Items in or near England (results page 18)

71. Penshurst Place, Kent The Growth of the English House (1909)

Penshurst Place, Kent. The Great Hall.There’s another picture in Wharton’s book,English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans.Penshurst Place dates from the first half of the 14th Century, and was origin [...]

Keywords: manors, interiors, fireplaces, windows, ceilings, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-08-04

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New Post Office, London Youth’s Instruction (1830)

“March 1830. The New Post-Office, London. (With an Engraving)The magnificent building recently opened as the new metropolitan Post-Office is situated near the junction of Cheapside and Newgate-street [...]

Keywords: columns, neoclassical, carriages, horses, people, streets, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2005-08-19

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Plan of Kenilworth Castle Castles (1926)

There has been a castle at this site since at least the first half of the 12th century, although the oldest of the present buildings could be as late as the 1260s according to Sir Charles Oman.The pla [...]

Keywords: castles, plans, greyscale

Places shown: Kenilworth; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-04-27

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734.—Stewkley Church, Buckinghamshire. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Stewkley Churchis 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 Conques [...]

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 1775One of the most important events recorded in our annals in connection with the privilege of Sanctuary, furnishes us incidentally with a ver [...]

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

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2012-09-25

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King Arthur’s Castle, Off Tintagel Head, Cornwall In Unfamiliar England (1910)

“After we reached the hotel, the long twilight still gave time to contemplate the weird beauty of the surroundings and to explore the ruins of the castle so famed in song and story. We scrambled down [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, hills, water, colour

Places shown: Tintagel; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-06-12

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Abbey Ruins, Elstow Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“[...] the Benedictine Abbey which stood on the further side of [Elstow church]. This abbey was succeeded by a secular structure of the Renaissance period,considerable remains of which are still stan [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, churches, abbeys, ruins, trees, arches, entrances, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Elstow; Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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Astwell Castle Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“Astwell Castle stands aloof from the road across some meadows. At the back of the old water-mill is a picturesque reed-grown stretch of water, and beyond on the higher ground may be seen the grey to [...]

Keywords: castles, manors, wallpaper, backgrounds, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Brackley; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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

From an Engraving by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: streets, towns, buildings, people, carts, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-12-14

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Newstead Abbey Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)

A partly-ruined romantic gothic mansion beside a lake with a fountain.NEWSTEAD ABBEY.NEAR MANSFIELD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—WEBB.Newstead Abbey, “one of the finest specimens in existence of those quaint and [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, houses, buildings, lakes, water, windows, trees, colour

Places shown: Newstead; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2015-07-04

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Ruins of St. John’s, from the Grosvenor Park, The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

bwpicshas a history and more pictures of this ruined church which was heavily ‘restored’ in the 19th century.“[...] we find in St. John’s Church a permanent and very grand memorial of the Early Norman [...]

Keywords: churches, ruins, towers, people, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2005-11-06

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Magdalen College From the Cherwell Oxford (1910)

Magdalen Tower, rising 150 feet in exquisite proportion, and standing just where the Cherwell is spanned by the well-known bridge, is in the opinion of many the fairest sight in Oxford.[p. 9]

Keywords: towers, water, bridges, churches, colour, colleges, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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814.—Henry III From his Tomb in Westminster Abbey. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A portrait of King Henry III, based on the effigy of him on his tomb, which is in Westminster Abbey.

Keywords: portraits, royalty, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2007-10-08

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815.—Great Seal of Henry III. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Keywords: royalty, seals, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2005-12-20

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816.—Penny of Henry III Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Keywords: royalty, coins, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2005-12-09

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817.—Penny of Edward I. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Keywords: royalty, coins, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2005-12-12

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818.—Ruins of Kenilworth in the 17th Century. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Ruins of Kenilworth Castle in the 17th Century [details pending]

Keywords: ruins, castles, views, trees, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Kenilworth; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-23

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819.—Bridge at Evesham. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“ “About two miles and a half from Evesham is an elevated point near the village of Twyford, where the Alcester Road is crossed by another track. The [River] Avon is not more than a mile distant on e [...]

Keywords: bridges, water, people, churches, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Evesham; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-02-13

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Ostenhanger House, Kent, Plate I The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

Ostenhanger was merged with next-door Westenhanger Castle in 1509; today the manor is open for weddings but the part shown in this woodcut appears to be in ruins.The plate is signed Godfrey. Sc. (i.e. [...]

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

Places shown: Westenhanger; Hythe; Kent; England

Added: 2013-05-01

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