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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Parish of Woolhope. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the parish. The … in wall and carved with a Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John under a trefoiled and gabled head, 14th-century. … wood fragment carved with interlaced circles and foliage or fruit, 15th-century. In towerstone bowl with gadrooned …
A History of the County of Somerset
… on the village green. 96 Between 1871 and 1899 a shop and later a dairy were attached and a room opened for a men's … which eventually prevailed and the three daughters or their heirs were declared coheirs. The manor was then held … 1782-97, was also a chaplain to the king and a canon of St. Paul's. 87 Communion was celebrated four times a year in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the … gifts and recipients, and those not regular churchgoers or whose conduct during the past year had been 'wicked' …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1965 the then lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's … College. 72 George Blunt, 1544-7, and William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, … in the diocese and not found again in Yarnton until the later 19th century. 79 Although Thomas Gregory of Hordley in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by inclosure in the 15th and 16th centuries. 18 By the later 13th century land perhaps lay in two fields; in 1272 … 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival of … a single day on successive Mondays following the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (29 June) in the order Oxey, West …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the … difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the … £3 from the Fletcher benefaction and £1 from the bishop of St. Asaph, an absentee landowner. 61 An evening school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was … Book, 79 or only a single settlement south and west of the later village. The name Yarnton, formerly Erdington, is said … practice of holding fairs on the village feast (24 August, St. Bartholomew's day), 53 and much earlier he had put an end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … matters. 19 The two churchwardens were financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's … hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of … with other d'Ivri lands, had become part of the honor of St. Valery, of which it formed one of the five demesne …
A History of the County of Oxford
… collections were received from Yarnton in 1829, but no later mention has been found. 43 In the 1830s Henry Bulteel … 16 people, 47 and the number of dissenters reported in the later 19th century varied from 14 to 30. 48 Bodl. G.A. Oxon. …