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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… actually built about two years later. The earlier chapel at Witherslack Hall is said to have been demolished in 1850. … are 18th-century alterations with the original head re-set at a higher level; the small additional window in the N. wall … panel with an ogee head enclosing a cartouche of the arms of St. Paul's Deanery impaling Barwick and the following …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of … Chartulary or Coucher Book of Furness Abbey records his arms as: Ermine, a lion rampant azure, crowned or. It may be … in 1762 by Hugh, lord Clifford. Holme Island was alienated at a later date as a freehold. The customary-hold tenements …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (Plate 42): In chancel (1) with turned front legs, shaped arms, panelled back carved with thistle-plant and arched … ConditionGood. Secular b(2). White Stone (Plate 78), at the N.W. corner of the cross-roads, 800 yards S. of the … century with a central Hall and Solar and Buttery wings at the W. and E. ends respectively. The Hall was divided into …
A History of the County of Oxford
… expanding town of probably under 1,000 inhabitants, with at least as many again living in its rural townships. 3 Its … family of Lucca, 21 while wool stocks in her 'wool houses' at Witney and in Northleach (Glos.) were together valued at … Blanket Makers, 44. Cf. A. C. Fox-Davies, Book of Public Arms (1915), 838; Milne, Oxon. Tokens, nos. 164, 167, 175. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Early Settlement The medieval part of the town stands at an early crossing of the river Windrush, on a limestone … coins, 9 but except for a possible fortified Iron Age site at Newland just over the parish boundary, 10 and a small … market place, 236 the Blue Boar (renamed the Marlborough Arms in the early 19th century) to the north on the site of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… house show that there was high-quality stone building from at least the 12th century. 3 Stone and lime from Witney … (the likely date of a polygonal stack at the Marlborough Arms Hotel), and occasionally for general building work from … building provided a court room, office, and houses for a sergeant and an inspector, either side of a central entrance …
A History of the County of Oxford
… including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to … inns such as the Lamb, the Staple Hall, and the King's Arms. A vestry- or committee-room in the workhouse on Corn … the 1870s the Witney force comprised seven constables, a sergeant, and a superintendent, the last two housed in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… have been assembled only since the mid 950s, when 17 hides at Curbridge formed a separate estate given by Abingdon abbey … dukes of Marlborough, who in 1862 bought it outright; at their purchase it still included land in all three … century. Accommodation for officers, including warrener's, sergeant's, clerk's, esquire's, knight's, and almoner's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Hailey. There is, however, no evidence of a minster at Witney, and before the estate was assembled in possibly … of the river Windrush dependent on a probable minster at Minster Lovell, and those south of the river dependent … attics behind a high parapet. Above the front door are the arms of Jonathan Trelawney (d. 1721), bishop of Winchester. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… An incoming rector in the 1830s feared that attendance at Nonconformist chapels was four times that at the parish church, and in 1851, although average … at West End, moved in 1897 to the yard of the Marlborough Arms; 157 regular Sunday and weekday services were held …