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A History of the County of Oxford
… the east, refronted on the late 18th century, has a short cross roof at the street end and is of the late 17th century, … 1687-1740, were wealthy maltsters. 37 Charles Simmons Cross, tenant of the Bully family from 1743, bought the inn … in 1742, and selling them until 1751. 42 In 1757-8 Charles Cross of the Bear succeeded Barnard as owner and by 1762 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… style of Vanbrugh were added in the eastern angles of the cross. It was alleged in 1724 that the rectory house, while … there were lights or altars of St. Mary Magdalene, St. Cross, the Holy Trinity, St. John, St. Christopher, St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the Back Green. In Market Place stood a stone cross, which survived in altered form until 1766, when … town hall. 99 John at Green's tenement 'against the stone cross' may be identified as the corner house, no. 2 Market … grant of a fair in 1250. 20 Later in the Middle Ages a cross stood at its broad north end. 21 A probable area of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 30 The principal late 18th-century manufacturers were the Cross, Money, Eldridge, and Dewsnap families. 31 In 1788 Richard Cross, Knap Money, and Joseph Dewsnap were convicted for evading stamp duty on gloves. 32 The Cross family had workshops behind no. 26 High Street and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mentioned in 1182 and 1232, the leper hospital of the Holy Cross in Old Woodstock was recorded from the 1220s, and a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ambitious plan for a larger hall on the site of the market cross, which was then demolished. 6 The new hall, designed by … at Blenheim in 1861. 17 In the early 17th century the High Cross in Market Place was a roofed structure used as a market … house: in 1616 the chamberlains paid for releading the cross, painting the posts and rails, and repairing the dial, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… In churchyardon N. side, two, one with remains of foliated cross. Font (Plate 8): octagonal bowl with tapering sides, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… tower, stone with square socket-hole perhaps for base of cross. Now in Dorchester Museum, altar frontal (Plate 31) … bays with a narrow bay to the W. which was bridged for a cross passage above. The room was entered from the cloister … chancel, (1) plain; in chapter-house, (2) with traces of cross; (3) with cross with enriched head and foliated stem; …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… is the base and broken shaft of the medieval churchyard cross. In 1509 there were altars dedicated to St. Mary and … near-by landmark on the Gloucester-Chepstow road is Peters Cross, first recorded in 1700 and known as St. Peter's Cross in 1755: N.L.W., Badminton MSS. 2494, 2594. The church …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Marling family new holdings were created at Slade farm, Cross farm, Hill farm, and Common farm, where earlier there … in use after c. 1939 was a portable one at Luggs Cross. 70 The Beaufort estate possessed 96 a. of woodland in … have been E. J. Harris and his son Mr. J. Harris of Luggs Cross. 7 One fisherman was recorded in the parish in 1841 and …