Items in or near England (results page 14)

420.—Warkworth Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Interior of a Room in Warkworth Castle.

Keywords: interiors, windows, colour

Places shown: Warkworth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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421.—Ludlow Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Ludlow was the capital of Wales in the 16th Century, and this 12th Century (or earlier) castle was the centre for administration. Today it is in ruins, having declined since the engraving was made, b [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, hills, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Ludlow; Shropshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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422.—Goodrich Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Goodrich stands in the Wye Valley (seeHistory of Wales), and has a 12th century central keep about 8 metres (25’) on a side. It’s actually in much better condition than this romantic engraving might [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, entrances, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Goodrich; Herefordshire; England

Added: 2004-08-31

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423.—Clifford’s Tower, and Entrance to York Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Clifford’s Tower is the site of a 12th century massacre of 100 or so Jews probably as a result of the anti-semitic teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. It is the circular structure on the left of th [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, towers, trees, people, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-07-14

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424.—Peverel Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“One of the most grandly situated of castles is that ofPeverilof the Peak (FIg. 424), built by a natural son of the Conquerer [i.e. a son of William the Conquerer], whose name it bars. This was some c [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, hills, animals, trees, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds, views, greyscale

Places shown: Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2005-04-16

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425.—Interor of Newark Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The ruins we can still see today were built by Bishop Alexander (“the Magnificent”) of Lincoln in the first half of the twelfth century, although there was a castle here at least as early as 1089, alm [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, animals, sheep, people, trees, arches, entrances, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Newark; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2005-07-25

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43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view] Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

The treatment of the eaves illustrates a very characteristic, though by no means invariable Norman feature, namely, the corbel table, a series of prjecting stones at intervals, carrying a continuous c [...]

Keywords: churches, norman architecture, arches, towers, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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Warwick Castle.—Earl of Warwick Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)

A splendid view of Warwick Castle, printed in colour. The text reads as follows:WARWICK CASTLE,NEAR WARWICK, WARWICKSHIRE.—EARL OF WARWICK.Cymbeline, King of Britain, is by some supposed to have built [...]

Keywords: castles, buildings, water, trees, colour, boats, people, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-02-08

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43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view] Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Clerestories.—Those Norman churches which were built with aisles seem all to have had clerestories. I do not know of a Norman nave with original aisles without some indication that there was a cleres [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, religion, buildings, columns, pillars, arches, pews, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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The map of Cornwall The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Old map of Cornwall, 18th Century.

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Cornwall; England

Added: 2002-09-30

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Washington Brass, Sulgrave Church In Unfamiliar England (1910)

We followed the rough cobblestone walk to the church door, but could not gain admittance until the caretaker was found, for Sulgrave Church has been kept strictly under lock and key ever since one of [...]

Keywords: george washington, brasses, gravestones, duogravures, monuments, colour

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2014-08-17

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45. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland The Growth of the English House (1909)

The keep (cir. 1435 – 40)“Another interesting mixture of the ancient and the modern is to be seen at Warkworth Castle in Northumberland. This was a very old foundation retaining much early work in its [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: Warkworth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2005-08-18

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Warkworth Castle, Desktop Background Version The Growth of the English House (1909)

Version ofWarwkworth Castlecropped, resized and hand-coloured byLiam Quinto make a computer background for your desktop (a wallpaper image).I thought this looked like a nice imposing mediaeval castle [...]

Keywords: castles, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Warkworth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2005-08-18

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Warkworth Castle, Northumberland: Plan of the Keep The Growth of the English House (1909)

1. Vestibule (leading from entrance in basement)2. Hall.3. Chapel.4. Great Chamber.5. Kitchens.6. Pantry and buttery.“[...] It has cellars and a great hall, with buttery and kitchens at one end, while [...]

Keywords: castles, plans, greyscale

Places shown: Warkworth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2005-08-18

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46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade. Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Like the pre-Conquest builders [i.e. before 1066], the Normans knew only one form of arch, th semicicular, with its variants, the segmental (used when the height was limited) and the stilted (46) or h [...]

Keywords: churches, arches, norman architecture, gothic architecture, interiors, pews, columns, pillars, greyscale

Places shown: Melbourne; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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Austerfield Church Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“Austerfield is a typical north country village. Less picturesque than such midland and southern hamlets as Brington, Ecton and Penshurst, these northern villages, with their steep-roofed, narrow-gabl [...]

Keywords: churches, graveyards, gravestones, churchyards, greyscale

Places shown: Austerfield; South Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2006-02-19

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Houghton House The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

The copper-plate engraving of Houghton House fromplate 46.Houghton House was built as a “hunting lodge” and was most likely the inspiration for the “House Beautiful” in John Bunyan’s bookThe Pilgrim’s [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Haynes West End; Haynes; Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2011-07-08

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Cells at town hall, Boston, England, where the Pilgrim Fathers were confined Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

A photograph of a prison, jail or gaol, showing the iron bars of open cell doors. According to the extract from the book that follows, the “Pilgrim Fathers” (a group of Puritans, a sort of fanatical [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, spooky, pilgrim fathers, greyscale

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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Prison Cells (wallpaper version) Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

A version ofPrison Cells...for use as a computer desktop background image (root wallpaper or whatever you call it on your system). I cropped the image and increased the contrast to make it more atmos [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, wallpaper, backgrounds, pilgrim fathers, greyscale

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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The Muniment Room at Merton College Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by R. Kent Thomas.(I think the Muniment Room was built to hold manuscripts, but I am not certain)“The time is the end of the fourteenth century. The forest and the moor stretch to the e [...]

Keywords: entrances, colleges, windows, colour

Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-10-04

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