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A History of the County of Oxford
… by chaplains until appropriation, when the living became an endowed vicarage of 5 marks a year, derived from a house … he kept a bed at Yarnton and paid someone to fetch him in an emergency. That attendance at services sometimes comprised … refenestrated and the west window of the nave inserted about the same time that the chapel and tower were built. Sir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known as Fries, lying mainly in Water Eaton, included … the main village street. 61 It has been suggested that an earlier road from Cassington may be represented by a … city water supply in 1934. Electricity became available about the same time. 75 Early settlements of the type common …
A History of the County of Oxford
… stood 'near to the old one by the church' 83 and part of an older house seems to have been incorporated as a service … wing at the north-west corner of the new house, which was an imposing structure of coursed rubble limestone and ashlar, … 277 that 'a great part' of the house was 'pulled down about 16 years ago' is misread as an entry for 1678 in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… has some original panelled plaster-work with enrichments, an eagle and a pomegranate. a(7). Church House, N. of the … iron roof. a(20). Cottage, on the E. side of the road, about 1 m. N. of the church. a(21). Cottage, 120 yards N. of … church, is of c. 1600, but appears to incorporate parts of an early 16th-century building. In the N. wall is a blocked …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the 17th century, since which time the … and his attendants. The parish is of very irregular form, about eighteen miles in extreme length and nearly sixteen … direction, and of which the Blackhouse Heights have an elevation of almost 2400, the Minchmoor of about 2300, the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ditch can be seen as a crop-mark, 30 m. in diam. with an inner ditch 25 m. in diam. (air photographs in NMR). b(2) … this area (OS Record Cards). b(7) Roman burial and ditch (about TL 058980) lay W. of the village on limestone at 145 … Cultivation remains. The common fields were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1777 (map of 1778 in NRO) but nothing …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… origin survived on the west side of the Street, and an 18thcentury cottage much extended in the 20th century … and mainly in Cherhill and Compton Bassett parishes. About 1938 a large hutted camp for R.A.F. Yatesbury was built … to his son John (d. 1859) and John's son John (d. 1864). 9 About 1839, as Yatesbury House farm, it measured 751 a. 10 In …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… The Chapel, consisting of Chancel and Nave, was built about the middle of the 12th century. At some date in the … DescriptionThe Chancel and Nave (41 ft. by 15 ft.) have an ashlar-faced E. wall of 1704 containing a re-used 13th-century window of one light with an elliptical early 18th-century head; above it is a second …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… side walls and perhaps the ends of the Transepts remain. About the years 12901300 the church was largely … of a lancet-window in the W. wall of the N. transept. About 133040 the E. wall of the chancel was re-built or … the arcade opening into the chancel was done in so close an imitation of the earlier work as to make it difficult to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… in 1855, when the old church was partly demolished. In or about 1858 the S. transept was restored or re-built and … date, very largely re-built or refaced. In the E. wall is an early 14th-century window of two trefoiled ogee lights … of the former pent-roof of the aisle. The West Tower (about 18 ft. square) is now of two stages, and probably of …