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576.—Lincoln Cathedral. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Lincoln Cathedral in the 1800s. The individual images of Lincoln Cathedral are not called out in the text. This wood-engraving shows an overall view of this Early English style cathedral. (the page in [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, architecture, towers, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-07-22

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577.—Interior of Lincoln Cathedral. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Nave, unequalled, it is supposed, in the world for its combined magnitude and beauty of proportion, and the curious Galilee porch, so richly decorated, are among the next additions; the use of the [...]

Keywords: interiors, cathedrals, churches, windows, pews, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-04-25

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580. – Early English Turret, Lincoln. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The individual images of Lincoln Cathedral are not called out in the text.Early Englishis an architectural term, meaning the English style of building with Gothic pointed arches that was used predomin [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, architecture, towers, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-18

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583.—Bracket, Chapter Housse, Lincoln. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

They don’t make brackets like this any more! A carved stone folaiate bracket with a human face or head at the base. This is surely the sort of Gothic ornament that inspired the Gothic Revival!

Keywords: architecture, ornaments, carving, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2012-03-27

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584.—Bracket, Lincoln. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A bracket, possibly a corbel supporting the end of an arch, in the form of a winged angel holding a shield with a cross on it.

Keywords: angels, statuary, carving, religion, spirit, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-12-09

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585.—Boss, Nave, Lincoln. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A woodcut showing a medieval wooden boss, or decorative carving, in this case with a rose motif, used to cover a joint in the Nave of Lincoln Cathedral, possibly in the ceiling.I also made a somewhat [...]

Keywords: ornaments, architecture, carving, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-04-27

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Boss, Nave, Lincoln Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I took th woodcut of thebosssnd coloured it as it might (or might not) have been painted.

Keywords: colour, art, carving, ornaments, architecture

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-04-27

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703.—Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The village of Walsingham is alive and well; the Abbey itself was largely destroyed in 1538 during the English Reformation and became a private house.The memory of our “Lady ofWalsingham” demands long [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, colour

Places shown: Walsingham Abbey; Norfolk; England

Added: 1999-10-28

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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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Abbey Ruins, Elstow Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“[...] the Benedictine Abbey which stood on the further side of [Elstow church]. This abbey was succeeded by a secular structure of the Renaissance period,considerable remains of which are still stan [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, churches, abbeys, ruins, trees, arches, entrances, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Elstow; Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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92. Horham Hall The Growth of the English House (1909)

92. Plan of Horham Hall, Essex

See also Fig. 93

Keywords: plans, maps, manors, colour

Places shown: Horham; Essex; England

Added: 2003-08-04

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93. Horham Hall The Growth of the English House (1909)

Fig. 93. Horham Hall, Essex (early 16th cent.)“Horham Hall, in Essex, is a good example, moderate in size, of this period. It was built in the early years of the sixteenth century by Sir John Cutt, w [...]

Keywords: manors, windows, chimneys, entrances, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Horham; Essex; England

Added: 2003-08-04

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1311.—Luton Church Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The parish church of St. Mary is an ancient and interesting edifice (Harmsworth’s Encyc.)

I didn’t clean this scan up as well as I’d have liked; as always, let me know if you want the original.

Keywords: churches, people, trees, gravestones, greyscale

Places shown: Luton; Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-05

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1313.—Font in East Dereham Church, Norfolk Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and dates from the Norman period (11th or early 12th Century). The Seven Sacrament Font shown here was made in 1488. The eighth side of the font shows the cru [...]

Keywords: fonts, churches, sculpture, greyscale

Places shown: East Dereham; Norfolk; England

Added: 2004-06-13

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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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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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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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Plate XXV. The Cloisters, Norwich Cathedral. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Cloisters; a man leads a dog through them, presumably to give a sense of scale. The arches of the vaulted ceiling are prominent. On the left there is a graveyard.

Keywords: churches, gothic, gravestones, churchyards, arches, windows, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Norwich; Norfolk; England

Added: 2004-05-04

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