Items in or near Warwick (results page 3)

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

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Christchurch College Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

Staircase to the hall at Christchurch College, Oxford
From an Etching by A. Brunet-Dubaines.

Keywords: stairs, interiors, vaulting, people, colleges, colour

Places shown: Christchurch College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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Whitley Court Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (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 COU [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, victorian excess, opunlence, columns, houses, parks, colour

Places shown: Witley Court; Great Witley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2020-11-01

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Berkeley Castle In 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

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Niches at Oriel Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: gothic, windows, entrances, statues, colleges, colour

Places shown: Oriel College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-04-13

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Oriel Street. Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

S. Paterson signed the engraving.

Keywords: colleges, streets, churches, people, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-06-03

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New Oxford and the Hundred Clerks England (1898)

I couldn’t find reference to the uprising referred to in this image. The 100 clerks, or friars perhaps, appear to be praying.

Keywords: people, religion, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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108. Bay Window at Thornbury Castle, Gloucester. The Growth of the English House (1909)

“Besides the simple and dignified forms which were chiefly used, there were a few cases in which the plan was more complicated, and in which it took one shape on the ground floor and another on the fl [...]

Keywords: windows, colour

Places shown: Thornbury; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2003-03-30

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Suckley, Worcestershire. Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by E. A. Chadwick.

A brick cottage, with a half-timbered part. A girl kneels and another person, probably a child, seems to be talking with her. Lots of trees.

Keywords: cottages, houses, people, children, trees, colour, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Suckley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-10-07

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The Gateway of St. John’s College Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by H. Toussaint.St. John’s College, Oxford, was founded in 1555, replacing an earlier college abolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The statue of St. Bernard [I think] o [...]

Keywords: colleges, gothic, arches, entrances, statues, people, greyscale

Places shown: St. John’s College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-08-29

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The Beauchamp Chapel Warwick and Leamington (1920)

Tombs of the founder and Robert Dudley, Earl of LeicesterThis tomb is (or was) in St. Mary’s Church, also known as Warwick High Church. George Morley writes (p.15)From the choir the silent mover in ‘ [...]

Keywords: colour, tombs, churches, windows

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-11-09

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Pershore, Worcestershire Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a [painting] by Wilmot Pilsbury. A bucolic pastoral scene of half-timbered english country cottages, complete with a hay-rick and a cattle barn, and a string of washing.

Pershore travel site

Keywords: colour, cottages, houses, buildings

Places shown: Pershore; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-11-01

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St John’s College Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.External link toSt. John’s Collegewebsite.St John’s College was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas White and named after St. John the Baptist (the patron saint of tailo [...]

Keywords: colleges, entrances, trees, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: St. John’s College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-02-29

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1314.—Northleach church, Gloucestershire Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Like many English churches, that at Northleach has been modified over the years. Although part of the aisle dates from the 12th century, most of the church is from the 14th and 15th centuries.[the ch [...]

Keywords: churches, windows, towers, gravestones, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Northleach; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2005-07-30

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Town Cross, Stocks and Whipping-Post, Ripple In Unfamiliar England (1910)

“Near the cross, relics of days when there were rogues in Ripple—sureley there are none now—are the oaken stocks and weather-beaten whipping-post.” (p. 132)Stocks were sometimes used to hold people be [...]

Keywords: punishments, stocks, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Ripple; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-16

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XXIV.—Wadham College, The Hall Interior (greyscale version) The Charm of Oxford (1920)

A black and white picture of the drawing of the interior of Wadham College, Oxford; there is also acolourversion; the original is actually printed in black but on yellowish paper with a dark purple ma [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, interiors, beams, mediaeval architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Wadham College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2013-06-26

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XXIV.—Wadham College, The Hall Interior The Charm of Oxford (1920)

Wadham is less altered than any other college in Oxford.It is the finest illustration of the fact that the Gothic style survived in Oxford when it was being rapidly superseded elsewhere.No building in [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, interiors, mediaeval architecture, page images, colour

Places shown: Wadham College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2013-06-24

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Porch of St. Mary’s Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: entrances, colleges, churches, pillars, people, gothic, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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Martyrs’ Memorial and St. Giles Oxford (1910)

Ridley and Latimer were burned to death here in the time of Archbishop Cranmer.

Keywords: monuments, towers, trees, colour, roads

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Leycester Hospital Warwick and Leamington (1920)

These buildings mostly date from the 1570s; the site previously belonged to the Guild of the Holy Trinity and St George which was formed in 1383. The BBC has apanoramic tour. This building has been u [...]

Keywords: houses, mediaeval, people, streets, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-11

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