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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back lane on the N. … 16th century (NRO, W(A) XVI. 5). The sheltered position and fertile soil on the S. side of the street gave rise in … with omega ornament and crosses with brackets between the arms, and scroll terminals; one lid is almost complete (Plate …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation … in the 1950s. 4. Nos. 26-34 Oxford Street (The Marlborough Arms hotel and houses on the north) 96 At its height as a coaching inn in the later 18th century the Marlborough Arms included the two houses on the north (Fox House and Fox …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … rural deanery was established by the mid 13th century, and the rectors of Bladon were often called rectors of … Woodstock Manor; Blenheim, Pk. to 1705. Thos. Croft's arms, listed in Corpus Vitrearum, G.B. i, 217, seem to have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … of plots were close to that width, notably the Marlborough Arms (52 ft. in the 18th century) 16 and some of its … late 16thcentury wool barn behind the later Woodstock Arms, 90 Penniless Bench in Market Place, mentioned in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is … later medieval inns, the George (later the Marlborough Arms), belonged in 1279 to one of the leading townsmen, Adam … a house in Market Street (later part of the Woodstock Arms) from an Oxford draper, and soon afterwards moved to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … including the principal coaching inns, the Marlborough Arms and the Bear, and the town's waterworks which they … in 1820. 58 Assemblies were held at the Marlborough Arms in the early 19th century, presumably in the ballroom …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … corporation's house next to the town hall, the Woodstock Arms. 3 In the 1830s he received small fees, a wage of 1 10 … even small undertakings such as rebuilding the Woodstock Arms in 1700 required a loan of 40. 89 The corporation also …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for meeting-house licences. … meeting in Thomas Boulton's house opposite the Marlborough Arms in Oxford Street, registered in that year; mobs, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… S. side of the Nene. The northern part forms a suburb of and is annexed to the borough of Peterborough. Roman (1). … fluted Ionic pilasters, entablature, an urn, cartouche-of-arms on apron. In churchyardon E. wall of S. transept, (2) to … coped and with flat cartouche; (7) slab with lozenge-of-arms, probably late 17th-century, defaced; (8) to Frances, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the … a cup and cover-paten of 1571 and a paten of 1816. Royal Arms: In N. aisle, painted wooden panel, George III before … ceiling springing from corbels with painted shields-of-arms of Bindon and other abbeys. The Dining Room, to the W., …