Monastic and Baronial Remains: With Other Interesting Fragments of Antiquity, in England, Wales, and Scotland ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Abbeys |
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... Gateway , Sussex Wingfield Castle , Suffolk Worksop Priory , Nottinghamshire 43 113 109 The Publishers having been disappointed of Plates for the sub- jects marked , it is their intention to deliver them hereafter to the purchasers of ...
... Gateway , Sussex Wingfield Castle , Suffolk Worksop Priory , Nottinghamshire 43 113 109 The Publishers having been disappointed of Plates for the sub- jects marked , it is their intention to deliver them hereafter to the purchasers of ...
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... gateway in the street of Walsingham , leading to these ve- nerable ruins , still remains , through which the arch appears a striking and singular object * . In the town are the ruins of a priory , and four miles hence is the abbey ...
... gateway in the street of Walsingham , leading to these ve- nerable ruins , still remains , through which the arch appears a striking and singular object * . In the town are the ruins of a priory , and four miles hence is the abbey ...
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... gateway leads to the keep , which is here represented ; this entrance has been defend- ed by a ditch and portcullis . This castle belongs to Henry Bankes , Esq . of Kingston Hall , a descendant of the above mentioned owner . This View ...
... gateway leads to the keep , which is here represented ; this entrance has been defend- ed by a ditch and portcullis . This castle belongs to Henry Bankes , Esq . of Kingston Hall , a descendant of the above mentioned owner . This View ...
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... gateway and portcullis , and a round tower at each end . The other side of the square , which fronts the west , has also a round tower at each end . The three remaining sides , which complete the pentagon , are nearly equal , but ...
... gateway and portcullis , and a round tower at each end . The other side of the square , which fronts the west , has also a round tower at each end . The three remaining sides , which complete the pentagon , are nearly equal , but ...
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... gateway to the north - east is shaded by some fine ash trees . The part above described is repre- sented in this view . Brougham castle stands on the bor- ders of Westmoreland , two or three miles distant from Penrith . This View was ...
... gateway to the north - east is shaded by some fine ash trees . The part above described is repre- sented in this view . Brougham castle stands on the bor- ders of Westmoreland , two or three miles distant from Penrith . This View was ...
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abbot ABBOTSBURY ABBEY adjoining afterwards ancient annexed view antiquity appears arches ASTOR barons beautiful belonging Bishop BORTHWICK CASTLE building built canons castle celebrated chapel CHEPSTOW CASTLE command considerable crown delineated descended dissolution distance Duke Dunbar DUNBAR CASTLE DUNFERMLINE ABBEY Earl of Fife early east edifice Edward III elegant endowed entrance erected estates feet founder gate gateway Gothic granted ground HADDINGTONSHIRE hill John King Edward King Henry VIII land likewise Lord manor mansion miles monarch monastery monks Newark NEWARK CASTLE noble Norfolk NORTH BERWICK Orme & Brown ornamented palace Paternoster Row Pembroke PEMBROKE CASTLE PEMBROKESHIRE possessions present priory Pub by Longman reign of Henry reign of King religious house remains Richard Rieval river Robert roof round towers ruins Saxon Scotland SECOND VIEW side singular situated stone taken August taken September town View was taken Wales walls William WINGFIELD CASTLE WOLVESEY CASTLE
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Page 117 - Wentworth obtained the dignity of a peer of the realm, by the title of Lord Malton ; and in 173-1- he was created Marquis of Rockingham.
Page 94 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seem'd forms of giant height : Their armour, as it caught the rays, Flash'd back again the western blaze, In lines of dazzling light.
Page lv - Fourth, the jurors find, that the castle of Brougham and demesne thereunto belonging were worth nothing ; because they say it lieth altogether waste, by BROUGHAM CASTLE. reason of the destraction of the country, made by the Scots ; and that the whole profit of the castle and demesne is not sufficient for the reparation and safe keeping of the castle.
Page 58 - Camden says, the history of the Prophets, Apostles, and Disciples of Christ was very curiously described, with their several portraits upon the roof; and that Lord Sandes, the founder, was buried here. The...
Page 70 - Church is more extensive, and is now carefully preserved. The east end is most perfect, and through its thick covering of ivy, appear three lancet windows. Against the S. wall are a few small Gothic pillars and arches, and near them is a mutilated stone representing the head of a human figure. This ruin must not be confounded with that of Cwmhir Abbey in Radnorshire.
Page 141 - Kirkamstoun, and of two hospitals. So it is like, that Earl Duncan the Elder was the founder, and that the church had been originally the cell or kirk of a religious person called Campston, which was then dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary, and the hospital turned from the first use, and the rent applied to the monastery. I have seen King David's confirmation^ and that by King William, and one by Duncan Earl of Fife, and many other charters...
Page 35 - ... continued to inhabit her old quarters. ' Above forty years since,' says Davies, ' I saw at Mrs. Bracegirdle's house in Howard Street a picture of Mrs. Barry, by Kneller, in the same apartments with the portraits of Betterton and Congreve.' Hill's passionate prompter on the above occasion was the same Lord Mohun who fell in a duel with the Duke of Hamilton.
Page 117 - ... let you know, that if you please to walk away with your company, and deliver the house to such as I shall send to receive it, you shall have liberty to carry off your arms and goods, and such other necessaries as you have.
Page 125 - THIS chapel was a beautiful gothic building; it was forty-three feet long, eighteen broad, and eighteen high. At the west end there was a tower, nineteen feet square, and, as is supposed before its fall, about forty feet high. The doors, windows, and roof were gothic: the last consisted of three compartments. A handsome stone seat projected from the eastern end; but the whole has been greatly dilapidated within the memory of persons now living.
Page 27 - at Aldbury, afterwards called Newark, New Place, or De Novo Loco juxta Guildford, in the time NO. 805. of King Richard the First, or before, Ruald de Calver and Beatrix de Sandes his wife, built a church of Black Canons to the honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Thomas of Canterbury" (rather an odd association by the way).