A Walk Through Southampton: Including a Survey of Its AntiquitiesT. Baker & Simpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1841 - 78 páginas |
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A Walk Through Southampton: Including a Survey of Its Antiquities Sir H. C. Englefield,John Bullar Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 51 - ... near the miller's house ; and the bailiff then takes possession of the fair, as chief magistrate in its precinct during the fair, and invites the Mayor and his suite to a collation in his tent. He appoints a guard of halberdiers who keep the peace by day, and watch the fair by night. During the fair no person can be arrested for debt within its precincts. On the Wednesday at noon, the Mayor dissolves the fair, by taking down the pole and glove, or rather ordering it to be taken down; which at...
Página 57 - ... construction. It is conjectured that the side of the town, protected as it was by the Castle, and covered by the sea, was not at all, or but very slightly, fortified, until the fatal experience of the sack of the town by the French * proved that some further defence was necessary.
Página 40 - ... something like a griffin, except one, which has an angel in a long robe of linen, covered with a shorter tunic; his hands are folded on his heart, and round his head is the nimbus or glory ; behind his shoulders are two wings, which reach to his feet. These sides are one foot one inch and a half deep ; the remaining four Inches and a half of the thickness of the block slope away to the central cylinder in a sort of fluting or broad leaves, now much defaced. The workmanship of the whole is in...
Página 51 - Beach." " Near its eastern extremity," he remarks, " is the Cross House and Itchen Ferry ; the former is a small round structure with four divisions or apartments opposite to the principal points of the compass, and intended for the accommodation of passengers waiting for the Ferry-boat. In one of the quarters are the arms of Southampton with the date 1634, but parts of the building are apparently much older.
Página 40 - Font stands against the wall, are each divided into three circular compartments, with a sort of winged minotaur in each, something like a griffin, except one, which has an angel in a long robe of linen, covered with a shorter tunic; his hands are folded on his heart, and round his head is the nimbus or glory ; behind his shoulders are two wings, which reach to his feet. These sides are one foot one inch and a half deep...
Página 40 - ... and the angles are filled with an imitation of the ancient ornament, now generally called the honeysuckle. The sides of the Font, of which three only are now visible, as the Font stands against the wall, are each divided into three circular compartments, with a sort of winged minotaur in each, something like a griffin, except one, which has an angel in a long robe of linen, covered with a shorter...
Página 40 - The whole stands on another marble block, three feet square, and about seven inches deep, out of which arc cut bases for the small columns, consisting of a flat ring on a large round cushion. These rest on a plain square plinth of about three inches high. A plain leaf falls from the bases of the columns, on each angle of the plinth. The top stone is excavated into...
Página 67 - ... about two feet thick, had been erected, seemingly as a sort of strengthening to the rampart of earth.
Página 67 - The Roman wall itself is singular in its construction. Its height cannot be ascertained. Its thickness is about nine feet, and its materials flint, faced very roughly with square small stones, and a bending course of large flat bricks running through its interior part; but it is extraordinary that it has no foundation whatever, but is literally set down on the surface of the ground, and is therefore undermined by the waters of the Itchen, which only reach it at spring tides.
Página 9 - ... original Gate was flanked by two semicircular towers, towards the country ; between these, and projecting beyond them, the present beautiful exterior front was added ; the front towards the town appears the most modern of all. The two lions sejant, cast in lead, which now form a respectable guard at the entrance of the Gate, were formerly placed at the extremities of the parapet of a bridge which crossed the ditch before the Gate, and were removed to their present situation, when the ditch was...