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103.—Ruins of the Ancient Church of Reculver.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Roman remains still existing at Reculver are less interesting than those at Richborough, chiefly because they are of less magnitude and are more dilapidated. Very close to the ruins of the ancient [...]

Keywords: ruins, churches, anglosaxon remains, buildings, towers, spires, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Reculver; Kent; England

Added: 2011-03-28

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III.—View in Radcliffe SquareThe Charm of Oxford (1920)

“The visitor to Oxford often asks—“Where is the University?” The proper answer is: “The University is everywhere,” for the colleges are all parts of it. But if a distinction must be made, and some b [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, buildings, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-01-31

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Durtal, Anjou.A Short History of the English People (1902)

A street leading to a small town of stone buildings including a castle and a church. There seemed to be some plate wash in this engraving and i’ve retained that in the digital image, as it added atmos [...]

Keywords: castles, streets, spires, turrets, towns, buildings, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Durtal; Anjou; France

Added: 2018-07-21

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Eaton Hall.—Duke of WestminsterPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

The picture shows a man and a woman, the woman with a long crinoline domed skirt (shaped like a dalek), the man with a cane pointing at a small dog; they are walking on a smooth lawn with an insanely [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, gothic architecture, colour, people, spires, windows, grass, sky

Places shown: Eaton; Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2021-02-15

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574.—Lincoln Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The individual images of Lincoln Cathedral are not called out in the text. This engraving shows an overall view of this Early English style cathedral.

Keywords: cathedrals, architecture, towers, spires, religion, churches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-06-18

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576.—Lincoln Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Lincoln Cathedral in the 1800s. The individual images of Lincoln Cathedral are not called out in the text. This wood-engraving shows an overall view of this Early English style cathedral. (the page in [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, architecture, towers, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-07-22

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Full-page template or border with castleStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

A two-colour illustration of a mediæval castle and a rather tall tree sit on the right-hand side of this full-page template with a grey background and white solid lines on the right edge of the page f [...]

Keywords: borders, castles, full-page borders, illustrations, fantasy, spires, battlements, trees, clouds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-11-16

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580. – Early English Turret, Lincoln.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The individual images of Lincoln Cathedral are not called out in the text. Early English is an architectural term, meaning the English style of building with Gothic pointed arches that was used predom [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, architecture, towers, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-18

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Votivkirche, ViennaIllustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

A neo-Gothic cathedral built starting in 1856 in Vienna, in Austria. The engraving is based on a photograph by Andreas Groll (1812 – 1872). This is the front view, straight on, showing the rose window [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, spires, neogothic, engrravings, churches, buildings, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Vienna; Austria

Added: 2024-11-12

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Cathedral from the N.E. and part of City Wall.The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

“[...] there is good reason to believe that during the Roman occupation of Chester, a church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, stood upon this spot; and most interesting it is thus to connect this [...]

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, abbeys, towers, carts, people, animals, trees, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2007-04-23

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929.—North West View of Salisbury Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The bishopric of Salisbury was created by the union of the sets of Wilton and Sherbourne, which was done by order of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1075. [...] The ceremony of laying the found [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, towers, spires, windows, gothic architecture, people, arches, roofs, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2011-06-11

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1052.—St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle-upon-TyneOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Among the more important churches erected in the period of which we treat, that of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne holds an honourable place (Fig. 1052). It crowns a bold eminence, and forms from every point of [...]

Keywords: spires, churches, towers, people, shops, streets, clocks, houses, christmas, colour

Places shown: Newcatle-upon-tyne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Stoke Pogis ChurchyardThe Circling Year (1870)

The churchyard at Stoke Pogis (today written Stoke Poges) was the setting for Thomas Grey’s famous Elegy. The book uses the illustration to accompany the following poem, which is by the Rev. William B [...]

Keywords: spooky, graveyards, cemetaries, graves, churches, moonlight, spires, towers, trees, forest, nighttime, rural, buildings, poetry, poems, colour

Places shown: Stoke Poges; Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2019-02-28

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Churchyard of Stoke-Pogis, EnglandFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

An English country churchyard, with uneven monuments, and a medieval church with ivy-covered walls and a spire. The extract from Thomas Gray’s poem given here (Elegy in a Country Churchyard) is only a [...]

Keywords: churches, churchyards, graveyards, walls, ivy, poems, peacefulness, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Stoke Poges; Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2021-08-28

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Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)A Short History of the English People (1902)

This is said to be the oldest surviving wooden church in England, and is dedicated to Saint Andrew. It was built within 50 years of the Norman Conquest (before or after), probably in place of an older [...]

Keywords: churches, anglosaxon remains, buildings, spires, medieval architecture, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Greensted; Essex; England

Added: 2025-01-28

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Bayeux from the MeadowsCathedral Cities of France (1907)

Bayeux itself is a quiet country town, built up one low hill and down another—a town of long streets and grey-shuttered houses, possessing three principle interests—the Cathedral, the Seminary Chapel [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, views, cathedrals, spires, rivers, meadows, art, colour

Places shown: Bayuex; Ca;vados; Normandy; France

Added: 2013-07-03

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The Lost City Under the SeaJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

A naked bearded man sits on the spire of a cathedral in an underwater city and gazes upon the town; large fish and a jellyfish swim past. He is crowned with coral. The picture is delicate, printed in [...]

Keywords: poetry, poems, cityscapes, views, cities, underwater, floods, flooded, people, men, nudity, bare feet, fish, spires, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-06

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AngersCathedral Cities of France (1907)

“The French yearning to make everything new” has done its work in Angers, but through Fulk, Geoffrey, René, and the rest would be at a loss to recognise their old capital in the trim modern town, enou [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, views, rivers, water, cathedrals, spires, colour

Places shown: Angers; Maine-et-Loire; France

Added: 2008-07-09

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BloisCathedral Cities of France (1907)

The spires of Blois cathedral are seen across the River Loire. “To most travellers in France the town of Blois is associated with a château rather than with a cathedral; it is oneof a group or towns k [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, views, rivers, water, cathedrals, spires, colour

Places shown: Blois; Loir-et-Cher; France

Added: 2006-09-16

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The East Gate, WarwickWarwick and Leamington (1920)

...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: 2003-12-02

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