Manor-house Sentence Examples

The manor house had been built several hundred years ago, and every room but hers was a reflection of her father's wealth.

The districts included preserve the names of ancient manors, and in Canonbury, which belonged as early as the 13th century to the priory of St Bartholomew, Smithfield, traces of the old manor house remain.

There were, how?ver, seven other manors, and of these one, Worcesters, car .e to the crown in the time of Henry VIII., whose children resided at the manor-house, Elsynge Hall.

To the north-east is Kempton Park, the manor-house of which was a royal residence early in the 14th century.

Every manor-house was reduced to ashes.

A typical parish would benefit from generous endowments, most notably from its wealthiest local landowner, the occupant of the Manor House.

Built on the site of an earlier 13th century manor house.

It became a manor house in the 16th century, was rebuilt in 1832, but eventually demolished early in the 20th century.

On the other side of the lane was Earls Hall, a medieval manor house and farm.

The site of the manor house is surrounded by a narrow moat which is fed by water from the New River.

The moated mound where their manor house stood can still be seen in the meadows close to the two remaining medieval fish ponds.

There are 21 examples of these including the old schoolhouse at Bunny, the Manor House at Shelford, and Wiverton Hall.

Weetwood Hall is built around a 17th Century Manor House on 9 1/2 acres of wooded seclusion.

Sarah Ann Pigott who married the squire and inherited the Manor House.

Tudor style manor house built in 1894.

He came of a family which had been settled for many generations in the adjoining village of Daylesford; but his great-grandfather had sold the ancestral manor-house, and his grandfather had been unable to maintain himself in possession of the family living.

This rambling manor house is the kind of time capsule you just ca n't simulate.

Today, just the first two floors of the manor house have been restored.

The exterior of the manor house is made of limestone and features many fanciful turrets, cupolas, and other Gothic ornaments.

Lyndhurst is especially popular during the holiday season when the manor house and grounds are decorated with thousands of lights, decorated Christmas trees, and other Victorian holiday adornments.

The Family Manor house is approximately half the price of the Grand Dollhouse.

The Manor house is sold exclusively at Target stores.

Mother, father, and baby are included with the Manor House.

The manor house of the Custis-Lee plantation at Arlington National Cemetery is the focal point of the cemetery.

Here it sits, undisturbed, waiting for the lord of this small but cozy manor house.

On the 7th of May 1451 Waynflete, from "le peynted chambre" in his manor house at Southwark, asserting that his bishopric was canonically obtained and that he laboured under no disqualification, but feared some grievous attempt against himself and his see, appealed to the protection of the pope.

The fabric of the small chapel is apparently of the 14th century, and may have been attached to the manor house of Portpool, held at that period by the Lords Grey of Wilton.

Wingfield manor house is a ruin dating from the same century.

The manor house of Daundelyon, or Dent de Lion, with its gateway of the early part of the 15th century, remains between Margate and Westgate.

The Van Rensselaer manor-house, built in 1765, was pulled down in 1893 and was reconstructed on the campus of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, where it is used as a fraternity club-house.

Far otherwise was it with the church which was formed originally at Gainsborough (?1602), by " professors " trained under zealous Puritan clergy in the district where Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire meet, but which about 1606 reorganized itself for reasons of convenience into two distinct churches, meeting at Gainsborough and in Scrooby Manor House.

Every manor-house and castle was reduced to ashes.

A fine collection is kept in the Museum Isurianum in the grounds of the manor-house.

Bishop Hugh de Puiset rebuilt the church and built a manor house which was for many years the occasional residence of the bishops of Durham.

In the 15th century Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham, had a fortified manor-house here, traces of which remain.

It contains a lofty Doric column and a detached chapel and banqueting hall, and in the vicinity are picturesque fragments of the monastic chapel of Friarside, and of the manor house of Hollinside.

The manor house or palace of the bishops of London stands in grounds, beautifully planted and surrounded by a moat, believed to be a Danish work, near the river west of Putney Bridge.

The Elizabethan manor-house of Southall remains, and the parish church of Norwood, though greatly restored, has Early English and Decorated portions, a canopied tomb dated 1547 and brasses of the 17th century.

Richard, king of the Romans, recognized its natural advantages and built the manor house or castle and resided there occasionally.

The original manor house was rebuilt by Lord Chancellor Rich, who was here visited by Queen Elizabeth in 1561, and for her entertainment Sir Philip Sidney wrote a dramatic interlude which was played before the queen at Wanstead garden, and is printed at the end of the Arcadia.

Returning to a quiet life at Bradenham - an old manor-house near High Wycombe, which his father had taken - Disraeli put law in abeyance and resumed novel-writing.

In spring, 1691, he took up his residence in the manor house of Otes in Essex, the country seat of Sir Francis Masham, between Ongar and Harlow.

It was a favourite royal residence until the Civil War, when the manor house was "almost totally destroyed."

The Old Hall, or manor house of the Asshetons, remains in an altered form, with an ancient prison adjoining, and the name of Gallows Meadow, still preserved, recalls the summary execution of justice by the lords of the manor.

Czerno motioned her out of the car as it stopped in front of the Georgian-style manor house.

It's a fortified manor house and, despite its apparent defenses, it could never have resisted prolonged assault like a true castle.

The course is set in 400 beautiful acres of parkland, with a 14th century manor house as an imposing backdrop.

A manor house near the north west corner of the green is the oldest building in the community.

The Royal Court Hotel is a tudor style manor house built in 1894.