Inventors (1566 pages found in this category)


Robin Grison

Redirected to Robert Grierson, witchcraft.

Rockingham Mausoleum

Monument commissioned by the Earl Fitzwilliam as a memorial to the second Marquess of Rockingham in 1783.

Rockingham Pottery

Redirected to Swinton Pottery.

Rockingham Works

Redirected to Swinton Pottery.

Rococo

Exceptionally ornate and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration.

Roger Hampson

Painter, printmaker, teacher and a member of the group of post-war northern artists who developed the realist tradition established by L S Lowry and Harry Rutherford.

Roman numerals

System of using letters to represent numbers, an idea that was developed by the Phoenicians two thousand years before the founding of the city of Rome.

Rood screen

Screen separating the chancel from the nave, typically in late medieval Christion churches.

Round Foundry

Engineering works off Water Lane in Holbeck, Leeds in Yorkshire, built for Fenton, Murray and Wood.

Roundwood

Roundwood is a wooded peninsula on the River Fal in Cornwall, where there is evidence of occupation and settlement since at least the Iron Age.