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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… monuments in Buckinghamshire Whaddon 220. WHADDON. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xiv. S.E. (b)xix. N.E.) Ecclesiastical a(1). … slightly reducing the length of the nave. Late in the 15th or early in the 16th century the North and South Porches were … otherwise much disturbed. Snellshall Priory, a Benedictine house founded c. 1219, is said to have stood upon the site. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Cottesloe, county of Buckingham, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Stony- Stratford; containing, with the hamlet … on Whaddon Chace. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 10; net income, 152; patrons and … was rebuilt by subscription in 1725, with a dwelling-house for the master, who receives an annuity of 12. 8. from …
A Dictionary of London
… 5 Ed. I. (Cal. L. Bk. B. 267). No later mention. Wharton's Court North out of Holborn, the southern end only in … Alley" (O. and M. 1677). Probably named after the owner or builder. Wharton's Court On Lambeth Hill (Strype, ed. … Ward. The site seems to be occupied now by the West India House, Nos. 96 to 98 Leadenhall Street. Name derived from the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… existed along the river at this point. (450) Former Toll House and Warehouses are mainly of two storeys. The Toll … style is Tudoresque. On a corbelled chimney stack on the S. is a slab bearing the arms of Cecil. This house and that … have wooden lintels, and two tall blocked openings on the S. formerly gave access from the river. The interior has no …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… monuments in Westmorland Wharton 107 WHARTON (G.e.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXX, N.W., (b)XXX, N.E.) Wharton is a parish on … century but must have become ruined and derelict in that or the following century. Much of the stone facing has been … seems to indicate that this was the buttery-wing of a house of the ordinary medival type with a hall-block and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Barnby and the vicarage of Mutford annexed, valued in the king's books at 6. 6. 5.; net income, 660; patrons, the Master and … the moss-troopers. Whelpington Tower, now the vicarage-house, was anciently fortified. Whelpington, West …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Wheatenhurst or Whitminster Church CHURCH. Wheatenhurst had a priest, and … souls in Wheatenhurst to the Prior of Horsley, as Bruton's local agent, 72 but in 1371 it was ordered that a secular … ordination of the vicarage, Bruton Priory was to build a house near the church for the vicar, which the vicar was to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Wheatenhurst or Whitminster Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 the … the tenants. The value of the estate had declined from 100 s. before the Conquest to 30 s. 63 In 1220 there were again … lay in closes. 91 In 1717 the whole of the Whitminster House estate, then 417 a., was inclosed, though Twinpool and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Wheatenhurst or Whitminster Education EDUCATION. A Sunday school that was … and in 1833 there were 50 day pupils taught at Cambridge's expense in a school built by him. 39 By his will proved in … 44 The brick single-story school building with teacher's house attached stands ¼ mile from the main road along School …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the parish, though that group included Whitminster House; the usage of maps and road-signs has corroborated the … follows roughly the River Frome and, below the river's division, the eastern arm known as Baldwin's brook, and the … a reset stone dated 1575 and has been much rebuilt, and King's Orchard, a timber-framed house of the late 17th …