Items in or near Warwick (results page 4)

Martyrs’ Memorial and St. GilesOxford (1910)

Ridley and Latimer were burned to death here in the time of Archbishop Cranmer.

Keywords: monuments, towers, trees, colour, roads

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Leycester HospitalWarwick and Leamington (1920)

These buildings mostly date from the 1570s; the site previously belonged to the Guild of the Holy Trinity and St George which was formed in 1383. The BBC has a panoramic tour. This building has been [...]

Keywords: houses, mediaeval, people, streets, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-11

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Merton CollegeOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by R. Kent Thomas. “It appears that [Queen’s College] was also anxious to pull down the chamber of King Henry V. This is a strange craze for destruction, that some time ago endangered [...]

Keywords: colleges, bridges, arches, people, colour

Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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1951.—Battle at WorcesterOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

At top – View of Worcester. (From an old [as of 1845] Print.) The battle was fought on the foreground meadows. In the centre, the flight of [King] Charles before the Parliamentary Soldiers; designed [...]

Keywords: battles, horses, weapons, churches, towers, houses, towns, horses, greyscale

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2004-04-14

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Iffley MillOxford (1910)

“Close by [Christ Church] meadow the college barges line the banks of the Isis, and then come other meadows on either side – meadows nameless and indignified by pageantry, but sacred to Oxford’s speci [...]

Keywords: trees, water, grass, colour, mills

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Edgar’s Gateway, WorcesterThe Story of Some English Shires (1897)

The engraving (signed Whymper) is of Edgar Tower, also known as St Mary’s Gate, an arched and defended stone tower guarding a gateway in the city wall. It was thought to have been build in the 10th C [...]

Keywords: gates, towers, entrances, people, windows, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-14

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2085.—[Samuel] Butler’s House, PershoreOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The picture shows the house where Samuel Butler (1613 – 1680), the English poet, was born. It is a farmhouse like many others from the period in England, with a thatched roof and brick chimneys. it ha [...]

Keywords: houses, farmhouses, samuel butler, hudibras, exteriors, buildings, cottages, poets, people, greyscale

Places shown: Strensham; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2018-01-25

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The East Gate, WarwickWarwick and Leamington (1920)

...the beholder now looks down a narrow street, on each side of which here and there are dwelling-houses preserving their Elizabethan aspect, and at the further end of which, looming up like the backg [...]

Keywords: towns, streets, churches, spires, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-12-02

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Church of St.Mary, Redcliffe(bg)Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Version cropped for use as a wallpaper (screen background for computer desktop)

Keywords: churches, spires, towers, trees, arches, windows, cityscapes, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Redcliffe; Bristol; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, BristolAncestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Admiral Sir William Pen (1621 – 70), son of Giles Penn of Redcliffe, was buried at St Mary Redcliffe Church. He was a squadron commander in Cromwell’s Navy. He received Pennsylvania as a land grant in [...]

Keywords: churches, spires, towers, trees, arches, windows, cityscapes, christmas, colour

Places shown: Redcliffe; Bristol; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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Martyrs MemorialOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

“In Broad Street, under the windows of Balliol, there is a small stone cross in the pavement. This marks the place where, some years ago, a great heap of wooden ashes was found. These ashes were the [...]

Keywords: monuments, spires, religion, statuary, boys, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-04-30

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2271.—Oxford from the Abingdon Road.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“If in one of those magic freaks of which eastern tales are so full, a person who had never seen Oxford or Cambridge, nor paid much attention to aught he might have read about them, were set down just [...]

Keywords: views, people, cities, cityscapes, water, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-03-18

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Hall of Christ Church College OxfordOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Christchurch, you have no doubt heard, is the richest, most magnificent, and most celebrated of all the collegiate establishments of Oxford. It is the especial resort of the sons of the richest gentr [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, interiors, people, ceilings

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-11-06

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A Saxon MillEngland Beautiful (1936)

This is instantly recognizable as the Saxon Mill at Guy’s Cliffe in Warwickshire; it’s mentiontd in the Domesday Book, and there’s a stone dated 1060 by the door, although the mill was running (it’s s [...]

Keywords: mills, buildings, trees, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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

Added: 2009-11-22

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Fisher Row and Remains of Oxford CastleOxford (1910)

The square tower in the background is part of the remains of Oxford Castle.

Keywords: castles, houses, water, bridges, canals, people, roads, colour, trees

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Old Episcopal Palace.Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

Tudor houses with mullioned windows; I think that this building is not mentioned in the text.

Keywords: buildings, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2008-07-11

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View at LeicesterDesiderata (1779)

The caption reads as follows: “1. The Rialto Bridge of one Arch over which K[ing] Richard 3d was carried into the Grey Friers to be buried, which Bridge is now walled up and disused. 2. The Place wher [...]

Keywords: bridges, people, soldiers, knights, weapons, battles, greyscale

Places shown: Leicester; Leicestershire; England

Added: 2005-08-10

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Leicester Hospital, WarwickThe Story of Some English Shires (1897)

This is now written as Leycester Hospital. It was originally a chapel, built in 1126 (yes, nine hundred years ago). The building was later used by trade guilds in the city of Warwick, but was bought b [...]

Keywords: almsgiving, poor, tudor architecture, tudor buildings, medieval architecture, hospitals, exteriors, greyscale

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2024-09-20

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The Cottages, Worcester College GardensOxford (1910)

Not a little has the modern revival of gardening, which has brought back the old herbaceous border, added to the charm of cottage gardens. [p. 25]

Keywords: houses, flowers, people, trees, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Guy’s Cliffe Mill, WarwickWarwick and Leamington (1920)

Let all fair pilgrims note the postern door in the stone wall of the Cliffe grounds, near the picturesque Saxon Mill, with its decorative wooden balcony, where John Ruskin loved to linger, listening t [...]

Keywords: people, buildings, trees, water, colour

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

Added: 2003-12-15

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