Vault Collection

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
King Arthur welcomes the Green Knight into the Banqueting Hall and invites him to dismount and eat with the company. Everyone is amazed to see the unexpected visitor

Female Pole Vaulter 1927
An elegant woman soars towards the bar during a pole vault

Olympics / 1912 / Pole Vault
Pole Vault: MS Wright, USA

Old man in Stoke pub -1
An elderly man sits in the bar of a working class pub in Staffordshire. He has a half pint of mild ale. It is early doors and there is a portrait of the Queen on the wall - 1 Date: 1987

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault at The New Britain Trust Co. Bank Vault

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault in The Bank of Montreal, New York. Bank Vault

Old man in Stoke pub - 2
An elderly man sits in the bar of a working class pub in Staffordshire. He has a half pint of mild ale. It is early doors and there is a portrait of the Queen on the wall - 2 Date: 1987

The Crypt, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire Date: circa 1920s

Ghostly apparition produced by reflection. Date: 19th century

Interior of the Temple Church, London, viewed from the entrance doorway. Date: 1843

G Jefferson fails at pole vault, 1932 Olympics
A falling American pole-vaulter grips the cross bar as he makes his descent at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, failing to make a height of 13 feet 9 inches. Date: 1932

Spain - Matador pole vaulting
A Matador pole vaults over the on-rushing bull during a Spanish Bullfight. Date: circa 1910s

Safety Deposit Vault
Merchantile Safe Deposit Co. 120 Broadway, c. 1904. Safety deposit vault with mosaic tile floor flanked by banks of safe deposit boxes

Planet earth as perceived by Cosmas, with walls on either side of the Heavens, a transparent firmament, a reservoir of waters above the planet, and above them the Empyrean vault

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Italy
19th century vintage photograph: Catacombe dei Cappuccini, c.1890 s. The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy

Earl of Crawford tomb robbed, 1881
Four scenes relating to the tomb robbery of Alexander William Crawford Lindsay(1812-1880), 25th Earl of Crawford, 8th Earl of Balcarres. 1. Dunecht House, near Aberdeen. 2. The Chapel. 3

Bank door transportation
Safes, Bankers Trust Co. Vaults. Team of horses pulling a vault door on Broad Street at Pearl Street, presumably on its way to the Bankers Trust Co. for installation; sign of rig reads: EMERGENCY DOOR

POLE VAULT, 1871
Athletics meeting at the Agricultural Hall, Islington - vaulting the pole

Kings Chapel / Pugin C1820
Kings College Chapel, showing details of the ornate ceiling

The Royal Vault, St. Georges Chapel, 1884
Engraving showing the interior of the Royal Vault of St. Georges Chapel at Windsor Castle, 1884

Royal Oratory, Chateau de Chambord, Loire Valley, France
Royal Oratory, or private chapel of the king, with stone vaulted coffered ceiling, in the Francois I wing of the Chateau de Chambord

Lay dormitory, Clairvaux Abbey, Ville-sous-la-Ferte, Aube
Lay dormitory, in the lay brothers building, built 12th century and rebuilt 1708, with cross vaulted ceiling supported by octagonal stone columns, at the Abbaye de Clairvaux, or Clairvaux Abbey

Turkey. Constantinople - Cistern of Philoxenos
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Cistern of Philoxenos or Binbirdirek Cistern, The 1001 columns. It was constructed under a palace in the 5th century

Brother Sheares Vault, St. Michan's Church, Dublin, Ireland
Brother Sheares Vault - St. Michan's Church - Dublin, Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

St. Michan's Mummies - St. Michan's Church - Dublin, Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

Italy, Pompeii. Forum Baths. 1st century BC. Interior of the Tepidarium (medium temperature baths), decorated with stuccoes in the vault. The niches are decorated with male figures (telamones)

Inside Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London Date: 1794

Grand Masters Crypt, Valletta, Malta
View inside the Grand Masters (Knights of Malta) Crypt, St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta, showing the sarcophagi of (left to right) Philippe Villiers de l'Isle Adam

HAPSBURG VAULT
The funeral vault at Vienna of the Hapsburgs, the Imperial family of the Austrian Empire. The coffins are of a size appropriate to such mighty folk. Date: circa 1840

BOITO NERONE LIEBIG 6
Scene from act five : in the vault of the circus, the Christians are trapped by the fire, and die when the building collapses. Date: first performed 1924

Street in Tunis with arches, architecture, Tunisia
Vintage 19th century photograph: street in Tunis with arches, architecture, Tunisia

Ancient ampitheatre at Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. Vintage 19th century photograph

Entrance to Mr. Holdens Family Vault in St. Bride s
Entrance to Mr. Holdens Family Vault in St. Brides churchyard, one of the few relics after the Fire of London 1666. Built in 1657 with coat of arms above the door

The west front of the Mathematical School, Christs Hospital, 1775. Free school built by Sir Robert Clayton during the reign of King Charles II

English gentleman and bookseller staring at a young beauty
An English gentleman at a booksellers in Avignon, catching his first glimpse of the beauty Clara with her old aunt. First sight of Clara at Avignon

Roman cinerary urn and vase. Two marble cinerary urns found in ancient tombs in Siena 1, 2, and marble urn with pedestal and figure of lion attacking a bull 3. After Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Exeter Cathedral, Devon, interior view. circa 1890

Acrobat performing a backward somersault on two trestles. From a woodcut by Arcangelo Tuccaro, 1599. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

Acrobat performing somersaults on a chair and bench. From a woodcut by Arcangelo Tuccaro, 1599. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

East entrance to the cell in the Southwest Tower of the Tower of London, 1803. Early Pointed Style. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1811

North view of the cell in the Southwest Tower of the Tower of London, 1803. Early Pointed Style. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1811

Skeleton of Death stealing gold from a Miser
Skeleton of Death stealing gold coins and treasure from a Miser in his vault with barred windows. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein

Detail of the interior of Westminster Abbey, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by P. Giarre from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World

Plan, elevation and section of an air vault, early 19th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by David Mushet from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

St. Martins Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London

Room in Eastnor Castle, near Ledbury, Herefordshire. circa 1900

Vaults under London docks 1870
Under the London Docks covering eighteen acres, were the finest vaults in the world, vast catacombs of the precious vintages garnered from every famous vineyard in the globe

King Edward VII burial in St. George s, Windsor 1910
Funeral service of King Edward VII at St. George s, Windsor, coffin being descenede into the subterranean passage leading to th Royal vault. Date: May 1910

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