Engraved Sparrow (35 results)

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Antiquarian print: image (plate size): 15cm wide by 10 cm high; sheet: 27cm by 18cm, a copper-plate engraving with mezzotint on good-quality water-marked paper. Fine, some very pale orange foxing at margins.Origiinally from Francis Grose's "Antiquities of England and Wales". Pictures show this actual print. UK orders are post-free. Sent flat in a card-backed envelope.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Antiquarian print: image (plate size): 15cm wide by 10 cm high; sheet: 27cm by 18cm, a copper-plate engraving with mezzotint on good-quality water-marked paper. Fine, some very pale orange foxing at margins.Origiinally from Francis Grose's "Antiquities of England and Wales". Pictures show this actual print. UK orders are post-free. Sent flat in a card-backed envelope.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated May, 1783. The engraving measures 12.5 cm x 17 cm including plate mark, title within the engraving - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1776. Notes: The School of Pythagoras is the oldest building in St John's College, Cambridge, and the oldest secular building in Cambridge, England. To the north is Northampton Street. The School of Pythagoras was originally built around 1200, before even the University of Cambridge existed. It also predates St John's College, which was founded in 1511. It was initially a private house, but over the centuries it has had many uses. For a period it was a ruin. The reason for the name is unclear. In the 16th century, a small manor house was added to its west side. This is now used for graduate student accommodation. It is known as Merton Hall. From 1266 until 1959 the School of Pythagoras and later Merton Hall were owned by Merton College, Oxford. The School of Pythagoras is now used as the College Archive Centre. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated JNovember, 1777. The engraving measures 12.5 cm x 17.5 cm including plate mark - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1769. Notes: The School of Pythagoras is the oldest building in St John's College, Cambridge, and the oldest secular building in Cambridge, England. To the north is Northampton Street. The School of Pythagoras was originally built around 1200, before even the University of Cambridge existed. It also predates St John's College, which was founded in 1511. It was initially a private house, but over the centuries it has had many uses. For a period it was a ruin. The reason for the name is unclear. In the 16th century, a small manor house was added to its west side. This is now used for graduate student accommodation. It is known as Merton Hall. From 1266 until 1959 the School of Pythagoras and later Merton Hall were owned by Merton College, Oxford. The School of Pythagoras is now used as the College Archive Centre. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by S. Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated December, 1775. The engraving measures 11.5 cm x 16 cm including plate mark - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by S. Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1775 Notes: The Lady chapel was preserved by use as a roofed farm building during the 18th century, and was re-thatched as a place of worship during the 20th century. Excavations during the 1980s established the position of the lost south wall and turret of the brick entrance-gate structure, and explored the interior of the reredorter building. In a separate investigation, the interior of the presumed abbey Guest Hall was excavated. Two long upstanding medieval walls had survived: they are incorporated into a new structure for the use of Pro Corda. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated may, 1783. The engraving measures 12.5 cm x 17 cm including plate mark, title engraved. - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1779. Notes: Grose notes that "" the title of King john's House, an appellation common to many ancient structures, in which that king had no concern;King John and the Devil being the founders , to whom the vulgar impute most of the ancient bnuildings, mounds and entrenchments, for which they cannot assign any other constructor with this distinction, that to the king ar given most of the mansions , castles and other buildings, whilst the devil is supposed to have amused himself chiefly in earthen works." The house was built by the St. John family so its title may be a corruption over time. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated august, 1785. The engraving measures 12.75 cm x 17.5 cm including plate mark title engraved. - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1780 Notes: The site remained owned by the church until 1552 when John Poynet, Bishop of Winchester surrendered the manor to the Crown. It was then granted to Sir Philip Hoby and subsequently passed through numerous private owners but the ruined castle was never rebuilt and little now remains other than earthworks and small amounts of masonry. The grounds were used for military training during both World Wars. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated April, 1887. The engraving measures 13 cm x 17.5 cm including plate mark - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1774. Notes: The tower had been torn down by the time Grose did his drawing and continued to be quarried. Nothig is left of it but a local reference in the name Tower Street. