Items in Warwick

West Gate, Warwick

A shepherd herds his sheep up Warwick’s main street, past mediaeval house.

Keywords: towns, colour, churches, mediaeval, people, animals

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Warwick Castle from the River

The towers of Warwick Castle are silhouetted against a sunset; smoke from the chimneys of two thatched cottages rises up against trees in autumn foliage. In the foreground, a solitary boatsman punts d [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, colour, water, boats, people, houses, sunsets, trees

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Leycester Hospital

These buildings mostly date from the 1570s; the site previously belonged to the Guild of the Holy Trinity and St George which was formed in 1383. The BBC has a panoramic tour. This building has been [...]

Keywords: houses, mediaeval, people, streets, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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The Beauchamp Chapel

Tombs of the founder and Robert Dudley, Earl of LeicesterThis tomb is (or was) in St. Mary’s Church, also known as Warwick High Church. George Morley writes (p.15) From the choir the silent mover in [...]

Keywords: colour, tombs, churches, windows

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Front cover of “Warwick and Leamington”

All of the colour plates from this book are online here, including a higher-resolution version of the cover picture, Leycester Hospital.

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-06-20

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Guy’s Cliffe, Warwick

“The Coventry road to Guy’s Cliffe is a royal and a literary road. Kings, queens, princes, poets, painters and authors have trodden it; also that luckless King’s favourite, Piers Gaveston, whose come [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Guy’s Cliffe Mill, Warwick

Let all fair pilgrims note the postern door in the stone wall of the Cliffe grounds, near the picturesque Saxon Mill, with its decorative wooden balcony, where John Ruskin loved to linger, listening t [...]

Keywords: people, buildings, trees, water, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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The East Gate, Warwick

...the beholder now looks down a narrow street, on each side of which here and there are dwelling-houses preserving their Elizabethan aspect, and at the further end of which, looming up like the backg [...]

Keywords: towns, streets, churches, spires, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Guy’s Cliffe.

A strikingly beautiful manor house, with the moat in the foreground; today it lies in ruins. There are several other pictures of the same site; see the Location link. I have included a 1680x1050 pix [...]

Keywords: manors, colour, water, trees

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-06-16

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Warwick Castle.—Earl of Warwick

A splendid view of Warwick Castle, printed in colour. The text reads as follows: WARWICK CASTLE, NEAR WARWICK, WARWICKSHIRE.—EARL OF WARWICK. Cymbeline, King of Britain, is by some supposed to have bu [...]

Keywords: castles, water, trees, colour, boats, people, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-02-08

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418.—Ancient Statue of Guy at Guys Cliff

This is Guy of Warwick, mentioned in some of the Robin Hood stories.

Guy’s Cliff is pretty ruined now. It’s between Warwick and Coventry.

Keywords: statues, people

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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1532.—Interior of the Beauchamp Tower

The Beauchamp Tower in Warwick Castle.

Keywords: castles, interiors, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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