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Leibourn Castle, Kent, Plate 1The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

Pub 10th Sept. 1784. by S. Hooper. R Godfrey Sc. Leibourn Castle (Plate I.) “This castle takes its name from the parish and manor of Laborne, or Leibourn, wherein it stands; and which is situated towa [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, people, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Leybourne; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-19

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30.—Sculpture from the entrance to the chapter house, Westminster Abbey (1250)Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

“Examples abound, but both for beauty and accessibility we can refer to no better example than the carving which enriches the entrance to the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey (Fig. 30).” (p. 68) Car [...]

Keywords: statuary, people, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster Abbey; Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-08-08

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71. Penshurst Place, KentThe 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 ori [...]

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

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-08-04

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New Post Office, LondonYouth’s Instruction (1830)

“March 1830. The New Post-Office, London. (With an Engraving) The magnificent building recently opened as the new metropolitan Post-Office is situated near the junction of Cheapside and Newgate-stree [...]

Keywords: columns, neoclassical, carriages, horses, people, streets, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2005-08-19

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736.—Sanctuary, Westminster.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

From a sketch by Dr. Stukeley, before its destruction in 1775 One of the most important events recorded in our annals in connection with the privilege of Sanctuary, furnishes us incidentally with a ve [...]

Keywords: buildings, castles, forts, ruins, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2012-09-25

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The Stocks. MonktonEngland’s Outpost (1930)

Outside the wall of the churchyard, the village stocks still stand in their original position, which duly exposed its unfortunate occupants to the notice of the traffic on the village road. (p. 80) We [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, churches, drawings, pillories, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Monkton; Kent; England

Added: 2025-07-15

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814.—Henry III From his Tomb in Westminster Abbey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A portrait of King Henry III, based on the effigy of him on his tomb, which is in Westminster Abbey.

Keywords: portraits, royalty, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2007-10-08

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Ostenhanger House, Kent, Plate IThe 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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Heralds’ CollegeLondon (Volume VI) (1841)

The engraving shows the building before it was remodeled in the 1860s. There is nothing worthy of much in the edifice itself, which is composed of brick, and has a rather gloomy appearance. Passing t [...]

Keywords: buildings, exteriors, windows, courtyards, arches, doors, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2025-05-03

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The Chapel of St. Pancras in St. Augustine’s Monastery, CanterburyThe 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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92. Horham HallThe 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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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, castleschurches, towers, carriages, people, children, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2019-10-31

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93. Horham HallThe 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, [...]

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

Places shown: Horham; Essex; England

Added: 2003-08-04

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The Tower of LondonEngland (1898)

“London [...] was secured [for William] by the erection of a fortress which afterward grew into the Tower, but William desired to reign not as a conqueror but as a lawful king. At Christmas [A.D. 1066 [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, castles, towers, sails, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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Lantern-carrierLondon (Volume I) (1841)

A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right. ‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle li [...]

Keywords: people, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-12-15

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WatchmenLondon (Volume I) (1841)

Two men in long winter cloaks walk the night-time streets of London, each carrying a lantern. One also has a hand-bell and both have spears. The image is credited to “Dekker, 1616.” Stow says that in [...]

Keywords: people, watchmen, lanterns, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-12-19

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1048.—Hadley Church Tower and BeaconOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“On top of a turret at the South West angle of the tower is an iron cresset, fire pan or pitch-pot, an almost unique survivor of other days. It was erected by the monks to guide wayfarers crossing Enf [...]

Keywords: churches, towers, people, greyscale

Places shown: Hadley; London; England

Added: 2003-07-31

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109. Window from Sir Paul Pindar’s House, Bishopsgate.The Growth of the English House (1909)

Now in the Victoria and Albert Musem [London]. Bishopsgate Street is in London.

Keywords: windows, colour

Places shown: Bishopgate; London; England

Added: 2003-03-30

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Orange Court – Drury LaneLondon (1872)

People sit in the streets in a narrow alley; a barefoot girl carries a child; washing hangs out to dry. On our way to the City on the tide of Labor we light upon places in which the day is never aired [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, street scenes, bare feet, children, greyscale

Places shown: Drury Lane; London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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1150.—The Coronation of Henry IVOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The coronation ceremony shown here, at which Henry IV was crowned and became King Henry IV, took place at Westminster Abbey in October 1399. The engraving (almost certainly on wood) is signed J. Johns [...]

Keywords: religion, royalty, people, events, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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