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A History of the County of Somerset
… Over Stowey Church CHURCH. There was a church at Over Stowey in the time of Ralph, whose grandson … to Stogursey priory. 68 In 1239 the priory surrendered the church to Jocelin, bishop of Bath and Wells, in return for an …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 1840. 42 The National school was built in 1840 east of the church on the site of the poorhouse and had 90 pupils in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 64 There was a poorhouse by 1799, possibly the former church house. In 1816 it was decided to whitewash it and to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… who in the mid 12th century gave lands to Over Stowey church. 72 Alice, widow of Hugh de Bonville, in 1220 granted … with Adscombe. 93 Soon after the mid 12th century the church and land, which had probably formed part of the … Hugh gave arable, pasture, and woodland to Over Stowey church, and before 1181 gave the church and more land to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Over Church CHURCH The church at Over was mentioned in 1178 in the possession of … mentioned in 1327, 1may have stood north-east of the church. After appropriation it became the rectory farmhouse. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to read and write. 17The school was associated with the church, 18though by 1833 it was held in the town hall and by … 22and there were others until the 1850s or later. 23 The church school became a National school in 1843, housed in a … schoolrooms and a residence for the master opposite the church. A separate master's house was built in 1860. 24The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… nuclei of settlement which have grown together. The church occupies a gravel knoll at the north-west corner of … name Over. 73High Street curves gently south-east from the church, lined on part of each side by elongated tofts. … the manor house, on the street leading south-west from the church towards Swavesey, from c. 1850 called Station Road. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… possession of the farm in 1550. 83 The farmhouse, later Church Farm, stands in the lane north-east of the church. 84 It is L-shaped and has an early 18thcentury … comprised 27 a., 30 sold in 1861. 31 The trustees of the church and causeway estate at Cottenham bought c. 29 a. in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1650s, however, some Baptists in Over attended the parish church, while at least one allowed a Quaker to visit her … 83In 1735 meetings were held but there was no organized church and the later Strict Baptist chapel dated its origin … Over people among the members of the stronger Willingham church by 1675 99 and a regular meeting may not have survived …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… before 1737, the whole village, except for the medieval church and the rectory which lay immediately W. of the hall, … place by 1775, when a map of the county shows only the church, rectory and hall standing within a small park. In … to Sir Thomas Drury, who intended to pull down the old church. Drury died, however, before doing so, and the estate …