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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Buckinghamshire Wotton Underwood 101. WOTTON UNDERWOOD. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxvii. N.W. (b)xxvii. N.E. (c)xxvii. S.W.) Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of All Saints, about … was widened towards the N. in the 15th century; the West Tower was re-built in early 13th-century style at the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Woughton-on-the-Green 228. WOUGHTON-ON-THE-GREEN. (O.S. 6 in. xv. N.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of the … were added. At the beginning of the 15th century the West Tower was built. The church was twice restored, when the … is a modern doorway, opening into the vestry. In the S. wall, at the E. end, is a 14th-century window of two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ward, E. division of the county of Cumberland, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Carlisle; containing 151 inhabitants. The Lancaster … The church has a fine carved-oak ceiling, and an elegant tower. A school is endowed with the interest of 230; and a …
A Dictionary of London
… VI. 1547 (Lond. I. p.m. I. 100). No later record. Wrestler's Court South out of London Wall, west of Carpenters' Hall (O. and M 1677-Boyle, 1799). Called "Wrestley's Court "in Strype, 1755 and Boyle. Had houses only on the … Thames Street in the parish of St. Dunstan in the east, in Tower Ward. Devised by will of Sir Wm. Herriott, 1506, to the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Writtle 109. WRITTLE. (E.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xliii. S.E. (b)lii. N.W. (c)lii. N.E. (d)li. S.E. (e)lii. S.W.) … and South Chapels were added to the nave-aisles. The West Tower fell in 1802 and was re-built and the nave arcades …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley … the commanding views obtained from Wrockwardine church tower that led to its seizure by Parliamentarian troops in … in 1841, 1,380 in 1961, and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The … 1833; it is a neat structure in the Grecian style, with a tower, and contains 610 sittings, of which 436 are free. The … and 70 to each undergraduate being a commoner; 21 to each bachelor of arts if not resident, and 60 if resident; and 27 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… provided. An ambulance service was added to the hospital's facilities in 1917. 20 CHURCH. The inhabitants of … ecclesiastical parish in 1834. The patronage was the Crown's until 1887 when it was conveyed to the bishop of Lichfield, … a surpliced choir. 40 A bell of 1891 was hung in the tower. 41 In 1884 the Nabb mission was built on land given by …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… About 1490 the vicarage was worth £8 a year. 74 The vicar's income in 1612 consisted of tithes of wool, lambs, flax, … Edward Pemberton (d. 1680) left a rent charge of £6 13 s. 4 d. for similar purposes; it was discharged for £200 in … PETER, so named by 1435, 27 is cruciform with a central tower and stair turret, and north and south chapels. 28 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's boundary' 74 and the king retained the manor of … centre, and was perhaps the site of Cynddylan's hall of Pengwern, burnt by the Mercians c. 660. 77 The … it fell into disuse. 41 Part of an apparently round corner tower and a length of curtain wall remained standing c. 1820. …