Items in or near Warwick (results page 4)

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

From an Etching by R. Kent Thomas.“It appears that [Queen’s College] was also anxious to pull down the chamber of King Henry V. This is a strange craze for destruction, that some time ago endangered [...]

Keywords: colleges, bridges, arches, people, colour

Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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1951.—Battle at Worcester Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

At top – View of Worcester. (From an old [as of 1845] Print.) The battle was fought on the foreground meadows. In the centre, the flight of [King] Charles before the Parliamentary Soldiers; designed [...]

Keywords: battles, horses, weapons, churches, towers, houses, towns, horses, greyscale

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2004-04-14

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Iffley Mill Oxford (1910)

“Close by [Christ Church] meadow the college barges line the banks of the Isis, and then come other meadows on either side – meadows nameless and indignified by pageantry, but sacred to Oxford’s speci [...]

Keywords: trees, water, grass, colour, mills

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Edgar’s Gateway, Worcester The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

The engraving (signedWhymper) is of Edgar Tower, also known as St Mary’s Gate, an arched and defended stone tower guarding a gateway in the city wall. It was thought to have been build in the 10th Ce [...]

Keywords: gates, towers, entrances, people, windows, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-14

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2085.—[Samuel] Butler’s House, Pershore Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The picture shows the house where Samuel Butler (1613 – 1680), the English poet, was born. It is a farmhouse like many others from the period in England, with a thatched roof and brick chimneys. it ha [...]

Keywords: houses, farmhouses, samuel butler, hudibras, exteriors, buildings, cottages, poets, people, greyscale

Places shown: Strensham; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2018-01-25

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The East Gate, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

...the beholder now looks down a narrow street, on each side of which here and there are dwelling-houses preserving their Elizabethan aspect, and at the further end of which, looming up like the backg [...]

Keywords: towns, streets, churches, spires, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-12-02

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Church of St.Mary, Redcliffe(bg) Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Version cropped for use as a wallpaper (screen background for computer desktop)

Keywords: churches, spires, towers, trees, arches, windows, cityscapes, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Redcliffe; Bristol; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Admiral Sir William Pen (1621 – 70), son of Giles Penn of Redcliffe, was buried at St Mary Redcliffe Church. He was a squadron commander in Cromwell’s Navy. He received Pennsylvania as a land grant in [...]

Keywords: churches, spires, towers, trees, arches, windows, cityscapes, christmas, colour

Places shown: Redcliffe; Bristol; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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Martyrs Memorial Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

“In Broad Street, under the windows of Balliol, there is a small stone cross in the pavement. This marks the place where, some years ago, a great heap of wooden ashes was found. These ashes were the [...]

Keywords: monuments, spires, religion, statuary, boys, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-04-30

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2271.—Oxford from the Abingdon Road. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“If in one of those magic freaks of which eastern tales are so full, a person who had never seen Oxford or Cambridge, nor paid much attention to aught he might have read about them, were set down just [...]

Keywords: views, people, cities, cityscapes, water, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-03-18

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Hall of Christ Church College Oxford Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Christchurch, you have no doubt heard, is the richest, most magnificent, and most celebrated of all the collegiate establishments of Oxford. It is the especial resort of the sons of the richest gentr [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, interiors, people, ceilings

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-11-06

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A Saxon Mill England Beautiful (1936)

This is instantly recognizable as the Saxon Mill at Guy’s Cliffe in Warwickshire; it’s mentiontd in the Domesday Book, and there’s a stone dated 1060 by the door, although the mill was running (it’s s [...]

Keywords: mills, buildings, trees, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2009-11-22

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Fisher Row and Remains of Oxford Castle Oxford (1910)

The square tower in the background is part of the remains of Oxford Castle.

Keywords: castles, houses, water, bridges, canals, people, roads, colour, trees

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Old Episcopal Palace. Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

Tudor houses with mullioned windows; I think that this building is not mentioned in the text.

Keywords: buildings, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2008-07-11

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View at Leicester Desiderata (1779)

The caption reads as follows:“1. The Rialto Bridge of one Arch over which K[ing] Richard 3d was carried into the Grey Friers to be buried, which Bridge is now walled up and disused.2. The Place where [...]

Keywords: bridges, people, soldiers, knights, weapons, battles, greyscale

Places shown: Leicester; Leicestershire; England

Added: 2005-08-10

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The Cottages, Worcester College Gardens Oxford (1910)

Not a little has the modern revival of gardening, which has brought back the old herbaceous border, added to the charm of cottage gardens.[p. 25]

Keywords: houses, flowers, people, trees, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Guy’s Cliffe Mill, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

Let all fair pilgrims note the postern door in the stone wall of the Cliffe grounds, near the picturesque Saxon Mill, with its decorative wooden balcony, where John Ruskin loved to linger, listening t [...]

Keywords: people, buildings, trees, water, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-12-15

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The Old Clarendon Building, Broad Street Oxford (1910)

...the Clarendon Building with its lofty pillared porch, where once the University Press was housed.[p. 30]

Keywords: buildings, towns, colour, roads, carts, streets

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Guy’s Cliffe, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“The Coventry road to Guy’s Cliffe is a royal and a literary road. Kings, queens, princes, poets, painters and authors have trodden it; also that luckless King’s favourite, Piers Gaveston, whose come [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-12

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Magdalan Bridge and Tower Oxford (1910)

Magdalan 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 fariest sight in Oxford.[p. 9]

Keywords: bridges, towers, churches, water, boats, flowers, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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