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A History of the County of Oxford
… Town House; from 1978 until 1988 it housed the Marc Fitch library. 9 The gabled eastern range is 17th-century with … (d. 1669), who lived in a house on the east. 15 39. War Memorial garden In 1279 there was a house on the north side …
A History of the County of Oxford
… more likely to have been that of St. Margaret: a lost memorial to its founder, Thomas Croft (d. 1488), was probably … on the north side of the church was redesigned as a war memorial garden. Major repairs were carried out in the 1960s, … in the life of Thomas Becket, given to the Bodleian Library in 1797, are thought to have been removed from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… aged, Spencer Court, and a fire station, police station, library, and car park. Houses were built on the gas works …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the 1590s the corporation made donations to the college library. 95 The earliest grammar school may have been on the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the building was later used as a garage. 62 There was a library in the corporation's care in 1746, 63 and book … was established c. 1852 with 60 subscribers and a small library. 65 Probably from the outset it was in Market Street … bought the Institute's stock as the basis of a public library. 68 In the 18th century the town was noted for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from 1886. The corporation administered the public library from 1895 until it was taken over by the country … to create a council chamber or mayor's parlour and a library: the alteration, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee, … books and fittings and appointed a librarian. 82 A free library was set up in the north-west part of the rebuilt …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… branch of the North of England bank; a public subscription library is supported, and a mechanics' institute was …