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A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Buildings: Public buildings Public … ST. MARY'S HALL. St. Mary's Hall in Bayley Lane stands on the same site as the first hall built for the Guild of St. … in Warwickshire, and for the steps from the 'late priory' in the city. 'Six or eight old images', if suitable, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Buildings: Religious houses and schools BUILDINGS 1 Religious Houses and Schools 2 THE BENEDICTINE PRIORY OF ST. MARY. 3 The early history of the priory …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR BEFORE the mid 16th century … by a gift of 1,400 to buy in 1542 a large amount of former priory property in and near the town. 4 This was vested in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Churches: Churches built before 1800 … existence at least by 1113 as a chapel claimed by Coventry Priory and serving the tenants of what was by then the Prior's Half of Coventry. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Churches: Introduction CHURCHES 1 In their earliest ecclesiastical constitution the areas that were later included in the county of the city … in Lichfield, the abbey becoming, as a result, a cathedral priory. 3 Robert de Limesey himself, who died in 1117, and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Communications COMMUNICATIONS 1 ROADS. None of the roads around Coventry lies on the line of a Roman road: … was the plan for a Great Western line from Birdingbury to Priory Street, canvassed in 1865. 14 There were no important …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Crafts and industries: Craft organisation to the 16th century CRAFT ORGANISATION TO THE 16TH CENTURY The … south end of Palmer Lane had been partly acquired by the priory before the Statute of Mortmain. 31 The new Drapery, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Crafts and industries: Medieval industry … CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIES 1 MEDIEVAL INDUSTRY AND TRADE 2 When the Anglo-Saxons first settled in Coventry, probably well … and forsteall, 9 the former having been granted to the priory in the only genuine writ known to have been issued in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Crafts and industries: Modern industry … INDUSTRY AND TRADE To judge from its contribution to the subsidy of 1523-7 Coventry maintained its earlier … outside Cook Street Gate, south of the Sherbourne near the priory site, between Jordan Well and New Street, near Mill …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 1 THE CITY OF COVENTRY, formerly in Knightlow Hundred, is … was granted to the earls of Chester, 29 but by 1113 the priory (as the abbey had become between 1095 and 1102) was …