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in Domesday called “Mersie,” surrogate. The Congregational chapel, erected in 1851,
is a parish on the borders of Oxfordshire and one mile will seat 300 persons; adjoining it is a house for the
south from Marsh Gibbon and Poundon station on the minister. There is a reading room, supplied with
Oxford and Bletchley branch of the London and North current literature and containing a small library, pre­
Western railway, 2 south-west from Calvert station on sented by the late Sir Henry Wentworth Acland bart.
the Great Central main line, 2$ north-east from Black­ K.C.B., M.D. of Oxford (d. 1900). Sheppard’s charity
thorn station on the Birmingham section of the Great of ¿28 yearly, founded in 1847, is for education, and
Western railway, 4$ east-north-east from Bicester, and 9 there is another charity of about ¿10 a year, the rent
south-westfrom Buckingham, in the Northern division of of a field in the parish of Piddington, left by an un­
the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and known donor for apprenticing. A piece of land of about
county court district of Buckingham, rural deanery of 5 acres was awarded under the Inclosure Act of 1841,
Claydon, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of as a recreation ground, and under the same Act another
Oxford. The place obtains its suffix of “ Gibbon ” from field was set apart, the rent of which is laid out in
the “Gibwen ’’family, who had estates there in the 13th supplying coal to the poor. The Manor House, situated
century. The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice near the church, is a picturesque mansion, with high
of stone, chiefly in the Early English style, with Per­ gables and tall chimneys, and retains a panelled room :
pendicular and later additions, and consists of chancel, at the west end of the village is a manor house known
nave of throe bays, aisles, transepts, south porch and an as Westbury. The trustees of the almshouses at
embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a Ewelme in Oxfordshire are lords of the manor and
clock and 5 bells: the south transept, called also the principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay.
Ickford chapel, has a fine window of Perpendicular The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats; the land is
date: and in the north wall is a stone coffin lid carved about one-sixth arable and the rest pasture. The area
with a floriated cross: there are three piscinae in the is 2,818 acres; rateable value, ¿3,666; the population
transepts, and monuments to the Guy, Horwood and in 1911 was 587.
Townsend families: the chancel was restored by the
Parish Clerk, Isaac Parker.
Rev. T. H. Green, a former rector, in i860, and the Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Charles Justice, sub-post
church generally in 1880, at a cost of ¿2,000, when a master. Letters received from Bicester (Oxon), a t
new roof was fixed, the north aisle added and the
.50 a.m. & 1.25 p.m.; dispatched at 12.50, 5 .5 k
tower rebuilt, and in 1892 a new stone reredos and a 6
7.25 p.m.; sundays, 7 p.m.; 110 delivery on S u n d a y s
stained east window were placed in the chancel at a Wall Letter Box, Station, cleared at 7.50 p.m. w e e k
cost of ¿160: there are 250 sittings. The register days; 7.35 p.m. sundays
dates from the year 1576. In the churchyard is the Elementary School (boys & girls), built in 1845, for 170
base of an ancient cross. The living is a rectory, net
children; Henry Bowden, master; Miss Doris Gordon,
yearly value ¿369, with 118 acres of glebe and resi­ mistress
dence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held
since 1893 by the Rev. Edwyn Reynolds Massey M.A. R ilwav Station, Sydney R. Pratt, station master
of Exeter College, Oxford, rural dean of Claydon and Carrier to Bicester— Arthur Burgess, tues. fri. & sat
p r iv a te r e s id e n ts .
Heritage John, beer retailer
Parker Brothers, farmers
Barker Rev. John Henry (Congrega- Heritage Walter, Swan P.H
Parker Alfred, farmer, Leopold f a r m
Heritage William, builder
tional), The Manse
Parker Frank, builder
Herring John, farmer
Cross William
Parker 'George, farmer
Massey Rev. Edwyn Reynolds M.A. Jones David (exors. of), farmers & Parker Thomas, White Hart P.H
(rector, rural dean & surrogate), landowners
Phipps Arth. J. W. frmr. & landowm
Rectory
Jones Henry, farmer
Phipps Henry Thomas Fredk. f a r m e r
Jones William, baker
Phipps Mrs. T. H
Reading Room & Recreation Society
Thriscutt Frank M. Ivy cottage
Judge George (Mrs.), farmer
(James Parker, hon. sec)
COMM ERCIAL.
