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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Mary's College ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Immediately south-west of Wolvesey Palace in the southern suburb of the ancient city is the College of St. Mary, founded by William of Wykeham in 1387 on a site …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The cathedral CATHEDRAL The history of the Old Minster of Winchester, setting aside the legends of King Lucius, may be said to begin with the coming of St. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The hospital of St Cross HOSPITAL OF ST. CROSS The hospital of St. Cross was founded in 1136 by Henry of Blois, and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle Architectural history ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CASTLE The castle of Windsor appears first in history in the Domesday Survey in … of a warden and twelve other secular canons, thirteen priests or vicars, four clerks, six choristers and twenty-six …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th … We hear of the king 'exercising himself daily in shooting, singing, dancing, wrestling, casting of the bar, playing at … Charles II, and a number of Scotch prisoners, 'suspected priests,' men who distributed seditious papers, and others. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… German) WINESTEAD ( St. German), a parish, in the union of Patrington, S. division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. riding of York, 9 miles … of Sir John Wingfield, in 1362, for a provost and nine priests; it was valued at the surrender in 1534, at 50. 3. 5. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 88 NW) Winfrith Newburgh is a roughly rectangular parish of 5,015 acres lying across the S. edge of the S. Dorset Heath 7 miles W.S.W. of Wareham. The whole of the S. two-thirds of the parish is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… N.E. (c)xxiv. S.W.) Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of All Saints, stands on the W. side of the village; the walls are of limestone rubble, with dressings and detail of stone and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (O.S. 6 in. xxix. N.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, stands in the middle of the village and is built of stone rubble. The roofs of the chancel and S. porch are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (O.S. 6 in. xix. S.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Laurence, stands in the middle of the town, and is built of yellow sandstone, uncoursed, except in the chancel, the …