The Salisbury Guide: Comprising the History and Antiquities of Old Sarum, and the Origin and Present of New Sarum Or SalisburyJ. Easton, 1830 - 94 pages |
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... window projecting f.om the great room to the east . The principal entrance is on the north side , by a flight of steps leading to the door , through a noble façade , consisting of four columns of the Doric or- der , and crowned by its ...
... window projecting f.om the great room to the east . The principal entrance is on the north side , by a flight of steps leading to the door , through a noble façade , consisting of four columns of the Doric or- der , and crowned by its ...
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... window of this Church represents the ' Ascension of our blessed Saviour ; the figure is designed from the celebrated Transfiguration of Raphael , the chief d'œuvre of that immortal artist ; landscape is from a no less eminent picture of ...
... window of this Church represents the ' Ascension of our blessed Saviour ; the figure is designed from the celebrated Transfiguration of Raphael , the chief d'œuvre of that immortal artist ; landscape is from a no less eminent picture of ...
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... window , reflect the highest honor on Mr. Eginton , who seems to have brought the art of painting on glass to its ancient perfection . The side windows are in Mosaic , and are most chastely ima- gined . These splendid windows were ...
... window , reflect the highest honor on Mr. Eginton , who seems to have brought the art of painting on glass to its ancient perfection . The side windows are in Mosaic , and are most chastely ima- gined . These splendid windows were ...
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... windows are not made too great , nor yet the light obstructed with any mullions or transoms of tracery work , which was the ill - fashion of the next following age ; our Artist knew better , that nothing could add beauty to light ; he ...
... windows are not made too great , nor yet the light obstructed with any mullions or transoms of tracery work , which was the ill - fashion of the next following age ; our Artist knew better , that nothing could add beauty to light ; he ...
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... Windows at the east end are all of painted glass ; the subjects are , The Elevation of the Brazen Ser- pent , and the Resurrection . The former was a gift of the Earl of Radnor in the year 1781 , designed by the late Mr. Mortimer , and ...
... Windows at the east end are all of painted glass ; the subjects are , The Elevation of the Brazen Ser- pent , and the Resurrection . The former was a gift of the Earl of Radnor in the year 1781 , designed by the late Mr. Mortimer , and ...
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aisles Amesbury ancient antiquity appears arches architecture beautiful Bishop Bishop of Salisbury Bishop's Palace building built Camden celebrated Chancellor Chapel Chapter-House Choir Chough Clarendon Clarendon Palace Cloister Coach College of Vaulx conjecture Cross Dean died Ditto inside Earl of Radnor east Edmund eight eminent entrance erected executed feet Fonthill Abbey formerly four gardens gate Gothic Harnham Harnham Bridge Hospital hundred inhabitants Ivy Church John King Edward King Henry King Henry II late Longford Castle Longleat Lord marble Martin Mayor ment miles monument nave niches noble Old Saresbyri Old Sarum original ornamented parish pillars Poultry-Cross principal reign of King remains remarkable Richard Poor river Avon roof Salisbury Cathedral SARUM or SALISBURY seat SECT side sixpence per week Spire stone STONEHENGE Stourhead ther Thomas Thomas à Becket tion tower Tuesday and Saturday vaulted wall Wardour Wardour Castle William Wilton Wilton House Windows
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Page 30 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 60 - As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in one church we see ; As many marble pillars there appear, As there are hours throughout the fleeting year ; As many gates as moons one year do view : Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true.
Page 25 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:
Page 61 - In the statutes of the archiépiscopal cathedral of Tulles, given in the year 1497, it is said, that during the celebration of the festival of the boy-bishop, " MORALITIES were presented, and shews of MIRACLES, with farces and other sports, but compatible with decorum.
Page 48 - Ailes; as for the vault of the Navis, both sides are equally supported, and propped up from the spreading by the Bows or flying Buttresses, which rise from the outward Walls of the...
Page 78 - Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.
Page 48 - Ailes, they are indeed supported on the outside by the buttresses, but inwardly they have no other stay but the pillars themselves, which (as they are usually proportioned) if they stood alone without the weight above, could not resist the spreading of the Ailes one minute. True indeed, the great load above the walls and vaults of the Navis, should seem to confirm the pillars in their perpendicular station, that there should be no need of the butment inward; but experience hath...
Page 68 - Carnarvan; before them Lady MARY, Daughter of George Duke of Buckingham, and Wife to Charles Lord Herbert-, and above in the Clouds are two Sons and a Daughter who died young.
Page 47 - ... taken down, in order to be re-edified in the new taste ; or had additions patched to them of this mode of architecture. The present cathedral church of Salisbury was begun early in this reign, and finished in the year 1258. It is entirely in the Gothic style, and, according to Sir -Christopher Wren, may be justly accounted one of the best patterns of architecture of the age in which it was built. Its excellency is undoubtedly in a great measure owing to its being constructed on one plan ; whence...
Page 11 - Sarum to remove their cathedral to the vale, in these words : " Old Sarum is a place exposed to the wind, barren, dry, and solitary : a tower is there, as in Siloam, by which the inhabitants have for a long time been enslaved.