Items taken from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (results page 10)

Chantry Chapel, Warwick Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This beautiful engraving, printed in colour using multiple plates, shows the stone ceiling, a tiled floor, an arched entrance-way, a stained-glass window, a church-warden’s chest, a seat and a reading [...]

Keywords: colour, chapels, interiors, churches, castles, windows, furniture

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2010-10-30

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Painted Window. Two Saxon Earls of Mercia, And Seven Norman Earls of Chester. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A reproduction in colour of a sixteenth-century painted glass window showing various earls and barons of Chester.Brereton Hall, in Cheshire, was built in the reign of Elizabeth, by Sir William Brereto [...]

Keywords: windows, royalty, people, costumes, knights, crowns, swords, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-04

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379.—Carlisle Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The knights arrive on horseback over the bridge and into the castle walls. Carlisle castle was built in 1090 on the site of an older Roman fortress.The Castle ofCarlislewas founded by William Rufus. [...]

Keywords: castles, knights, towers, battlements, bridges, greyscale

Places shown: Carlisle; Cumberland; England

Added: 2012-04-19

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Decorative Cap “T” With Flowers Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A floriated initial letter capital “T” used as a 14-line drop cap at the start of a chapter. Drop capitals should normally align exactly with the the baseline of thenth line of text, but this design d [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-21

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381.—St. Mary’s Chapel, Hastings Cliff Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Hastings Castle was built by William the Conqueror in 1070 or so, together with the chapel of St. Mary. Coastal erosion, and, later, French attacks, meant there wasn’t much left by 1400. After the Di [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, arches, churches, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hastings; Kent; England

Added: 2011-06-17

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382.—Alnwick Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A dramatic view of Alnwick Castle in a storm, with its towers, castle walls and battlements standing high on the hillside. The wood engraving is signed J. W. Whimper; this is the same person as J. W. [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, bridges, water, battlements, hills, views, storms, greyscale

Places shown: Alnwick; Northumberland; England

Added: 2011-06-09

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383.—Rock of Bamborough with Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There has been a settlement here for at Bamborough for hundreds of years; a castle was mentioned here in the year 547, but was probably over 100 years old even then. That castle was destroyed by Viki [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, battlements, walls, cliffs, animals, cattle, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Bamburgh; Northumberland; England

Added: 2014-07-03

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389.—Ruins of reading Abbey in 1721. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Reading Abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I; it became very wealthy, no doubt in part because of the corruption that was endemic to the Roman Catholic Church. At the Dissolution of the Monasteri [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, people, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2005-05-22

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Plate 3.—Rochester Castle.—Interior. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two men stand on a ruined wall and peer into the Keep; the men are brightly dressed. The castle here today was built inA.D. 1080and the keep is also called Gundolph’s Tower after its builder.English H [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, colour, people

Places shown: Rochester; Kent; England

Added: 2012-05-22

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390.—Cardiff Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

as it appeared in 1775.First built around 1090, Cardiff castle was extensively rebuilt in the 19th Century.Cardiff Castle Web site“Fortunate was it for the country when a prince arose of such decided [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, birds, trees, water, boats, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cardiff; Glamorgan; Wales

Added: 2004-03-18

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395.—Rougemont Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Rougemont Castle is on a natural volcanic hill in Exeter. See alsoNorthernhay Gardens, Exeter

Keywords: castles, towers, ruins, people, greyscale

Places shown: Exeter; Devonshire; England

Added: 2003-03-20

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396.—Tower of Oxford Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There are more pictures of Oxford byLangand alsoHaslehust.

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, trees, people, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-03-20

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397.—Oxford Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Oxford Castle, as it appeared in the Fifteenth Century.

Keywords: castles, towers, people, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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398.—Norwich Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Vol I, p.398, figs 308 and 389: Norwich Castle

Keywords: castles, colour

Places shown: Norwich; Norfolk; England

Added: 2002-09-30

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399.—Norwich Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“[...] Hugh Bigod, who had sworn that Henry had appointed Stephen his successor, was the first to hold out against the king in the Castle of Norwich, which his ancestor had built. Norwich was a regul [...]

Keywords: castles, people, trees, arches, greyscale

Places shown: Norwich; Norfolk; England

Added: 2003-08-31

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400.—Winchester Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The successor ofHenry Beauclerkwas also an usurper. The rival pretensions of Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda filled the land with bloodshed and terror for nineteeen years. From the north to [...]

Keywords: views, churches, trees, cities, cityscapes, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-06

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415.—Entrance to Warwick Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[Piers] Gaveston endeavoured to defend himself in Scarborough Castle (of which the crumbling ruins now only remain, Fig. 919), while the king went to York to seek an army for his relief. But before a [...]

Keywords: towers, entrances, castles, battlements, arches, trees, moats, people, greyscale

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2022-01-29

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Interior of the Temple Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Temple Church was built by (orfor) the Knights Templar in London in the 12th Century. Some time after the Knights Templar were destroyed (in 1307) the temple was given by Edward II to the Knights [...]

Keywords: interiors, colour, churches, people, ceilings, columns, arches, pillars, costumes

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-08-13

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416.—Warwick Castle, Guy’s Tower Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is a rare consolation for the lover of his country’s monuments, to turn from castles made into prisons, and abbeys into stables, to such a glorious relic of ‘Old England’ as Warwick Castle. Who c [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-03-07

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418.—Ancient Statue of Guy at Guys Cliff Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is Guy of Warwick, mentioned in some of the Robin Hood stories.

Guy’s Cliffis pretty ruined now. It’s between Warwick and Coventry.

Keywords: statues, people, colour

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

Added: 2003-03-20

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