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1255x1646, 152x200, 529x694, 706x926, 941x1235 | Cathedral from the N.E. and part of City Wall.The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) “[...] there is good reason to believe that during the Roman occupation of Chester, a church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, stood upon this spot; and most interesting it is thus to connect this [...] Keywords: churches, cathedrals, abbeys, towers, carts, people, animals, trees, spires, greyscale Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England Added: 2007-04-23 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1359x1183, 1812x1577, 230x200, 906x788 | Cathedral Cloisters and King’s SchoolThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) The King’s School was so named when Henry VIII founded it in 1541. The location shown in the woodcut is now (2007) a Barclays Bank. King’s School, Chester, Web site Keywords: cathedrals, schools, cloisters, windows, overgrown, greyscale Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England Added: 2007-08-16 + S K L R N |
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1084x1258, 172x200, 610x708, 813x944 | Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John’s StreetThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) A narrow cobbled street with black-and-white half-timbered buildings, an overhanging turret with a percariously-mounted lamp, a heavily-laden cart pulled by two horses, and in the background, with bir [...] Keywords: cathedrals, streets, cars, buildings, cities, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, xmas, christmas, dickens, greyscale Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England Added: 2010-08-12 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Water Tower, with Roman HypocaustThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) “The descent of Watergate Street, at right angles to Bridge Street, led to the [River] Dee at another point of its broad, sweeping course. Of the actual form of the gate there is less to be recorded; [...] Keywords: towers, arches, bridges, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England Added: 2005-11-20 + S K L R N |
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| 1079x1079, 1439x1439, 1918x1918, 200x200, 809x809 | Ancient Half-Timbered Houses, Foregate StreetThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) “Turning now from the outside of the walls to the inside, we must remember that the four Roman Streets, intersecting one another at right angles, have always been the features which determined the who [...] Keywords: houses, street scenes, horses, carts, greyscale Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England Added: 2006-10-11 + S K L R N |
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1222x1608, 152x200, 687x905, 916x1206 | 1023.—Howden ChurchOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The perfect Romantic Ruin, an abbey that was once a place of worship and a seat of power, and has now fallen so low that cattle graze where there was once a High Altar. A poem written by William Words [...] Keywords: ruins, abbeys, arches, cattle, animals, churches, greyscale Places shown: Howden; Yorkshire; England Added: 2006-02-13 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 1023.—Howden Church (detail for use as computer desktop background image)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A detail taken from the engraving of Howden Church, sized so that it makes a good screen background, or desktop wallpaper; cows graze in the ruins of a mediæval monastery. Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, churches, ruins, abbeys, cattle, arches, greyscale Places shown: Howden; Yorkshire; England Added: 2006-02-13 + S K L R N |
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144x200, 1775x2458, 542x750, 592x819 | Fountains AbbeyAlt-England (1888) This is a spectacular view of the ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. I found a photograph from approximately the same angle in a page on the Historic UK Web site. The abbey was founded in 1139, so [...] Keywords: ruins, abbeys, churches, arches, windows, stonework, greyscale Places shown: Aldfield; Ripon; Yorkshire; England Added: 2022-06-04 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1058x693, 1411x924, 305x200, 790x517 | The Minster and Bootham BarRed Book Of York (1901) The word ‘bar’ here means gate, not somewhere you buy a drink. Bootham Bar in the city of York stands on the site of one of four gateways into the Roman legionary fortress, but the gate there today d [...] Keywords: churches, gateways, entrances, colour Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England Added: 2004-04-25 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1025x1025, 200x200, 2050x2050, 750x750 | Eaton HallThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) Eaton Hall, the Cheshire seat of the Duke of Westminster, is situated in a very large, though hardly picturesque, park, which is liberally thrown open to strangers, and, in consequence, is a great bo [...] Keywords: stately homes, bridges, parks, trees, cattle, towers, manor houses, greyscale Places shown: Ecclestone; Cheshire; England Added: 2020-07-21 + S K L R N |
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187x200, 731x782, 974x1043 | Plan of Ludlow CastleCastles (1926) “This is by far the most important castle of the whole Welsh border, surpassing Chepstow in size and Raglan in historic interest.” (p. 135) The site is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and thus predate [...] Keywords: plans, castles, greyscale Places shown: Ludlow; Shropshire; England Added: 2005-04-30 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1103x1554, 142x200, 551x777 | Ludlow Castle: Gate-way of ChapelCastles (1926) Late Norman also is the very curious round chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, which stands in the middle of the ward, and displays a particularly fine entrance door with zig-zag moulding, and another arch o [...] Keywords: castles, entrances, doors, arches, colour Places shown: Ludlow; Shropshire; England Added: 2004-03-04 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1106x767, 1475x1023, 288x200, 830x575 | Methley HallOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “Methley Hall, or Methley Park, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, seven miles south-east from Leeds, is the seat of the Saviles, Earls Mexborough, which family have held the manor for several centuries [...] Keywords: interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, colour, furniture, manors, halls Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England Added: 2005-08-25 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Methley Hall, Wallpaper VersionOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A version of the Methley Hall coloured engraving; this version has been cropped slightly so that it’s the right size for a computer desktop background, or wallpaper. No, I don’t know why some people p [...] Keywords: backgrounds, manors, colour, interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, furniture, wallpaper Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England Added: 2005-08-25 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1140x938, 2279x1875, 243x200, 750x617 | Bryn-y-PysThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) This hall was built in the late 1730s, was remodelled in the 1850s, and, having fallen into disrepair, was demolished in 1956. The engraving here was printed in 1875 and probably shows the hall after [...] Keywords: stately homes, mansions, houses, buildings, trees, parks, views, windows, parks, deer, animals, greyscale Places shown: Bryn-Y-Pys; Overton-on-Dee; Denbigh; Wales Added: 2019-01-13 + S K L R N |
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![[p.137] Stokesay Castle—The Courtyard.](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/StokesayCastle-Courtyard/StokesayCastle-Courtyard-305x200.jpg "[p.137] Stokesay Castle—The Courtyard. 1926")
