Items in or near England (results page 10)

21. Stokesay Castle (General View) The Growth of the English House (1909)

The hall and adjoining rooms are to the right; the south tower is in the centre; the Elizabethan gatehouse to the left.There are also pictures inGrose’s Antiquitiesand inOman’sCastles. For some excel [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, towers, gravestones, gothic, greyscale

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Erasmus’ Tower, Queen’s College Cambridge (1920)

“The fifteenth century saw four more Colleges added to the list of Cambridge Houses: King’s, 1441; Queens’, 1448; St. Catharine’s, 1473; Jesus, 1495.” (p. 22)

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings

Places shown: Queens’ College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-09-07

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Oxford Castle Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by A. Brunet-Debaines.There are otherpictures of Oxford Castle.“With the buildings of Robert D’Oily, a follower of the Conqueror’s, and the husband of an English wife, the heiress of W [...]

Keywords: water, castles, ruins, trees, bridges, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-09

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210.—Edward the Confessor’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey,—now used as the Pix office. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Under its original name of the Isle of Bramble or thorn-ea, Westminster was a place of importance before London existed.[...]“The Saxon king Sebert (597 – 616) built a monastery on the site now occup [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, castles, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-03-17

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211.—Windows from the Palace of Westminster Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The windows are supposed here to be of Saxon origin; that is, dating between A.D. 440 and A.D. 1100 or so.“A doorway remaining of the old palace at Westminster exhibits the triangular arch (Fig. 212). [...]

Keywords: windows, arches, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-05-05

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Wollaton Hall From the North-East English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Wollaton Hall was designed by Robert Smythson and completed in the 1588. It has been described as the first English house to abandon the traditional central courtyard; instead it had a high-ceilinged [...]

Keywords: manors, gothic, greyscale

Places shown: Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2005-06-01

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22. Stokesay Castle. Window and Doorway of the Hall. The Growth of the English House (1909)

“It must be borne in mind that hitherto windows had not been glazed. They were usually of small size for purposes of security, and no doubt their smallness was an advantage so far as the inlet of col [...]

Keywords: diagrams, manors, windows, doors, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2005-02-18

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Brereton, Cheshire The Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1906)

Brereton Hall was built in 1586 and is a Grade I listed building. It is a private home today. The foundation stone was said to have been laid by Queen Elizabeth I, although there was a manor house at [...]

Keywords: halls, manors, stately homes, mansions, parks, entrances, towers, windows, tudor architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Brereton Hall; Brereton Green; Brereton; Cheshire; England

Added: 2020-11-03

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IV.—Sheldonian Theatre, etc., Broad Street The Charm of Oxford (1920)

“THE BROAD STREETThe east side of the University buildings proper was shown in the last picture (Plate IV[sic]); in the present one the north side of the same block is seen. The old University “school [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, buildings, streets, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-03-13

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The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, Nottingham The Leisure Hour (1904)

An elderly gentleman with white hair and a white beard sits at a writing desk, pen in hand, gazing out of the window, lost in thought.“Seldom has a poet come as near to absolute greatness, as Bailey d [...]

Keywords: people, scholars, interiors, writing, greyscale

Places shown: Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2006-05-13

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229.—Residence of a Saxon Nobleman. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There’s a lot going on in this Anglo-Saxon nobleman’s house. The nobleman seems to have an open book upside-down on his lap and is handing something, possibly bread, to one of the beggars at his door, [...]

Keywords: saxon england, people, poverty, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2012-06-16

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23. Stokesay Castle. The Growth of the English House (1909)

Window in South Tower—Showing shutter and stone seats.“... in striking contrast to the gloom of the tower, where the small windows provide a patch of light which only renders the general darkness more [...]

Keywords: windows, castles, manors, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2005-02-18

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231.—Boar-Hunting.—(From Cotton MS.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The woodcut here is a drawing showing two men, each holding a spear, and in Anglo-Saxon dress with short tunics ending above theknee, and a dog;they are in a forest and in front of them are tw boars, [...]

Keywords: hunting, men, people, weapons, spears, anglo-saxon costumes, dogs, animals, trees, forests, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2019-06-09

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238.—Ploughing, Sowing, Mowing, Gleaning, Measuring Corn, and Harvest-Supper. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The sower follows immediately behind the ploughman. Fig. 238, which is a literal copy from another manuscript, presents, at once, the operations of ploughing, sowing, mowing, measuring corn into sacks [...]

Keywords: agriculture, people, bare feet, thanksgiving, ploughs, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2011-01-05

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24. Plan of Haddon Hall, Derbyshire The Growth of the English House (1909)

Plan of the mediaeval manor-house that’s illustrated inFig. 25.

Keywords: manors, plans, greyscale

Places shown: Bakewell; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2005-08-30

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Great Tangley Manor, Surrey. Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

A half-timbered Elizabethan manor-house with tiled roof is here seen from the garden. Notice the cat sitting in the porch!The moated Manor House of Great Tangley, in West Surrey (facing page 24), thou [...]

Keywords: manors, colour, gardens, trees, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Wonersh; Surrey; England

Added: 2007-10-30

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[p.210] The Tower of London London (Volume II) (1841)

A birds-eye view: a map or plan of the castle.From a Print published by the Royal Antiquarian Society, and engraved from the Survey made in 1597, by W. Haiward and J. Gascoigne, by order of Sir J. Pey [...]

Keywords: castles, maps, plans, diagrams, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2005-07-15

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25. Haddon Hall, Derbyshire The Growth of the English House (1909)

“The most complete and most interesting house of this period [the fourteenth century] is the well-known Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. It consists of two courts (Fig. 24), the hall being placed in the win [...]

Keywords: castles, manors, courtyards, windows, entrances, arches, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Bakewell; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2005-08-28

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254.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of July Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In the main scene here we see three men with sickles harvesting wheat as tall as they are, and another man standing on a rock with a long stick or cane and blowing a bugle, presumably a foreman. Four [...]

Keywords: calendars, months, july, people, farming, farmers, harvest, harvesting, wheat, corn, carts, costumes, anglo-saxon costumes, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2022-03-16

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261.—Knole, Kent. English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Plate 261 - The West Side of the Green Court.

Keywords: manors, creeper, windows, doors, entrances, chimneys, courtyards, colour

Places shown: Knole; Kent; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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