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A History of the County of Buckingham
… cum Stony Stratford (xvii cent.). This parish lies south of Watling Street with a tributary of the Ouse as its … datum in the north and west to nearly 350 ft. in the south and east, the soil being light and stiff clay with a … and pumping station of Stony Stratford waterworks, lying south of Horsefair Green, which occupies the extreme …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… datum, and falls gradually about 100 ft. towards the south. The parish is crossed by the road from Banbury to … lie to the west of it. The Home Farm, immediately south of the church on the west side of the road to Bicester, … th century, with original stone-mullioned windows on the south front. The windows of the upper story are of two lights …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… 6 in. by 18 ft. 6 in., west tower 12 ft. by 11 ft., and south porch, the last being built of brick, while the other … and vestry are modern. The chancel is lighted from the south by two late 15th-century windows of two lights under … moulded jambs, in the north wall, and a similar one in the south wall, both probably dating from the end of the 13th cen …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… datum in the north to a little under 300 ft. in the south, where the ground is liable to flood from a tributary … stacks, one with diagonal shafts. The kitchen on the south-west has a wide-arched fireplace, and there is a stone … church with the cloister and conventual buildings on the south and a churchyard on the north, a nave about the same …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… and their descendands in this parish, has an Elizabethan south wing with the inscription: 'Sobrie Juste Pie, 1601' on … 35 ft. by 18 ft., north aisle 52 ft. by 15 ft. 6 in., and south porch; all the measurements being internal. It is built … built to the east of the tower. In the 16th century the south porch and the nave clearstory were added, and in 1708 …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Schelton (xiii cent.). This parish, which lies 3 miles south-east of Brill, contains 2,067 acres. About 404 of these … erected here in the 16th century survive in the north and south fronts and the cellars. The plan seems to have been … rebuilt. There is an original fourcentred doorway on the south front with a contemporary four-light window above it, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Ouse, where the land is liable to floods; it rises in the south-east to 273 ft. above ordnance datum. The Bedford and … of an earlier house, but much altered and restored, to the south of the church. In a terrier of 1639 it is described as … nave 31 ft. by 12 ft. 5 in., north aisle 46 ft. by 12 ft., south aisle 45 ft. 8 in. by 11 ft. 6 in., west tower 12 ft. …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… walling, though the distinction is not so apparent on the south. During the latter part of the 13th century the tower … character, while another window of the same form in the south wall opposite has been entirely renewed. There are also … a pointed low-side window. A rough pointed piscina at the south-east does not retain sufficient detail to indicate its …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… by a road from Chilton, is of small size. At its south end, on low ground, are the church of St. John Baptist … room, the last two being in the north wing. To the south of the screens are the morning room, a corridor leading … offices and the dining room, the latter, which is in the south wing, being the original kitchen. Above the hall is the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… from 295 ft. in the east of the parish to 407 ft. in the south-west, the soil being rich clay loam; the subsoil clay … stands east and west, with a wing at right angles at the south-west, in which is a good stone bay window with moulded … of half-timber work and in part of brick and stone. The south front has an overhanging story with a plastered cove …