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Courtyard, Naworth Castle

The story of the ill-planned rising of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland has already been told. One of their associates was Leonard Dacre, who held the castle of Naworth, and gathered roun [...]

Keywords: castles, steps, staircases, entrances, windows

Places shown: Brampton; Cumberland; England

Added: 2006-09-07

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Prestbury Old Hall

The best picture I could find online of this building (or what seems to be the same building) has a caption saying “it used to be the Priest’s House and is thought to date from the year 1498.” If thi [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, windows, christmas

Places shown: Prestbury; Cheshire; England

Added: 2006-08-31

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Edgar’s Gateway, Worcester

The engraving (signed Whymper) is of Edgar Tower, also known as St Mary’s Gate, an arched and defended stone tower guarding a gateway in the city wall. It was thought to have been build in the 10th C [...]

Keywords: gates, towers, entrances, people, windows, christmas

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-14

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Wordsworth’s House, Rydal Mount

“It is needless to speak of the glory shed over the Lake Country by the pen of Wordsworth, who gave an abiding expression to the influence which the varying moods of nature could exercise over the min [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, windows

Places shown: Ambleside; Westmoreland; England

Added: 2006-05-24

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Boy thumbing his nose out of a window

The frontispiece shows Jean-Paul Choppart, the boy the book is about, looking out of a circular stone window and thumbing his nose. He has curly hair. I am not sure that I have the name of the engrav [...]

Keywords: boys, people, windows, cartoons, gestures

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-07

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Jacobean Houses in Frankwell, Shrewsbury

These houses were built some time after 1620, so they are after the Tudor period.

Keywords: tudor, houses, streets, windows, entrances

Places shown: Shrewsbury; Shropshire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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169.—Condover Hall, Shropshire

A Corner of the North Elevation showing the position of the lead heads. “A Royal manor in Saxon times Condover, throughout the sixteenth century, was in and out of the hands of the Crown until, in 158 [...]

Keywords: manors, entrances, windows

Places shown: Condover; Shropshire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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173.—The South Front.

Benthall Hall, North Shropshire. There were de Benthalls in 1120, and when, two centuries later, a Burnell of Acton Burnell marred their heiress he took her name as well as her property. Their descend [...]

Keywords: manors, windows, tudor architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Benthall; Shropshire; England

Added: 2008-02-29

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Stanton Court: The Centre of West Point

The porch and oriel projections are small, and gable-ended wings stretch forth. [p. xvi]. Nowadays you can stay at Stanton Court Cottages (I think this is the same place; it’s near Broadway, Worceste [...]

Keywords: manors, windows, creeper, windows, entrances

Places shown: Stanton; Broadway; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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262.—Knole, Kent.

Plate 260 - Bourchier’s Gate-house.

The home of the Sackvilles since 1603; it was first built in and around 1457 by Archbishop Bourchier.

Keywords: manors, castles, entrances, clocks, windows, towers, doors

Places shown: Knole; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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195.—Condover Hall

The West Side.

Keywords: manors, trees, windows, chimneys

Places shown: Condover; Shropshire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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92.—Kirby Hall

92. – The Porch and Hall Windows.

As seen through the central arch of the loggia.

Keywords: manors, windows, entrances, arches, ruins, clouds

Places shown: Corby; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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