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The village of Compton, Surrey, United Kingdom, is situated between Godalming and Guildford, and close to an important trunk road linking London with Portsmouth (now the A3). Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ...
The Pepperpot, Godalmings former town hall. ...
Guildford is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as the seat for the borough of Guildford and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region. ...
This article is about the British city. ...
Portsmouth is a city of about 196,000 people located in the county of Hampshire on the southern coast of Great Britain. ...
The A3 near Liphook The A3 is a trunk road in Southern England, connecting London to Portsmouth. ...
It is perhaps best known for its church, St Nicholas, which contains one of the oldest surviving carved Norman screens. Saint Nicholas, also known as Nikolaus in Germany and Sinterklaas (a contracted form of Sint Nicolaas) in the Netherlands and Flanders, is the common name for the historical Saint Nicholas of Myra, who lived in 4th century Byzantine Anatolia, (now in modern Turkey) and had a reputation for secret gift...
The Nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the nave anticipates the Gothic style. ...
The building represents 900 years of history, and contains relics of an even earlier age, for in the structure of the tower can be seen pieces of Roman tiles salvaged from ruined buildings after the occupation. The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ...
The basic structure, including the tower, is Saxon, but it has been much altered over the centuries. For example, the influence of the Normans can be seen in the arches, the timber roofing (thought to date back to 1165) and the unique carved wooden screen in the chancel. Other features were added in the generations that followed, such as the spire (14th century), the pulpit and the clock (17th century). The famous parade helmet found at Sutton Hoo, probably belonging to King Raedwald of East Anglia circa 625. ...
This article is about an architectural feature; for the astronomical term see apsis. ...
This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ...
For other uses of Ambo, see Ambo, Ethiopia and ambulance. ...
(16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
One of Compton’s best known residents was the painter George Frederic Watts who lived at a house called Limnerslease, which now contains a gallery in his memory. After his death, a memorial chapel and cloister designed by his wife Mary Fraser Tytler were built on a hill overlooking the village. George Frederic Watts, as depicted in a biography available from Project Gutenberg Hope painted in 1885 and given to the nation in 1897 George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817 - 1 July 1904; sometimes spelt George Frederick Watts) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. ...
Mary Fraser Tyter aka Mary Seton Watts (1849-1938) was a Symbolist craftswoman, designer and socialist. ...
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