Items in or near Surrey (results page 4)

Reading Abbey, Berkshire. The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Engraving dated 1773. The paper is slightly buckled, sorry.

There is alsoanother image of Reading Abbey.

There is anewer scanof this engraving.

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, people, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 1999-10-28

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Biddenden, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

SignedSydney R Jones 1906.

Biddenden village Web site

Keywords: cottages, houses, windows, sketches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Biddenden; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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124.—Silchester. The North Wall. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The striking characteristic of Silchester is the ruined wall, with the flourising trees upon it and around it, and the old trees that have grown up around centuries ago, and are now perishing with it. [...]

Keywords: ruins, roman remains, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Silchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-11-09

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125.—Silchester. Plan of City. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

a, The Western Gate, near to which the Road now leads to the church nearb, the Eastern Gate;c, the South Gate;d, the North Gate.

Silchester was a Romantown in England.

Keywords: plans, maps, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Silchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Reading Abbey Plate 2 The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

“This plateshewsthe south view of the remains of this once magnificent abbey, majestic even in its ruins!” (p. 17)The engraving is signed:Jan 24 1773 Godfrey Sc.I scanned this once before: theolder sc [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, people, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-11-15

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Cranbrook, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed SRJ (Sydney R Jones) 1906.George and Frederick Hardy, George O’Neil and Thomas Webster formed the Cranbrook Art Colony here in the 1900s.Historic Kentnotes about the village of Cranbrook“Kent, [...]

Keywords: streets, cottages, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-24

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Brewer’s Vat. London (Volume IV) (1841)

A giant beer-barrel at a brewery in London in the 1840s.“The wonderful magnitude of the great London breweries is a familiar source of wonderment. The stacks of casks that might reach, placed side by [...]

Keywords: beer, barrels, people, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-06-04

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Pound’s Bridge, Near Penshurst, Kent Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

From a drawing by William Twopeny.“The drawing of Pound’s Bridge, near Penshurst (facing page 14), is in itself a valuable document, recording the condition of the house as it was during the first hal [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2006-09-19

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18. Bodiam Castle, Sussex (1386) The Growth of the English House (1909)

Showing the Moat.

Now owned by theNational Trust, Bodiam Castle dates from 1385, and is in all the books on castles because of its surviving moat.

Keywords: castles, ruins, moats, towers, water, architecture, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Bodiam; Robertsbridge; Sussex; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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

Plate 260 - Bourchier’s Gate-house.

The home of the Sackvilles since 1603; it was first built in and around 1457 by Archbishop Bourchier.

Keywords: manors, castles, entrances, clocks, windows, towers, doors, colour

Places shown: Knole; Kent; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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29.—Portchester Castle, in Hampshire. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

DESCRIPTIONof PORTCHESTER-CASTLE, inHampshire.ThisCastle which is about five miles from Portsmouth, takes its appellation from a village so called in which it is situate, formerly a confiderable town [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, battlements, bridges, people, greyscale

Places shown: Portchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2015-08-26

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View of St. Paul’s Cathedral from the Thames Alt-England (1888)

This is an unusual view of Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, which replaced an earlier cathedral founded in A.D. 64 after it burned down in the Great Fire of London.We see a man leaning out of a sto [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, circles, windows, sailing boats, ships, boats, churches, domes, london, rivers, river thames, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2022-06-03

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Crawley, Sussex Old English Country Cottages (1906)

This old farmhouse or cottage has tile siding on the walls.

Keywords: cottages, birds, buildings, windows, chimneys, greyscale

Places shown: Crawley; Sussex; England

Added: 2010-04-15

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Haslemere, Surrey Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A young woman stands at the gate to an English cottage garden. She holds a child in her arms, and she wears a long dress and a somewhat soiled apron. The gate is set in a thick hedge, but we can see s [...]

Keywords: cottages, people, flowers, colour

Places shown: Haslemere; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-09

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Chiddingfold, Surry (hand-coloured version) Contributed Images (2004)

A hand-coloured version ofChiddingford; the original picture was by Sidney Jones in 1906; Liam Quin did the colouring, rather hastily.

Keywords: cottages, colour

Places shown: Chiddingfold; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-24

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