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A History of the County of Oxford
… honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at the honorial court … and the cost had risen to c. £37. The effects of the post-Waterloo depression seem to have reached a peak in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… and of trussed-rafter type with five 15th-century king-post trusses; the king-posts have moulded capitals and bases … moulded trefoiled head and moulded gable with foliations at base and apex, projecting halfquatrefoiled drain, c. 1300. … tenements, 50 yards N.W. of (3), has a later extension at the N. end. a(5). Cottage, 20 yards W. of (4). a(6). Tudor …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at the same time he erected into a free royalty. On the … of their growth. There are also some remarkably fine trees at Hangingshaw, among which are a plane and a beech of very … every Monday morning for hiring farm servants. A penny-post office has been established; and facility of intercourse …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… attributed with two mills, one of which may have been at Yarwell. In the Middle Ages the village was in Rockingham … it passed to the Earls of Westmorland, all of whom lived at Apethorpe. The manor house seems to have disappeared by … in W. gable, class 6 with outshut, mid 19th-century. (9) Post Office, one storey and attics, class 4a, probably …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… lower part of screen modern. (2). Chapel (disused) at Chapel Farm (Plate 8), 1,000 yards W. of the modern … ConditionGood or fairly good, unless noted. (4). Post Office, opposite the church, has some exposed … window with diamond-shaped mullions. The roof is of queen-post type. The Barn, S. of the house, is of late 16th or …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… indicate that this chapel was extended one bay to the E. at about the same period, the piscina of the earlier chapel … and edge and moulded and embattled capital to the former post. Recess: In S. transept in E. wall, with moulded jambs … decoration on S. panels; remains of painted decoration on post mouldings, running ornament and crossed lines, yellow on …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… been built late in the 13th or early in the 14th century, at which time there was also a S. aisle. The existing S. … with posts in the angles of the stage below, and a central post supported the floor of the stage above. Fittings Bells: … ruined and much overgrown with ivy. Secular (2). Dovecote at Foxley (Plate 40), 1,000 yards E.N.E. of the old church, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the church porch may be from the chapel in existence at Yelford by 1221. 99 In the later 13th century Yelford's … family, despite rebuilding Yelford church, had its tomb at Bampton and at least one resident rector was also buried … as 13th-century lancets, 53 were bellopenings, probably post-medieval, protected in the 19th century by a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bartholomew seem to have made their principal residence at Daylesford (Worcs.), although retaining Yelford. 36 A … Yelford rectory in 1498. 39 Edward witnessed a conveyance at Northmoor in 1461 40 but there is no firm evidence that … overshadows windows in the staircase wing, and presumably post-dates it, but there was probably an earlier, narrower …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… added and the nave may have been then shortened slightly at the W. end. The church was restored in 1730, 18689 and … moulded capitals and bases; the outer order of the arches at either end dies on to the end walls and the inner order is … plinth and an embattled parapet with grotesque gargoyles at the angles. The tower-arch is two-centred and of three …