Items taken from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (results page 15)

1048.—Hadley Church Tower and Beacon Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“On top of a turret at the South West angle of the tower is an iron cresset, fire pan or pitch-pot, an almost unique survivor of other days. It was erected by the monks to guide wayfarers crossing Enf [...]

Keywords: churches, towers, people, greyscale

Places shown: Hadley; London; England

Added: 2003-07-31

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1049.—Lutterworth Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Dedicated to St. Mary. John Wycliffe (John Wyclif, 1324-1384, bible translator) is buried here. The church clock was installed in 1862 and is therefore not shown in this engraving, which is was made [...]

Keywords: churches, trees, gravestones, churchyards, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Lutterworth; Leicestershire; England

Added: 2003-07-31

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1050.—Chilton Church, Oxfordshire. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An American visited and tooksome picturesof this clearly very photogenic village. The church itself was extensively renovated starting in 1847, and looks very different in the photographs!

Keywords: churches, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Chilton; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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1052.—St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Among the more important churches erected in the period of which we treat, that ofNewcastle-Upon-Tyneholds an honourable place (Fig. 1052). It crowns a bold eminence, and forms from every point of vi [...]

Keywords: spires, churches, towers, people, shops, streets, clocks, houses, christmas, colour

Places shown: Newcatle-upon-tyne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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1053.—Glasgow Cathedral. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“As St. Patrick’s Cathedral is the chief specimen of Gothic architecture in Ireland, so isGlasgow Cathedral(Fig. 1053) themost perfect relic of the kind in Scotland, or anywhere else, in the opinion o [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, towers, waterfalls, water, people, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Glasgow Glasgow; Scotland

Added: 2007-01-22

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1054.—Kelso. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Among the less distinguished classes of monachism [sic, meaning monasticism] that also sprang out of the original Benedictine, may be mentioned that to whichKelso Abbey, in the town of Kelso, Roxburg [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, towers, people, greyscale

Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-16

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1055.—St. Magnus, Kirkwall. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Reformation in Scotland, which had so nearly caused the destruction of Glasgow Cathedral, spared one other building of the same kind, and only one—the Cathedral ofSt. Magnus, at the seaport twn of [...]

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, buildings, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Kirkwall; Orkney Islands; Scotland

Added: 2010-04-10

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1056.—Jedburgh Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The Black Canons were introduced into Scotland about the same time as in England. One of their houses was atJedburgh, the inmates [sic] of which came from Beauvais in France, early in the twelfth cen [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, ruins, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Jedburgh; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-09-12

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1057.—South east View of Melrose Abbey Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Some of the general features of the great abbeys of the Cistercian order, that we have noticed in England, we find repeated in the Scottish housesMelroseandNew Abbey. The former, the mother Cistercia [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, ruins, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-06

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1058.—Melrose Abbey Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Francis Drake, writing in 1742, also observes “Mailross, I shall take it upon me to say, has been the most exquisite structure of the kind in either kingdom.” Lastly comes the poet, also pointing out [...]

Keywords: churches, abbeys, ruins, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-27

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1060.—Cathedral of Kildare. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“At Kildare, in ireland, still remain the relics of a small building in which, previous to the thirteenth century, the holy fire of St. Brigid used to be kept burning. It was suppressed at that period [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, ruins, arches, towers, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Kildare; County Kildare; Ireland

Added: 2007-03-15

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1140.—Library Chair, Reading Table, and Reading Desk (Royal MS. 15D iii.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The square-backed chair (Fig. 1146) was frequent in the mansions of the thirteenth century. In the fourteenth, they, and other articles combining household utility and elegance, were modified by the [...]

Keywords: royalty, scholars, pictures of books, furniture, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-19

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Book stand (Detail from Fig. 1140) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The book stand taken from Fig. 1140. Mediæval clip art. Or, for Americans, medieval clip art.

Keywords: pictures of books, books, furniture, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-19

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1141.—Bed. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Of the domestic furniture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the beds of the nobility (Figs. 1141, 1142) were most lavishly adorned. The simple form was that of a railed box, or crib;the “bra [...]

Keywords: furniture, beds, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-12

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1142.—Bed. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Of the domestic furniture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the beds of the nobility (Figs. 1141, 1142) were most lavishly adorned. The simple form was that of a railed box, or crib;the “bra [...]

Keywords: furniture, beds, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-25

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1143.—Mummers (Bodleian MS.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

On the far left a young mang with curly hair wears a plain robe or long tunic; he plays a lute or other stringed instrment. There are then, from left to right, a person wearing the head of a deer, a p [...]

Keywords: people, christmas, musical instruments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-29

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1144.—Quarter-staff (From the Old Ballad of Robin Hood and the Tanner.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Quarter-staff (Fig. 1144) was the glory of the stout old English peasant or yeoman, in which, as far as we can learn, he was without a competitor in any foreign nation.” (p. 334)Two men in a forest f [...]

Keywords: weapons, people, battles, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-08

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1145.—Playing at Draughts (Harleian MS. 4431) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two men in mediæval clothing [US: medieval] sit with a draughts [US: drafts or checkers] board balance between their knees. Two other men, one a knight in armour, the other perhaps a page boy, watch [...]

Keywords: knights, games, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-09

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1146.—Chair (Royal M.S. 14 E, iii.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The square-backed chair (Fig. 1146) was frequent in the mansions of the thirteenth century. In the fourteenth, they, and other articles combining household utility and elegance, were modified by the [...]

Keywords: furniture, chairs, people, writing, royalty, monks, scholars, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-19

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1147.—Hand Organ or Dulcimer, and Violin Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two men are shown with curly hair and mediæval clothing; the violinist wears a hat, a knee-length tunic split to the hip at the side, tight silk stockings and shoes with buckles. The dulcimer player w [...]

Keywords: musical instruments, music, people, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2005-12-20

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