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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney and 3 miles east of Bampton, 59 The village, noted for its seclusion, 60 is accessible by a single narrow lane. … part being lost to Hardwick (then in Ducklington parish) for reasons discussed below. This article treats the history … Evidently the tenants of Yelford's residual open fields, for taxation and other purposes, had become the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… is of c. 1300 and is two-centred and of two chamfered orders with responds of three grouped shafts with moulded … of four bays with two-centred arches of two stop-chamfered orders with a moulded label towards the nave; the piers are … by Christopher Graye, 1666. Bell-frame of oak, with cages for four bells. Bracket: In N. aislein N.E. angle, chamfered …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… chancel-arch is two-centred and of two moulded orders, with responds of nearly the same section, moulded … In S. aislein W. wall, stone base of font with bases for central and four attached shafts, early 13th-century. In … head and a square label raised high above it, probably for an inscription. There is another tran somed window in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… but without inscription. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. The moated site of an old baronial castle is … (W. by S.) from Shrewsbury. The tithes have been commuted for 175. 9. 6., of which 36. 8. 6. are payable to the … unsurpassed among the cities of the world, and obtained for it the appellation of a second Rome, to which city, in …
Survey of London
… York Buildings, the name which was once used generically for all the premises on the site of York House, was assigned … Pilgrim Trust. Historical Notes. The ratebook entries for Nos. 6, 7, 9 and 10, York Buildings, are given in Appendix B. With the exception of No. 9 (for which there is no entry until 1678) the entries begin in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… but the city normally leased the ditch and ramparts for grazing and the gates and larger towers as houses. In … sector during the siege by three Parliamentary armies for 11 weeks in 1644, but Bootham Bar, Walmgate Bar, and St. … semicircular towers, and with a pointed archway of several orders, was approached by another stone bridge continuing the …
Survey of London Monograph
… John Water alias Yorke, herald, as fee of his office and for services to Richard III, his predecessors and ancestors, … which he is styled York', but doubtful if he was a herald for although mentioned several times in Wrythe's will he is … 'Will'm Wrythesley alias dictus Rouge cross' in accounts for Henry VII's funeral (I. 11, 88 b); York before 26 August …
Survey of London
… the street frontage was built on at quite an early date, for the inquisition post mortem on Bishop William Alnewick in … Place to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, in exchange for the Duke's house in Southwark. This grant preserved the … City of London. Cal. of S.P.Dom. Westm. Comm. of Sewers. Orders of Smyth. Court [L.C.C. Records]. D.N.B. …
Survey of London
… and which are of the fief of Westminster" to the Abbey, "for the souls of Henry, Richard and John, Kings of England, and for the soul of Richard, Bishop of London, and for his own soul." William agreed to pay the monks, "so long …
Survey of London
… and 27.] The first Waterloo Bridge Act contained a clause for the continuation of Stamford Street across Waterloo Road to Westminster Bridge Road. The new road, which was for several years called Stamford Street, but which … demesne land of the Arch bishop's manor of Lambeth. Except for a fringe of cottages along Narrow Wall and for Phelps' …