Porch Collection (page 2)

Bethlem psychiatric hospital or Bedlam in 1816
Bethlem Royal Hospital or Bedlam Hospital in St. Georges Fields, Southwark, 1816. Now the Imperial War Museum. Designed by surveyor James Lewis in the neoclassical style with portico

The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London. Designed by the architect Inigo Jones in the Palladian style with Corinthian and Ionic columns below a balustrade

Design for a gothic dairy for a stately home, 1821
Design for a gothic dairy for a stately home. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1821

Belhus, seat of Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard
Belhus, Essex, seat of slave owner Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard. Gothic style house with deer in the gardens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1826

Ruins of the Gate of Athena Archegetis, Roman Agora, Athens
Ruins of the Gate of Athena Archegetis, at the Roman Agora or Roman Forum, Athens, Greece. Porta del Mercato di Atene. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Bennardoni from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes

Chapel (now Holy Trinity Church) at Seathwaite, Cumbria
Chapel (now rebuilt as Holy Trinity Church) at Seathwaite, Cumbria. Date: 1843

Porch of an old Interregnum house in Hanover
South east view of the porch of an old Interregnum house known as General Monks house in Hanover Court, near Grub Street, 1809. Built circa 1650

Working Girls Club, Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA
Working Girls Club, Naugatuck, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA. Date: circa 1908

Norfolk Island garden with whale bones, 1939
A feature of many gardens on Norfolk Island in the Pacific which recalls the time when whales were caught off the coast: a porch formed of whales jaw-bones over a garden gate. 1939

Music cover, Last Night on the Back Porch (I Loved Her Best of All) by Len Brown and Carl Schraubstader

A gift to Exeter Cathedral - statues being hoisted into plac
Statues of patron saints, donated anonymously in thanksgiving for the end of the Great War, are hoisted into position in the empty niches round and above the north porch of Exeter Cathedral

Old woman at cottage porch, 1890s
Old woman at the door of a cottage porch, 1890s Date: 1890s

Oratorio de la Bonanova, Palma de Majorca, Majorca, Spain
Oratorio de la Bonanova, an oratory or sanctuary in Palma de Majorca, Majorca, Spain. Date: circa 1903

London horseguards on horseback in ceremonial uniform. Date: circa 1960s

South Porch of Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. A monestary was established here in 676 by Aldhelm, but the present building was consecrated in about 1180. Date: 12th century

Interior Squared Date: 1948

Southern Home on River Date: 1948

Farm in the Country Date: 1948

Front of House, Yard

Children Hearing Carols

Extension of new St. Stephens Porch to Clock Tower 1857
Extension proposal for new building at Westminster Palace from St. Stephens Porch to the Clock Tower, designed by Charles Barry. Date: 1857

Christmas morning - Churchgoers 1859
Victorian people wearing their Sunday-best, about to enter church for prays. Date: 1859

COTTAGE PORCH
On a cottage porch, the return of the swallows to their nests heralds the coming summer Date: 1875

Madame Sarah Bernhardt in Izeyl at Dalys Theatre - Izeyl watching Prince Siddartha from the porch of her house. Date: 1894

Six bottles of silver-top milk on the doorstep. Date: 1980s

Canada - Grandmother and young grandchild outside her home
Canada - Grandmother and young grandchild outside her (palatial!) home. Date: circa 1930s

Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk - Porch and Priors Lodging. Date: circa 1930s

Nevada, USA - Gould and Curry Mining Company Office/Mackay Mansion Date: circa 1920s

Terling, Essex - Terling Church - The South Porch Date: circa 1920s

Warblington Church, Old Oak Porch
Warblington Church of St. Thomas (late 12th century), Hampshire - The (beautiful) Old 14th century Oak North Porch. Date: circa 1910s

Chateau de Coigny, Manche, Normandy, France - The Honour Porch Date: circa 1905

Umtali Hospital, Umtali, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Umtali Hospital (opened November 1897), Umtali (now Mutare), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Date: 1907

Marsham Hall, Norwich, Norfolk
Two women with their dog at the front door of Marsham Hall, near Norwich, Norfolk, England. circa 1900

INDIA. Ellora. Ellora Caves. Ellora. Cave 21. Hindu Temple Rameshwar or Rameshvara, carved in the rock, 7-8th c. Sculptures in the facade. Hindu art. Architecture

WW2 - Bomb Damage to Houses of Parliament, London
In the course of the German bombing of London during the Second World War, the Palace of Westminster was hit by bombs on fourteen separate occasions

Main building of Sidcot School, Somerset
Main building of Sidcot School, Winscombe, North Somerset, an independent Quaker school. Date: circa 1920s

The Arrest of Diepo Negoro by Lieutenant-General Baron De Ko
Nicols Pieneman (1809-1860). Dutch painter. The Arrest of Diepo Negoro by Lieutenant-General Baron De Kock, c. 1830-1835, Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands

Hadrians Villa. Pecile and Hall of Philosophers. 2nd centur
Italy. Hadrians Villa. Imperial Villa built by Emperor Hadrian (76-138). 2nd century. The Pecile. Tivoli

Hadrians Villa. Pecile. 2nd century. Italy
Italy. Hadrians Villa. Imperial Villa built by Emperor Hadrian (76-138). 2nd century. The Pecile. Tivoli

Italy. Pompeii. House of Vetti. Domus. 1st century AD. Peris
Italy. Pompeii. House of Vetti. Was a domus owned by Aulus Vettius Conviva and Aulus Vettius Restitutus, two successful freeman. 1st century AD. Peristyle

The ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Didyma. Turkey
Turkey. Didyma. Ancient Greek sanctuary. Coast of Ionia. Ruins of the Temple and oracle of Apollo, The Didymaion. Hellenistic period. Near Didim

Apollo Kanachos relief. Miletus
Relief depicting a cult statue of Apollo, standing between two torch-bearers. The image of god are a quotation from a famous archaic cult statue by Kanachos. 175-200 AD. Marble

The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. Harvard Univeristy. Designed by Horace Trumbauer & Associates. Boston. Massachusetts. United States

Group outside Moffat Hydropathic Hotel - believed to be at the front door, the woman on the left is holding a copy of The New Machiavelli. A sign behind them advertises charabancs for hire

Longwood House, St Helena, where Napoleon Bonaparte lived in exile. circa 1908

Alice in Wonderland, frog and fish footmen
Alice in Wonderland, the frog and fish footmen. Date: early 20th century

Torhalle. GERMANY. Lorsch. Torhalle. Porch of the former imperial Abbey in Lorsch. Singing Angels in the Coronation of Mary. Detail. Decoration of the chapel on the upper floor. Gothic art. Fresco

Society goes to see Count Michael de Torbys fashion designs
Society out in force to see the dresses designed by Count Michael de Torby, son of Grand Duke Michael, at court dressmakers, Reville and Rossiter in 1918

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