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Walter Tapper

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Sir Walter John Tapper (21 April 1861 – 21 September 1935) was a British architect known for his work in the Gothic Revival style and a number of church buildings. [1]

104 relations: Aestheticism, Architect, Architectural conservation, Art Deco, Ascension of Jesus, Ashmolean Museum, Baldachin, Baptismal font, Bartolomeo Vivarini, Basil Champneys, Bovey Tracey, Cathedral, Charles Gore, Charles Herbert Reilly, Chester city walls, Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch, Church of the Ascension, Malvern Link, Community of the Resurrection, Consumerism, Dean's Yard, Deepdale, Preston, Derbyshire, Devon, Earconwald, English Gothic architecture, Essex, Flying buttress, Gas Light and Coke Company, George Frederick Bodley, George Gilbert Scott, George V, Giles Gilbert Scott, Gorton, Gothic Revival architecture, Gray's Inn, Grimsby, Guildford Grammar School Chapel, Guildford, Western Australia, Harrogate, Harry Hems, Haywards Heath, Henry VII Chapel, John Ruskin, Lancaster Gate, Lancet window, Leicestershire, Lichfield, Little Coates, Liverpool Cathedral, London stock brick, ..., Loughborough, Loughborough Carillon, Lythe, Madonna (art), Malvern, Worcestershire, Manchester, Manchester Cathedral, Marble Arch, Mass production, Medievalism, Mirfield, Muniment, Nave, Newgate, Chester, Newton Abbot, Ninian Comper, North Yorkshire, Nymans, Oxford, Pietro Torrigiano, Pollution, Processional cross, Real estate development, Relief, Reredos, Restoration (England), Richard Norman Shaw, Romanesque architecture, Rood, Rose window, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Victorian Order, Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Shipley Hall, Southend-on-Sea, St Chad's Church, Stafford, St John's Wood, St Laurence's Church, Ludlow, St Mary's Church, Harrogate, St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, Streamline Moderne, Surrey, Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey, Thomas Garner, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Vault (architecture), Watercolor painting, Watts & Co., West Sussex, West Yorkshire, Westminster, Whiteley Village, York Minster. Expand index (54 more) »

Aestheticism

Aestheticism (also the Aesthetic Movement) is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.

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Architectural conservation

Architectural conservation describes the process through which the material, historical, and design integrity of any built heritage are prolonged through carefully planned interventions.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Ascension of Jesus

The ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin Acts 1:9-11 section title: Ascensio Iesu) is the departure of Christ from Earth into the presence of God.

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Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean Museum (in full the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum.

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Baldachin

A baldachin, or baldaquin (from baldacchino), is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne.

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Baptismal font

A baptismal font is an article of church furniture used for baptism.

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Bartolomeo Vivarini

Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432c. 1499) was an Italian Renaissance painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499.

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Basil Champneys

Basil Champneys (17 September 1842 – 5 April 1935) was an architect and author whose most notable buildings include Manchester's John Rylands Library, Somerville College Library (Oxford), Newnham College, Cambridge, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Mansfield College, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford's Rhodes Building.

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Bovey Tracey

Bovey Tracey is a small town and civil parish in Devon, England, on the edge of Dartmoor, its proximity to which gives rise to the "slogan" used on the town's boundary signs, "The Gateway to the Moor".

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Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.

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Charles Gore

Charles Gore (1853–1932) was the Bishop of Oxford.

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Charles Herbert Reilly

Sir Charles Herbert Reilly, (4 March 1874 – 2 February 1948) was an English architect and teacher.

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Chester city walls

Chester city walls consist of a defensive structure built to protect the city of Chester in Cheshire, England.

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Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch

The Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch, is a Church of England parish church in the Marble Arch district of London, England.

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Church of the Ascension, Malvern Link

The first completed work by the renowned architect Sir Walter Tapper, this is a Grade II listed church in the parish of Malvern Link and Cowleigh.

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Community of the Resurrection

The Community of the Resurrection (CR) is an Anglican religious community for men in England.

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.

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Dean's Yard

Dean's Yard, Westminster, comprises most of the remaining precincts of the former monastery of Westminster, not occupied by the Abbey buildings.

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Deepdale, Preston

Deepdale is an electoral ward in Preston, Lancashire, England.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Earconwald

Erkenwald (died 693) was Bishop of London in the Anglo-Saxon Christian church between 675 and 693.

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English Gothic architecture

English Gothic is an architectural style originating in France, before then flourishing in England from about 1180 until about 1520.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Flying buttress

The flying buttress (arc-boutant, arch buttress) is a specific form of buttress composed of an arched structure that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, in order to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push a wall outwards, which are forces that arise from vaulted ceilings of stone and from wind-loading on roofs.

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Gas Light and Coke Company

The Gas Light and Coke Company (also known as the Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company, and the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company), was a company that made and supplied coal gas and coke.

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George Frederick Bodley

George Frederick Bodley (14 March 182721 October 1907) was an English Gothic Revival architect.

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George Gilbert Scott

Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), styled Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Giles Gilbert Scott

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960) was an English architect known for his work on Liverpool Cathedral, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Cambridge University Library, Waterloo Bridge and Battersea Power Station and designing the iconic red telephone box.

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Gorton

Gorton is an area of Manchester in North West England, southeast of the city centre.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Gray's Inn

The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London.

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Grimsby

Grimsby, also known as Great Grimsby, is a large coastal English town and seaport in North East Lincolnshire, of which it is the administrative centre.

