Ancient Streets and Homesteads of England

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
	PAGE
Remains of Street Architecture in England—Chester: Various Theories of the Rows—Reminiscences of Ancient Houses in Chester—Wirral—Congleton—Nantwich—Whittington	1
CHAPTER II.
Oswestry—Shrewsbury—Battle of Shrewsbury—Wenlock—County Towns as Centres of Exclusive Society—Italian Architecture—Bridgenorth—Hereford—Ross—Monmouth—Worcester—Gloucester: New Inn—Condition of Roads—Tewkesbury—Cornwall	37
CHAPTER III.
Exeter—Wells—Glastonbury, Legend of King Arthur interred here—Dorset—Sherborne—Weymouth	91
CHAPTER IV.
Cardinal Beaufort’s Tower—St. Cross—Winchester—Surrey—Salisbury—Canterbury—Rochester—Rye—East Grinstead—Middlesex	106
CHAPTER V.
Hertford—St. Albans—Elizabethan Architecture and John Thorpe—Marlow—Stony Stratford—Colchester—Banbury—Tetsworth—Oxford—Norfolk and Suffolk—Norwich Prelates—Brick Architecture	134
CHAPTER VI.
The Fen Counties, and their Picturesqueness—Ely—Cambridge—Huntingdon—Market Bosworth—Bedford—Advantages of Water Power—Lincoln—Gainsborough—Grantham—Stamford—Angel Inn, Grantham	175
CHAPTER VII.
Nottingham—Robin Hood—Southwell—Newark—Nottingham—Warwickshire—Dugdale—Coventry—Derby—Stratford—Roman Roads—York—Ripon—Wakefield—Pontefract	217
CHAPTER VIII.
Beverley—Stone Crosses—Northumberland—Alnwick—Hexham—Newcastle—Durham—Kepier Hospital—Carlisle	279
CHAPTER IX.
Moore Rental—Isle of Man—Beresford Hope’s Remarks—Expression in Architecture—Remarks by Godwin—Contract for building St. Mary’s Church, Chester—General Principles—Greek Architecture—Conclusion	301

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