Judge Thomas, farmer
Simms Robert Travell, c o a c h b u i l d e r
Batchelor James, farmer, Home farm Justice Charles, stationer, Post office Stevens Sarah (Mrs.), farmer
Kilby John, farmer
Batstone George, Greyhound P.H
Thriscutt Henry T. c o m m e r c i a l
Bowden Hy. asst, overseer & schlmstr King George, farmer
traveller, Ware farm
Brown John, farmer, Manor farm
Lambourne Thomas, coal dealer & Tompkins Richard, farmer
Burgess & Lambourne,machine ownrs machine owner, see Burgess & Tompkins Thomas, farmer
Burgess Arthur, carrier
Lambourne
Tompkins Thomas, jun. blacksmith
Burnell Jesse, farmer
May Samuel, farmer
Tompkins Wm. farmer, Pond f a r m
Butler Herbert, Plough inn
Medcraft James, coal dealer
Tompkins William, grocer
Cross Richard William, butcher
Miller Henry John, farmer & land­ Waddup Vincent, farmer
Harding James, boot & shoe maker
owner, Mason farm
NORTH M A R S T O N is a parish and village, 3^ Victoria in memory of John Campden Neild esq. who
miles south from Winslow station, on the Oxford and left Her Majesty his property amounting to about
Bletchley section of the London and North Western ¿250,000: the chancel was also restored by Her
railway and about the same distance south-east from Majesty at a cost of ¿3,000: in the Diamond Jubilee
Grandborough station on the Quainton Road and Verney year (1897) a new pulpit was erected, at a cost of
Junction branch of the Metropolitan railway, 10 south­ ¿60: in 1913 a stained glass window was placed in the
east from Buckingham and 7 north-west from Ayles­ belfry by Mr. and Mrs. Francis Farnborough, who also
bury, in the Northern division of the county, Ashen- the following year gave two candelabra for the sanctu­
don hundred, Winslow petty sessional division and ary. There are 300 sittings. The register of baptisms
union, Buckingham county court district, rural deanery dates from the year 16395 burials from the year 1724,
of Claydon, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese and marriages 1725. The living isa vicarage, net yearly
of Oxford. The church of St. Mary, standing on an value ¿ 2 7 0 , with residence, in the gift of the Dean and
eminence, is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, Canons of Windsor, and held since 1909 by the Rev.
clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, south porch Arthur Harold James M.A. of Hertford College, Ox­
and an embattled western tower of the Decorated ford. The Wesleyan chapel here, built in 1864, affords
period containing a clock and i bells: the original style 200 sittings; the Primitive Methodist chapel, enlarged
of the church seems to have been Early English, but in 1872, has 300 sittings. Sir John Schorne, rector
the whole of the south side is Decorated, with a here about 1290, was greatly venerated by the people,
hagioscope, and a piscina and a triple sedilia in the and after his death was regarded as a saint; and the
south wall: the chancel, a fine specimen of Perpen­ place, it is said, became populous and flourishing both
dicular work, is said to have been built from the on account of the numbers who resorted to a well
offerings ofpilgrims who frequented the tomb or shrine which he had blessed, as well as of the pilgrims who
of the famous rector, Sir John Schorne, and has visited his shrine; the well, which still exists, is fed
misereres: above the vestry is a chamber said to have by a spring rising on the spot, and when filtered is
anciently been used by the priest whose duty it was beautifully clear, bright, and sparkling, from the
to watch the shrine, for which purpose a rectangular quantity of free carbonic acid it contains; an analysis
opening has been made through the north chancel wall; made in 1868 by Dr. Bernays, Professor of Chemistry at
from this upper chamber a spiral stair gives access to St. Thomas’s Hospital, showed that one litre (1.76 pint)
the roof: on the north side of the chancel was buried contained 1.081 grammes of salts, which, on being
ohn Virgin, vicar 1694, and above is a hand and boiled, deposited 0.307 grammes of lime carbonate, with
inscription, indicating his grave: here also is a brass a minute trace of magnesia and iron carbonate; in
0 Richard Sanders, 1602, and an inscription to the addition, one litre of the water contained: chlorine
■wife of John Sanders, 1615: the reredos and stained 0.0276, sulphuric acid 0.1354, silica 0.0180, lime 0.0142
east window were erected by Her late Majesty Queen and magnesia 0.0900 grammes ; somewhat more than
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