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Guildford Grammar School Chapel

The Guildford Grammar School Chapel usually known as the Chapel of St.

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Guildford, Western Australia

Guildford is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, 12 km northeast of the city centre.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England.

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Harry Hems

Harry Hems (12 June 1842 – 5 January 1916) was an English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor who was particularly inspired by Gothic architecture and a practitioner of Gothic Revival.

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Haywards Heath

Haywards Heath is a town in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex, England.

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Henry VII Chapel

The Henry VII Lady Chapel, now more often known just as the Henry VII Chapel, is a large Lady chapel at the far eastern end of Westminster Abbey, paid for by the will of Henry VII.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist.

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Lancaster Gate

Lancaster Gate is a mid-19th century development in the Bayswater district of central London, immediately to the north of Kensington Gardens.

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Lancet window

A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a pointed arch at its top.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.

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Lichfield

Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England.

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Little Coates

Little Coates is an area of western Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England.

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Liverpool Cathedral

Liverpool Cathedral is the Church of England Cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, built on St James's Mount in Liverpool and is the seat of the Bishop of Liverpool.

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London stock brick

London stock brick is the type of handmade brick which was used for the majority of building work in London and South East England until the growth in the use of Flettons and other machine-made bricks in the early 20th century.

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Loughborough

Loughborough is a town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, seat of Charnwood Borough Council, and home to Loughborough University.

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Loughborough Carillon

Loughborough Carillon is a carillon and war memorial in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.

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Lythe

Lythe is a small village and large civil parish, in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England, situated near Whitby within the North York Moors National Park.

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Madonna (art)

A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus.

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Malvern, Worcestershire

Malvern is a spa town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church.

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Marble Arch

Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble faced triumphal arch in London, England.

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Mass production

Mass production, also known as flow production or continuous production, is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines.

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Medievalism

Medievalism is the system of belief and practice characteristic of the Middle Ages, or devotion to elements of that period, which has been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture.

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Mirfield

Mirfield is a small town and civil parish in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

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Muniment

A Muniment or Muniment of Title is a legal term for a document, title deed or other evidence, that indicates ownership of an asset.

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Nave

The nave is the central aisle of a basilica church, or the main body of a church (whether aisled or not) between its rear wall and the far end of its intersection with the transept at the chancel.

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Newgate, Chester

Newgate is an arch bridge carrying the walkway of the city walls over Pepper Street in Chester, Cheshire, England.

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Newton Abbot

Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England, with a population of 25,556.

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Ninian Comper

Sir (John) Ninian Comper (10 June 1864 – 22 December 1960) was a Scottish-born architect.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan county (or shire county) and larger ceremonial county in England.

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Nymans

Nymans is an English garden to the east of the village of Handcross, and in the civil parish of Slaugham in West Sussex, England.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Pietro Torrigiano

Pietro Torrigiano (24 November 1472 – August 1528) was an Italian sculptor of the Florentine school.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Processional cross

A processional cross is a crucifix or cross which is carried in Christian processions.

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Real estate development

Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Reredos

A reredos (IPA /ˈrɪɚdɒs/) or raredos is a large altarpiece, a screen, or decoration placed behind the altar in a church.

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Restoration (England)

The Restoration of the English monarchy took place in the Stuart period.

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Richard Norman Shaw

Richard Norman Shaw RA (7 May 1831 – 17 November 1912), sometimes known as Norman Shaw, was a Scottish architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches.

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Rood

A rood or rood cross, sometimes known as a triumphal cross, is a cross or crucifix, especially the large Crucifixion set above the entrance to the chancel of a medieval church.

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Rose window

A rose window or Catherine window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and being divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its charter granted in 1837 and Supplemental Charter granted in 1971.

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Royal Victorian Order

The Royal Victorian Order (Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria.

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Sharpe, Paley and Austin

Sharpe, Paley and Austin are the surnames of architects who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, between 1835 and 1946, working either alone or in partnership.

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Shipley Hall

Shipley Hall was a country estate in Shipley, Derbyshire near Heanor and Ilkeston which now forms a Country Park.

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Southend-on-Sea

Southend-on-Sea, commonly referred to as simply Southend, is a town and wider unitary authority area with borough status in southeastern Essex, England.

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St Chad's Church, Stafford

St Chad's Church, on Greengate Street in the centre of Stafford, is a Grade II* listed Anglican church.

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St John's Wood

St John's Wood is a district of northwest London, of which more than 98 percent lies in the City of Westminster and less than two percent in Camden.

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St Laurence's Church, Ludlow

St Laurence's Church, Ludlow is a parish church in the Church of England in Ludlow.

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St Mary's Church, Harrogate

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St Wulfram's Church, Grantham

St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, is a parish church in the Church of England in Grantham in Lincolnshire.

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Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne, sometimes termed Art Moderne, is a late type of the Art Deco architecture and graphic design/style that emerged in the 1930s.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey

The post of Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey was established in 1698.

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Thomas Garner

Thomas Garner (1839–1906) was one of the leading English Gothic revival architects of the Victorian era.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Vault (architecture)

Vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is an architectural term for an arched form used to provide a space with a ceiling or roof.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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Watts & Co.

Watts & Co. is a prominent architecture and interior design company in England.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames.

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Whiteley Village

Whiteley Village, in Hersham, Surrey, England, is a retirement village, much designed architecturally by Arts and Crafts movement-influenced architect Reginald Blomfield.

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York Minster

The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is the cathedral of York, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe.

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References

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