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated November, 1775. The engraving measures 11.5 cm x 16 cm including plate mark - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1774. Notes: During an archaeological dig in 1981 in the area of the 14th Century ruined chapel at the east end, a number of medieval burials were uncovered, and the remains of an earlier building on a different alignment to the Priory was found. The most significant find was of a man aged 35-45 in a lead coffin in a stone vault, given the name St Bees Man, whose body was in a remarkable state of preservation. It has now been established that he was Anthony de Lucy, a knight, who died in 1368 in the Teutonic Crusades in Prussia. Although the body was about six hundred years old, his nails, skin and stomach contents were found to be in near-perfect condition. After his death the vault was enlarged to take the body of his sister, Maud de Lucy, who died in 1398. The probable effigies of both Maud and Anthony can be seen in the extensive history display which includes the shroud in which he was wrapped. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print published June, 1775. The engraving measures 11 cm x 16 cm including plate mark - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1774. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print published 1774. The engraving measures 10.5cm x 15.cm (not including plate mark) - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a view drawn by Grose in 1774. Notes: In the town of Bridgenorth in Shropshire. was founded in 1101 by Robert de Belleme, the son of the French Earl, Roger de Montgomery, who succeeded his father to become the Earl of Shrewsbury. Its principal feature, a square great tower, was built during the reign of Henry II. During the Civil War, Bridgnorth was one of the Midlands' main Royalist strongholds and in 1642 many Royalist troops were garrisoned there. In 1646, Cromwell's Roundheads arrived with orders to take Bridgnorth for the Parliamentarians from the garrison led by Sir Robert Howard. Following a three-week siege, Cromwell was successful and he ordered that the castle be demolished. By 1647 little of the structure remained. The Parliamentarians left it much as it is today, the stone from the castle being taken and used to repair the town's damaged buildings. Bridgnorth Castle and surrounding garden Parts of the great tower still remain, but because of the damage caused during the Civil War, it now leans at an angle of 15 degrees, 4 times the lean of the leaning tower of Pisa. The castle grounds were excavated over three days by archaeological television programme Time Team, clarifying the layout of the castle and the history of its construction. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print published Mayr,1785, the engraving measures 20cm x 13 cm. (not including plate mark) - over all with title 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing done by Grose in1784. Very good condition Note: Positioned fittingly in the centre of Winchelsea is the church dedicated to 'St Thomas the Martyr' - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was built at the same time as the town itself but we cannot be sure whether the whole of it was ever built. Today only the chancel and chapels remain in use. The transepts are in ruins and there is no evidence to be seen of a nave. It was the wealthiest of the three churches and is renowned for its 20th century stained glass windows by Douglas Strachan and the medieval Alard tombs. The relentless decay of the town affected the church and, for hundreds of years after the French had invaded and sacked the town, the church remained in a deplorable state. But in 1850 the perilous condition of the fabric of the church was realised and extensive repairs were carried out. Today it stands well-restored, well-used and much cared for. You will also find among its many treasures a modern tapestry - the Millennium Tapestry - created by over twenty women of the Town to celebrate that occasion and record the face of the town as it is today.Spike Milligan's grave is situated in the church yard. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated June, 1785. The engraving measures 12.75 cm x 17.5 cm including plate mark title engraved. - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1785. Notes: The Cotton family were Royalists which resulted in the manor being largely demolished by Parliamentarian forces. One turret of the gatehouse was left as an aid to navigation for ships in Langstone channel. The turret is octagonal in form and four stories in height. It is largely built from brick with stone dressing and battlements. Today, the turret, the arch of the gate and the drawbridge support in the moat still survive. The land the remains stand on is private property The site is a grade II* listed building and a scheduled monument. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated JuLY, 1785. The engraving measures 12.5 cm x 17 cm including plate mark title engraved. - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1761 Notes: The church is now St Mary's Portchester - An Anglican Church within the Diocese of Portsdmouth. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print dated July, 1787. The engraving measures 12.5 cm x 16.5 cm including plate mark, tile engraved - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1787. Notes: Sopwell Nunnery was founded on this site in 1140 but the atmospheric ruins that are visible today are the remains of a mansion belonging to an adviser of Henry VIII. In 1540, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII granted the land to Sir Richard Lee, a soldier, engineer and member of the king's court. Sir Richard Lee demolished the nunnery and built a house on its foundations. The romantic ruins you see today are all that remain of Sir Richard Lee's Tudor mansion. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate print with text engraved 1773. 10.5cm x 15.2cm (not including plate mark) - over all with text 23cm x 33cm, engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a view taken Grose drawn in 1770. Very good condition. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

