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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wesleyan Methodists have each a place of worship. The free grammar school was founded and endowed in 1585, by Richard …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of class 4b plan. The original door with iron swing-bar remains in the former gable wall. In the first half of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bought in 1587 with Richard Cornwell's bequest for the grammar school, were transferred to the corporation in 1599 … open-well design, lit by an oval lantern. The hotel bar, formerly the 'great dining room', contains a baroque … closed in 1977 and the name preserved in Brotherton's Wine Bar. 22 From the mid 19th century until the 1930s or later …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Company of London, to be divided equally between the grammar school, a sermon, and doles of 6 d. to the poor who … ordered the capital to be replaced from the income of the grammar school estate. 20 By will proved 1817 George, duke of … given in 1646 by Charles Padget, a former pupil of the grammar school, was kept up to date and few charities had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… two curates, of whom several were also headmaster of the grammar school. 15 One early 19th-century rector complained … former north-east chapel served as a schoolroom for the grammar school; it included a living chamber, and was … 8 by A. W. Blomfield in 1877-8. The north aisle and the grammar school were replaced by an arcaded north aisle, a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… park walls. There were bars at the town's entrances. Ale Bar gate on the Oxford road, recorded in 1504, was presumably … towards Oxford but in 1504 was the street leading to Ale Bar gate. 51 It was Pest House Lane when the later no. 23 … Market Place, mentioned in the early 17th century, and the grammar school of 1585, housed from c. 1600 in a room …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on in the High Street premises, later Brotherton's Wine Bar. 90 No. 1 Market Street was a chemist's shop from 1834 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Education Education Woodstock had an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early … for continuing problems with the financially inadequate grammar school. Martin Cave, curate of Woodstock and former … in Hensington Road with 43 pupils; it was staffed from the convent of Notre Dame, Oxford. The school was closed in 1945 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the local wool trade, and in 1585 the town acquired a grammar school. 72 The extent of building activity in the … town clerk, Edmund Hiorne, was forced to apologize at the Bar of the House of Commons for handing the town's armour to …