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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… Arms (7) Balliol College stands on the corner of Broad Street and the street E. of St. Mary Magdalen church-yard. … said to have been built by Thomas Chace, Master (141223), or alternatively by William Grey, Bishop of Ely (145478), and … figures against the window-jambs; in each bay is a more or less restored window of two cinque-foiled and transomed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Crossens. BANKS, Lancashire.See Crossens. Banks-Fee, or South-Field BANKS-FEE, or South-Field, a hamlet, in the parish of Longborough, union … 5463 acres, chiefly in pasture: 1375 acres are common or waste. Banstead Downs are remarkable for their verdure; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fronting the market place, Thatched Cottage on Church Street, 49 and Knapps Farm on Bridge Street, described below, … 18th century. 52 Most surviving houses are 17th-century or later, of local limestone rubble with stone-slated or, less commonly, thatched roofs. 53 Much stone for 17th- …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 42 The parish church, parts of which are 11th- century or earlier, may have been preceded as a religious focus by a … arose possibly from an agreement over tithes in Aston or Shifford, but may reflect early dependence on Eynsham … double chapel, and a chantry chapel on Catte (later Queen) Street mentioned in 1402, the former and probably the latter …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was divided chiefly between East (later Truelands, Gog, or Further) field, West (later Parson's Hedge or Lew Leaze) field, and Middle field. Arable in Hogs Acres, … and children, and Deanery farm (with a homestead on Broad Street), Calais farm, the two Ham Court farms, and Mount Owen …
A History of the County of Oxford
… English and arithmetic free to 10 boys chosen by them or their trustees; Susannah also invested £100 left by her … retain the school closes; 42 there were no pupils in 1768 or 1771, and the master in 1774, apparently Middleton, taught … stone-and-slated schoolhouse at the top of Bridge Street, with support from the vicar George Richards. 54 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and closes attached to Bampton Earls manor (wholly or partly in Lew); 32 some sections may have corresponded … from the Talbot Inn in the market place, along Church Street, and around the west side of the churchyard, bringing … of Shill brook either at the end of modern Bridge Street or further north near the Deanery, the estate's boundary ran …
A History of the County of Oxford
… met in the later 17th century in April and in September or October, but by 1789 once a year only, 16 and though … the Talbot Inn, 22 and the court house was demolished in or before 1871 when the tenement was rebuilt. 23 Tenants of … New Inn and occasionally in Bampton Manor House off Broad Street, but earlier venues are unknown. 34 By 1396 there were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish and much land outside it. 39 From the 10th century or earlier it was diminished by piecemeal grants, described … that reduced manor, later BAMPTON EARLS, KING'S BAMPTON, or BAMPTON TALBOT and assessed at 1 knight's fee, passed to … moiety from the early 17th century was that west of Broad Street, called Bampton Manor House by the mid 19th century. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… noted in Bampton in the earlier 17th century, only two or three in the late 17th century and early 18th, when they … prosperous comb-maker John Hill, and Edward Bettres or Bettrice, perhaps related to the prominent Oxford Quaker … c. 100 sittings, served from Cote, was built south of High Street c. 1778. 18 Prominent members in the 19th century …