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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Magdalen CloistersOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896) The tower is also featured in several paintings by Haslehust’s illustrations of Oxford. Keywords: colleges, cloisters, entrances, courtyards, creeper, gothic, churches, towers, people, arches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Magdalen College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2004-06-20 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | High StreetOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896) “Most old towns are like palimpsests, parchments which have been scrawled over again and again, by their successive owners. Oxford, though not one of the most ancient of English cities, shows, more le [...] Keywords: cities, buildings, streets, towns, colleges, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2006-04-26 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1506x2000, 151x200, 565x750, 753x1000 | 733.—Oxford Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The picture shows great stone pillars or columns supporting semicircular arches, tall ceilings, and, in the foreground, perhaps a choirmaster’s chair and a choir stall with two books seemingly strewn [...] Keywords: norman architecture, cathedrals, churches, interiors, arches, pillars, columns, church architecture, greyscale Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2025-04-13 + S K L R N |
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| 1073x848, 1431x1131, 253x200, 2861x2261, 750x593 | 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 + S K L R N |
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1014x1436, 154x200, 507x718, 558x725, 744x966, 992x1289 | Castle StreetOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896) From an Engraving by A. Brunet-Debaines. Keywords: streets, towns, buildings, people, carts, houses, greyscale Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2005-12-14 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1023x683, 1600x1200, 267x200 | Magdalen College From the CherwellOxford (1910) Magdalen Tower, rising 150 feet in exquisite proportion, and standing just where the Cherwell is spanned by the well-known bridge, is in the opinion of many the fairest sight in Oxford. [p. 9] Keywords: towers, water, bridges, churches, colour, colleges, wallpaper, backgrounds Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2004-04-01 + S K L R N |
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1064x712, 1419x950, 1892x1266, 299x200, 798x534 | 819.—Bridge at Evesham.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “ “About two miles and a half from Evesham is an elevated point near the village of Twyford, where the Alcester Road is crossed by another track. The [River] Avon is not more than a mile distant on e [...] Keywords: bridges, water, people, churches, christmas, greyscale Places shown: Evesham; Worcestershire; England Added: 2006-02-13 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1240x875, 200x141, 2480x1750, 283x200, 750x529 | Whitley CourtPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870) Witley Court was badly damaged by a fire in 1937, some 60 years after this picture was made. The description in the book tries hard, i think, to hide the writer’s disdain for the self-made. WHITLEY CO [...] Keywords: manors, stately homes, victorian excess, opunlence, columns, houses, parks, colour Places shown: Witley Court; Great Witley; Worcestershire; England Added: 2020-11-01 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1744x1213, 287x200, 750x522, 872x606 | Berkeley CastleIn Unfamiliar England (1910) “There are few English castles where the spirit of medievalism lingers as at Berkeley and few that have darker deeds recorded in their long annals of crime. [...] The castle, grim, many-towered, ivy-c [...] Keywords: castles, overgrown, towers, entrances, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Berkeley; Gloucestershire; England Added: 2007-09-18 + S K L R N |
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145x200, 529x727, 705x970, 940x1293 | 929.—North West View of Salisbury Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The bishopric of Salisbury was created by the union of the sets of Wilton and Sherbourne, which was done by order of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1075. [...] The ceremony of laying the found [...] Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, towers, spires, windows, gothic architecture, people, arches, roofs, greyscale Places shown: Salisbury; Wiltshire; England Added: 2011-06-11 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1004x1063, 189x200, 2007x2125 | 931.—Chapter House, Salisbury.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The chapter-house is 58 feet in diameter, internally, and 52 feet high to the vaulting. (p. 258) [...] The chapter-house (Fig. 931) is an interesting building. Internally it is very beautiful and hig [...] Keywords: interiors, cathedrals, windows, churches, religion, gothic architecture, arches, gothic arches, tracery, vaulting, vaulted ceilings, columns, mullions, greyscale Places shown: Salisbury; Wiltshire; England Added: 2018-10-18 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 934.—Gable Crosses.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Crosses from the gables at the ends of the roof of Salisbury Cathedral. There are three crosses in the picture, so I have marked it as being for Christmas, or for Epiphany or even Easter perhaps, beca [...] Keywords: crosses, stonework, gothic architecture, carving, christmas, xmas, easter, religion, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Salisbury; Wiltshire; England Added: 2012-12-01 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | The Long WalkThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897) “There remains to stroll in the famous Great Park, with its magnificent avenue of the Long Walk, three miles in length, flanked by its double lines of glorious elms, and terminating in the height of S [...] Keywords: trees, parks, roads, castles, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Windsor; Berkshire; England Added: 2006-09-09 + S K L R N |
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