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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… (C.g.) Witherslack, the Parish Church of St. Paul (O.S. 6 in. (a)XLI, N.E., (b)XLI, S.E., (c)XLII, N.W., (d)XLII, S.W.) Witherslack is a parish on the W. border of the county …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Bodmin; containing 468 inhabitants. The parish … of Withiel. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: … pleasing. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 30; net income, 686; patron, the Bishop of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Withington 93 WITHINGTON (C.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXVII, S.W., (b)XXXIV, N.W.) Withington is a parish 4 m. N.E. of … 1858; the Organ Chamber and South Porch are modern and the S. wall of the chancel has been re-built or re-faced. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's … Corn Street, High Street, and elsewhere. Lowell Place or Yard, originally a narrow cul-de-sac running northwards from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … houses separated by a gateway which led, typically, to a yard with kitchen, stable, and a range of workshops, and to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … 1766, and in 1783 the bridewell was an outbuilding in the yard of another privately owned house. 163 A 'blindhouse' or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney … evidently walled. Agricultural buildings, mostly on the yard's west side, included a barn with a porch, a byre, a … VCH Oxon. i. 401; Chartulary Winchester Cath. ed. A. W. Goodman (1927), pp. 18990; below. For royal control during …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … hymn services for the cottage dwellers of Lowell's Yard, and in 1877 when Church of England and Wesleyan Bands …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, … 1883 they had a barracks at West End, moved in 1897 to the yard of the Marlborough Arms; 157 regular Sunday and weekday …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Wivenhoe 98. WIVENHOE. (D.d.) (O.S. 6 in. xxxvii. N.W.) Wivenhoe is a parish and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall and the house … North and South Porches are modern. There was a N. but no S. chapel before the restoration. The Church, Plan …