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A History of the County of Somerset
… was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries … into Yeovil, later South Somerset, district in 1974. 47 CHURCH There was a church c. 1100 when it belonged to Montacute priory. 48 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the distributions, which must be received at the church door; careful account was to be kept of the gifts and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and … to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a schoolroom. 57 The children were … with accommodation for 53 children was built in 1875 in Church Lane, 63 and from 1877 it received a parliamentary … Primary School, with seven classrooms and a hall; the Church Lane school became a private house. In 1983 c. 130 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ha.). 48 An area known as Fries, lying mainly in Water Eaton, included a small part of the south-east corner of … by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington … by the laying out of its park. Until the late 18th century Church Lane and Mead Lane remained an alternative to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so … 22 Vestry meetings were held in the Spencer aisle of the church and were usually attended by c. 6 parishioners. 23 Two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… recover Yarnton, but although the abbey's ownership of the church was never challenged it could not regain the manor and … Spencer. The house stood 'near to the old one by the church' 83 and part of an older house seems to have been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect church attendance. In the 1840s Primitive Methodists met in a … were said in 1854 to be 20 dissenters who never came to church, even though their preachers had agreed not to hold …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of … 14th century; the South Porch was added soon after. The church was restored in 1864, when the Chancel seems to have …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… its present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of … near them till lately stood the picturesque ruins of the church of St. Mary. There are also several lakes of less … a manse, and the glebe is valued at 34. 10. per annum. The church erected in 1640, and thoroughly repaired in 1826, is a …