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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… window, with mortices for diamond-shaped mullions. On the first floor one room has early 17th-century panelling with a … with a crowned double rose and the initials E.R. On the first floor is an original doorway with a three-centred head. … a second window is now all modern except the label. On the first floor is a third window of two lights and now blocked. …
A History of the County of Essex
… new ones added, in memory of Wormingford men killed in the First World War. 92 The church plate included an Elizabethan …
A History of the County of Essex
… oats were cultivated in two 26-a. fields: Blakemandown, first recorded in 1322, which survived in 1838 as two fields … mostly arable with a little pasture in 1906. After the First World War arable farming became even less profitable: …
A History of the County of Essex
… stories of dragons, 'worm' meaning serpent or dragon. The first, apparently unsubstantiated, is that a crocodile … all periods from the neolithic suggest that settlement was first on the flood plain along- side the Stour, before … fighters in the south-west of Wormingford during the First World War. In 1943 the airfield was extended to provide …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… to Francis Price, vicar of the parish, 1701, and Jane, his first wife, 1662. Piscin: in S. wall of chancel, with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of Wokeing, W. division of … one of the earliest undertakings of the duke, and the first great canal constructed in England in modern times, … at the crown. Mr. Benjamin Jesty, said to have been the first person who tried with success the practice of …
A History of the County of York
… St. Paul and the other to the Martyrs and the Cross. The first was ornamented with gold and jewels and surmounted by … the Fourth Lateran Council, York seems to have been the first English cathedral to annex the title and function of … it was laid down that the chancellor should preach on the first Sundays in Advent and Lent. 14 By custom the archbishop …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… N. of nave, (2) to Benjamin Jesty, 1816, '. . . the first person [known] that introduced the Cow Pox by … but retains some 17th-century panelling and, on the first floor, an original fireplace with chamfered elliptical …
A History of the County of Sussex
… development as a resort began in the mid 18th century, the first recorded visitor being a Londoner who came in 1759 to enjoy sea air and bathing. 89 Worthing grew slowly at first, but by 1789 its level sands and calm sea attracted … and duchess of Northumberland in 1802, 97 Henry Dundas, first lord of the admiralty, in 1804, 98 and Princess …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and his wife gave a piece in 1820; 1 Edward Ogle gave the first organ. 2 In 1894 the dean and chapter of Chichester … of church accommodation for the poor. 5 The church was at first regarded as a chapel of ease to Broadwater, 6 whose … Broadwater 21 who had given the site. 22 The church, the first example of the Gothic Revival in Worthing, 23 is of …