Single sheet. Antique hand coloured copper engraving. Image Size: 150 x 105 mm. Overall Size: 190 x 140 mm. 19 x 14 cm.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate prints published May and June 1787. Plate I: The engraving measures 12.5cm x 16.5cm including plate mark; Plate II: measures 3cm x 17.5cm including plate mark - both over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1775. Note: I n 1913 James Lawrence Bissley, an architect and surveyor, purchased the property and restored the remaining buildings, converting the original chapter house into a chapel. In 1916 he sold the property to the Society of the Precious Blood, a community of Anglican Augustinian nuns, who took possession and began to restore and extend the abbey for their use. The Abbey is a Grade I listed building, while the associated walls and structures are Grade II. The chapter house, sacristy, and parts of the frater and infirmary remain of the medieval nunnery. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by D. L. and Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate prints published September and December, 1783. Plate I engraved by S. Sparrow measures 11.25cm x 15.5cm (not including plate mark); plate II is engraved by S. Sparrow and measures 11.25cm x 16.5cm. (not including plate mark) - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Both prepared for for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a views drawn by Grose in 1776. Notes: Although a great deal was destroyed at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, there is still much to see. The groundplan of the 102 metre long church can be seen on the lawns. The position of the altar is marked by a cross and flanking trees. The Domus, once the lay brothers' refectory and lodgings and, later, chambers for important guests once the lay brothers had vanished, now houses an exhibition of monastic life prior to Thomas Wriothesley's takeover. Visitors can view a series of modern embroidered wall hangings made by Belinda, Lady Montagu,[8] depicting scenes from medieval monastic life and the history of the abbey since 1204. The abbey refectory survives as the parish church and there are substantial ruins of the other buildings round the cloister. The abbey cloister is a place of tranquillity, planted with fragrant herbs. Beaulieu remains in the hands of the descendants of Wriothesley, who still live there. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by R. B. Godfrey and Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate prints published 1772. Plate I engraved by R. B. Godfrey measures 10.5cm x 15.25cm (not including plate mark); Plate II engraved by Godfrey measures 10.5cm x 15.25cm (not including plate mark); The Abbot's Kitchen engraved by Sparrow measures 10.25cm x 15cm - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a view drawn by Grose in 1760 and 1772. Notes: Netley Abbey is a ruined late medieval monastery in the village of Netley near Southampton in Hampshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1239 as a house for monks of the austere Cistercian order. Despite royal patronage, Netley was never rich, produced no influential scholars nor churchmen, and its nearly 300-year history was quiet. The monks were best known to their neighbours for the generous hospitality they offered to travellers on land and sea. In 1536, Netley Abbey was seized by Henry VIII of England during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the buildings granted to William Paulet, a wealthy Tudor politician, who converted them into a mansion. The abbey was used as a country house until the beginning of the eighteenth century, after which it was abandoned and partially demolished for building materials. Subsequently the ruins became a tourist attraction, and provided inspiration to poets and artists of the Romantic movement. In the early twentieth century the site was given to the nation, and it is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument, cared for by English Heritage. The extensive remains consist of the church, cloister buildings, abbot's house, and fragments of the post-Dissolution mansion. Netley Abbey is one of the best preserved medieval Cistercian monasteries in southern England. The kitchen still exists. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow and D. L. (illustrator). Copper plate prints published1783. Castle Plate measures 11cm x 16cm (not including plate mark) engraved by Sparrow; The Chapel plate measures 11.25cm x 16cm (not including plate mark) engraved by D.L.