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1024x768, 1280x800, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 267x200, 640x480 | Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep PetersfieldOld English Country Cottages (1906) STEEP, HAMPSHIRE. From a water-colour drawing by Walter Tyndale. The only district where stone-slated roofs were hipped was in the heart of the tile counties. Here there are a number, the builders me [...] Keywords: cottages, art, houses, roofs, chimneys, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England Added: 2012-10-30 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view]Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936) The treatment of the eaves illustrates a very characteristic, though by no means invariable Norman feature, namely, the corbel table, a series of prjecting stones at intervals, carrying a continuous c [...] Keywords: churches, norman architecture, arches, towers, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England Added: 2010-08-10 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936) Clerestories.—Those Norman churches which were built with aisles seem all to have had clerestories. I do not know of a Norman nave with original aisles without some indication that there was a cleres [...] Keywords: churches, interiors, religion, buildings, columns, pillars, arches, pews, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England Added: 2010-08-10 + S K L R N |
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| 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | The Lion Gates, Hampton CourtThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897) Hampton Court Palace was built by Cardinal Wolsey, starting in 1514, although some time in the 1520s it became the property of King Henry VIII. The Lion Gates are at the Bushey Park entrance to the Pa [...] Keywords: gates, entrances, statues, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: East Molesey; Surrey; England Added: 2006-01-19 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Hastings: The Castle.Round The Coast (1895) From a Photo. by Poulton & Son. “HASTINGS.—Hastings Castle stands on the brink of the cliff, and presents the most striking view to be found in Sussex. Its principal entrance was necessarily on the la [...] Keywords: ruins, castles, arches, beaches, views, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Hastings; Sussex; England Added: 2006-12-20 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 124x200, 542x872, 723x1164, 965x1552 | The Birthplace of Charles DickensThe Leisure Hour (1904) 1 Mile End Terrace, Portsea (now [i.e. 1904] 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth) (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) The magazine (Leisure Hour, 1904) contains several illustrations from The Dicke [...] Keywords: birthplaces, houses, buildings, windows, dickens, greyscale Places shown: Portsmouth; Hampshire; England Added: 2006-10-08 + S K L R N |
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1024x702, 1751x1200, 292x200, 3443x2359 | Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)The Leisure Hour (1904) Gad’s Hill Place, Near Rochester [Kent]; The home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870. The prinetd photograph also has the captions, (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) and, Photochrom Co., Lt [...] Keywords: houses, buildings, trees, creepers, dickens, greyscale Places shown: Gads Hill Place; Higham-by-Rochester; Kent; England Added: 2014-08-07 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1125x903, 1499x1204, 249x200, 843x677 | 565.—Canterbury Cathedral, South Side.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “Look at Canterbury. How many changes of architectural taste are not there visible; how many different periods of are history may not be there traced: yet is the effect anywhere discordant?—Oh, he wer [...] Keywords: churches, cathedrals, buildings, towers, windows, greyscale Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England Added: 2006-08-24 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1019x1347, 151x200, 611x808, 815x1077 | 567.—Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “[...] an ancient chair in the chapel of the Holy Trinity, formed also of grey marble, in pieces, which is used for the enthronization of the Archbishops of the See, and which, sayeth tradition, was t [...] Keywords: chairs, furniture, interiors, cathedrals, churches, arches, windows, greyscale Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England Added: 2006-08-26 + S K L R N |
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106x200, 1084x2048, 325x614, 434x819, 542x1024 | 568.—Capital and base, S.E. Transept, CanterburyOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A column, or stone pillar, in Canterbury Cathedral. Keywords: pillars, architecture, greyscale Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England Added: 2006-10-28 + S K L R N |
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1650x1122, 2201x1496, 294x200, 928x631 | 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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | A Glade in the New ForestMemorials of Hampshire. (1906) (From a Photograph by F. G. Short, Lyndhurst) Frederick Golden Short died in 1936, 70 years ago, in the UK; this images is therefore out of copyright and I place the scanned image in the public domain [...] Keywords: paths, forests, trees, spooky, colour Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England Added: 2003-04-28 + S K L R N |
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1032x1522, 136x200, 581x857, 774x1142 | 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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 142x200, 1750x2472, 531x750, 875x1236 | 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 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 200x150, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1026x663, 1368x884, 1857x1200, 310x200, 684x442 | 86.—Pevensey CastleSussex Painted (1906) “The Rape of Pevensey is of a curious shape. [Sussex is divided into six regions called Rapes] It narrows somewhat towards the middle and bulges out towards the top, or north end. This appears to be t [...] Keywords: castles, ruins, roman remains, trees, water, towers, colour Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England Added: 2005-09-02 + S K L R N |
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![43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howard-MediaevalEnglishChurches/pages/043-cliffe-church-kent/043-cliffe-church-kent-q82-267x200.jpg "43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view] 1936")
![43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howard-MediaevalEnglishChurches/pages/044-cliffe-church-kent-interior/044-cliffe-church-kent-interior-q85-267x200.jpg "43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view] 1936")
