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A History of the County of Oxford
… and in the early 12th century was held by Reynold of St. Valery and John of St. John. 62 About 1180 Reynold's son … and, on the suppression of that house in 1525, to Cardinal College. 73 After Cardinal Wolsey's attainder Cutteslowe passed, with most of the rest of his college's endowments, to Henry VIII's College until its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 20th century, when, in 1911, the church of St. Gregory and St. Augustine was built on the Woodstock road for a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the Thames given to the foundress c. 1133 by John of St. John. The site was enlarged in 1139 by John's grant of a … 13th century. 41 Near the western end of the range was St. Thomas's chapel, which seems to have served as a church … in 1984. Anthony Wood identified it as the chapel of St. Leonard and recorded that the three lights of the east …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 10 per annum for the instruction of children. Wombourn (St. Benedict) WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the … been commuted for 740, payable to the rector, and Trinity College, Cambridge. A school at Hemingfield is supported by a … perpetual curacy; net income, 150; patrons, the Custos and College of Vicars Choral in the Cathedral of Exeter. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the area that became … Bounty, that of £200 in 1841 meeting a benefaction of St. John C. Charlton. 60 The living, worth £82 in 1856, 61 … of the glebe fluctuated between 3 a. and 10½ a. 64 In 1841 St. John C. Charlton gave a site for a benefice house, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… after the canal's construction in 1788. 74 In 1931-2 the St. George's bypass was built under a government unemployment … Sel. Cttee. Holyhead Rd. H.C. 549, p. 110 (1819), v; 1 st Rep. R. Com. Holyhead Rd. H.C. 305, p. 23 (1824), ix; 3 rd …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… holdings by long leases from the earl of Shrewsbury and St. John Charlton, and became the main mine owner in the … Co. (fl. 1870-91) that produced shovels in West Street, St. George's, and was one of the main local suppliers of iron … 19th century, and there were sandstone quarries east of St. George's. 89 Several sandpits were dug to get the drift …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the county council and the Walker Trust. Walker Technical College, Hartsbridge Road, opened in 1927. 73 It became the … it admitted 148 evacuees from Smethwick Junior Technical College and temporarily adopted double-shift working. 74 The … continued until 1860 when a new one 54 opened at Snowhill. St. George's church school, opened in 1860, was built on an …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central … inhabitants, Wrockwardine Wood 4,978, Priorslee 2,644, and St. George's 163. The U.D. as a whole did not record a higher … a new urban district which took in Wrockwardine Wood and St. George's to the east and Priorslee to the south and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… developed out of the demesnes of the Augustinian priory of St. Leonard, founded c. 1135 in a clearing in Hadley wood. … Wrockwardine Wood C.P. (914 a.) and the new C.P.s of St. George's (129 a.) and Priorslee (584 a.). 56 In 1934 the … by the higher ground of Ketley Bank to the south and St. George's to the east, both over 150 metres above O.D. …