Items in or near England (results page 26)

Wolsey’s Hall at Hampton Court Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In 1514, in the parish of Hampton, Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York began building a magnificent palace on the north bank of the River Thames...Tudor Histor Web page.“The passage to Wolsey’s Hall is [...]

Keywords: interiors, flags, people, windows, colour, manors, castles

Places shown: East Molesey; Surrey; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Westminster Hall London (Volume VI) (1841)

“Interior of Westminster Hall, as seen during the Trial of Lambert, before Henry VIII.” (p. 144)

Keywords: interiors, royalty, halls, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-15

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Furness Abbey. The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

[...] at the time of the Domesday survey [c.A.D. 1080] therewas no county of Lancashire, but the three portions which the county now contains lay scattered. The district of Cartmell had been detache [...]

Keywords: ruins, arches, norman architecture, abbeys, greyscale

Places shown: Barrow-in-Furness; Cumbria; England

Added: 2010-10-01

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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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On the Serpentine The Circling Year (1870)

A night-time Winter scene in Victorian London: it’s the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, and it’s frozen over with ice. People are skatin, carrying burning torches to light their way; in the foreground a [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, ice, winter, holidays, skating, bridges, crowds, torchlight, roast chestnuts, people, trees, lakes, rivers, colour

Places shown: Hyde Park; London; England

Added: 2018-06-09

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Costumes, 1480 The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

Captions under the people in the picture read:Judge; Gentleman; Lady of rank; Courtier; Lady of quality.The room, unsurprisingly, is styled in the manner of the late fifteenth century; the clothes are [...]

Keywords: costumes, people, interiors, manors, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: England

Added: 2014-01-17

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Goodrich Castle Castles (1926)

Corner Tower“This castle alone, in the whole shire [Herefordshire], has remained fairly perfect, and shows some fine towers and walls. It lies on the [River] Wye, between Ross and Monmouth [...]. It [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, creeper, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Goodrich; Herefordshire; England

Added: 2004-05-08

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Monk Bar Red Book Of York (1901)

Monk Bar here is a gate (abarrier, if you will) that dates from the 14th century. The portcullis still works. I don’t know if Monk Bar Pharmacy is still there, with a post office and selling horse & [...]

Keywords: gateways, entrances, towers, colour

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2004-04-25

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XV.—Scala Regia, House of Lords. Monumental Architecture (1910)

Monumental Architecture. XV.—Scala Regia, House of Lords. Sir John Soane, Architect.The Scala Regia is the ante-room and gallery (corridor) at the House of Lords in Westminster; Sir John Soane design [...]

Keywords: interiors, ceilings, windows, entrances, stairs, steps, neoclassical, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-08-17

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The Tower of London Turrets Towers and Temples (1899)

The main keep (the White Tower) was probably build around 1070, so it’ll be having its thousandth birthday soon.

Keywords: castles, towers, colour

Places shown: London; Middlesex; England

Added: 2004-03-20

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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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Prestbury Old Hall The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

The best picture I could find online of this building (or what seems to be the same building) has a caption saying “it used to be the Priest’s House and is thought to date from the year 1498.” If thi [...]

Keywords: buildings, tudor architecture, architecture, windows, christmas, half-timbered, greyscale

Places shown: Prestbury; Cheshire; England

Added: 2006-08-31

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152. Swakeleys, Middlesex (cir. 1630). The Growth of the English House (1909)

If Inigo Jones made no use of a transitional style, others did so.Swakeleys in Middlesex (Fig. 152) is a case in point. Here mullioned windows are still retained, but the cornices, breaking out into p [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, architecture, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Ickenham; Midlesex; England

Added: 2011-02-26

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1532.—Interior of the Beauchamp Tower Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Beauchamp Tower in the Tower of London; the tower was built in the thirteenth century during the reign of King Edward I. It’s named after Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who was imprisoned ther [...]

Keywords: castles, interiors, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2005-08-17

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1534.—Hayes Farm, Devonshire Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Birthplace of Sir Walter Raleigh

Hayes Barton farm is in East Budleigh; there’s more information in theBudleigh Diary.

Keywords: manors, houses, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: East Budleigh; Devonshire; England

Added: 2003-11-09

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Overhang—Stokesay Castle England Beautiful (1936)

See the Location Search for other pictures of Stokesay Castle.

Keywords: windows, manors, greyscale

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2005-03-15

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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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Romsey Abbey Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

“It is a perfect Norman church, with only the two east windows and the three western bays added by later hands (thirteenth century). The massive piers of the nave arches remind one of Durham, the loft [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, colour

Places shown: Romsey; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-04-28

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Medmenham Abbey The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

Medmenham is among the prettiest places on the Thames, and the Abbey, bogus structure though it really is, makes a picturesque feature upon the bank. Here was a Cistercian House colonised, the second [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Medmenham; Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2011-03-31

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