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  • The Lexis of Building in Wood in Bilingual Medieval England
    The easy glossing of French by English might suggest that house construction in the late thirteenth century did not differ significantly on the two sides of the Channel, but we must recall that both Walter’s French and his English are descriptive of .... The construction of a wooden house was a very different undertaking from building in stone , as a comparison of the Ark and the Tower of Babel in the Bedford Hours eloquently illustrates.50 Because of the organic nature of the materials, the…
  • CHURCH RENOVATION/ADAPTIVE USE STUDY: A COMMUNITY ACTION DESIGN EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
    The commercial section is housed primarily in concrete block buildings, many of which have been sided and shingled in a manner more appropriate to the New England states. .... The one landmark, a Louis Sullivan bank, has become an awkward wing to a newer banking facility of block and Bedford stone . cause of this lack of architectural continuity, the community, both students and townspeople, reacted strongly when the oldest public structure…
  • The Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
    The entrance doors were decorated by Coade stone , with rounded fanlights above them. .... Each side of the square was a block of houses considered as a single unit, the center house of which was distinguished by an ornamented stuccoed feature. .... a large garden for use of the residents.40 Cavendish’s house, No. 11 Bedford Square, is located…
  • James Pennethorne and London Street Improvements, 1838–1855
    Museum Street, there was a plainer block housing Mudie's famous circulating library, and opposite, at the sharp … demolished, to be replaced by offices of numbingly mediocre quality.61 The southern side of New Oxford .... Further east the commissioners purchased an old stone yard stretching south to St Giles High Street for … Central Baptist Chapel, designed by John Gibson in 1845-8, and the classical Bedford Chapel, remodelled by…
  • Post-medieval Britain and Ireland in 1994
    On the E. side it is possible to gain access beneath the bridge and establish that a stone arch, some 8.8m. in length, runs from the N. wall of the furnace to a transverse wall beneath the charging house . .... CEFN CRIBWR, BEDFORD .
  • "Changeful times"--preservation, planning and permanence in the urban environment, Boston, 1870-1930
    …a resident later described as "large and elegant dwellings, ... all of brick or stone ," either occupied … forty years after Hayward Place was laid out, Washington Street held a busy horsecar line and was strictly commercial, its converted old houses mostly replaced by big … which had spread onto side streets as far south as Bedford Street, the first big…
  • Residential fabric as a memorable city form : a study of West London and Bath
    Finally, at Bedford Square a completely uniform square was achieved - with the central pavilions emphasized by being painted white, and having a pediment, pilasters, and a rusticated first storey in stone . .... Also, the end pavilions were articulated by being brought forward slightly from the plane of the houses . .... are minor variations and differences, as it must be remembered that all four sides were not built…
  • Post-medieval fieldwork in Britain and Northern Ireland in 2004
    …Ball Bridge Works and the Norfolk Saw Mill, all later incorporated into John Bedford and Sons Ltd. .... structural elements, part of the original Ball Bridge Works, located along the S side of the site. .... Prior to demolition, buildings known collectively as Ash House Farm were subjected to a drawn and photographic … range of buildings on the N and W sides: two detached timber-framed, stone - built barns of…
  • High Theory/Low Culture
    …the monasteries in 1536, Henry VIII bestowed this land upon John Russell, the first Earl of Bedford . .... These two internal sunken courts now both house Italian restaurants, while the walkways framing the courts are .... On either side of these walkways, further on, wider stone passageways contain mainly small boutiques, also very expensive, selling mostly women’s clothing and lingerie, with a couple of men’s specialist tailors and outfitters, and one or two Italian terrace restaurants.
  • William Smith's friends
    Another trick, exploiting a known character in Totternhoe Stone and its texture roughened by the content of … creation of a cabinet of fos- sils and rocks akin to the one housed in Trim Street … and experimenting 5th Duke is fit- tingly commemorated in the heart of the Bedford es- tates in … and shares the plinth with sheep and lambs, while bronze plaques on the side faces depict a…