Items in or near Warwick (results page 3)

Castle StreetOxford: 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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Magdalen College From the CherwellOxford (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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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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Christchurch CollegeOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

Staircase to the hall at Christchurch College, Oxford
From an Etching by A. Brunet-Dubaines.

Keywords: stairs, interiors, vaulting, people, colleges, colour

Places shown: Christchurch College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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Whitley CourtPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

Witley Court was badly damaged by a fire in 1937, some 60 years after this picture was made. The description in the book tries hard, i think, to hide the writer’s disdain for the self-made. WHITLEY CO [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, victorian excess, opunlence, columns, houses, parks, colour

Places shown: Witley Court; Great Witley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2020-11-01

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Berkeley CastleIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

“There are few English castles where the spirit of medievalism lingers as at Berkeley and few that have darker deeds recorded in their long annals of crime. [...] The castle, grim, many-towered, ivy-c [...]

Keywords: castles, overgrown, towers, entrances, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Berkeley; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2007-09-18

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Niches at OrielOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: gothic, windows, entrances, statues, colleges, colour

Places shown: Oriel College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-04-13

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Oriel Street.Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

S. Paterson signed the engraving.

Keywords: colleges, streets, churches, people, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-06-03

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New Oxford and the Hundred ClerksEngland (1898)

I couldn’t find reference to the uprising referred to in this image. The 100 clerks, or friars perhaps, appear to be praying.

Keywords: people, religion, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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108. Bay Window at Thornbury Castle, Gloucester.The Growth of the English House (1909)

“Besides the simple and dignified forms which were chiefly used, there were a few cases in which the plan was more complicated, and in which it took one shape on the ground floor and another on the fl [...]

Keywords: windows, colour

Places shown: Thornbury; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2003-03-30

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Suckley, Worcestershire.Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by E. A. Chadwick.

A brick cottage, with a half-timbered part. A girl kneels and another person, probably a child, seems to be talking with her. Lots of trees.

Keywords: cottages, houses, people, children, trees, colour, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Suckley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-10-07

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The Gateway of St. John’s CollegeOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by H. Toussaint. St. John’s College, Oxford, was founded in 1555, replacing an earlier college abolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The statue of St. Bernard [I think] [...]

Keywords: colleges, gothic, arches, entrances, statues, people, greyscale

Places shown: St. John’s College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-08-29

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The Beauchamp ChapelWarwick and Leamington (1920)

Tombs of the founder and Robert Dudley, Earl of LeicesterThis tomb is (or was) in St. Mary’s Church, also known as Warwick High Church. George Morley writes (p.15) From the choir the silent mover in [...]

Keywords: colour, tombs, churches, windows

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-11-09

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Pershore, WorcestershireOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a [painting] by Wilmot Pilsbury. A bucolic pastoral scene of half-timbered english country cottages, complete with a hay-rick and a cattle barn, and a string of washing.

Pershore travel site

Keywords: colour, cottages, houses, buildings

Places shown: Pershore; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-11-01

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St John’s CollegeOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines. External link to St. John’s College website. St John’s College was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas White and named after St. John the Baptist (the patron saint of t [...]

Keywords: colleges, entrances, trees, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: St. John’s College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-02-29

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1314.—Northleach church, GloucestershireOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Like many English churches, that at Northleach has been modified over the years. Although part of the aisle dates from the 12th century, most of the church is from the 14th and 15th centuries. [the c [...]

Keywords: churches, windows, towers, gravestones, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Northleach; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2005-07-30

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Town Cross, Stocks and Whipping-Post, RippleIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

“Near the cross, relics of days when there were rogues in Ripple—sureley there are none now—are the oaken stocks and weather-beaten whipping-post.” (p. 132) Stocks were sometimes used to hold people b [...]

Keywords: punishments, stocks, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Ripple; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-16

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XXIV.—Wadham College, The Hall InteriorThe Charm of Oxford (1920)

Wadham is less altered than any other college in Oxford. It is the finest illustration of the fact that the Gothic style survived in Oxford when it was being rapidly superseded elsewhere. No building [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, interiors, mediaeval architecture, page images, colour

Places shown: Wadham College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2013-06-24

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XXIV.—Wadham College, The Hall Interior (greyscale version)The Charm of Oxford (1920)

A black and white picture of the drawing of the interior of Wadham College, Oxford; there is also a colour version; the original is actually printed in black but on yellowish paper with a dark purple [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, interiors, beams, mediaeval architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Wadham College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2013-06-26

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Porch of St. Mary’sOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: entrances, colleges, churches, pillars, people, gothic, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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