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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… commuted for 720: the vicar has a glebe of two acres. The church is a spacious structure in the early English style, … the earls of Bath. At Petton, four miles distant from the church, is a chapel, in which divine service is performed … were commuted in 1812, for land and cornrents. The church is a spacious cruciform structure, partly Norman, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 48 formerly fronting the market place, Thatched Cottage on Church Street, 49 and Knapps Farm on Bridge Street, described … late 16th-century house with a later wing aligned along Church Street at the northern, probably service, end, retain … the Particular Baptist chapel on Buckland road, and the Methodist chapel on Bridge Street, built on the site of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1844 capital and interest totalled only c. £30. 8 Edward Church (d. 1771) left an estate at Weald worth £14 a year to … and Brighthampton's charities, two organists' funds, and church lands totalling c. 12 a. as the Bampton Consolidated … bequest became the Bampton Educational Charity, and the church lands and organists' funds the Bampton Proper …
A History of the County of Oxford
… after the Reformation. 38 Despite gradual erosion of the church's jurisdiction the parish remained unusually large for … of a group ministry with Lower Windrush. 42 The parish church, parts of which are 11th- century or earlier, may have … 43 If so, a shift to the site of the later parish church occurred presumably with the establishment of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Shorey. 32 A malthouse on the corner of Samford Lane and Church View, built in the earlier 17th century, was … of a kiln survives. 35 A malthouse on the north corner of Church Street and Church View, owned by Exeter cathedral, was let in 1789 to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… stoneslated roofs had been built on former parish land on Church View. 31 Henry Coxeter (d. 1654) bequeathed £10 and … 5 s. a quarter. Pupils were to be catechized and attend church on Wednesdays, Fridays, and saints' days. 41 From 1732 … and some girls learned writing, needlework, and knitting. Church attendance was compulsory. 55 The cost was met chiefly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Cheapside from the Talbot Inn in the market place, along Church Street, and around the west side of the churchyard, … south-west part of the town into Weald, but leaving the church, Bampton Manor House, and all of Broad Street in … ring ditch surrounding the medieval Deanery west of the church seems to be respected by the boundary ditch of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… GOVERNMENT AND POOR RELIEF. Three wardens for Bampton church were recorded from the 16th century. In the 18th and … in the 18th century they received rents from unspecified 'church lands', latterly through trustees; 46 at inclosure in … 51 Meetings were usually in the vestry room in Bampton church, 52 judged small and damp in 1792 when it was to be …
A History of the County of Oxford
… College, Oxford, and the land in Lew (73 a.) by Christ Church, Oxford, the rest being divided among many purchasers. … Jones of Worcester before 1863, when he sold it to Christ Church, Oxford; in 1865 the rest of the estate was sold with … Weald in 1866, and made later piecemeal sales. In 1990 the Church Commissioners retained 487 a. in Bampton and Weald. 10 …