Pleasure Excursions: as Guides for Making Day's Excursions on the Eastern Counties, South-Eastern [and Other] Railways1847 - Great Britain |
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... visitor is at once conducted into the ante- chamber of the picture gallery , the two being open to each other through Ionic pillars . The ante - chamber is dark and gloomy , the picture gallery a blaze of brightness and rich colouring ...
... visitor is at once conducted into the ante- chamber of the picture gallery , the two being open to each other through Ionic pillars . The ante - chamber is dark and gloomy , the picture gallery a blaze of brightness and rich colouring ...
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... visitor . The insertion of windows generally throughout the exterior- especially square - headed ones , identifying extensive changes with the Tudor times , and the panelled buttresses at the south front , are all evidences of this ...
... visitor . The insertion of windows generally throughout the exterior- especially square - headed ones , identifying extensive changes with the Tudor times , and the panelled buttresses at the south front , are all evidences of this ...
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... visitors from taking up their residence in it , for ever so short a time . The people and their houses seem to retain something of the look of their ancient collieries . This spot was the site of the Croydon charcoal burners , who ...
... visitors from taking up their residence in it , for ever so short a time . The people and their houses seem to retain something of the look of their ancient collieries . This spot was the site of the Croydon charcoal burners , who ...
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... visitor that the little turretted building on the site is modern , erected by a late tenant of the property . On Site of the Castle . Before proceeding to the church , which is eastward , and the hill , the " Beaulieu " of Reigate ...
... visitor that the little turretted building on the site is modern , erected by a late tenant of the property . On Site of the Castle . Before proceeding to the church , which is eastward , and the hill , the " Beaulieu " of Reigate ...
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... The The Castle . Semaphore . St. Mary's Church . St. Nicholas ' Church.p The visitor should betake himself to the banks of the. VIEW FROM THE TOWING PATH . High - street , looking west on to the Hog's. 2 PLEASURE EXCURSIONS .
... The The Castle . Semaphore . St. Mary's Church . St. Nicholas ' Church.p The visitor should betake himself to the banks of the. VIEW FROM THE TOWING PATH . High - street , looking west on to the Hog's. 2 PLEASURE EXCURSIONS .
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Page 5 - The lofty tower, with the grated door and porter's lodge beneath it, the retired ambulatory, the separate cells, the common refectory, the venerable church, the black flowing dress and the silver cross worn by the members, the conventual appellation of brother, with which they salute each other ; in short, the silence, the order, and the neatness, that here reign, serve to recall the idea of a monastery to those who have seen one, and will give no imperfect idea of such an establishment to those...
Page 7 - Others are in the horse-shoe form, of which the entrance into the north porch is the most antique specimen. In one place we have a curious triangular arch. The capitals and bases of the columns alternately vary in their form, as well as in their ornaments. The same circumstance is observable in the ribs of the arches, especially in the north and south aisles; some of them being plain, and others profusely embellished, and in different styles, even within the same arch.
Page 7 - ... 120 feet, and a large square tower over the intersection. It is entirely the work of De Blois, except the front and upper story of the west end, which are of a...
Page 7 - ... when she composed her hands to play and her voice to sing, it was joined with that sweetness of countenance that three harmonies concurred ; likewise, when she danced, her rare proportions varied themselves into all the graces that belong either to rest or motion.
Page 5 - They had also a pottage called mortrel, made of milk and wastelbred, a dish of flesh or fish, as the day should require, and a pittance for their dinner, likewise one dish for their supper. Besides these thirteen resident poor men, the foundation required that one hundred others, the most indigent that could be found in the city, but of good characters, should be provided every day with a loaf of bread, three quarts of small beer, and two messes for their dinner, in a hall appointed for this purpose,...