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A History of the County of Gloucester
… who had favoured Whitefield's brand of revivalism. At the end of the century Gloucester had five protestant … Under Drayton the church began a mission to the Barton End suburb and increased its support among the working … or early 1681 the mayor imprisoned Forbes under the Five Mile Act and the meeting place was ransacked. On his release …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a gallery, 15 apparently formed an upper storey at one end of the great hall, which occupied the full height of the … supported by a double row of wooden posts. 16 The south end of the hall was rebuilt in brick in 1761 following a … A statue of Charles II was set up in a niche on the north end of the wheat market house in Southgate Street in 1661 or …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… within the city was also extended by the board and by the end of 1856 covered all parts of the city as then … were appointed to light the suburbs lying within a mile from the city boundary. 107 The unequal rights levied by … and supplied with sufficient hose for fighting fires up to mile from the canal, had been provided in 1906 as a joint …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… earlier 19th trade centred on docks and yards at the city end of the Gloucester and Berkeley canal. This account … a timber float where the road touched the canal at Two Mile Bend between Hempsted and Quedgeley. 122 Later … were strung out along the eastern bank to just beyond Two Mile Bend, where the timber float had been filled in and its …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Lampley, a Gloucester glover, apparently met a similar end in 1588 for proselytizing some relatives. 6 In the late …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1853 as a modern cottage, was later made at its south end. 15 Before 1882 the north part of the old range was … wharf in 1852. 17 The priory church, of which the western end presumably still underlies the north-eastern part of the … period a crypt or burial vault was added at the east end of the church; it had independent foundations and four …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Street, 1843, from a gate to Blackfriars at its northern end, which was called after Joan (d. 1567), wife of Sir … Court, 1843. Ran from lower Westgate Street to the north end of the quay. Destroyed early 20th cent. Turries Lane, see … Ebridge Street, early 13th cent., 1595. 105 The western end, beyond the Old Severn, once described as 'between the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… hill, in the south-west part of the town at the south end of the later Barbican Road. Archaeological evidence, … that the Barbican hill motte was a later addition near the end of the 11th century. 4 Before 1112 Walter of Gloucester … on a bridge across the Severn, defended at its western end by a brattice; the bridge was rebuilt in 1222, and again …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… four bays with two further piers on the curve of the east end. In the crypt there are solid masses of masonry beneath … early 12th-century nave was one bay longer before its west end was remodelled in the early 15th century, 19 but it had … walls and by a blocked 12th-century window in the west end of the north wall. The location of the cloister on the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… on land north of the castle between the quay and the west end of Longsmith Street. In Marybone Park, a railed-off piece … of brick, though at least one was of timber; 24 by the end of the century brick was also being imported from … of Longsmith Street. 32 Bearland House, opposite the south end of Berkeley Street, was also of late 17th- or early …