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A History of the County of Oxford
… Hen. Savile was used to affirme' 1 had a humble beginning, and was an unimportant part of the University until the 19th … outline is given of its earlier constitutional development and small endowments. A slightly fuller treatment has been … endowments was strongly felt, and in 1556, when Dr. John Bell bequeathed a house in Clerkenwell to endow two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Ancient and historical monuments in Westmorland Bampton 6 BAMPTON … on the N.W. The principal monuments are Castle Crag Fort and the circular works at Scarside Plantation, Bampton Towtop Kirk and Knipe Scar. Ecclesiastical c(1). Parish Church of St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Buildings BUILDINGS. 46 A cruck-framed cottage north of the churchyard was mentioned in 1440, 47 and the discovery of encased timber frames in some surviving … that timber construction was common in medieval Bampton. Bell Cottage on Bell Lane, 48 formerly fronting the market …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Churches CHURCHES. Bampton was the site of a late … Black Bourton, Ducklington, Cokethorpe, Standlake, and Yelford. The churches of all those places were claimed as … extensive repairs in 1329 included work on the bells and bell-frame, repainting of an image (or statue) of St. Andrew, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Education EDUCATION Robert Veysey of Chimney, by … proved 1635, left £200 to endow a free school at Bampton, and another £100 to erect a stone building 'with ashlar … no public infant school. 53 A National school run on the Bell system was established in 1812 in a purposebuilt, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Introduction BAMPTON AND WEALD THE townships of Bampton and Weald, together c. … a new room was added over the carriage entry. 77 The Bell, on the site of the later village hall, the Fleur de …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. MANOR COURTS. From 1248 William de Valence, as lord of the manor and hundred of Bampton, claimed return of writs, assize of … 33 church bells sounded the alarm until c. 1886 when a new bell, 'hardly more powerful than [a] dinner bell', was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings. The castle, manor-house, vicarages, gaol, and other public buildings, as well as the domestic buildings … house. At that date part of the east end was taken down and the filling removed from the windows. 3 In 1851 it was … an infant son of one Richard Busby was buried from the 'Bell', which a reference of 1666 in the deeds of 12 Parsons …
A History of the County of Oxford
… area: the parish boundary crossed the county boundary, and was probably established before it. 1 The first certain … Bishop of Lincoln had granted Banbury church to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln 3 and it became a prebendal church. … money for bells was given in 1478, 213 and a great bell, or tenor, was recast in 1594, implying that a ring …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Banbury Introduction BANBURY Origins and Growth of the Town, p. 18. Buildings, p. 29. Castle, p. 39. Manors and other Estates, p. 42. Economic History, p. 49. Local … Cherwell, close to the meeting point of three counties, and the centre of an area which from its considerable …