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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old measure had been the standard before Edward III and was still in use into the early-modern period. The yard … the sapwood of Diospyros ebenum, the original EBONY of commerce. This sapwood, in contrast with the dark heartwood, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, narrow parish, once part of Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary … the R. Tove, below 76 m. above OD, is on Upper Lias Clay and riverine deposits. Bands of limestones are exposed on the … is recorded. Among the structures mentioned are a royal chamber, a chapel, towers, an old chamber and inner and outer …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… of the same material; the roofs are covered with tiles and stone slates. There appears to have been a church here of … at the vicarage, the re-set S. doorway and probably the tower-arch. The Chancel was re-built at some uncertain period … of two trefoiled lights. Between this stage and the bell-chamber, except on the S., is a line of corbels of the former …
A History of the County of Somerset
… shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural boundary is a … house in 1343. 64 In 1555 it had a parlour and a middle chamber. 65 In 1629 the kitchen needed repair and in 1634 the … a chancel, a nave with a north vestry and aisle, a south tower, and a south porch. The tower arch is semicircular and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a … nave, south chapel and aisle, south porch, and south-west tower. 93 From the 12th-century church there survive a deep, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… 6 in. (a)VII, S.W., (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the … the roofs are covered with tiles. The detached South Tower may date from the 13th century but has no distinctive … roof are mostly modern, but those of the lantern or bell-chamber are partly old; three sides of the lantern have …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. This place, which … whom 525 are in the village of Gifford, about 140 in the hamlets of Long Yester and Long Newton, and the remainder in … remains of the baronial residence of the Kers, of Loch Tower, a branch of the Roxburghe family. The churchyard of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Yarwell 24 YARWELL (Fig. 218) Yarwell is a parish of 490 hectares on the W. of the R. Nene. It has always been a chapelry of Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named in Domesday Book … a Chancel, North and South Chapels, Nave and West Tower. The walls are of limestone rubble with freestone …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Yatesbury YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by … several summits. There is a barrow on it in the south and, also in the south, it was marked by many stones and … a nave with north aisle and south porch, and a west tower. The animal-head label stops of a reset doorway are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… YAXLEY (C.b.). (O.S. 6 in. V. S.E.) Yaxley is a parish and large village 4 m. S.S.W. of Peterborough. The church is … coursed, except the E. wall of the chancel, most of the tower, the spire and the S. porch which, with the dressings … third stage has a similar light in the N. wall. The bell-chamber has in each wall a window of two tiers of three …