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woodwork being of Spanish chestnut, and the gardens
are still surrounded by a m o a t: the founder of the
priory, who died in 1343, is said to have been buried
in its church, together with W illiam , his son, 2nd
Earl K.G-. who died in 1397; his grandson, Sir John
de M ontacute, 3rd Earl, beheaded at Chichester, 5th
January, 1400; and his great grandson, Thomas,
restored as 4th Earl, and slain at the siege of Orleans,
3rd Nov. 1428: hither, after the disastrous battle of
Barnet, A pril 14th, 1471, were brought the bodies of
Richard N evill K .G . Earl of W arwick, the famous
“ kin g m aker,” and his brother John N evill, Marquess
of Montagu, and here also was interred Edward Plantagenet, nephew of Edward IV. and grandson of the
“ king m aker,” who was executed on Tower Hill, in
1499. Tem ple House, the residence of Mrs. Williams,
was erected on the site of a preceptory of the Knights
Tem plars, and is a noble mansion of brick, on the
banks of the Tham es, and surrounded by a beautiful
park and grounds. Stoney Ware, the residence of
Mrs. Taylor, is a fine tim ber-gabled mansion pleasantly
situated on the river bank. The Temple Paper Mills
here give em ploym ent to many of the in h ab itan ts;
there are two machines, one working continually night

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and day. Sir Henry Jam es Vansittart-N eale K .C .B .,
J.P. who is lord of the manor, Henry Mills Skrine esq.
of W arleigh Manor, Bath, and Mrs. W illiam s, of Tem ple
House, are the principal landowners. The soil is lig h t
and chalky ; subsoil, gravel and chalk. The chief crops
are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 2,429 acres
of land and 49 of w ater; rateable value, £6,799; the
population in 1901 was 745 in the civil and 594 in the
ecclesiastical parish.
Parish Clerk, Henry Edward Atlee.
Post Office.— Edward Thomas H eatley, sub-postmaster.
Letters arrive through Marlow & are delivered at 7.30
a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ; Sundays, 7.30 a.m . ; dispatched
at 10.30 a.m. & 2.55 & 7 p.m . ; sundays, 10 a.m.
Marlow, 1 m ile distant, is the nearest money order &
telegraph office
W all Letter Boxes.— Tem ple Mills, cleared a t 10.15
a.in. & 6.45 p.m. ; Sundays at 9.55 a.m. ; Bisham
road, cleared at 10.30 a.m. & 3 & 7.5 p.m. ; sundays,
10.10 a.m. ; Park farm , cleared at 7.30 & 11.45 a.m.
& 7.45 p.m. ; sundays, 6.15 p.m
County Police, Frederick Rhoades, constable
National School (m ixed), for 180 ch ild re n ; average
attendance, 100 ; Henry Edward A tlee, master

May W illiam , farm bailiff to Mark
Marked thus * receive letters through Syms Harold St. George, Tem ple
Knowles esq. Tem ple farm
Taylor Mrs. Stoney Ware
Pinkney’s Green, Maidenhead.
Mead Alfred, beer retailer
Thomas James, Norwood cottage
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Thomas Jas. Theophilus, Tem ple cot Meakes & Redknap. boat builders
Vansittart-Neale Sir Henry James Morton Sam uel, estate m anager to
Baguley Miss, Bridge house
Sir H. J. Vansittart-N eale K .C .B .,
K .C .B ., J.P. Bisham Abbey
Barreto Baron, Quarry court
J.P
Bontor
Frank A rth ur, Woodside, Walton Mrs. Quarry Wood hall
*
Randall
Catherine (Mrs.), farmer
Wilkinson
John
Sydney,
Riverholme
Quarry wood
•Randall W illiam , blacksm ith
Williams Mrs. Tem ple house
C artw right Mrs. Stokesay
*Sheen
W
m .Cawood,farm tr.H vde frm
Ea<terbrook Ronald Frederick, The Young Thomas, W arren cottage
•Stran g Matthew, farmer, Lee farm
Cottage
C O M M ER CIA L.
Temple Golf C lub Ltd. (Capt. G.
