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580. – Early English Turret, Lincoln.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
The individual images of Lincoln Cathedral are not called out in the text.Early Englishis an architectural term, meaning the English style of building with Gothic pointed arches that was used predomin [...]
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cathedrals, architecture, towers, spires, greyscale
Places shown:
Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England
Added: 2008-09-18
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584.—Bracket, Lincoln.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
A bracket, possibly a corbel supporting the end of an arch, in the form of a winged angel holding a shield with a cross on it.
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angels, statuary, carving, religion, spirit, christmas, greyscale
Places shown:
Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England
Added: 2008-12-09
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585.—Boss, Nave, Lincoln.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
A woodcut showing a medieval wooden boss, or decorative carving, in this case with a rose motif, used to cover a joint in the Nave of Lincoln Cathedral, possibly in the ceiling.I also made a somewhat [...]
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ornaments, architecture, carving, greyscale
Places shown:
Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England
Added: 2011-04-27
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Boss, Nave, Lincoln
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
I took th woodcut of thebosssnd coloured it as it might (or might not) have been painted.
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colour, art, carving, ornaments, architecture
Places shown:
Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England
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589.—Durham Cathedral.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
Durham Cathedral is aUNESCOworld heritage site today. It was built in the 11th century and so is almost a thousand years old. But it still works.partial alterations, improvements, and some important a [...]
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cathedrals, interiors, pillars, churches, people, shadows, light, greyscale
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Durham
Durham; England
Added: 2012-08-17
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734.—Stewkley Church, Buckinghamshire.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
Stewkley Churchis another of the fine old churches the era of whose erection is unknown. (Fig. 734.) Dr. Stukely mentions it as “the oldest and most entire he ever saw, undoubtedly before the Conques [...]
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churches, towers, norman architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale
Places shown:
Stewkley; Buckinghamshire; England
Added: 2011-01-03
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735.—St. Peter’s, Northampton.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
Vast stone pillars and semicircular arches, with the characteristic Norman zigzag decoration, identify this as a Norman building and indeed it’s from the early 12th century, between 1120 nd 1140. Sain [...]
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churches, interiors, norman architecture, pillars, arches, greyscale
Places shown:
Northampton; Northamptonshire; England
Added: 2014-01-29
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736.—Sanctuary, Westminster.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
From a sketch by Dr. Stukeley, before its destruction in 1775One of the most important events recorded in our annals in connection with the privilege of Sanctuary, furnishes us incidentally with a ver [...]
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buildings, castles, forts, ruins, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
Places shown:
Westminster; London; England
Added: 2012-09-25
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783.—Costume of the time of John.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
I do not know what the people are doing in this picture; it might be that the kneeling man is selling herbs to the man standing holding out coins.The costume of the Normans of both sexes was chiefly O [...]
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costumes, people, men, women, hats, robes, boots, greyscale
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none
Added: 2013-11-11
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784.—Horse Beating a Tabor.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
In Olde England (the Anglo-Norman period of about a thousand years ago) the horses used to play drums, especally at Christmas and other holidays. Or when marching to war: the text explains that the ho [...]
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horses, drums, musical instruments, christmas, animals, people, soldiers, whips, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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none
Added: 2010-12-16
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787.—Bob Apple.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
Bob-apple is a game in which an apple is hung by a string from the ceiling or other high piece, or put into a a bowl of water, and people have to eat it or pick it out of the bowl, allw ithout using t [...]
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people, games, christmas, xmas, greyscale
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none
Added: 2010-10-10
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790.—Costume of Norman English Ladies in 12th Century.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
The costume of the Normans of both sexes was chiefly Oriental, borrowed from the Crusades of this period (Figs. 783, 790). The most remarkable exception was the single knotted sleeve of the ladies, as [...]
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costumes, people, greyscale
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none
Added: 2010-05-03
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792.—Ancient Quintain.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
The sports of the [twelfth-century] Norman lords [...]the noble students of chivalry practised military sports, of which the principal was the quintain, in which the young man tilted with his lance at [...]
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sports, people, jousting, greyscale
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none
Added: 2011-05-12
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794.—Bowling.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
We have traces that the Norman-English delighted sometimes in sports more innocent [than bear-playing and cock-fighting]; we can fancy them sitting absorbed in the intellectual game of chess (Figs. 79 [...]
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games, people, bowling, greyscale
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none
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