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52.—Plan of Chambers at BallyhendonOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Camden has given a rude [crude] representation of two caverns near Tilbury in Essex, “spacious caverns in a chalky cliff, built very artificially of stone to the height of ten fathoms [18 metres, or [...]

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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53.—Plan of Chambers on a Farm twelve miles from BallyhendonOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

see Fig. 52 for notes.

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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54.—Ground Plan and Section of the Subterranean Chamber at Carrighhill.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I think the place mentioned is probably Carrick, and in particular either the neolithic Carrick East Burial Chamber or Carrigadoon Hill, but I am not certain. At any rate the text makes clear that it [...]

Keywords: plans, monuments, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Carrick-on-Suir; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-08-17

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Washington Brass, Sulgrave ChurchIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

We followed the rough cobblestone walk to the church door, but could not gain admittance until the caretaker was found, for Sulgrave Church has been kept strictly under lock and key ever since one of [...]

Keywords: george washington, brasses, gravestones, duogravures, monuments, colour

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2014-08-17

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Stone Henge in Wiltshire, wide-screen versionThe Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

A version of Stone Henge in Wiltshire [1780] cropped and resized for use on an HDTV or a wide-screen computer monitor. There is also a 4:3 version, e.g. 1600x1200 or 1024x768.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, monuments, ruins, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2008-08-27

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825.—Waltham CrossOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

On the death of Eleanor, wife of King Edward I: “A long and melancholy journey the mourning king made with [her remains] to the chapel of King Edward the Confessor; and the nation, to whom Eleanor had [...]

Keywords: crosses, statuary, monuments, greyscale

Places shown: Waltham Cross; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2007-11-14

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826.—Charing Cross.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is a picture of an engraving of a reproduction of a cross originally built for King Edward I to commemorate his late wife, Queen Eleanor. For more details see Fig. 824 and Fig. 825.

Keywords: crosses, statuary, monuments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-20

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The Font, Winchester CathedralMemorials of Hampshire. (1906)

Note to searchers: this is a baptismal font made of stone. (From a Photograph by H. W. Salmon) “A feature more specially characteristic [of the county of Hampshire] is to be found in the remarkable se [...]

Keywords: christmas, fonts, monuments, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-02-16

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Martyrs’ Memorial and St. GilesOxford (1910)

Ridley and Latimer were burned to death here in the time of Archbishop Cranmer.

Keywords: monuments, towers, trees, colour, roads

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Martyrs MemorialOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

“In Broad Street, under the windows of Balliol, there is a small stone cross in the pavement. This marks the place where, some years ago, a great heap of wooden ashes was found. These ashes were the [...]

Keywords: monuments, spires, religion, statuary, boys, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-04-30

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Napoleon and the SphinxGreat Men and Famous Women, vol. II (1894)

[Napoleon Bonaparte] was bent on the conquest of Egypt. He appears to have had something visionary in his temperament, and to have dreamed of founding a mighty empire from the stand-point of the East [...]

Keywords: monuments, portraits, people, horses, soldiers, deserts, mythological creatures, colour

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2006-09-02

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XXXIV.—Monument in the Cemetary of Père Lachaise, Paris.Monumental Architecture (1910)

Monumental architecture. XXXIV.—Monument in the Cemetary of Père Lachaise, Paris. Albert Bartholomé, sculptor. A stone entranceway is marked Aux Morts, which is, To Death; we see a naked man and a nak [...]

Keywords: sculpture, statuary, carving, monuments, nudity, bare feet, death, architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-11

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