Items taken from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (results page 12)

577.—Interior of Lincoln Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Nave, unequalled, it is supposed, in the world for its combined magnitude and beauty of proportion, and the curious Galilee porch, so richly decorated, are among the next additions; the use of the [...]

Keywords: interiors, cathedrals, churches, windows, pews, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-04-25

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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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583.—Bracket, Chapter Housse, Lincoln.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

They don’t make brackets like this any more! A carved stone folaiate bracket with a human face or head at the base. This is surely the sort of Gothic ornament that inspired the Gothic Revival!

Keywords: architecture, ornaments, carving, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2012-03-27

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584.—Bracket, Lincoln.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A bracket, possibly a corbel supporting the end of an arch, in the form of a winged angel holding a shield with a cross on it.

Keywords: angels, statuary, carving, religion, spirit, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-12-09

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585.—Boss, Nave, Lincoln.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A woodcut showing a medieval wooden boss, or decorative carving, in this case with a rose motif, used to cover a joint in the Nave of Lincoln Cathedral, possibly in the ceiling. I also made a somewhat [...]

Keywords: ornaments, architecture, carving, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-04-27

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Boss, Nave, LincolnOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I took th woodcut of the boss snd coloured it as it might (or might not) have been painted.

Keywords: colour, art, carving, ornaments, architecture

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-04-27

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589.—Durham Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Durham Cathedral is a UNESCO world heritage site today. It was built in the 11th century and so is almost a thousand years old. But it still works. partial alterations, improvements, and some importan [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, interiors, pillars, churches, people, shadows, light, greyscale

Places shown: DurhamDurham; England

Added: 2012-08-17

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590.—Stone Chair in the Chapter House, Durham.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The interior [of Durham Cathedral] presents many objects of high interest—[such] as the sumptuous bishop’s throne (Fig. 602), the stone chair (Fig. 590), and above all, the common tomb of St. Cuthbert [...]

Keywords: furniture, carving, chairs, greyscale

Places shown: DurhamDurham; England

Added: 2014-03-16

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700.—Byland Abbey, Yorkshire.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

These days it’s open to the public from March to October. “Byland Abbey (Fig. 701 [and 700]) needs but few words. It was founded in 1117 by Roger de Mowbray, the nobleman whose estates were sequestrat [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, colour

Places shown: Coxwald; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2000-04-02

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703.—Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The village of Walsingham is alive and well; the Abbey itself was largely destroyed in 1538 during the English Reformation and became a private house. The memory of our “Lady of Walsingham” demands lo [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, colour

Places shown: Walsingham Abbey; Norfolk; England

Added: 1999-10-28

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733.—Oxford Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The picture shows great stone pillars or columns supporting semicircular arches, tall ceilings, and, in the foreground, perhaps a choirmaster’s chair and a choir stall with two books seemingly strewn [...]

Keywords: norman architecture, cathedrals, churches, interiors, arches, pillars, columns, church architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2025-04-13

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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

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735.—St. Peter’s, Northampton.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Vast stone pillars and semicircular arches, with the characteristic Norman zigzag decoration, identify this as a Norman building and indeed it’s from the early 12th century, between 1120 nd 1140. Sain [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, norman architecture, pillars, arches, greyscale

Places shown: Northampton; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2014-01-29

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736.—Sanctuary, Westminster.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

From a sketch by Dr. Stukeley, before its destruction in 1775 One of the most important events recorded in our annals in connection with the privilege of Sanctuary, furnishes us incidentally with a ve [...]

Keywords: buildings, castles, forts, ruins, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2012-09-25

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783.—Costume of the time of John.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I do not know what the people are doing in this picture; it might be that the kneeling man is selling herbs to the man standing holding out coins. The costume of the Normans of both sexes was chiefly [...]

Keywords: costumes, people, men, women, hats, robes, boots, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-11-11

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784.—Horse Beating a Tabor.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In Olde England (the Anglo-Norman period of about a thousand years ago) the horses used to play drums, especally at Christmas and other holidays. Or when marching to war: the text explains that the ho [...]

Keywords: horses, drums, musical instruments, christmas, animals, people, soldiers, whips, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-16

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787.—Bob Apple.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Bob-apple is a game in which an apple is hung by a string from the ceiling or other high piece, or put into a a bowl of water, and people have to eat it or pick it out of the bowl, allw ithout using t [...]

Keywords: people, games, christmas, xmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-10

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790.—Costume of Norman English Ladies in 12th Century.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The costume of the Normans of both sexes was chiefly Oriental, borrowed from the Crusades of this period (Figs. 783, 790). The most remarkable exception was the single knotted sleeve of the ladies, as [...]

Keywords: costumes, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-03

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792.—Ancient Quintain.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The sports of the [twelfth-century] Norman lords [...] the noble students of chivalry practised military sports, of which the principal was the quintain, in which the young man tilted with his lance a [...]

Keywords: sports, people, jousting, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-05-12

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794.—Bowling.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

We have traces that the Norman-English delighted sometimes in sports more innocent [than bear-playing and cock-fighting]; we can fancy them sitting absorbed in the intellectual game of chess (Figs. 79 [...]

Keywords: games, people, bowling, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-03

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