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1038x1489, 140x200, 584x838, 779x1117 | Chantry Chapel, WarwickOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This beautiful engraving, printed in colour using multiple plates, shows the stone ceiling, a tiled floor, an arched entrance-way, a stained-glass window, a church-warden’s chest, a seat and a reading [...] Keywords: colour, chapels, interiors, churches, castles, windows, furniture Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2010-10-30 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 113x200, 361x641, 482x856, 643x1141, 857x1521 | Painted Window. Two Saxon Earls of Mercia, And Seven Norman Earls of Chester.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A reproduction in colour of a sixteenth-century painted glass window showing various earls and barons of Chester. Brereton Hall, in Cheshire, was built in the reign of Elizabeth, by Sir William Breret [...] Keywords: windows, royalty, people, costumes, knights, crowns, swords, colour Places shown: none Added: 2010-12-04 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1200x1200, 200x200, 64x64, 675x675, 900x900 | Decorative Cap “T” With FlowersOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A floriated initial letter capital “T” used as a 14-line drop cap at the start of a chapter. Drop capitals should normally align exactly with the the baseline of the nth line of text, but this design [...] Keywords: lettert, initials, flowers, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-05-21 + S K L |
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| 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 381.—St. Mary’s Chapel, Hastings Cliff Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Hastings Castle was built by William the Conqueror in 1070 or so, together with the chapel of St. Mary. Coastal erosion, and, later, French attacks, meant there wasn’t much left by 1400. After the Di [...] Keywords: castles, ruins, arches, churches, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Hastings; Kent; England Added: 2011-06-17 + S K L R N |
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1086x1299, 167x200, 611x731, 815x975 | 382.—Alnwick Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A dramatic view of Alnwick Castle in a storm, with its towers, castle walls and battlements standing high on the hillside. The wood engraving is signed J. W. Whimper; this is the same person as J. W. [...] Keywords: castles, towers, bridges, water, battlements, hills, views, storms, greyscale Places shown: Alnwick; Northumberland; England Added: 2011-06-09 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 2160x1620, 267x200, 640x480 | 383.—Rock of Bamborough with Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) There has been a settlement here for at Bamborough for hundreds of years; a castle was mentioned here in the year 547, but was probably over 100 years old even then. That castle was destroyed by Viki [...] Keywords: castles, towers, battlements, walls, cliffs, animals, cattle, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Bamburgh; Northumberland; England Added: 2014-07-03 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 389.—Ruins of reading Abbey in 1721.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Reading Abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I; it became very wealthy, no doubt in part because of the corruption that was endemic to the Roman Catholic Church. At the Dissolution of the Monasteri [...] Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, people, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, anglosaxon remains, greyscale Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2005-05-22 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 390.—Cardiff CastleOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) as it appeared in 1775. First built around 1090, Cardiff castle was extensively rebuilt in the 19th Century. Cardiff Castle Web site “Fortunate was it for the country when a prince arose of such decid [...] Keywords: castles, towers, birds, trees, water, boats, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Cardiff; Glamorgan; Wales Added: 2004-03-18 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 397.—Oxford CastleOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Oxford Castle, as it appeared in the Fifteenth Century. Keywords: castles, towers, people, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2004-03-04 + S K L R N |
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1159x859, 1710x1188, 270x200, 869x644 | 399.—Norwich CastleOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “[...] Hugh Bigod, who had sworn that Henry had appointed Stephen his successor, was the first to hold out against the king in the Castle of Norwich, which his ancestor had built. Norwich was a regul [...] Keywords: castles, people, trees, arches, greyscale Places shown: Norwich; Norfolk; England Added: 2003-08-31 + S K L R N |
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1141x938, 2281x1875, 243x200, 750x617 | 415.—Entrance to Warwick Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) [Piers] Gaveston endeavoured to defend himself in Scarborough Castle (of which the crumbling ruins now only remain, Fig. 919), while the king went to York to seek an army for his relief. But before a [...] Keywords: towers, entrances, castles, battlements, arches, trees, moats, people, greyscale Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2022-01-29 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 416.—Warwick Castle, Guy’s TowerOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “It is a rare consolation for the lover of his country’s monuments, to turn from castles made into prisons, and abbeys into stables, to such a glorious relic of ‘Old England’ as Warwick Castle. Who c [...] Keywords: castles, towers, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2003-03-07 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested |
