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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… is modern. The Organ-chamber is modern, but has some old detail re-set in it. In the E. wall is a window, said to … it is almost entirely restored, but part of the sill is old, and contains the bowl of a piscina (see Fittings). The … but of two lights; only the openings of the windows are old; between them is the 14th-century S. doorway with jambs …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Roman road called WreckenDyke, which here crosses the old turnpike-road from Newcastle to Durham. Wreckington Hall … when the present church was raised on the site of the old parochial church. There are still some remains of the … John Locke, the eminent philosopher, was born in an old thatched house on the north side of the churchyard, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… head with a moulded label. The North Porch has old walls, but the outer archway and the windows are entirely … date 1640, etc. The roof of the N. nave chapel has plain old timbers, one re-used. The 15th-century roof of the S. … date, but painted, and perhaps modern. The W. tower has old timbers re-used in the first floor. The N. porch has a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the inhabitants received poor relief, 33 and in 1931 the old-fashioned New Yard works closed with the loss of 1,000 … Nabb. 40 In 1851 the Lilleshall Co. began to replace the old railways with a private standard-gauge network, which … Bowling Club was formed in the same year, when part of an old pit mound was levelled and grassed. 56 The Trench and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… down in 1826, about the time that the Donnington Wood Old Lodge furnaces were blown in. 3 In 1861 the Lilleshall … an engineering works that replaced the Donnington Wood Old Yard works and soon became known as the New Yard. 4 … a period of unprofitability began; the plant was old, and there were difficulties in getting, and then …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… it was £35 a year, from the four cottages 93 to which the old workhouse had been converted. 94 By her will of 1675 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1548 the service of Our Lady was suppressed. The 70-year-old stipendiary Thomas Fryer 94 had been receiving an annuity … gallery; and the replacement of the pews by benches, some old pew panelling being used as wainscot. The pulpit, rebuilt …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was supported by Anna Maria Cludde. 67 It was held in an old cottage until temporarily accommodated in the boys' …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… staircase, apparently in situ, in the centre of the old range. A map of 1742 depicts the hall, probably … with a main front of nine bays and three storeys. 23 The old hall was remodelled c. 1830 and fronted by a stone …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… church has a tower, and is very ancient, about 700 years old; the eastern window is of stained glass, with the arms of … by some avenues of stately box-trees, and there is an old well, to the water of which tradition ascribes …