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A History of the County of Oxford
… adult classes were being held twice a week in the vicarage hall. As well as giving religious instruction in the church … rear wing in Victorian Gothic containing a grandiose open hall. The wing bears the date 1860 and an inscription on the … Until it was built the Church of England lacked a public hall such as was provided by a number of the dissenting …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to sell butter and eggs, once sold beneath the former Town Hall, but although in 1879 the corporation had provided the … later money was being raised for a house for the wool hall, which was probably the building later used as the gaol. … men to go every working day before 6 a.m. to the Leather Hall and to wait for one hour, unless hired; no …
A History of the County of Oxford
… science block and gymnasium were added in 1961 and a new hall in 1963. The roll in 1962 numbered 583 pupils. 77 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gave regular concerts in the National school, the Town Hall, or the Central Corn Exchange. 182 The Banbury Madrigal … events such as concerts and balls were held in the town hall or in the two corn exchanges (built 1857), school rooms, … the Band of Hope was founded in 1855. 233 The Temperance Hall was designed by Samuel Ingall of Birmingham and built by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… including a cage, from the castle to the court hall, and by the repaving of the Market Place. 35 The … of the king's visit in 1605, the building of the Wool Hall, and other corporation expenditure, were apparently … did so, is not known. 126 In 1643 50 received from Samuel Hall's executors was used to finish a house at the east end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Maria Morgan sold the estate to Sir John Read of Brocket Hall (Herts.). 79 Sir John Read died in 1711; his heirs were … 148 In 1969 Wickham Park was a girl's public school, Tudor Hall School. The house was extensively rebuilt in the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were held in the castle, a borough portmoot was held in a hall of pleas which in the 15th and 16th centuries comprised … immediate effect on the town's topography. No new town hall appears to have been built in the 1550s, although small payments were made for various work about 'our hall', which was sometimes referred to as 'the court hall'; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… found a strong candidate in Hugh Holbech of Farnborough Hall (Warws.). Although Vincent's campaign, largely devoted …
A Dictionary of London
… acres. Founded 1694 by Wm. Paterson and held in Grocer's Hall until 1734, when it was removed to a building erected … in 1820. Archt. Mr. Forster. On site of part of Blackwell Hall. The Bankruptcy Information Office was at 35 … Bar of the Old Temple See Holborn Bars. Barber Surgeons' Hall On the west side of Monkwell Street at No.32 (P.O. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… in Java and in the Eastern Archipelago. A room in the town-hall is appropriated, by the magistrates, to the use of the … is of hewn stone, three stories in height, and contains a hall, two large drawing-rooms, a council-chamber, a … part consists of two shops, and the upper part of a large hall, in which are held the justice-of-peace courts, the …