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A History of the County of Somerset
… was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries … into Yeovil, later South Somerset, district in 1974. 47 CHURCH There was a church c. 1100 when it belonged to Montacute priory. 48 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the distributions, which must be received at the church door; careful account was to be kept of the gifts and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and … to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the other cottage, with 2 a., had come into the hands of a free tenant, who paid 2 s. 6 d. rent. Some cottagers may also … £12 2 s. a year was received 'in rents and works'. 53 Two free tenants, holding 2 yardlands each in 1279 for rents of … of several villein holdings into freeholds: rents from free tenants increased from 4 s. 6 d. in 1279 to 34 s. 6 d. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a schoolroom. 57 The children were … with accommodation for 53 children was built in 1875 in Church Lane, 63 and from 1877 it received a parliamentary … Primary School, with seven classrooms and a hall; the Church Lane school became a private house. In 1983 c. 130 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington … by the laying out of its park. Until the late 18th century Church Lane and Mead Lane remained an alternative to the Woodstock road for light traffic to Oxford. 64 Church Lane was referred to as a 'causeway' in the 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at the honorial court at North Osney. Villeins as well as free tenants were, unusually, expected to contribute to the … 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and heir Annora married Robert, count of Dreux, but their English lands were seized in 1226 by Henry III, who gave them … recover Yarnton, but although the abbey's ownership of the church was never challenged it could not regain the manor and … Spencer. The house stood 'near to the old one by the church' 83 and part of an older house seems to have been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect church attendance. In the 1840s Primitive Methodists met in a … were said in 1854 to be 20 dissenters who never came to church, even though their preachers had agreed not to hold …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of … 14th century; the South Porch was added soon after. The church was restored in 1864, when the Chancel seems to have …