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A History of the County of Oxford
… The plan of Riverside House on Bridge Street, evidently a large, late 16th-century house of three cells, seems to have … but possibly built to the same plan on an unusually large scale and with strikingly up-to-date architectural … roof, whose arrangement implies that there were three large chambers on the first floor. The wing was largely …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rate, supplemented by government grants or loans for large capital expenditure such as water supply or housing. In … allowing felons to 'communicate with their associates at large' and necessitating constant attendance by a constable … a pumping station near Apley Barn in Curbridge, with a large brick water tower at the junction of Burford Road and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and an inhabited range to the north with chimneys and a large Romanesque doorway, the whole still surrounded by a … for a proposed addition to the house, and received a large rent reduction to allow for rebuilding and repairs: the … that built by Gray, and was T-shaped, comprising a large northsouth range with hipped roof and tall end-stacks, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish, conterminous with the late Anglo-Saxon estate, was large for Oxfordshire, covering 7,182 a. and including, … the house was 'strongly built with stone', and contained a large hall and a parlour; outbuildings included three large barns, a stable, and a dovecot, presumably in the two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Methodist meeting house on High Street was superseded by a large and prominent neo-Gothic chapel, which, with a nearby … inhabitants, among them Elijah Waring (d. 1815), who left large benefactions to the town, 91 but by 1840 the … first preached there in 1764 he found a congregation 'both large and deeply attentive'. Wesley retained his admiration …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… arable. Witton Hall, the property of Lord Wodehouse, is a large quadrangular mansion of white brick, situated on an … The village stands on the north bank of the river, and is large, and neatly built. The living is a perpetual curacy, in … of whom signalized themselves in border warfare; it is a large oblong edifice, with towers and turrets, and a handsome …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… A woollen manufacture is carried on, but not on so large a scale as formerly; the articles consists chiefly of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… of William, Viscount Beaumont and Lord Bardolfe [1507], large figure in Tudor armour, head on helm with lion crest, … widow of above and wife of John, Earl of Oxford, 1537], large figure of woman in heraldic cloak with the arms of … pargeting with a running band of foliage at the base and large panels of foliage and strap-work above. In the roof is …
A History of the County of Essex
… in Lexden hundred; the lord of the manor was the only large taxpayer. 19 By 1524, however, the number of persons … by a windmill by 1772, when it was described as 'a large post windmill in very good repair in Elmstead parish, … 16th century, when the cargoes were unloaded there of large ships unable to sail further upriver. Between 1565 and …
A History of the County of Essex
… ury. Those of later date have or had character- istic large triangular dormers above an eaves jetty. Nos. 84-90 … to a deep eaves above which there was formerly a row of large attic dormers. 40 A later brick wing, now a separ- ate …