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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… under part of the arable common field and was excavated by S. Lysons in 1811 (Plate 51). 4 The site, on the E. shoulder … in the shallower soil to the east. The pavement of room A was several inches higher than that of room B, and … structural alteration, including the blocking of the S. flues into the hypocaust (L) and the asymmetrical …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Withington 93 WITHINGTON (C.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXVII, S.W., (b)XXXIV, N.W.) Withington is a parish 4 m. N.E. of … with rounded heads; between them is a curved bracket. A room on the first floor is lined with late 16th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by subscriptions, loans, and a subvention from the town's Freeland estate charity, 1 together with sale of old … the bailiffs and excluded from charitable uses. 4 Holloway's and Townsend's Almshouses Two other almshouses were founded … 6 The houses, to include an upper and lower room and a garden for each occupant, were built at Church …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … riots. Conditions improved only with the blanket industry's recovery in the early 19th century, as piecemeal … and other tradesmen. The White Hart Inn had a 'malting room' in the 1650s; 173 the tanner and wool dealer Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Nonconformist schools better suited to the town's needs. John Holloway's Bluecoat school at West End, endowed in 1724, catered … boys beyond those nominated by the trustees, provided the room was not overcrowded or his attention diverted from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … the river and surrounded by low-lying alluvium. The river's surviving eastern branch formed the town's and parish's eastern boundary until the 20th century, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … fireplace; a door off this leads to a small inner room (perhaps a study) beside the stack, while a larger …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors … Staple Hall, and the King's Arms. A vestry- or committee-room in the workhouse on Corn Street was mentioned in 1798, … or acquisition of a joint poorhouse, 216 and in 1817 a governor was appointed to manage the poor of Witney, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide … not primarily defensive. By the 1220s the gatehouse had a room above, and a portcullis was apparently added in the 13th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … head, has a fireplace, and was probably used as a priest's room or schoolroom. The south transept aisle, perhaps already …