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A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken … Abbot Columban, but 9 1/2 hides at Yarnton, though said to be Eynsham's, were held of the bishop by Roger d'Ivri. The … by his brother-in-law John Chamberlain, third son of Sir Leonard Chamberlain of Shirburn. 73 John sold it in 1574 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Perrott, member of a prominent Yarnton family, refused to conform, but her correction was left to her husband. 35 … married into Roman Catholic families, 36 and in 1646 Sir William Spencer (d. 1657) was allegedly recusant. 37 The … for a licence for John Preedy's cottage in Yarnton to be used as a meeting house. 41 The cottage may have stood at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… are covered with tiles. The detached South Tower may date from the 13th century but has no distinctive features. The … The church was restored in 1864, when the Chancel seems to have been re-built, the North Aisle was added, and the S. … and N. The chimney-stack has two diagonal shafts. a(28). Court House, on the N.E. side of the road, 60 yards S.E. of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the … in the reign of Bruce was recovered from the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his fidelity, … are found large trees, though scarcely a shrub is now to be seen. The arable land is chiefly near the shore; but it is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… regarded as part of Yarwell until it was transferred to Nassington in 1869. By the late 15th century the manor had passed to Sir Guy Wolston, and from him it passed to the Earls of … 13th-century. It formerly had N. and S. aisles which were removed in 1782. The W. tower has been rebuilt, probably in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… photographs which are available but its outer ditch can be seen as a crop-mark, 30 m. in diam. with an inner ditch 25 … during excavation, however, exist (copies in NMR), and from these it is clear that a building of considerable size, … No other details are known. From the field immediately to the W. a complete Roman pot and some Iron Age sherds have …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1377. 32 In 1801 the population was 234. It had fallen to 218 by 1811 and had risen to its peak at 274 by 1831. For … by 1795 and possibly by 1683. 40 The London road could be reached from the village via the Avenue and a northsouth … at his death in 1343 and was succeeded in turn by his son Sir Baldwin 87 (d. 1375) and Sir Baldwin's son Sir Baldwin 88 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… small parish 4 m. N.E. of Ross. The disused chapel, dating from the 12th century, and Dean's Place are the principal … and set in a late 17th-century carved frame. Screen: from the old chapelof three bays with moulded and panelled … was added or re-built c. 1600 and there appears to have been a S. porch. The E. wall was re-built in 1704. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… and S. chapels altered in pitch, that on the N. probably to provide space for the still existing paintings over the … the E. bay indicate that this chapel was extended one bay to the E. at about the same period, the piscina of the … half-column and the W. respond has a moulded corbel from which springs the inner order of the arch. In the S. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… material. The roofs are tiled. The South Transept appears to have been built late in the 13th or early in the 14th … to remove the W. arch of the transept which now springs from a pier in the middle bay of the arcade; the West Tower … The house is of early type, but nothing remains which can be definitely dated before the end of the 16th or the …