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A History of the County of Oxford
… spearhead found south of the town, and Iron-Age and Roman coins, 9 but except for a possible fortified Iron Age … just over the parish boundary, 10 and a small 2nd-century Roman settlement east of Church Green, 11 evidence of earlier … parish continued to rise gradually and to exceed those of burials, 41 despite occasional outbreaks of smallpox or fever …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dado behind the former stand at the south-west. 255 Roman Catholic Church The Roman Catholic church of Our Lady and St Hugh, at the foot of … Fane. 421 In 1837 the Whig candidate Thomas Stonor, as a Roman Catholic, was warned to expect 'bigoted cries of no …
A History of the County of Oxford
… church rates, supplemented by fees for bell-ringing and burials. Rates from the townships, though separately assessed … contractor for 1,480, the contractor to pay for all pauper burials. The poorhouse may have been excluded from the … in 1857 with the southern part consecrated for Anglican burials and the northern reserved for Nonconformists; each …
A History of the County of Oxford
… b 27; Evans, Ch. Plate, 182. COS, par. reg. transcripts; burials are recorded from 1583 and marriages from 1605. ORO, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Nonconformist sects, 25 though not always extending to Roman Catholicism. 26 There were, nevertheless, occasional … chapel and manse were sold to developers and demolished, burials under the chapel floor being re-interred in Witney … In 1976 the Elim Pentecostal Church took over the former Roman Catholic church at West End, which it had outgrown by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in … anti-Catholic feeling among some inhabitants. In 1837 the Roman Catholic Thomas Stonor, encouraged to stand for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and to have been afterwards occupied by the Romans, Roman antiquities being found occasionally. Wittenham, Long, … were commuted for land in 1809. Funeral urns and other Roman antiquities are found. Wittering, East WITTERING, EAST, … 1608 by Sir Nicholas Thornton, has been converted into a Roman Catholic chapel. Witton, Upper WITTON, UPPER, a hamlet, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… perfect; the other at Courtneys, square, and evidently of Roman origin. There are also some remains of an old episcopal … of a still more ancient building; and a variety of Roman and Saxon coins was found, together with some Nuremberg … are places of worship for Baptists and Independents, and a Roman Catholic chapel. In a field near the village is a lofty …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… in the town. The walls are of mixed rubble, with some Roman brick in the aisle walls and in the ground stage of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… sided cupola. The walls are of rubble, which includes some Roman tile, with ashlar dressings. The tower was plastered in …