Items in England (results page 27)

Martyrs’ Memorial and St. Giles Oxford (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 Hospital Warwick 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 apanoramic tour. This building has been u [...]

Keywords: houses, mediaeval, people, streets, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-11

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Plate XXII. Ely Cathedral. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Ely Cathedral once stood on an island in the marshes; you can still see it for miles around in any direction. It’s old, very old, and in the days before electric light even the great octagonal tower m [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, interiors, people, colour

Places shown: Ely; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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Pottergate, Lincoln England Beautiful (1936)

The remains of a fortified entrance (gate) in the City Walls of Lincoln, called Pottergate. Today it’s a grade I listed building, and is also located on the Viking Way, a footpath in England almost 15 [...]

Keywords: battlements, castles, walls, arrow slits, arches, entrances, cathedrals, chuches, towers, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Pottergate; Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2005-04-25

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Much Wenlock Abbey. The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

A man stands smoking his pipe in the ruined arch of this ancient abbey. Sheep gaze on are much away at the grass growing in the ruins of the cloisters. The man is presumably a shepherd, although it’ [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, people, animals, sheep, cloisters, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Much Wenlock; Shropshire; England

Added: 2007-01-17

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1672.—Hulme Hall, Lancashire.—Front View. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Hulme Hall, Lancashire (Fig. 1672), may be looked on as a fair specimen of the very numerous timber-houses that form so conspicuous a class in the domestic architecture of Elizabeth’s time. And most [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, tudor houses, towers, houses, people, horses, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Newton Heath; Lancashire; England

Added: 2011-01-07

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1674.—Plan of Buckhurst House, Sussex. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A plan of a sixteenth-century mansion, demolished it seems in the eighteenth century. The text does not seem to explain the numbers on the plan; presumably the woodcut was made for some earlier public [...]

Keywords: plans, manors, greyscale

Places shown: Buckhurst; Withyham; Sussex; England

Added: 2011-01-09

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1675.—North side of the Priory Cloisters, Christ’s Hospital. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Christ’s Hospital is a charity-funded boarding school founded in the sixteenth century and still open today. It’s also known as the bluecoat school because of the school uniformMy father (Eric Quin) w [...]

Keywords: buildings, exteriors, acrches, doors, schools, children, boys, people, windows, chimneys, greyscale

Places shown: Horsham; Essex; England

Added: 2018-01-30

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Staircase at Claverton, Somersetshire Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(From Richardson’s ‘Elizabethan Architecture.’)This ornate portico leads to a hallway with a wide staircase climbing upward; there’s a carved animal, perhaps, on the newel post at the foot of the stai [...]

Keywords: staircases, steps, interiors, elizabethan architecture, entrances, doorways, arches, colums, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Claverton; Somerset; England

Added: 2018-06-06

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The Exchequer Gate and the West Front of the Cathedral. English Cathedrals (1910)

At Lincoln [Cathdral,] Lancet-Pointed work is again preponderant, but Decorated work is very conspicuous and singularly fine, Norman features still remain, and Perpendicular art completes the majestic [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, crowds, drawings, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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The West Front, From the Minster-yard. English Cathedrals (1910)

The Exchequer Gate [...] admits us into a small paved square—the Minster-yard—surrounded on three sides by low ecclesiastical dwellings. Filling the whole of the fourth side, just in front of us, ri [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, costumes, victoriana, crowds, drawings, buildings, arches, entrances, colour

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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Stonegate Red Book Of York (1901)

Stonegate Shambles in York is today a pedestrian-only area. In the distance in this photograph is the ever-present York Minster.

Keywords: houses, streets, colour

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2004-04-25

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Hall at Ockwell’s, Berkshire. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Coloured in the original book.“The old manor-house of Ockwells is situated about one mile westward from bray, in Berkshire. It is one of those mansions built chiefly of timber framework, of which man [...]

Keywords: windows, interiors, colour, paneling, people, animals, furniture

Places shown: Bray; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Anglo-Saxon Punishments Bygone Punishments (1931)

“Stocks were used, at an early period, as a means of punishing breakers of the law. The precise date when they were first emplyed in this country is not known, but we may infer from early mediaeval il [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, bare feet, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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173.—The South Front. English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Benthall Hall, North Shropshire.There were de Benthalls in 1120, and when, two centuries later, a Burnell of Acton Burnell marred their heiress he took her name as well as her property. Their descenda [...]

Keywords: manors, windows, tudor architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Benthall; Shropshire; England

Added: 2008-02-29

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1731.—Gray’s Inn Hall. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

oGray’s Inn Hall (Fig. 1731) is superior to that of Lincoln’s Inn or the Inner temple, and little inferior to the Middle Temple Hall. Its chief architectural attractions are its timber roof, carved w [...]

Keywords: interiors, halls, windows, ceilings, rafters, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-08-22

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1732.—Clock at Hampton Court. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The clock does not appear to be mentioned in the book apart from this picture. It was installed at Hampton Court Palace in 1540, but the astronomical (or astrological) parts were lost in the early nin [...]

Keywords: clocks, astrology, machinery, greyscale

Places shown: Hampton Court Palace; Hampton Court; Middlesex; London; England

Added: 2016-04-29

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Timber Houses, Coventry The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

Timber was largely used in the construction of houses, some speciments of which yet remain, the most celebrated being parts of Crosby Hall, in Bishopsgate, London. Coventry also contains some fine and [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Coventry; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2008-03-08

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Taunting Persons in the Stocks. Bygone Punishments (1931)

“The “Cambridge Trinity College Psalter”—an illuminated manuscript—presents some curious illustrations of the manners of the earlier half of the twelth century. We give a reproductionof one of its qua [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, stocks, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Dudley Street – Seven Dials London (1872)

Children play in this crowded street; they are dressed in rags and mostly barefoot.The peculiar character of these streets, and the close resemblance each one bears to its neighbour, by no means tends [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, streets, children, bare feet, houses, misery, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2010-07-31

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