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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 734.—Stewkley Church, Buckinghamshire.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Stewkley Church is another of the fine old churches the era of whose erection is unknown. (Fig. 734.) Dr. Stukely mentions it as “the oldest and most entire he ever saw, undoubtedly before the Conque [...] Keywords: churches, towers, norman architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Stewkley; Buckinghamshire; England Added: 2011-01-03 + S K L R N |
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1227x875, 2454x1750, 280x200, 750x535 | 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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1151x925, 2302x1850, 249x200, 750x603 | 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 + S K L R N |
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| 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Medmenham AbbeyThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897) Medmenham is among the prettiest places on the Thames, and the Abbey, bogus structure though it really is, makes a picturesque feature upon the bank. Here was a Cistercian House colonised, the second [...] Keywords: abbeys, ruins, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Medmenham; Buckinghamshire; England Added: 2011-03-31 + S K L R N |
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1046x1541, 136x200, 2092x3081, 495x729 | King John Sealing Magna ChartaThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878) King John sits on a throne under a huge canopy and raised up on a daïs, a large scroll in front of him which is presumably the original copy of the Magna Carta itself. He is about to press a seal into [...] Keywords: magna carta, royalty, costumes, thrones, people, kings, bishops, ceremony, greyscale Places shown: Ankerwick; Buckinghamshire; England Added: 2015-06-24 + S K L R N |
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