Items in or near Lincoln (results page 3)

1023.—Howden Church Old 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 Wordsw [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, arches, cattle, animals, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Howden; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2006-02-12

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1023.—Howden Church (detail for use as computer desktop background image) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A detail taken from the engraving ofHowden 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: 2006-02-12

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Fountains Abbey Alt-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 theHistoric UKWeb site.The abbey was founded in 1139, some [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, churches, arches, windows, stonework, greyscale

Places shown: Aldfield; Ripon; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2022-06-03

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114. Village Churches of the Decorated Period: Whissendine, Rutland. Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

St. Andrew’s Church, Whissendine, Rutland; It dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, and has a 100-foot tall tower.

Keywords: churches, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Whissendine; Rutland; England

Added: 2011-01-08

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The Minster and Bootham Bar Red 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

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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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Methley Hall Old 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: 2005-08-24

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Methley Hall, Wallpaper Version Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A version of theMethley Hallcoloured 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 put [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, manors, colour, interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, furniture, wallpaper

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-08-24

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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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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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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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Stonegate Red Book Of York (1901)

Stonegate Shambles in York is today a pedestrian-only area. In the distance in this photograph is the ever-present York Minster.

Keywords: houses, streets, colour

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2004-04-25

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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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The Shambles Red Book Of York (1901)

The Shambles is the name of a famous narrow cobbled street in the city of York.

Keywords: cities, street scenes, cobbles, people, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2009-01-18

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Plate XXVI: Lincoln Cathedral. West Front. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

The See of Lincoln was formed in AD 678, but the first cathedral was destroyed in an earthquake in 1185. The present building dates from between AD 1255 and AD 1300, with late Normon, Lancet-Pointed a [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, people, churches, towers, colour

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2005-08-06

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2105.—East Basham, Norfolk Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Near Walsingham. “It is a curious and instructive contrast to compare with Herstmonceaux – a true Castle, but in which the domestic mansion was beginning to show itself – with East Basham Hall in Nor [...]

Keywords: manors, ruins, entrances, windows, colour

Places shown: Walsingham; Norfolk; England

Added: 1999-11-01

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Ely Cathedral Youth’s Instruction (1830)

“The first mention of a religious foundation at Ely occurs shortly after the introduction of Christianity into Britain, and especially into that part of the island called East Anglia, where Ethelbert, [...]

Keywords: churches, abbeys, people, horses, trees, towers, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Ely; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-04-07

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King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Sixteenth-Century chapel at King’s College in Cambridge University is famous not only for its music but also for its fabulous architecture. This 1845 engraving shows not only the amazing vaulted s [...]

Keywords: colour, interiors, chapels, architecture, windows, columns, religion, valuting, ceilings

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2014-01-31

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