Items in or near Warwick (results page 2)

Isis and Oxford CanalOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

In the foreground a man wearing a hat and carrying a bag or box stands at a canal lock; another walks along the towpath. On the river we see someone punting a bot, and a couple of people fishing from [...]

Keywords: canals, sketches, views, people, boats, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-02-03

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VII.—Merton College: The Library InteriorThe Charm of Oxford (1920)

Merton is the oldest college in Oxford, founded in the 1270s, almost 750 years ago. This sketch gives us a glimpse inside the ancient library with its rows of books so inviting. Merton, as has been s [...]

Keywords: interiors, libraries, arches, ceilings, colleges, pictures of books, books, greyscale

Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2013-06-30

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Chantry Chapel, WarwickOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This beautiful engraving, printed in colour using multiple plates, shows the stone ceiling, a tiled floor, an arched entrance-way, a stained-glass window, a church-warden’s chest, a seat and a reading [...]

Keywords: colour, chapels, interiors, churches, castles, windows, furniture

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2010-10-30

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396.—Tower of Oxford CastleOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There are more pictures of Oxford by Lang and also Haslehust.

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, trees, people, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-03-20

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397.—Oxford CastleOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Oxford Castle, as it appeared in the Fifteenth Century.

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

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Chipping Campden, The High StreetCotswold Country (1939)

Chipping Campden, The High Street

The house in the centre at the back is I think the Market Hall.

Keywords: old photographs, villages, colour

Places shown: Chipping Campden; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-08-30

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415.—Entrance to Warwick Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[Piers] Gaveston endeavoured to defend himself in Scarborough Castle (of which the crumbling ruins now only remain, Fig. 919), while the king went to York to seek an army for his relief. But before a [...]

Keywords: towers, entrances, castles, battlements, arches, trees, moats, people, greyscale

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2022-01-29

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416.—Warwick Castle, Guy’s TowerOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is a rare consolation for the lover of his country’s monuments, to turn from castles made into prisons, and abbeys into stables, to such a glorious relic of ‘Old England’ as Warwick Castle. Who c [...]

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

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-03-07

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418.—Ancient Statue of Guy at Guys CliffOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is Guy of Warwick, mentioned in some of the Robin Hood stories.

Guy’s Cliff is pretty ruined now. It’s between Warwick and Coventry.

Keywords: statues, people, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-03-20

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Warwick Castle.—Earl of WarwickPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (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 bu [...]

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

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-02-08

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The Muniment Room at Merton CollegeOxford: 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 [...]

Keywords: entrances, colleges, windows, colour

Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-10-04

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OxfordOxford (1910)

Line illustration from first page of the book.

Keywords: towns, chapterheads, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-02-22

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West Gate, WarwickWarwick and Leamington (1920)

A shepherd herds his sheep up Warwick’s main street, past mediaeval house.

Keywords: towns, colour, churches, mediaeval, people, animals

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-11-09

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Magdalen Tower From ChristchurchOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by A. Brunet-Debaines

Keywords: colleges, churches, towers, trees, forests, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Magdalen College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-14

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Guy’s Cliffe.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A strikingly beautiful manor house, with the moat in the foreground; today it lies in ruins. There are several other pictures of the same site; see the Location link. I have included a 1680x1050 pix [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, exteriors, parks, buildings, colour, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-06-16

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Magdalen CloistersOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

The tower is also featured in several paintings by Haslehust’s illustrations of Oxford.

Keywords: colleges, cloisters, entrances, courtyards, creeper, gothic, churches, towers, people, arches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Magdalen College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-06-20

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SnowshillCotswold Country (1939)

The caption mentions that there was not enough money to finish the church tower, and so it was capped with grey slate. Today Snowshill is known for the manor-house, which is now run by the National Tr [...]

Keywords: old photographs, churches, views, colour

Places shown: Snowshill; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-12-16

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High StreetOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

“Most old towns are like palimpsests, parchments which have been scrawled over again and again, by their successive owners. Oxford, though not one of the most ancient of English cities, shows, more le [...]

Keywords: cities, buildings, streets, towns, colleges, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-04-26

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733.—Oxford Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The picture shows great stone pillars or columns supporting semicircular arches, tall ceilings, and, in the foreground, perhaps a choirmaster’s chair and a choir stall with two books seemingly strewn [...]

Keywords: norman architecture, cathedrals, churches, interiors, arches, pillars, columns, church architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2025-04-13

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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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