...]

Keywords: castles, walls, arches, entrances, ruins, norman architecture, people, animals, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-07-27

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111.—Norman Keep, Pevensey. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A ruined castle with broken towers overgrown with ivy looms in the background on a hill or mound; in the foreground people admire the view; to emphasise the pastoral nature of the scene there are also [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, ruins, towers, ivy, people, animals, norman architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-08-09

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112.—Interior of Norman Tower, Pevensey. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

But the most important and interesting adaptation to another period of the Roman Pevensey is the Norman keep, the form of which is indicated on the Plan 106, at the south-east, and which was evidently [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, interiors, norman architecture, windows, walls, people, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-07-11

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Interior of S. Sepulchre Church, Cambridge. A Short History of the English People (1902)

Built c. 114 – 1130. Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge. Built by a Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, to whom the Abbot and Convent of Ramsey gave for that purpose, between 1114 and 1130, a buri [...]

Keywords: churches, norman england, interiors, pillars, norman architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2011-07-26

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43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view] Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

The treatment of the eaves illustrates a very characteristic, though by no means invariable Norman feature, namely, the corbel table, a series of prjecting stones at intervals, carrying a continuous c [...]

Keywords: churches, norman architecture, arches, towers, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade. Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Like the pre-Conquest builders [i.e. before 1066], the Normans knew only one form of arch, th semicicular, with its variants, the segmental (used when the height was limited) and the stilted (46) or h [...]

Keywords: churches, arches, norman architecture, gothic architecture, interiors, pews, columns, pillars, greyscale

Places shown: Melbourne; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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734.—Stewkley Church, Buckinghamshire. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Stewkley Church is another of the fine old churches the era of whose erection is unknown. (Fig. 734.) Dr. Stukely mentions it as “the oldest and most entire he ever saw, undoubtedly before the Conque [...]

Keywords: churches, towers, norman architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Stewkley; Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2011-01-03

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Furness Abbey. The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

[...] at the time of the Domesday survey [c. A.D. 1080] there was no county of Lancashire, but the three portions which the county now contains lay scattered. The district of Cartmell had been deta [...]

Keywords: ruins, arches, norman architecture, abbeys, greyscale

Places shown: Barrow-in-Furness; Cumbria; England

Added: 2010-10-01

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