( there are some spots of ink from the printing process mildly affecting the text and right hand margin, the print is clean) - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Both prepared for for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a views drawn by Grose in 1780. Notes: Wolvesey Castle, also known as the "Old Bishop's Palace", is a ruined castle in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is located next to Winchester Cathedral. The original palace on the site was built around 970 by Bishop Ĉthelwold of Winchester on a piece of land known as Wulveseye or Wulf's island, an eyot in the River Itchen east of the cathedral. About 1110, the second Norman bishop, William Giffard, constructed a new hall to the south west. His successor, Henry of Blois, brother of King Stephen added a second hall to the west between 1135 and 1138. A new palace in the baroque style was built to the south by Sir Thomas Finch for Bishop Morley in 1684. However, Bishop North demolished all but the west wing of this palace in 1786. After a variety of different uses the remaining part was refurbished for use once again as the bishop's residence in 1926 by Bishop Woods. The castle was created by Henry of Blois in 1141 by linking the two Norman halls with a curtain wall which would have finally obliterated any remaining parts of the Anglo-Saxon palace. It was the scene for the Rout of Winchester in which the Empress Matilda assaulted the castle later in 1141, during the period of civil war known as The Anarchy. It was the castle's first and only siege, when it was held for Stephen by the retainers of Bishop Henry. The besieged defenders of Wolvesey burnt with fireballs all the houses of the city which were too near the enceinte and gave cover to the enemy. Most of the old town of Winchester was destroyed. Empress Matilda's forces were held off for three weeks (August - September, 1141) until Stephen's wife, Matilda, arrived with reinforcements from London. Henry II is said to have slighted Wolvesey after the death of Bishop Henry in 1171. This did not include the destruction of the residential quarters as many later occupants of the see of Winchester dwelled there in high state. But the gate and portcullis were likely removed and some breaches made in the curtain . It was once a very important building, and was the location on 25 July 1554 of the wedding breakfast of Queen Mary and Philip II of Spain. The castle was destroyed by Roundheads during the English Civil War in 1646. The chapel is the only considerable remnant of the south range of the castle, and is still in use, being attached to the palace. The extensive surviving ruins are currently owned and maintained by English Heritage. The castle has had Grade I listed status since 24 March 1950, as has the palace located on the same site. A fair amount of the curtain wall remains, but nearly all the inner arrangements are gone, though it is possible to make out the hall, in which there is a good round arch and one surviving Norman window [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by D. L. and Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate prints published and May, 1784. Plate I engraved by D. L. measures 11.25cm x 16.5cm(not including plate mark); plate II is engraved by Sparrow and measures 12cm x 16.5 (not including plate mark)- over all with text 23cm x 33cm.Bboth prepared for for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a views drawn by Grose in 1776. Notes: Christchurch Priory is an ecclesiastical parish and former priory church in Christchurch in the English county of Dorset (formerly in Hampshire). It is one of the longest parish churches in the country and is larger than 21 English Anglican Cathedrals. In 1788 Gustavus Brander gave the priory a pipe organ, which was installed on the quire screen. It was removed in 1848. In 1819 lath and plaster vaulting was installed in the nave, but a year later the vaulting of the south transept was found to be unsafe and had to be dismantled. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries extensive repairs were carried out, which included the insertion of tie-rods in the tower and the underpinning of the nave and south choir aisle walls in 1906. In 1912 a new floor was laid in the nave consisting of 6" of concrete, an inch of fine cement and wooden blocks on top. A monument to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, created by the sculptor Henry Weekes, was erected in the Priory church by the poet's son in 1854, thirty-two years after his father's death. This monument was first offered to St Peter's Church, six miles away in Bournemouth, where Mary Shelley and other family members are buried. However, it was declined because of its size and possibly due to the unspoken disapproval of Shelley's reputation by the incumbent and churchwardens.The War Memorial Chapel was dedicated in 1922. Electric lighting was installed in June 1934. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Two copper plate prints with text engraved circa 1787 by Sparrow 10.5cm x 15cm (not including plate mark) - over all with text 23cm x 33cm - for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from views taken Grose in April 1786. Very good condition. [Note:] The chapel has been Crown property for centuries as part of the Savoy Hospital estate and remains under the aegis of the monarch as part of the Duchy of Lancaster and thereby is a royal peculiar. The chaplain is appointed by the Duchy (and since 1937 as ex-officio chaplain of the Royal Victorian Order) and effectively it is "parish church" of the Savoy Estate, the Duchy of Lancaster's principal London landholding. Armorial plates commemorating GCVOs past and present are displayed throughout the chapel; the Royal Victorian Order's present Honorary Genealogist is David White, Somerset Herald. Most of the chapel's costs and maintenance are met by the Duchy of Lancaster, with recent works including landscaping of its garden in honour of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 and restoration of the chapel ceiling in 1999. The chapel was further refurbished and a new stained-glass window commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II was unveiled by the Queen in November 2012. