Items in or near Surrey (results page 5)

Chiddingfold, Surrey Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A cottage in Chiddingfold, Surrey (in the South of England), showing the use of tile to cover the upper storey’s walls and the chimney. It is signed by Sidney Jones and dated 1906.Hand-coloured versi [...]

Keywords: cottages, greyscale

Places shown: Chiddingfold; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-24

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Guildford Castle, Surrey Old English Country Cottages (1906)

the entrance to Guildford castle, SurreyOne of the features of the Surrey cottage, indeed of all those counties where tile was the principal roofing material, is the skill with which the tiling is ada [...]

Keywords: castles, street scenes, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Guildford; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-19

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Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891)

A printing office, with an engraver (I think) at left, a proof-reader, a typesetter (at the back) next to the person operating the press itself, and, at right, a boy wearing tights and I think barefoo [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, children, pictures of books, books, people, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-01-21

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Donnington Castle Castles (1926)

The Gate HouseThe gatehouse dates from 1386, when King Richard II granted Richard Abberbury the Elder the right to fortify ("crenellate") his manor.There is also a plan of Donnington; use the Location [...]

Keywords: towers, castles, ruins, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Donnington; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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381.—St. Mary’s Chapel, Hastings Cliff Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Hastings Castle was built by William the Conqueror in 1070 or so, together with the chapel of St. Mary. Coastal erosion, and, later, French attacks, meant there wasn’t much left by 1400. After the Di [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, arches, churches, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hastings; Kent; England

Added: 2011-06-17

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389.—Ruins of reading Abbey in 1721. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Reading Abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I; it became very wealthy, no doubt in part because of the corruption that was endemic to the Roman Catholic Church. At the Dissolution of the Monasteri [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, people, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2005-05-22

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Plate 3.—Rochester Castle.—Interior. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two men stand on a ruined wall and peer into the Keep; the men are brightly dressed. The castle here today was built inA.D. 1080and the keep is also called Gundolph’s Tower after its builder.English H [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, colour, people

Places shown: Rochester; Kent; England

Added: 2012-05-22

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Steep, Hampshire Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Walter Tyndale.An English house wth a steep tiled roof, probably originally thatched, and with stone mullioned windows. Topiary and careful landscaping give a well-kept [...]

Keywords: houses, cottages, roofs, gardens, chimneys, dormer windows, windows, topiary, colour

Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England

Added: 2012-10-22

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IV.—West Front of Buckingham Palace. Monumental Architecture (1910)

The lack of a flag probably means the King (at the time) was not at home. Thewing on the left today is the Queen’s private disco and mosh pit.

Keywords: palaces, architecture, photographs, buildings, columns, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-06-09

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The Casuals Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

The oil painting on which this engraving was based was exhibted under the title,Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, at the Royal Academy in 1874; it was made to illustrate a scene from Dickens: [...]

Keywords: poverty, poor, victorian costumes, bare feet, men, women, people, children, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2021-03-15

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Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep Petersfield Old English Country Cottages (1906)

STEEP, HAMPSHIRE.From a water-colour drawing byWalter Tyndale.The only district where stone-slated roofs were hipped was in the heart of the tile counties. Here there are a number, the builders merely [...]

Keywords: cottages, art, houses, roofs, chimneys, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England

Added: 2012-10-30

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400.—Winchester Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The successor ofHenry Beauclerkwas also an usurper. The rival pretensions of Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda filled the land with bloodshed and terror for nineteeen years. From the north to [...]

Keywords: views, churches, trees, cities, cityscapes, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-06

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Interior of the Temple Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Temple Church was built by (orfor) the Knights Templar in London in the 12th Century. Some time after the Knights Templar were destroyed (in 1307) the temple was given by Edward II to the Knights [...]

Keywords: interiors, colour, churches, people, ceilings, columns, arches, pillars, costumes

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-08-13

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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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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 Lion Gates, Hampton Court The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

Hampton Court Palace was built by Cardinal Wolsey, starting in 1514, although some time in the 1520s it became the property of King Henry VIII.The Lion Gates are at the Bushey Park entrance to the Pal [...]

Keywords: gates, entrances, statues, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: East Molesey; Surrey; England

Added: 2006-01-19

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Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at Canonbury London (Volume II) (1841)

From the house we pass to the lawn, which is terminated by a wall with a raised and embowered terrace, from which we look over on the other side to the kitchen-garden, the New River, and thence onward [...]

Keywords: gardens, greyscale

Places shown: Islington; London; England

Added: 2009-04-27

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Man putting up a poster London (Volume V) (1843)

A man us using a pair of brooms on long poles to stuck up a poster advertising an auction on a wall already plastered with advertising posters. He wears a top hat but his trousers have holes and patc [...]

Keywords: advertisements, people, posters, hats, victorian costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-02-27

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524.—Plan of the Priory of St. Bartholomew. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This twelfth-century priory (founded in 1123) was largely ruined, but the church was restored starting in the 1860s; this plan of the area was published in 1840 and predates any restoration work.Of th [...]

Keywords: plans, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Smithfield; London; England

Added: 2012-08-15

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525.—The Crypt, St. Bartholomew’s Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A dark stone-vaulted crypt extends as far as we can see; a man walks away from us, holding a burning taper out to light his way and carrying a heavy key. In the foreground a wine-barrel serves to hold [...]

Keywords: crypts, people, drinking, barrels, darkness, interiors, churches, arches, pillars, lamps, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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