Farrer Rev. W illiam M.A. (vicar),
Flake Albert Charles, Bull inn
I Macdonald, hon. sec. (postal adVicarage
j dress, Maidenhead)
Hamilton John Paynter,Quarry wood Clark Wm. Robt. farm er, Town frm
Flepsing John, gardener to M rs.!Thom as Bros. & Co. Lim ited, paper
Hinks Joseph, Riversleigh
Taylor,
The
Gardens,
Stoney
ware
j
makers,
Tem ple Paper m ills
Iv°lly Miss, Bisham grange
Groves George, gardener to Mrs. 'Towers Robert, boot maker
•L in d lar Max, Park farm
W illiam s, The Gardens,Temple ho W orking Men’s C lub & Institute
Myers Mrs. Abbey cottage
(George Harding, hon. sec)
Rich Evelyn, Beenham lo. Quarry wd Heatlev Edward Thomas, shopkeeper
Kilby Robert Burstall, The Compleat Yates W alter Ernest, assistant overRiley Edward, Bohemia
A
ntler
hotel
seer
& clerk to the Parish Council
Roberts Mrs. Riverdale
B L E W B U B Y , called in Saxon charters “ Bleobirg ” and at the angles are slender nook shafts, the capitals
and “ Bleobyrig,”
in Domesday “ Blitberie ”
and having the volute and straight-leaved ornament peculiar
“ Blidberia,” and later “ Bleberia ” and “ Blebire,” is a to this d a te : this tower it would seem had four b e lls :
parish 6 miles south-west from Wallingford, 10 east the two easternmost piers are pierced w ith hagioscopes,
from Wantage, 10 south from Abingdon, 4 north-east ( that on the south being Perpendicular and the other
from East Ilsley, 4 south from the Didcot junction | square and probably original; the north-west pier con­
station on the main line of the Great Western railway, | tains a flight of stone steps leading to an open arch­
and i£ miles from Upton station on the Didcot, New- j way on the rig h t of the nave and anciently the entrance
bury and Winchester railway, in the Northern division to the rood loft, which retains a piscina formed out of
of the county, partly in the hundred of Moreton, but a Norman cap, a unique feature discovered during the
chiefly in that of Reading, petty sessional division of restoration of 1877; the door is Perpendicular, with
Wallingford, union and county court district of W an­ elaborately carved panelled tr a c e ry ; the nave is
tage, rural deanery of Wallingford, archdeaconry of separated' from the south aisle by an arcade of five
Berks and diocese of Oxford. The village, with the Transitional arch es; the north arcade is Decorated and
exception of one principal street on the high road has two arches only, supported by octagonal colu m n s:
from Reading to W antage and Abingdon, is sca ttered ; the windows are Perpendicular and Late D ecorated :
from its position at the foot of the downs it enjoys a the western tower opens to the nave by a bold and lofty
pure and invigorating air and abounds w ith springs arch, and its lower stage, lig hted by a large Perpen­
dicular window, serves as a vestry, and is enclosed
affording an ample supply of good water.
The church of St. Michael, form erly dependent on towards the nave by an oak screen w ith cusped open­
Reading Abbey, is a structure of rubble, flint and ings and cresting, erected in 1906; the porches, erected
stone, consisting of chancel, with a chapel on the south in°the Perpendicular period, were of open timber-work
side, nave, aisles, transepts, the piers and lantern with barge boards richly ca rv e d ; of these the south
stage of a central tower, north and south porches and porch remains and has been well resto red ; but the
a fine western tower of thre^ stages, with a quartre- north porch was rebu ilt in 1882 of flint w ith stone
foiled parapet and crocketed pinnacles with vanes, and dressings, its carved work reproduced and a new oak
containing a clock and 8 bells, of which the 4th and door h u n g : above the doorway is a stone niche, with
earliest is dated 1586, others respectively 1663, 1689. a modern figure of St. Michael, and on either side are
1734, 1752 and 1825, and two treble bells were added small stone slabs, containing m atrices of brass figures
in 1906: the church was originally a Norman structure, with scrolls: the south door, a venerable relic, has a
erected in the 12th century on the site of a more hu^e wooden lock and fine iron w o rk : the font, of
ancient edifice, and portions of this Norman church, Perpendicular date, is octagonal and panelled in quartreincluding a small Norman window, still exist at each fo ils : the carved oak cover was presented in 1902 as
end of the north arcad e: in the Transitional period a memorial of the Coronation of K in g Edw. VII.
In the church are several brasses to the ancient
(1145-90) it was greatly enlarged and made cruciform :
the chancel, which is part of this work, retains a fine fam ily of Latton, of Upton and Chilton, the earliest is
stone groined roof and one of its original windows, that of a knight in a fu ll su it of plate arm our with his
besides a sm all circular opening at the apex of the two wives and several children, c. 1500, and perhaps
eastern gable, but its other windows are Late representing Thomas Latton, of Upton, d. 8 April, 1503,
D ecorated: the south aisle is also Transitional, but two of these figures are on the chancel wall, one wife
built at different tim es, and restored with new windows being now on one of the piers of the former central
during the Perpendicular period : its continuation east­ to w er: on the north side of the chancel, on the floor,
ward, form ing a south-east chapel, is Late Decorated is a brass of John Latton, of Chilton, esq. ob. 31 May,
c. 1350, and has a p iscin a; the piers of the former 1548, with effigies of him self, habited in a tabard of
Transitional central tower are of unusual thickness, his arm s, Anne (Yate), his wife and nine children out