sps1955's photos with the keyword: Stamford

House of 1698 (the fireplaces are in the corners of the house, giving the rooms angled corner fireplaces as often seen in houses of this date, which explains why the windows are pushed towards the middle of the façade); according to the RCHM, the window surrounds suggest a remodelling in the mid-C18, but the remaining details of the entrance front derive from a further remodelling designed by Bryan Browning for the Marquess of Exeter in 1843-4. RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp60-68 (mon. 96); listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1360348 . The C18 gate piers are separately listed: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1147390 .

c.1700, with later 18th-century wrought iron railings. Presumably the ground-floor and first-floor windows originally had mullions and transoms (although possibly wooden ones, unlike the stone mullions of the blocked windows in the basement); even allowing for that, the proportions seem somewhat strange to me. RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp60-68 (mon. 99); listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1062281 .

c.1700, with later 18th-century wrought iron railings. Presumably the ground-floor and first-floor windows originally had mullions and transoms (although possibly wooden ones, unlike the stone mullions of the blocked windows in the basement). The lintels of the windows have been incised in imitation of flat arches. RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp60-68 (mon. 99); listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1062281 . Cropped from the main photograph of this house, with colour levels adjusted to suit this section of the photo.

Built and presumably designed by Henry Tatam, alderman and cabinet maker, between 1796 and 1801, on the site of a house occupied by the antiquary, William Stukeley, while he was vicar of All Saints. Unusual features of the façade, such as the treatment of the cornice and the windows (especially on the first floor), probably reflect Tatam's cabinet-making experience. The porch is an early C19 addition. RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp60-68 (mon. 97); listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1147402 . On the far right is the one-bay front of no. 10, dating from 1804, with rusticated quoins and window surrounds which would have been unfashionable by that date but which echo the mid-C18 no. 13 . RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp60-68 (mon. 98); listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1062280 .

Dated 1740 on a rainwater head. The wrought-iron railings are presumably contemporary. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1360350 ; RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp60-68 (mon. 100).

By Giovanni Maria Benzoni of Rome, 1864.

From SW. St Mary's tower is C13; the spire C14. List description for St Mary: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1062961 .

From SE at dusk. St Mary's tower is C13; the spire C14. List description for St Mary: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1062961 .

Memorials to members of the Cecil family buried in Kensal Green cemetery: the lower memorial is to Lord Thomas Cecil (1797-1873), "formerly Colonel of 10th Hussars", the second son of the first Marquis of Exeter; the upper memorial is to Lady Sophia Cecil (1809-1902), daughter of Charles, 4th duke of Richmond, "who gave the ball at Brussels (of which she was a spectator) on the eve of Waterloo".

The monument is by Pierre-Étienne Monnot , a French sculptor working in Rome. Although it carries the date 1704, the inscription [of which there is a translation in Samuel Sharp's A handbook of Burghley, Northamptonshire (1851), p.17n] says that the earl commissioned it during his lifetime: "when he was in Italy, whilst he thoroughly examined and as curiously collected the works of choicest art, there he caused this monument to be made, where it could be most exquisitely done". "Being well instructed in polite letters, he went abroad more than once and, from the most refined parts of Europe, brought home much knowledge of antiquities, languages and civil affairs"; his wife, Anne, daughter of William Cavendish, earl of Devonshire, was "the companion of his virtues and travels, and, in a manner, of his studies" - hence, presumably, the book that she holds, as well as the books beneath the cushion on which the earl rests. The flanking figures represent victory and art.

Presumably erected at the behest of the 3rd marquess of Exeter , who had served as Lord Treasurer of the [royal] Household in 1866-7. On succeeding to the marquessate, he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, a post which he continued to hold under Disraeli's premiership, but he never held major political office.

Cecil was one of Queen Elizabeth I's leading advisers, holding the post of Lord Treasurer from 1572 until his death. The monument is attributed to Cornelius Cure , an English-born sculptor of Dutch parentage.

Built in 1881. Designed by J. B. Everard of Leicester, a civil engineer, it replaced a bridge of 1863 which had been designed by a local architect, and which was destroyed in a flood. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1359564 .

Incorporating 15th-century glass presented to the earl of Exeter, mostly from Tattershall church, re-set by William Peckitt in 1759-60. For details see the RCHM report: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp6-36 , item 31.

Seen from beneath the early C20 tower screen. The church was rebuilt c.1482-85. The pews date from the internal re-ordering in 1845 designed by Edward Browning and carried out at the expense of the Marquess of Exeter of Burghley House. The tomb of the Marquess's ancestor, William Cecil, 1st baron Burghley , is just visible on the N side of the chancel, with the Cecil family chapel to its N. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1169102 . RCHM report: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp6-36 , item 31

From NW. The tower and spire of the Grade I-listed All Saints are late C15: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1062310 . The house on the right with the two-storey bay-window is 6 Barn Hill, with C18 front but C17 origins, Grade II*-listed; the bay window was added by John Wyche, the town clerk, between 1774 and 1781 - he was fined in 1783 for encroaching on to the street: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1062278 ; www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp60-68 , item 95. No. 5, to the left, was originally part of the same house as no. 6, but was divided from it in 1824, and has a mid-C19 porch and (presumably) bay window; also Grade II*-listed: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1147366 .