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Godfrey and Sparrow (illustrator). Castle: copper plate print dated January, 1773 , engraving measures 11.5 cm x 16.5 cm including plate mark The Chapel measures 11.5 cm x 16.5 cm including plate mark, - each measures overall with text 23cm x 33cm. Castle ngraved by Godfrey and Chapel by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1769 and 1775 respectively. Notes: Sir Arthur Churchman bought Orford Castle in 1928 and gave the property to the Orford Town Trust; an appeal for money to maintain and restore it began shortly afterwards. In 1930 the castle opened to the public. During the Second World War the castle was refortified with barbed wire to form what was originally intended to be an anti-aircraft emplacement, with Nissen huts erected around the keep. The castle was instead used as a radar emplacement, and a concrete floor was installed in the south-east tower to support the equipment.[30] These buildings were removed at the end of the conflict. Orford Castle was given to the Ministry of Works in 1962, and is now maintained by English Heritage. The keep of the castle is the only part of the structure remaining intact, although the earthwork remains of the bailey wall are still visible. Some of the ditches visible amongst the earthworks are not medieval but results of later quarrying of the bailey walls. The Church of St Bartholomew is the parish church of the town of Orford, England. A medieval church, dating from the fourteenth century, with reconstructions in the nineteenth and twentieth century, it is a Grade I listed building. In addition to its listing, the church is notable as the location for the first performances of four of the works of the composer Benjamin Britten: Noye's Fludde, Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate prints dated April, 1784 and January, 1778. Both plates measure 12.5 cm x 17 cm including plate marK - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved bySparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1777 and 1772 respectively. Notes: By 1834 Rye House had become a workhouse. Subsequently (William) Henry Teale developed it into a tourist attraction, buying the House and 50 acres in 1864. There were a maze and a bowling green, among other features. An affray there in 1885 between Catholic excursionists and Orangemen led to a question in the House of Commons. In 1911 it was described as a hotel. For many years the Great Bed of Ware was on display. The moat was put to uses including growing water cress. The part that had been filled in was excavated in the 1980s. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by D. L. and Sparrow (illustrator). Copper plate prints published May, 1785. Plate I engraved by S. Sparrow measures 11.5cm x 16cm (not including plate mark); plate II is engraved by S. Sparrow and measures 10.5cm x 15.75cm (not including plate mark) - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Both prepared for for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a views drawn by Grose in 1777. Notes: Bury St Edmunds, commonly referred to as Bury, is a historic market town and civil parish in the in St Edmundsbury district, in the county of Suffolk, England. Bury St Edmunds Abbey is near the town centre. Bury is the seat of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich of the Church of England, with the episcopal see at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. The town, originally called Beodericsworth,[3] was built on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin around 1080. It is known for brewing and malting (Greene King brewery) and for a British Sugar processing factory, where Silver Spoon sugar is produced. The town is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and tourism is a major part of the economy. The name Bury is etymologically connected with borough, which has cognates in other Germanic languages such as the German burg meaning "fortress, castle"; Old Norse borg meaning "wall, castle"; and Gothic baurgs meaning "city". They all derive from Proto-Germanic *burgs meaning "fortress". This in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhrgh meaning "fortified elevation", with cognates including Welsh bera ("stack") and Sanskrit bhrant- ("high, elevated building"). The second section of the name refers to Edmund King of the East Angles, who was killed by the Vikings in the year 869. He became venerated as a saint and a martyr, and his shrine made Bury St Edmunds an important place of pilgrimage. The formal name of both the borough and the diocese is "St Edmundsbury". [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved bY Sparrow and J Newton (illustrator). Three copper plate prints dated August, 1787 . Plate I engraved by Sparrow measures 13 cm x 17.5 cm including plate mark and Plate II engraved by J. Newton measures 13 cm x 18cm including plate mark and The Gatehouse engraved by Newton measures 13cm x 18 cm