Items in or near Sussex (results page 1)

The grand Door of Barfreston Church in Kent.The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

On some of these arches is commonly over the key-stone represented God the Father, or our Saviour surrounded with angels; and below a melange of foliage, animals, often ludicrous, and sometimes even i [...]

Keywords: entrances, norman architecture, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Barfreston; Kent; England

Added: 2008-04-23

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-29

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Frontispiece: View Near SelborneThe Natural History of Selborne (1879)

View looking, I imagine, towards the distant Church in the village of Selborne. There are deer in the foreground, under the shade of a large tree.

Keywords: views, animals, deer, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-08

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View of Selborne, Detail for use as Desktop WallpaperThe Natural History of Selborne (1879)

A detail taken from the Frontispiece showing the deer under the tree, with ducks swimming on a pond in the background.

Keywords: views, animals, deer, ducks, wallpaper, backgrounds, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-08

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background, lightened

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-29

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FrontispieceLaws and History of the New Forest (1811)

At the edge of a clearing in the forest stands a tall tree; a knight’s sword, shield and stirrup hang from the tree, and two hunting dogs are tied to it. A richly dressed man stands talking to a wood- [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, people, weapons, water, animals, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

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Bust of William of Wykeham. 1394.The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

On a corbel in Muniment Room, Winchester College. The photograph shows a stone bust of William of Wykeham, wearing a bishop’s mitre and carrying a bishop’s crook. “Although William of Wykeham can in a [...]

Keywords: portraits, carving, statuary, people, religion, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2007-05-28

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Hollingbourne, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A half-timbered cottage in Kent. The steep tiled roof was probably once thatched. From a water-colour drawing by Mrs. Allingham, R.W.S. The image is also marked “by permission of Mrs. Lionel Beddingt [...]

Keywords: cottages, flowers, moss, rooves, gardens, houses, colour, people, birds, colour, christmas

Places shown: Hollingbourne; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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Plate II. Canterbury Cathedral. South West View.The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Canterbury Cathedral Church, pictured here under a rather dramatic and gloomy sky, burned down in 1174, and was rebuilt as shown here; the building work was finished in the year 1184.

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, towers, gothic, gothic architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2010-05-22

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Map of the New Forest and Adjacent CountryLaws and History of the New Forest (1811)

Map of the New Forest and surrounding area, published in 1811; it shows Christchurch Bay and the Southampton River to the South, Titchfield and Owselbury to the East, Christchurch and Cranborne to the [...]

Keywords: maps, colour, forests, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

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Rumwood Court [screen background version]Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

A version of Rumwood Court scaled and cropped to make it suitable for use as a screen background or ‘desktop wallpaper’.

Keywords: colour, backgrounds, houses, flowers, gardens, manors, wallpaper

Places shown: Rumwood Court; Langley; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-07

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Rumwood CourtArt in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

Rumwood Court, Langley, Kent, from a water-colour drawing by E. Arthur Rowe [1863-1922]. Today, Rumwood Court is a Grade II listed building; this Elizabethan manor could be yours, since it’s for sale. [...]

Keywords: colour, houses, flowers, gardens, manors

Places shown: Rumwood Court; Langley; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-07

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36.—Kit’s Coty House near Aylesford, KentOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Kit’s Coty House is a neolithic chambered tomb. It is mentioned in Pepys’ diary, but has suffered damage since this plate was made. “We shall have presently to speak of the singular erection near Maid [...]

Keywords: tombs, druids, ruins, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-09-27

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37.—Kit’s Coty House.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Sheep graze by the neolithic burial tomb while two shepherds wait. “The high road from Rochester to Maidstone presents several of those rich and varied prospects which so often in England compensate t [...]

Keywords: druids, megaliths, tombs, people, sheep, animals, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-10-01

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38.—King’s Coty HouseOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Another picture of King’s Coty’s House; compare Fig. 37. There is also a picture of this in Francis Grose’s Antiquities. “Antiquaries have puzzled themselves about the name of this Kentish monument. [...]

Keywords: druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-10-02

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Beech.The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

“The high part of the south-west consists of a vast hill of chalkk rising three hundred feet above the village, and is divided into a sheep-down, the high wood and a long hanging wood, called The Hang [...]

Keywords: trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-08

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Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century (1929)

The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester. From a model of the Great Hall at Penshurst. Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York [...]

Keywords: interiors, windows, halls, manors, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-08

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Wych Elm.The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

“In the court of Norton farmhouse, a manor farm to the north-west of the village [of Selborne], on the white malms, stood within these twenty years a broad-leaved elm, or wych hazel, ulmus folio lati [...]

Keywords: trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-12-12

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87.—Country near Dover.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...]

Keywords: views, hills, sheep, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2008-09-15

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