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Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North. Venice (1907)

Bronze (or painted) statues of horses in strong sunlight. The printed colours or this painting do not reproduce well on the screen. There is a caption, “By permission of the Hon. John Collier.”

Keywords: statuary, pillars, animals, horses, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the Pillar Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 35)

Saint Simon, partly bald but with a long flowing beard, kneels barefoot on the top of a pillar and holds up a cross. He is wearing sackcloth.

Keywords: people, crosses, religion, bare feet, clouds, pillars, beards, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-31

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44.—hare Stone, Cornwall Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“In the parish of Sancred, in Cornwall, is a remarkable stone called the Hare Stone (hare or hoar meaning literally border or boundary), with a heap of stones lying around it (Fig. 44). It is held tha [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Harestone; Stanmore; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-07-07

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46.—Kilmarth Rocks, as seen from the South East. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“But there are some remains which have the appearance of works of art, which are, probably, nothing but irregular products of nature,—masses of stone thrown on a plane surface by some great convulsion [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-07-28

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47.—The Cheesewring, as seen from the North-west. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“But there are some remains which have the appearance of works of art, which are, probably, nothing but irregular products of nature,—masses of stone thrown on a plane surface by some great convulsion [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Bodmin Moor; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-07-28

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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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Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, Angers A Short History of the English People (1902)

The Abbey of S. Aubin, founded in Merovingian times, seems to have been rebuilt by Geoffrey Greygown and Fulk the Black. “Only one huge tower remains, but fragments of it are still to be seen embedde [...]

Keywords: ruins, pillars, arches, abbeys, occult, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Angers; Maine-et-Loire; France

Added: 2008-07-07

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Interior of the Temple Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Temple Church was built by (or for) the Knights Templar in London in the 12th Century. Some time after the Knights Templar were destroyed (in 1307) the temple was given by Edward II to the Knights [...]

Keywords: interiors, colour, churches, people, ceilings, columns, arches, pillars, costumes

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-08-13

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

Clerestories.—Those Norman churches which were built with aisles seem all to have had clerestories. I do not know of a Norman nave with original aisles without some indication that there was a cleres [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, religoin, buildings, columns, pillars, arches, pews, windows, 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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568.—Capital and base, S.E. Transept, Canterbury Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A column, or stone pillar, in Canterbury Cathedral.

Keywords: pillars, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-28

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589.—Durham Cathedral. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Durham Cathedral is a UNESCO world heritage site today. It was built in the 11th century and so is almost a thousand years old. But it still works. partial alterations, improvements, and some importan [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, interiors, pillars, churches, people, shadows, light, greyscale

Places shown: Durham Durham; England

Added: 2012-08-17

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