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  • ...s since lain empty, with various schemes being proposed for conversion and restoration. The photographs show the building still intact in February 2006, but a fir The Victorian landscape artist John Atkinson Grimshaw depicted a somewhat idealised Green
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  • ...was subsumed within the King's College Hospital Group and closed in 1985. Restoration and conversion for use as apartments was undertaken in 1994. ...: A Social History (London, 1994; 1996; 2000) </ref> Roy Porter describes "Victorian villas in...Kennington, long debased by use as lodging-houses, were transfo
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  • ...Abernons came, the church stood: St Mary's, is Anglo-Saxon with Norman and Victorian additions, and is famous for its monumental brasses; reputedly some of the ...work. The ancient Saxon chancel arch was town out in a merciless Victorian restoration in 1854 and 1866.
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  • ...se remains unknown. The building reopened in April 2006 after a three-year restoration project.
    6 KB (1,039 words) - 10:36, 30 October 2018
  • ...s the various walls and windows have significantly different heritage. The Victorian west brick wall now supports an external bell. ...to hold services in Wanborough's church. He thus arranged and paid for the restoration of St Bartholomew's by architect Henry Woodyer. It was rededicated in 1861.
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  • ...r Leeds, Adam Baynes and civil war general John Lambert but, following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, was back in the ownership of Henrietta Maria (now ...d World War led to the final major building phase when many of the earlier Victorian houses built with large grounds in Wimbledon Park were sub-divided into apa
    22 KB (3,471 words) - 22:50, 28 January 2016
  • ...n era restoration of the interior of the church in 1875 - 1878 and another restoration in the 1990s.
    20 KB (3,050 words) - 12:38, 14 October 2014
  • ...ajor centre for glove manufacture, but this has declined greatly. The late-Victorian period saw the growth of ironfounders, like Heenan & Froude, Hardy & Padmor ...s re-established as a cathedral of secular clergy. It was subject to major restoration work by Sir George Gilbert Scott and A E Perkins in the 1860s.
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  • ...articularly interesting example of Georgian architecture. A number of fine Victorian additions have been made at the rear of the house. The clock on St Nicholas ...tructure dates from the eighteenth century. It also underwent a Victorian restoration in about 1870.
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  • ..., which is essentially the church we see today. It underwent a Victorian restoration in the late 19th Century. St Grwst's has some remarkable Victorian carving of the sort which would not have survived the Reformation; a carved
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  • ...0. The three sons of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn would lead the resistance and their restoration in Powys. By 1096 they had retaken most of Powys, including Montgomery Cast In the Victorian period the name "Powisland" emerged as a poetic alternative for Montgomerys
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  • ...hurch was further extended in the 14th and 15th centuries. Despite further restoration in the first part of the 19th century by 1880 the church was in a deplorabl ....uk/report.aspx?compid=42586&strquery=marsworth British History Online – Victorian History of Buckinghamshire Volume 3 – Marsworth]
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  • ...d a monastic cell and was probably situated on the elevated land where the Victorian church of St Hilda's (demolished in 1969) was later built. ...k of bombs onto the railway station. One bomb caused serious damage to the Victorian glass and steel roof. A train, also in the station at the time of attack, w
    23 KB (3,547 words) - 14:53, 18 February 2016
  • ...holds a collection of rare Commonwealth white glass as well as a series of Victorian windows. Another feature is the complete array of Jacobean box pews. The pa ...rrently unplayable and many of its surviving parts are in storage awaiting restoration. The tower houses a ring of eight bells.
    19 KB (3,082 words) - 14:45, 26 September 2017
  • ...//www.harrogate.co.uk/harrogate-band/hbhist5.htm Royal Hall history]</ref> Restoration work was completed in 2007, and the Hall was formally opened on 22 January ...or example due to road widening, it must be replaced elsewhere. During the Victorian period, there was a racecourse for horses in the Stray. There is a funfair
    15 KB (2,371 words) - 16:51, 29 January 2016
  • ...re.<ref name=NP>{{Cite book| last=Cunningham| first=C | authorlink=| title=Victorian & Edwardian Town Halls | year=1981 | publisher=Routeledge | location=London Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building "widely recognised as being one of the finest munici
    18 KB (2,696 words) - 13:14, 8 June 2018
  • ...ills, offers extensive views across the Thames, and was a popular spot for Victorian visitors to the town, because of the Camera obscura installed in the old mi ...still having to earn a living is based here. The lock has been dredged and restoration and strengthening works have been carried out to the basin walls as part of
    21 KB (3,422 words) - 21:01, 27 January 2016
  • ...ith the original designs, and in 2003/4 Dunorlan underwent a £2.8 million restoration. The [[River Teise]] rises in the park, and two dams on it have created a p
    27 KB (4,233 words) - 16:05, 8 August 2016
  • The church underwent a Victorian restoration in 1854, and the chancel was last repaired in 1986-7. It has many interesti
    2 KB (260 words) - 22:27, 8 May 2012
  • ...ries. The ruin of a Tudor mansion, Cowdray House, is here and the stately Victorian Cowdray Park is here. Parts of the Spread Eagle Hotel date back to 1430; t ...h century in the perpendicular]] style. The rest of the building is from a restoration in 1882 or later.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nairn |first=Ian |authorlink=Ian Na
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