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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… 6 in. XII N.E.) Winwick is a parish and village 8 m. N. of Kimbolton. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of All Saints stands on the E. side of the village. The walls … drain, 14th-century. Plate: includes 16th-century cup with band of engraved ornament and inscription "For the towne of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Chapeiry of Parson Drove CHAPELRY OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical district …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It was originally of the long, narrow shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, … Bank'. The alterations made under the county Review Order of 1933 and the Ministry of Health Provisional Orders …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … originally the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably modified. In the first place, the fen portion of the ancient parish, containing Parson Drove (q.v.), has …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … are angle buttresses with three set-offs. The plinth has a band of quatrefoils enclosing blank shields. The chancel … with rectilinear tracery in the head. The plinth has a band of quatrefoils enclosing blank shields, and the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to it. The vicar was to receive the tithes except those of flax and wool. Land and other tithes were assigned to him … of 3 lights each. The embattled parapet has an elaborate band of decoration divided into panels each displaying a … beams. The lower string-course is ornamented with a band of quatrefoils, while the upper has a series of shields, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Later history of the castle LATER HISTORY OF THE CASTLE Secretary John Thurloe, who purchased the manor … replaced Morton's palace by a house in the style of the time, said to have been designed by Inigo Jones, but …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain Mr. Belson of Wisbech St. Peter, who had become negligent in his duties as schoolmaster, probably indicates the presence of a primary school. The continuous history of primary …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 2,100 acres, occupies a shallow dry valley on the E. bank of the R. Allen; it is entirely on Chalk, between 100 ft. and … sea-level. Land at East Hemsworth (18) was formerly part of Shapwick. Domesday mentions Wichemetune and two … two-light casement windows in both storeys. A brick plat-band marks the level of the first floor. Inside, the plan is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, learnt to read there. 1 … at his own expense, apprenticing several of them in the hope that the parish might join the enterprise; he received …