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THE UNCEASING TASK OF RESTORATION: The Work of Repairing the Fabric of Cambridge Colleges

... Colleges REPOINTING ELIZABETHAN BRICKWORK: Workmen at Cambridge concentrate on renovat ing the bricks and the stone window embrasures of St. John's Second Court. Practically unaltered and having a beautiful plum colour, the brickwork led Ruskin to describe the ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 725 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

SUZANNE LENGLEN'S NEW HOME--BUILT BY A MERCHANT PRINCE

... LOVELY COURTYARD IN THE COURT STAR'S NEW HOME: A VIEW OF THE HISTORIC MANOIR D'ANGO. /fi A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF PATTERNED BRICKWORK Vf. 'I/ THE GRANARY, CROWNED WITH A DOVECOTE, AT MLLE. SUZANNE LENGLEN'S NEW HOME. N SHOWING THE ROUND ARCHES CHARACTERISTIC ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 187 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE POSITION OF THE WOLSEY APARTMENTS--JUST OPENED TO THE PUBLIC

... just opened to the PUBLIC. The Old Parple-coloured Brickwork The exterior walls of these rooms are of the deep purple-coloured brickwork i racteristic of Wolsey's portion of the palace. Into this brickwork are let other arker bricks, forming the letter W ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 440 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

MODERN ARCHITECTURE INVADES THE CHURCH

... the big east window newSGr,fNDI-U EFFORT IN MODERN BRICKWORK The western porch of the bv a br'ir V'^ S ^urch in Copenhagen. The whole of this fine perpendicular effect is obtained above the' brickwork. The linear motif rises in twelve steps to a towering ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

Summer Check-up on your house

... is peeling off-- e.g., windowsills, porch columns, gates and treat in a similar manner. Brickwork. Sooner or later the mortar binding together exterior brickwork succumbs to the weather and the hard outer surface becomes cracked and crumbly until in bad ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1432 | Page: 82 | Tags: Photographs 

MARBLING WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL: Completing John Bentley's Great Shrine

... the requiem of its founder. Even now the work is far from complete. Work has begun again on the marbling of the interior brickwork, inten tionally left rough and unpointed for the adherence of the marble, and the pictures on this page show the present ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 392 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

REBUILDING THE CAMPANILE

... plan, adopted when the tower was first built, of dis posing five steps about the base in order to lift the beginning of the brickwork of the campanile itself well above the level of possible incursions by high tides. In course of time the pavement had been ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1906
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 128 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CITY'S STORIED STONES: Recent Discoveries at the Guildhall

... things the original founda tions, of which there were no previous indications, have all been traced, whiie the removal of brickwork has revealed springers which prove that the Crypt and Vault were built at the same time. THE EXTREME WEST WALL The trickwork ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1910
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 410 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

SAFETY UNDER THE SEVERN

... years and the brickwork thoroughly examined. With the coming of the Diesel locomotive a great deal of this work will no longer be necessary', as the corrosive fumes from a steam locomotive's exhaust have always had an adverse effect on brickwork. But the Severn ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2106 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

RESTORING ETON CLOISTERS: Pictures of the Work in Progress--a Further Stage in the Restoration of the College ..

... RESTORED CLOISTERS In this picture the workmen are placing 1 a stone in one of the partially-restored j arches. Much of the brickwork is new, but a piece of the original arch has still to be removed from between the bricks. THE CLOISTERS AS THEY WILL BE AND ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 515 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

CLEARING BOMBED SITES IN LONDON

... PAVEMENT TO AWAIT CLAIM HOUSEHOLD GOODS OF EVERY IMAGINABLE DESCRIPTION HAVE BEEN RESCUED FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF SMASHED BRICKWORK AND PLACED OPPOSITE THE FALLEN HOUSES ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSIST IN THE WORK OF CLEARING UP THE DAMAGED SITES IN LONDON The work ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs