LIST OF PLATES
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Health and Beauty in Modern Town Planning
Frontispiece
Implements and Ornaments of Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages 8
Stonehenge 13
Remains of a Roman House, excavated at Silchester 20
The Village Green, Exton, Rutland 28
Cross and Church, Geddington, Northamptonshire 37
Choir of Canterbury Cathedral 57
The Old Palace, Hatfield 72
Facsimile of a Portion of a Norman Document 88
Castle and Butter Market, Dunster, Somersetshire 105
Cloister Quadrangle, Magdalen College, Oxford 120
Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire 137
Interior of St. Mary-le-Bow, London 157
A School Playground Scene 164
Cricket, 18th Century 172
The New Inn, Gloucester 181
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DIAGRAMS
Chipped Flint Weapons 5
Lake-dwelling 10
Round Barrow 12
Long Barrow 12
Dolmen at Plas Newydd, Anglesea. The scene of Druidical religious rites 14
Roman Pottery Kiln found at Castor, Hunts 18
Saxon Brooch found at Abingdon, made of gold encrusted with coloured glass 23
Diagram of a Saxon Village Settlement 23
Ploughing. From an old Saxon Calendar in the British Museum 31
Saxon Church at Bradford-on-Avon 40
Agriculture. From an eleventh-century manuscript in the British Museum 43
Ploughing. From an eleventh-century manuscript in the British Museum 45
Wooden Church at Greenstead, Essex 47
Consecration of a Saxon Church 49
Saxon Doorway, Earl's Barton, Northampton 51
Domesday Book 55
Norman Capital, Buckland Church, Berks 56
Norman Capital, Hanney Church, Berks 57
Norman Capital, St. Bartholomew's Priory Church, London 57
Rochester Castle: The Keep 59
The White Tower, Tower of London 60
Norman Castle 63
Ruins of Furness Abbey 65
Foundation of a Minster 67
Bath Abbey 68
The Jew's House, Lincoln 71
Diagram of the Shape of a Villein's House 72
Old House, Cleveland, Yorkshire 74
Shop of the Middle Ages now standing in Foregate Street, Chester 77
A Cradle of the Fourteenth Century now in a London Museum 78
The Shambles, York; a street that preserves its narrow, mediæval character 81
Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester 84
Seal of Guild Merchant, Gloucester, 1200 85
Court-house of Godmanchester, Hunts 88
Manor House, Thirteenth Century 91
Saxon, Norman, and Later Architectural Features 93
Effigy with Crossed Legs in the Temple Church, London 96
Spire of Norwich Cathedral Fourteenth Century 98
A Scriptorium, from a miniature painted in an old manuscript 101
Writing before the Norman Conquest 103
Morris Dancers, Fourteenth Century 107
Market Cross and Portion of Shelter, Winchester 109
Market Scene in the Middle Ages 111
A School, Fourteenth Century 115
Part of Winchester College, built in 1692 117
Gloucester Hall, now Worcester College, Oxford, founded 1283 119
Gownsman of Fifteenth Century. From an old print of Chaucer's Clerk of Oxenford 121
Labourers felling a Tree, Fourteenth Century 124
Spinning Wheel, Fourteenth Century 124
Wayfarers, Early Fourteenth Century 130
The Moat House, Ightham, Kent 131
Part of the House called Plas Mawr, Conway, Wales 134
Old Timbered House, at Presleigh, Radnorshire, dated 1616 138
Moreton Old Hall, Cheshire, built 1550-59 140
Diagram of a Large House 142
Hall and Staircase, Knole House, Kent, 1570 143
A Room in an Elizabethan House 144
Blickling Hall, Norfolk, built 1619 145
Monument in Chelsea Church, London; date about 1630 148
House at Rainham, Essex, built during the reign of Queen Anne 150
Doorway from a House in Gt. Ormond Street, London 152
Pews in a Church at Stokesay, Shropshire, rebuilt 1654 155
King Edward VI's School and Alms Houses, Stratford-on-Avon 159
Charity School, Gravel Lane, London 162
Bluecoat Boy 164
Schoolmaster and Pupils, early Seventeenth Century 166
Richmond County School. A modern council school under the supervision of the Board of Education 167
Apprentice, Sixteenth Century 169
Apprentices, Eighteenth Century 170
The Game of Bob-apple, Fourteenth Century 171
Boys' Sports 173
Diagrams of Layouts for a Boy's Game 174
Cart, Fourteenth Century 176
A Toll-gate, early Nineteenth Century 179
Coach, early Nineteenth Century 180
George Stephenson's Locomotive "The Rocket" 183
Building a Railway in the early Nineteenth Century 186
Sankey Valley Viaduct 188
The Town Hall, Carlisle, built in time of Elizabeth 190
Police Officer and Jailer, early Nineteenth Century 192
Hayes Barton Farm, Devonshire 197
Modern Industry 200
SOCIAL LIFE IN ENGLAND