including plate mark - over all with text 23cm x 33cm. Engraved for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a drawing by Grose in 1760 and 1787. Notes: The Priory Church of St Peter with its monastery (Dunstable Priory) was founded in 1132 by Henry I for Augustinian Canons in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. St Peter's today is only the nave of what remains of an originally much larger Augustinian priory church. The monastic buildings consisted of a dormitory for the monks, an infirmary, stables, workshops, bakehouse, brewhouse and buttery. There was also a hostel for pilgrims and travellers, the remains of which is known today as Priory House. Opposite the Priory was one of the royal palaces belonging to Henry I, known as Kingsbury. The present church and Deanery form part of the Archdeaconry of Bedford, located within the Diocese of St Albans. It became a Grade I listed building on 25 October 1951. It is considered one of the best examples of Norman architecture in England. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow and Godfrey (illustrator). Four copper plate prints dated June, 1785 11cm x 16cm (not including plate mark) - over all with text 23cm x 33cm each, plates engraved by Sparrow, Godfrey (2) and one unattributed, for Grose's Antiquities of and England and Wales from views taken Grose probably possibly during the recoding of the building and prior to its gutting. Overall very good condition. [Note:] The profligacy of the 15th Baron Dacre, heir to the Fiennes family, forced him to sell in 1708 to George Naylor, a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn in London. Bethaia Naylor, who became the heiress of Herstmonceux on the death of her brother's only daughter, married Francis Hare and produced son Francis, who inherited in turn his mother's property. The castle eventually came into the possession of Robert Hare-Naylor, who, upon the nagging of his second wife, Henrietta Henckell, followed the architect Samuel Wyatt's advice to reduce the Castle to a picturesque ruin by demolishing the interior.m Thomas Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre, was sufficiently exercised as to commission James Lamberts Jnr of Lewes (1741-1799) to record the building in 1776. The castle was dismantled in 1777 leaving the exterior walls standing and remained a ruin until the early 20th century. Radical restoration work was undertaken by Colonel Lowther in 1913 to transform the ruined building into a residence and completed for Sir Paul Latham in 1933 by the architect, Walter Godfrey. The existing interiors largely date to this period, incorporating architectural antiques from England and France. The one major change in planning was the combination of the four internal courtyards into one large one. The restoration work, regarded as the apex of Godfrey's architectural achievement, was described by the critic Nikolaus Pevsner as executed 'exemplarily'. The former Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux: The property passed through the hands of private owners until it was sold in 1946 to the Admiralty. In 1957 the Herstmonceux Castle grounds became the home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and remained so until 1988, when the observatory relocated to Cambridge. Several of the telescopes remain but the largest telescope, the 100 inch (254 cm) aperture Isaac Newton Telescope was moved to La Palma, Canary Islands in the 1970s. The estate provides housing to the Equatorial Telescope Buildings, which have been converted to an interactive science centre for schoolchildren. The empty dome for the Newton Telescope remains on this site and is a landmark, visible from afar. In 1992 Alfred Bader, an alumnus of Queen's University, Ontario, learned of the castle's vacancy and offered to purchase the castle for his wife; she declined, joking that there would be "too many rooms to clean". Bader later contacted then-Principal of Queen's University, David Chadwick Smith, asking if a castle might fit into the school's plans, possibly as an international study centre. In 1994, after intensive renovations, the Queen's International Study Centre was opened. It hosts primarily undergraduate students studying arts or commerce through the Canadian University Study Abroad Program (CUSAP), as well as graduate students studying Public International Law or International Business Law. In late January 2009, the ISC was renamed the Bader International Study Centre. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis, engraved by Sparrow and Goddfrey (illustrator). Three copper plate prints dated September and October, 1772. Plates I and II 15.75cm x 10.75cm; plate III 15.25cm x 11cm (dimensions not including plate mark); - over all with text 23cm x 33cm each. Engraved by Sparrow (plates I and III) and Goddfrey (plate II) for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from views taken by Grose in 1772. Very good condition [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow and Godfrey (illustrator). Two copper plate prints dated 1st July, 1773. 11cm x 16cm (not including plate mark) and 10.25cm x 15cm,(not including plate mark) - over all with text 23cm x 33cm each, plates engraved by Sparrow and plate III by Godfrey for Grose's Antiquities of and England and Wales from views taken Grose in 1773 and 1775. Some light foxing to page edges (greater on plate III) otherwise plates not affected overall very good condition. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].