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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… been improved in recent years by the removal of surplus pews and by the remodelling of the entry from the body of the … enrichment; all of c. 1720. The stalls replace earlier box pews in existence in c. 1742. The Main Stair (Plate 142), E. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… north and south, there were substituted yellow pews facing eastwards, the choir being raised on an elevated …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… by Georgian Gothic partitions into two wainscoted pews or closes with fireplaces for the royal family and their … and has an octagonal lantern in the middle. The oak pews are arranged along the walls and across the floor, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… nave, dado made of 18th-century panelling from former box pews. Piscina: in chancel, recess with trefoiled ogee head …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Many of the Georgian fittings, including box pews, the pulpit, and the reading desk, remain. The … when the church door was broken down and the wooden box pews were rotten and decayed. 1 In 1777 the archdeacon …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wall; a small organ was added in 1850, and in 1871 the pews were re-arranged, the pulpit lowered, a communion rail … 303 Within the Anglican community possession of private pews was another means of displaying wealth and status, and trading in pews remained widespread and controversial until the rector …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been higher but for the excessive number of appropriated pews and galleries in the church: from the mid 17th century … gave greatest satisfaction was the abolition of private pews, which in 1889 were finally freed from appropriation. … dismantled and its organ removed to the new chamber; and pews were cleared from the nave and transepts, where they had …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… side, and contains some specimens of oak carving in the pews, and three stalls. It has also a very fine Norman font …