Items in Kent (results page 3)

71. Penshurst Place, Kent The Growth of the English House (1909)

Penshurst Place, Kent. The Great Hall.There’s another picture in Wharton’s book,English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans.Penshurst Place dates from the first half of the 14th Century, and was origin [...]

Keywords: manors, interiors, fireplaces, windows, ceilings, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-08-04

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Ostenhanger House, Kent, Plate I The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

Ostenhanger was merged with next-door Westenhanger Castle in 1509; today the manor is open for weddings but the part shown in this woodcut appears to be in ruins.The plate is signed Godfrey. Sc. (i.e. [...]

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

Places shown: Westenhanger; Hythe; Kent; England

Added: 2013-05-01

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The Chapel of St. Pancras in St. Augustine’s Monastery, Canterbury The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

The ruins of this little oratory stand near the south-easternmost part of the Abbey-close. It is commonly supposed to be of great antiquity, but this opinion is controverted by Somner, who gives very [...]

Keywords: ruins, chapels, trees, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2009-04-07

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922. West gate and Holy Cross Church, Canterbury. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In the great insurrection just mentioned, perished, on Tower Hill, Simon de Sudbury, son of Nicolas Tibald, gentleman, of Sudbury, in Suffolk. He was eighteen years Bishop of London, and, on being el [...]

Keywords: churches, gates, battlements, towers, castles churches, towers, carriages, people, children, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2019-10-31

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1423.—Hever Castle. (From an Original Sketch) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Anne Bullen [Anne Boleyn] behaved throughout the whole affair with the utmost prudence. Shehad determiend to be the king’s wife, not his mistress; and from that determnation ensued events, the import [...]

Keywords: castles, cattle, sheep, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hever; Kent; England

Added: 2008-03-03

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Penshurst Place, Kent Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“In this fourteenth-century castle lived the great English liberal, Algernon Sidney, the friend and counsellor of William Penn, who had a hand in drawing up the famous “Frame of Government” for the Pr [...]

Keywords: manors, trees, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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Baronial hall, Penshurst Place Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“On the left are the buttery and the kitchens and, separated from the stone passage by a screen of carved oak panels, is the Great Hall, the glory and wonder of the castle, with its open timber roof, [...]

Keywords: interiors, fireplaces, manors, furniture, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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The Post-Office at Penshurst Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Perhaps Tudor or older?

Keywords: houses, gravestones, chimneys, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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The Baptistry, Canterbury England Beautiful (1936)

Keywords: abbeys, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-06-05

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Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens. Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

A photograph of Charles Dickens outside his country home, Gadshill Place (also Gads Hill or Gas’s Hill Place) in Higham, Kent, UK, taken shortly before his death in 1870.

Keywords: dickens, people, houses, buildings, exteriors, writrs, greyscale

Places shown: Higham; Kent; England

Added: 2013-06-05

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Overview map of Kent, England Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

Taken from the map of England and Wales on page 2237.

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Kent; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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Antique Map of Kent The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Antique Map of Kent

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Kent; England

Added: 2008-10-05

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Chalk, Kent Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

This pleasing specimen of a plain Norman Font is cut in Purbeck Marble, but now white-washed. It is 2ft. 5½in. high; 1ft. 6½in. across the top; the bowl is 12in. deep, lined with lead, and with a wa [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Chalk; Kent; England

Added: 2013-01-23

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King Henry II whipped by the Pope’s Order Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The text reads “K. Hen. 2. whipt by the Popes Order pa. 88”“henrythe Second our King, was much vexed by this Pope [Alexander III] for the death ofThomas Becket, whom the Pope made St.Thomasfor opposin [...]

Keywords: penance, punishments, religion, people, royalty, bare feet, woodcuts, cathedrals, interiors, monks, religion, christianity, grayscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-26

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