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A black and white photograph of a small church, with its tower coved in ivy, stone walls and neighbouring buildings are also visible from the roadway, which itself is flanked by iron posts connected by chains.
Lockey, Francis

Widcombe old Church

1684 metres from BRLSI
St Thomas à Becket’s Church, Widcombe. The church was built between 1490 and 1498 by John Cantlow, Prior of Bath…
A black and white photograph of a stone water-trough on a roadside against a stone wall with trees and a hillside in the background
Lockey, Francis

Water trough, Swainswick

2232 metres from BRLSI
A water trough for horses at Swainswick. Lockey’s Journal entry for 12 May 1856 describes this as ‘Watering trough. Home’s…
A black and white photograph of a village street rutted with cart tracks and flanked by houses, stone walls, and trees.
Lockey, Francis

Charlcombe village

2327 metres from BRLSI
Charlecombe Village, north of Bath which had a population of less than 100 people when this photograph was taken.
A black and white photograph of an ivy covered church behind a stone wall with a lane in the foreground and a pastured hillside in the background
Lockey, Francis

Charlcombe Church

2371 metres from BRLSI
The 12th Century Church of St Mary, Charlcombe Lane, north of Bath. Recorded by Lockey as ‘Charlecombe Church (E end)’…
A black and white photograph of a view across a road towards a Gothic church with a steeples, behind railings and trees
Lockey, Francis

Combe Down Church

2986 metres from BRLSI
Church of the Holy Trinity, Combe Down, Bath, a Victorian Gothic Church built in 1834. Recorded as ‘Combe Down Ch.’…
A black and white photograph of an oblique view of adjoined stone buildings built on a slope, with barrels stacked against the walls, and at the far end a river with the opposite bank and hillside in the background
Lockey, Francis

Bathampton Mill

3346 metres from BRLSI
Not long after this photograph was taken Bathampton Mill was destroyed by fire and renovated, first in c.1855 and again…
A black and white photograph of a stone building with barred windows built over a large archway that appears to pass beneath the building and into another building which adjoins in to the rear. The building is surrounded by wooden boarded structures and fences and 
there are large elm trees in the background.
Lockey, Francis

Bathampton Mill

3346 metres from BRLSI
The millwheel building, photographed from the near bankside of the River Avon downstream south of the Bathamption weir. Much of…
A black and white photograph of a view from a road across churchyard wall to church with tower covered in ivy.
Lockey, Francis

Bathampton Church

3346 metres from BRLSI
The Parish Church of St Nicholas, Mill Lane, Bathampton, was originally established in the 13th century and the tower added…
A black and white photograph of a view through a graveyard to a church with tower covered in ivy
Lockey, Francis

Bathampton Church

3346 metres from BRLSI
The Parish Church of St Nicholas, Mill Lane, Bathampton, was originally established in the 13th century and the tower added…
A black and white photograph of a three story white rendered detached house with its windows open, photographed through a gap in the trees in its garden during summer
Lockey, Francis

Swainswick Cottage

3348 metres from BRLSI
Swainswick Cottage, Lockey’s house, photographed from the garden lawn through trees. Described by Lockey as ‘1 do. [waxed paper] Swk.…
A black and white photograph of a large detached house, covered with ivy or another creeper, and set back on a grass lawn. There are trees in leaf on either side.
Lockey, Francis

Bathampton Manor

3352 metres from BRLSI
17th century building modified in the 18th century, converted to a nursing home in the 20th century and now a…
A black and white photograph of a three story thatched house from the garden with a lawn and trees in front. There is a wooden chair on the lawn.
Lockey, Francis

Swainswick Rectory

3600 metres from BRLSI
Originally Swainswick Rectory, this 17th century thatched house now has a slate roof and is known as Glebe House.
A black and white photograph of a detached thatched house surrounded by a lawn and trees. A central porch with wooden lattice over the top, joining on to an overhanging second-storey room.
Lockey, Francis

Swainswick Rectory

3600 metres from BRLSI
Originally Swainswick Rectory, this 17th century thatched house now has a slate roof and is known as Glebe House.
A black and white photograph of a large detached house built of stone, with three stories, including attic indicated by dormer windows into the roof space, a garden path leads in from the lower right of the photograph, there is an adjoining glass conservatory on the left.
Lockey, Francis

Upper Swainswick House

3601 metres from BRLSI
Upper Swainswick House was then known as Beech House in the 1850s, and was home of Charles Sainsbury of Sainsbury…
A black and white photograph of a small, one-up-one-down, stone cottage with a tree overgrowing it from a walled garden beyond, the front door opens onto a roadway and further houses are visible further down the road.
Lockey, Francis

Cottage, Batheaston

4372 metres from BRLSI
Cottage by the roadside, Batheaston. Some trees still in leaf, others seems to have already dropped most of theirs. Larger…
A black and white photograph of a multiple gabled, tiled, stone house with multiple levels and lean-to structures.
Lockey, Francis

Manor House, Batheaston

4553 metres from BRLSI
The rear elevation of Manor House, Batheaston, a 17th century building remodelled in the 18th century. Probably amongst the ‘various…
A black and white photograph of a stone viaduct with 5 even arches passing out of the field of view to the right and adjoining a steep valley to the left, with a large tree in the field at the valley floor
Lockey, Francis

Limpley Stoke viaduct

4554 metres from BRLSI
Limpley Stoke viaduct, where the road crosses the Midford Brook. This viaduct caries the main road from Bath to Warminster,…
A black and white photograph of a view across grass to church with ivy covering the tower, and a pile of rubble just outside the boundary wall
Lockey, Francis

Church, Newton St. Loe

4620 metres from BRLSI
Church of the Holy Trinity at Newton St. Loe dates originally to the 11th century, though the current main building…
A black and white photograph of a stone built factory, with slate rooves and two tall chimneys, surrounded by hilly fields and trees
Lockey, Francis

Paper Mill, Bathford

4699 metres from BRLSI
Bathford Mill was producing paper from 1809, but this building had also processed corn, cloth, leather goods, flour, and even…
A black and white photograph of a church from a roadway enclosed by dressed stone walls.
Lockey, Francis

Winsley Church

6539 metres from BRLSI
St. Nicholas’ Church, Winsley, has a 15th century tower, the rest of the church was rebuilt by R.S. Pope in…
A black and white photograph of a large country house over a stone wall and gate, from a front side aspect, the far wing is covered in ivy
Lockey, Francis

Cold Ashton Manor House

7658 metres from BRLSI
Cold Ashton Manor House in South Gloucestershire is house built in the late 16th or early 17th Century. Lockey records…
A black and white photograph of a church with a steeple taken from a walled garden with fan trained fruit trees
Lockey, Francis

Box Church

8450 metres from BRLSI
St Thomas à Becket’s Church, Box, Wiltshire. Built in the 12th-century origins and in the 14th, 15th, 18th and 19th…