Items in Lincolnshire

Antique Map of Lincolnshire

Antique Map of Lincolnshire

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-10-09

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Overview map of Lincolnshire, England

Taken from the map of England and Wales on page 2237.

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Lincoln Gate

This is probably the remains of a gate in the City Walls of Lincoln, but I’m not sure: the book doesn’t say, and in any case isn’t very reliable. If so, the lower walls may well be Roman, posibly dati [...]

Keywords: castles, arches, entrances, christmas

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2005-04-25

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584.—Bracket, Lincoln.

A bracket, possibly a corbel supporting the end of an arch, in th form of a winged angel holding a shield with a cross on it.

Keywords: angels, statuary, carving, religion, spirit, christmas

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; English

Added: 2008-12-09

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Strubby, Lincolnshire

[Architectural period: Decorated] STRUBBY. The design of the bowl of this Font was not unfrequent in the fourteenth century; it is octagonal, and every side is enriched with Decorated tracery, differi [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Strubby; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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Burghley House from the Gardens

A spectacularly beautiful Elizabethan house, Burghley was built by William Cecil, the Lord High Treasurer of Queen Elizabeth I., between 1555 and 1587; William Cecil’s family (their descendents, that [...]

Keywords: manors, houses

Places shown: Stamford; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2005-08-11

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Plate xxvi: Lincoln Cathedral. West Front.

The See of Lincoln was formed in AD 678, but the first cathedral was destroyed in an earthquake in 1185. The present building dates from between AD 1255 and AD 1300, with late Normon, Lancet-Pointed a [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, people, churches, towers

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2005-08-07

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The West Front, From the Minster-yard.

The Exchequer Gate [...] admits us into a small paved square—the Minster-yard—surrounded on three sides by low ecclesiastical dwellings. Filling the whole of the fourth side, just in front of us, ri [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, costumes, victoriana, crowds, drawings, buildings, arches, entrances

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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The Exchequer Gate and the West Front of the Cathedral.

At Lincoln [Cathdral,] Lancet-Pointed work is again preponderant, but Decorated work is very conspicuous and singularly fine, Norman features still remain, and Perpendicular art completes the majestic [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, crowds, drawings

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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Cells at town hall, Boston, England, where the Pilgrim Fathers were confined

A photograph of a prison, jail or gaol, showing the iron bars of open cell doors. According to the extract from the book that follows, the “Pilgrim Fathers” (a group of Puritans, a sort of fanatical [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, spooky

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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Prison Cells (wallpaper version)

A version of Prison Cells... for use as a computer desktop background image (root wallpaper or whatever you call it on your system). I cropped the image and increased the contrast to make it more atm [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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