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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… order to afford somewhat the appearance of a prison. The building is too much like a common dwelling-house at … sessions at last resolved to discontinue it and hand the building over to the constabulary for use as a police … a week in school, learning the elements of reading and the Church catechism. 65 It is, again, very noticeable that at …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 48 inc. 34 professional and technical staff (architects, building inspectors, draughtsmen, clerk of works) Planning … so at last they got a faculty and they closed one church entirely and practically pulled it down, simply … days was, perhaps, relations with the managers of the church schools, who maintained a precarious semi-independence …
The Environs of London
… for on the supposition that the materials were used for building Barking Abbey, and for repairing it after it was … sat in the see of London after the building of St. Paul's church by King Ethelbert. The monastic writers speak in very … inscription: Hic jacet Johannes Bamber, M. D. Reg. Soc. Coll. Med. Lond. Socius, qui per multos annos, medicinam …
The Environs of London
… heirs sold it to Mr. Reid the present proprietor 6. The church. The parish church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient … alms-house for six poor widows; the remainder, after the building was finished, purchased the sum of 400l. in the 3 …
The Environs of London
… Scriptures; and Dissertations on ancient Castles. Parish church. The parish church, dedicated to St. George, is a neat structure, … 1789; and William Watson, Esq. 1795. Rectory. The church of Beckenham is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… mostly pasture. There is a quarry of limestone used for building and draining. The living is a rectory, valued in the … and the glebe comprises 60 acres, with a glebe-house. The church, supposed to have been built about the year 1587, is a … Jones, a former possessor of the estate, who provided the church with a set of bells. A free grammar school for boys …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (1791), 353), writing in about 1720, said that the parish church then stood 'at the upper end of the town, but within … to be made up of three distinct parts. To the E. of the church was a single row of buildings on the N. side of the … that described by Bridges (op. cit.) as an Elizabethan building with the date 1580 on it. Further W., to the W. of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of St. Mary the Virgin held a court for the tenants of his church c. 1190. 9 Only two laymen are known to have held … Earlier Henry of Oxford, who held his lands with sac and soc and infangthief, 12 and Geoffrey de Clinton (d. by 1135) … Bodl. MS. Twyne xxiv, p. 258; Borough Customs, ii (Selden Soc. xxi), 1956. J.I. 1/695 m. 19; J.I. 1/699 m. 27; J.I. …
Old and New London
… circumspice;" like Sir Christopher Wren in the cathedral church of St. Paul. In the well-known words of the … spring which still supplies a pump near the modern parish church. The overflow from this pond would pass by Ivy Bridge … years as a pasture-ground, and was subsequently let on a building lease. Then the square was planned, and Inigo Jones …
Old and New London
… 'y Athhyais Chaire] Aristoph., "Acharn." St. Paul's Church first builtDestroyed by Fire and rebuiltDispute … interred in the ChurchyardThe Parish Ratebooks and Church Registers"King's" Coffee HouseThe Westminster … on the plan and in the proportions of the original building. The great delay between the period of erection and …