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A History of the County of Somerset
… roughly triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only … 68 much larger and sited behind the old. 69 The new building ceased to be the rectory after 1966. 70 About 1830 … was visited by the Congregationalist Somerset Evangelist Society. 9 EDUCATION In 1818 there was a Sunday school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 … masonry at the west end of the present nave. Extensive building work in the 13th century included the nave arcade of … (1844), the repair of the Spencer chapel (1848-9), and the building of cupboards under the Spencer chapel pews to house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, … parish in 1279, but by the 17th century there were said to be only 44, 17 presumably because of the loss of arable … estate were farmed from outside the parish until the building c. 1829 of Parker's Farm north of Sandy Lane. 73 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1875. 58 The school was incorporated with the National Society in 1831. 59 It was attended in 1833 by 59 children on … weekdays. Pupils, who stayed at school from the ages of 4 to 10, paid ½ d. a week, the vicar and the parish each paid … children went to Gosford, in Kidlington parish. 68 A new building was erected in Rutten Lane in 1956 to take the two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at … 92 The increase was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then … transpired to have been his already. 9 The predominant building material was limestone rubble. Most cottages were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken … was said in the 19th century that the dancing gallery and building materials had been removed in the 18th to the … 88 The balance of the east elevation was restored by building a library across the full depth of the house, with a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… The church was restored in 1864, when the Chancel seems to have been re-built, the North Aisle was added, and the S. … of two storeys with tiled roofs. The W. part is a rubble building of c. 1500 and formed part of a larger building extending towards the N. The rest of the house is …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the … by the encouragement held out by the Selkirkshire Pastoral Society, established under the patronage of the late Lord … is the only resident heritor, is a very handsome modern building, pleasantly situated in the vale, and surrounded …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… extension has been quarried away. (CUAP, ZF52) b(3) Roman building (TL 06699790; Fig. 121), immediately W. of the … pattern of ditches in the field centred on a Roman building revealed by excavation. This was dug by Oundle … No other details are known. From the field immediately to the W. a complete Roman pot and some Iron Age sherds have …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… regarded as part of Yarwell until it was transferred to Nassington in 1869. By the late 15th century the manor had … in Nassington) which remained thatched until 1892. The building is mostly 13th-century. It formerly had N. and S. … much curtailed, a considerable amount of the 13th-century building remains, but the proportion of the chancel and the …