These have been planted with great taste and perfect success, and will be again alluded to in the chapter on horticulture. The churches of the island are not unpicturesque at a distance, although almost all have lost the stone tracery of the windows,... The Channel Islands - Page 42by David Thomas Ansted, Robert Gordon Latham - 1865 - 594 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Thomas Ansted, Robert Gordon Latham - Channel Islands - 1865 - 638 pages
...lieutenant-bailiff (Valuor) is that which contains the richest variety of foreign shrubs and trees. These have been planted with great taste and perfect...of them have low spires; but St. Saviour's and St. Peter's-in-the-wood have towers. There are some interesting morsels of Norman work in some of the doorways,... | |
| Findlay Muirhead - England - 1920 - 938 pages
...old churches of its 10 parishes, architecturally similar to those of Jersey, are not unpicturesque, although almost all have lost the stone tracery of the windows and have been much neglected. Many of the farm-houses are interesting from their antiquity, possessing fine doorways... | |
| Findlay Muirhead - England - 1920 - 852 pages
...old churches of its 10 parishes, architecturally similar to those of Jersey, are not unpicturesque, although almost all have lost the stone tracery of the windows and have been much neglected. Many of the farm-houses are interesting from their antiquity, possessing fine doorways... | |
| Findlay Muirhead - England - 1920 - 846 pages
...old churches of its 10 parishes, architecturally similar to those of Jersey, are not unpicturesque, although almost all have lost the stone tracery of the windows and have been much neglected. Many of the ways with semicircular granite arches. A few manor-houses, such as visit.... | |
| Findlay Muirhead - England - 1920 - 854 pages
...old churches of its 10 parishes, architecturally similar to those of Jersey, are not unpicturesque, although almost all have lost the stone tracery of the windows and have been much neglected. Many of the farm-houses are interesting from their antiquity, possessing fine doorways... | |
| Findlay Muirhead, Marcel Monmarché - Brittany - 1925 - 226 pages
...old churches of its 10 parishes, architecturally similar to those of Jersey, are not unpicturesque, although almost all have lost the stone tracery of the windows and have been much neglected. Many of the farm-houses are interesting from their antiquity, possessing fine doorways... | |
| Findlay Muirhead - Normandy - 1925 - 190 pages
...old churches of its 10 parishes, architecturally similar to those of Jersey, are not unpicturesque, although almost all have lost the stone tracery of the windows and have been much neglected. Many of the farm-houses are interesting from their antiquity, possessing fine doorways... | |
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