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| Ruins of Lindisfarne PrioryThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) The caption reads, History Preserving the Monuments of Antiquity. The side View of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island Monastery, Northumberland. Pub. 25 May 1781 by S. Hooper The image is signed, S. Spurrow [...] Keywords: abbeys, castles, windows, arches, ruins, people, clouds, bare feet, nudity, colour Places shown: Lindisfarne; Northumberland; England Added: 2003-02-28 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 145x200, 1752x2417, 544x750, 876x1209 | Front Cover, Bohemia Part TwoBohemia Volume 2: Vltava (1884) The front cover is red cloth with black, grey, and gold foil designs stamped or printed into it. There’s a depiction of a triumpal arch with symbols of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and a statue of [...] Keywords: book covers, front covers, colour, red, gold, statuary, arches, czechia, classical architecture Places shown: none Added: 2024-12-04 + S K L |
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1164x1610, 144x200, 582x805 | Cranborne Manor House: The LoggiaEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922) Located near Wimborne, Dorset, and now known for its gardens. It was originally built at the start of the 13th Century, but the entrance shown here is much later, postdating the English Civil War. Keywords: manors, entrances, arches, colour Places shown: Cranborne; Wimborne; Dorset; England Added: 2004-03-04 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Reading Abbey (Background 1)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper). Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-10-09 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Reading Abbey (Coloured version)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and then coloured (by Liam Quin). Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-10-09 + S K L R N |
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1036x752, 1382x1003, 1842x1337, 275x200, 777x564 | Reading Abbey, Plate 1The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) Publish’d the 24th of May 1784 by S. Hooper. The abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, who was buried here. The abbey was closed at the Reformation, and used as a private home for a ti [...] Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-10-09 + S K L R N |
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As seen through the central arch of the loggia. Keywords: manors, windows, entrances, arches, ruins, clouds, colour Places shown: Corby; Northamptonshire; England Added: 2003-11-27 + S K L R N |
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1266x1710, 148x200, 534x721, 712x961, 950x1282 | Jedburgh AbbeyIn 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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1136x925, 1515x1234, 246x200, 852x694 | 109.—Supposed Saxon Keep, Pevensey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Sheep graze in the foreground; in the background a stone archway frames a tunnel through heavy masonry, a ruined tower. The ruin on this side is highly picturesque, large masses of the original wall h [...] Keywords: ruins, castles, towers, arches, sheep, animals, greyscale Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England Added: 2012-07-25 + S K L R N |
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145x200, 556x766, 742x1022, 989x1363 | 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 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, AngersA 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 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1039x654, 1385x872, 317x200, 779x491 | 25. Haddon Hall, DerbyshireThe Growth of the English House (1909) “The most complete and most interesting house of this period [the fourteenth century] is the well-known Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. It consists of two courts (Fig. 24), the hall being placed in the win [...] Keywords: castles, manors, courtyards, windows, entrances, arches, towers, greyscale Places shown: Bakewell; Derbyshire; England Added: 2005-08-28 + S K L R N |
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1164x1470, 1553x1960, 158x200, 491x620, 654x826, 873x1103 | Bocardo, North SideOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896) The Bocardo, the mediaeval prison in Oxford, shown from the North side; the engraving is signed “S. R.” The tower here is St. Michael’s church. “Of Bocardo no trace remains, but St. Michael’s is likel [...] Keywords: churches, towers, arches, streets, people, greyscale Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2007-04-17 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1087x750, 1172x808, 2343x1616, 290x200 | Cividale: Il Ponte Del DiavoloIllustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858) The Devil’s Bridge in Cividale del Friuli This bridge over the River Natisone was built in the 1440s, supposedly by the devil, who wanted the soul of the first to cross in exchange for its constructio [...] Keywords: bridges, arches, water, medieval architecture, perspective, foreshortening, boulders, rocks, rivers, water, greyscale Places shown: Cividale del Friuli; Udine; Italy Added: 2021-02-21 + S K L R N |
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