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A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Education EDUCATION. In 1808 there was a school for eight children, 48 and in 1819 eight or ten girls … of the rector and other parishioners, some boys going to school in Henfield. 49 In 1835 50 and 1846-7 51 there was no school in the parish. A red brick National school, in similar architectural style to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1587 with Richard Cornwell's bequest for the grammar school, were transferred to the corporation in 1599 and … and in the early 19th heightened. 24. No. 16 Market place (National Westminster Bank) In 1499 the site was the Bull inn … in 1810 and closed c. 1918 when it was rebuilt as the National Provincial (later National Westminster) Bank. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of London, to be divided equally between the grammar school, a sermon, and doles of 6 d. to the poor who attended … the capital to be replaced from the income of the grammar school estate. 20 By will proved 1817 George, duke of … in 1646 by Charles Padget, a former pupil of the grammar school, was kept up to date and few charities had lapsed by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of whom several were also headmaster of the grammar school. 15 One early 19th-century rector complained that the … of Old Woodstock and Blenheim Park. 19 A Sunday school was established in 1787 and supported thereafter by … and that the duke frustrated his plans to establish a National school and improve church seating. The duke …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mentioned in the early 17th century, and the grammar school of 1585, housed from c. 1600 in a room attached to the … other across Market Place, the Bull on the site of the National Westminster bank (no. 16) and probably several plots … Catholic church was built on Hensington Road in 1934. 41 A school was built on the site of Marlborough School in 1940 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Webley had a glove factory in the former industrial school behind his house, no. 24 Park Street; in 1967 the … taken over by Barclays in 1919. 78 About the same time the National Provincial (later National Westminster) bank opened a branch at no. 16 Market …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Education Woodstock had an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th … although a keen educationist frustrated in his plans for a National school, observed in 1815 that 'a religious and … means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national reforms, however, provoked a comment in 1838 that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… baptisms rose to 48 a year, probably in part reflecting national population trends. 36 In 1801 there were 1,322 … local wool trade, and in 1585 the town acquired a grammar school. 72 The extent of building activity in the late 16th … almshouses in the 1790s, and providing land for the National schools of 1854. Their influence was sometimes …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was closely involved in the establishment of the grammar school, and in 1599 obtained a licence to hold in mortmain … addresses expressed conventional reactions to royal and national events, but in 1850 the council was particularly … 90 Between 1747 and 1757 the corporation began to buy national lottery tickets in the vain hope of financing a new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a stable in High Street. 61 The Baptists opened a Sunday school, and in 1831 there was a thriving Independent Sunday school lately separated from the Baptist chapel under the … 78 In 1859 a new chapel was opened in a former infants' school in Oxford Street, earlier the parochial workhouse, and …