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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is … Wiveliscombe in the Cathedral of Wells, valued in the king's books at 27. 0. 10.; net income, 300. The church is a very … foundation of the new church, it was discovered that the tower of the former had been erected upon the foundations of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Wivenhoe 98. WIVENHOE. (D.d.) (O.S. 6 in. xxxvii. N.W.) Wivenhoe is a parish and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall and the house … brick in the aisle walls and in the ground stage of the tower. The dressings are of Reigate and hard limestone. The …
A History of the County of Essex
… the west side of the Colne was transferred to St. Barnabas's, Old Heath. 5 The value of the rectory was estimated at 4 … 1254. 6 The church was not valued in 1291 when it paid 4 s. to St. John's abbey, Colchester, and 2 s. 2 d. to St. … clerestoried nave with north and south porches, and a west tower on which there is an open sided cupola. The walls are …
A History of the County of Essex
… 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and larder were heard; … at Queens Road to pump water from the borehole to a water tower in Tower Road west of Wivenhoe Cross. 88 The council …
A History of the County of Essex
… Nigel as a tenant of Robert Gernon. 92 After Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, Henry I granted it to … it passed with Battleswick in Colchester to Richard Battle's daughter and coheir Margery wife of William Sutton. 98 The … Hall, built just north-west of the church c. 1530, had a tower gateway used as a sea mark in the 16th century. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … N. division of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellingborough; containing 1120 inhabitants. … church is a handsome cruciform structure, with a stately tower rising from the intersection, and surmounted by a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 A further appeal to the pope in 1416, against Wolvercote's liability to contribute a third of the cost of repairs to St. Peter's-in-the-East, failed; the judge at the Council of Constance, … and small mortuary chapel and a south porch, and west tower, all except the tower built in 1860. The medieval …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by John of St. John. The site was enlarged in 1139 by John's grant of a further piece of land in front of the church (or … probably the site across Godstow bridge on which the abbey's grange was later built. 30 At the Dissolution the site was … associated buildings on the south. Part of the north-west tower of the church, perhaps of 13th-century date, survived …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… monuments in Buckinghamshire Wolverton 226. WOLVERTON. (O.S. 6 in. ix. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Holy Trinity Church, Old Wolverton, … re-built in 1815, except the two lower stages of the West Tower which are probably of the 14th century. The tower was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the … a fine structure in the early English style, with a square tower surmounted by a graceful spire; it was enlarged and …