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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… as a prominent centre of Nonconformity in Bishop Compton's 'census' of 1676, which enumerated only 12 Dissenters here … Nonconformist place of worship in the town-in Deadman's Lane (now Alexandra Road). 84 William Rix was appointed as … 1715, when his congregation numbered 60, including ten 40 s. freeholders. 86 In the middle of the 18th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … field at Newland for games and sports, and a Blue Ribbon mission in the Corn Exchange a few months later secured 279 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, … had serious disagreements with his deacons over running of mission stations, prompting the church's formal dissolution …
A History of the County of Oxford
… probably with a group centred on the Greenwood family's manor house at Brize Norton: a priest from there tried to … including a shopkeeper, mantua-maker, publican, and tailor's wife. 6 Two or three Catholic families remained in 1802, … 10 In the late 19th century an apparently short-lived mission in Witney was established with a bequest from Daniel …
A History of the County of Essex
… style with a plaster dome, it had 600 seats. 75 A small mission was started at Wivenhoe Cross in 1848. 76 On census … W. F. Tyler (1883-1927) a Band of Hope met, there were men's bible classes and prayer meetings, and the earlier … plan in 1837; there was preaching, apparently in a member's house, every Sunday afternoon and evening, and fort- …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge, C. R. Cameron, apparently resisting the chapel's siting in his parish. 29 A chapel for the Primitives was … and three other rooms. In 1981, on the eve of the chapel's closure and the congregation's move to the United Reformed … town hall in 1882, with week-night meetings in a mission in Quob Lane (later Station Road) and open-air …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… No teams were employed on the demesne of Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small … during the 16th century. 10 The tenants on Brictric's estate in 1086 included 16 villani and 12 bordars working … and in 1838 there were only two farms of over 60 a.: Bird's Hill farm on the Atcombe estate comprised 100 a., …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The income was not fully used and a surplus of £342 3 s. 8 d. existed in 1828. 13 In 1834 a school was built by … buildings were erected and the school, called St. Dominic's, was placed on an established footing with 50 pupils. 24 … Glos. Colln. RF 348.2. Bd. of Educ., List 21, 1912 (H.M.S.O.), 170; 1922, 109; 1936, 125. Ex inf. the head teacher. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the Inferior Oolite, with small deposits of fuller's earth and the Great Oolite on Bown hill. 4 The main route … converted to make cottages, one of which included a potter's workshop. South of Frogmarsh, on the lane called Convent … the 1860s incorporating an earlier farm-house called Bird's Hill Farm, 29 and the 18th-century Chester Hill House; the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… manor passed to his son, also John, 52 who held a knight's fee at Woodchester in 1285. 53 John died in 1297 and was … forfeited temporarily in 1322 as a result of his son John's rebellion. 55 In 1338 the elder John settled the manor in … by a younger son called Edmund, who was seised of a knight's fee at Woodchester in 1346, 59 until Edmund's brother John …