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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… glebe consists of about 75 acres, with a glebe-house. The church is supposed to have been erected about the fourteenth … the patronage of the Vicar of Ormskirk; income, 100. The church (St. John's) was built in 1833, at a cost of 3500, and … in which stands the mutilated central arch of the church, the only relic of the conventual buildings, became a …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… street and side lanes, has changed little since 1607. The church stands near its centre with the Rectory to the … is now the post office. In a side lane to the north of the church are two farm-houses of 16th- or early-17th-century … of Corinthian pilasters. In the main street opposite the church is a tall brick house known as the Manor, built in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Street, and Bournes Bank running down to St. John's Church. 10 The development of this 'scattered town on the top … of the town and around Waterloo Road and St. John's Church, and most to the south-west. Even in this last area, … at the Burslem end of Waterloo Road and around St. John's Church, and on the south-west towards the expanding suburbs …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of Biddulph Grange. 16 From him it passed c. 1918 to the Church of England Trust Society, 17 which, as the Martyrs' Memorial and Church of England Trust, still holds it. 18 By 1738 there had … the rectory-house and increasing the endowments of the church. 24 The rector's net annual income over the three …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the Overhouse Pottery passed to Ralph Hammersley, of the Church Bank Works, Tunstall, and the firm of Ralph Hammersley … with the disused colliery just to the north of St. Paul's Church a few years later. 359 Robert Heath's Brownhills … Sneyd farm estate down to the low ground near St. John's Church, thus draining the mines without machinery. 370 By the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Burstock is a small parish 4 m. W. of Beaminster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1) Parish Church of St. Andrew stands near the middle of the parish. … added; the West Tower was built about the same time. The church was drastically restored in 1877, when the Chancel was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… parish and small town 6 m. W.S.W. of Kirkby Lonsdale. The church is the principal monument. In the square of the town … which did duty as stocks. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. James (Plate 11) stands in the middle of the … probably of medival date, but retains no old features. The church was restored in 1844, when the Chancel and North …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… is a parish on the sea-coast, 3 m. S.E. of Bridport. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical c(1) Parish Church of St. Mary (Plates 2, 84) stands in the village. The … S. wall has been rebuilt or refaced at a later date. The church was extensively restored in 1897 when the S. arcade …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… of Eltred circa 112030, as one carucate of land, with the church of Burton. See p. 142. It was the rectory manor of the … at law. 109097 Ivo Tailbois gave to St. Mary's, York, the church of Burtun and one carucate of land in Clawthorpe … of Holstorth, an assart (or ridding) between land of the church and land of Robert son of Waldeve towards the north, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… servant, one maid, together having three car. There was a church and a priest, sixteen acres of meadow, pasture wood … on the country to try. William de Upton parson of the church of Birton Force, got an inquisition, 21 E: 3: 12 which … two bovats, and five acres of land were the right of the church of Birton Force, and so had been from the very …