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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… Preservation Society, now the freeholders. St. Mary's is an interesting survival of a smaller 12th-century chapel … string-course on the E. wall is continued along the N. and S. walls. In the N. wall is a 12th-century window of one … 12th-century N. doorway, now blocked, has a semi-circular head with cheveron-ornament and a label with billet-ornament; …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… Etc. (42) Parish Church of All Saints stands on the S. side of Jesus Lane. The old church, of All Saints in the … of Abbot Paul (107793), stood on the E. side of St. John's Street, where the churchyard still is. In 1180 the advowson … [17012], marble tablet with flanking palm-leaves, cherub-head, cartouche and urn; (10) of Samuel Munk, 1791, white …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was baptized at the same place in 639. Why the bishop's seat was fixed at Dorchester, rather than at, or near, … authorities always decided that they were untenable. Pope Nicholas in 1061 in a confirmation charter to Bishop … Eugenius 32 in 1145 we learn that he was the provost or head of the secular canons of St. George's; and therefore it …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Willesden belonged to the Dean and Chapter 11 of St. Paul's and were probably all exempt from the jurisdiction of both … the bishop, 8 subject to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, 5 subject to the Archdeacon of London, and 4 subject to … to the scheme from some of the clergy, 33 but the bishop's plan was adopted substantially unchanged. In 1912 the …
The Church in London, 1375-1392
… Pybaker to the abbot of Westminster 2s 0d; which John Pope holds to the prior of Elsing Spital 9s 0d; the same … same college 1 £5 0s 0d; of the same college in St Michael's Lane 2 £1 0s 0d. Quit rents from the tenements: of Alice …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Great Boughton, Lower division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester; containing, with Eton … of whom 257 are in the township of Eccleston, 2 miles (S.) from Chester. This parish is situated on the river Dee, … western portion of the parish, which is noticed under the head of Wingate-Grange. Edenfield EDENFIELD, a parochial …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Harborne, Selly, and the north-west of Northfield, in King's Heath, Sheldon, and Yardley Wood. Most of Erdington is … rather than in nucleated villages. Northfield and King's Norton were probably colonized from Bromsgrove. The hamlets … 4,000 acres in tillage. In the winter 8,000 sheep, 1,500 head of cattle, and 500 horses were said to be kept on the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and workshops makes a minute description of Birmingham's industry difficult. At least for the later part of this … is an analysis of the principal features of Birmingham's industrial growth at various times within the period, and … and married Erasmus Darwin's daughter. He stands near the head of one of the most famous family trees in English …
A History of the County of Warwick
… professional men quite unconnected with the firm's owners, and of the capital supplies required. New sales … firm at least employed 200. 26 One large firm, Elkington's, has commanded the electroplate trade since their patent of … for example, provided their own tools, which at 20 a head for 50 of them saved Mason 1,000. 29 Apart from saving …
A History of the County of Warwick
… steep, mill leats had to be long to provide a sufficient head of water. The number of mills which could be built was … made possible the metal-using industries on which the town's prosperity was based. There were some fourteen blade mills … store in 1954 and the wheel had been removed. 40 STANTON'S MILL. A mill called a 'newlyerected ironwork upon or near …