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A History of the County of Somerset
… was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries … kitchen, buttery, cellar, and 13 chambers including the old, new, long, and gallery chambers. 35 When the house was … 1782-97, was also a chaplain to the king and a canon of St. Paul's. 87 Communion was celebrated four times a year in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the … for the distributions, which must be received at the church door; careful account was to be kept of the gifts and … in grants of up to £ 2; the parish clerk was living in the old schoolhouse and receiving £8 a year from the charity. 75 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton … 1965 the then lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's … 67 Such a house was built, west of the site of the old one, but apparently not until the incumbency of Richard …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a single day on successive Mondays following the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (29 June) in the order Oxey, West mead, Pixey. The … livestock, on the Monday following the parish feast day (St. Bartholomew's day, 24 August). 38 Two meadsmen were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a schoolroom. 57 The children were … £3 from the Fletcher benefaction and £1 from the bishop of St. Asaph, an absentee landowner. 61 An evening school … with accommodation for 53 children was built in 1875 in Church Lane, 63 and from 1877 it received a parliamentary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington … of Church Lane, with a branch beginning north of the old school and emerging east of the Red Lion. 21 The … practice of holding fairs on the village feast (24 August, St. Bartholomew's day), 53 and much earlier he had put an end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … view of frankpledge at Yarnton attended by tenants from St. Valery manors in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, … 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with other d'Ivri lands, had become part of the honor of St. Valery, of which it formed one of the five demesne … recover Yarnton, but although the abbey's ownership of the church was never challenged it could not regain the manor and … 1611 by Sir Thomas Spencer. The house stood 'near to the old one by the church' 83 and part of an older house seems to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect church attendance. In the 1840s Primitive Methodists met in a … were said in 1854 to be 20 dissenters who never came to church, even though their preachers had agreed not to hold …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of the parish. … but those of the lantern or bell-chamber are partly old; three sides of the lantern have ranges of pierced …