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OXFORDSHIRE.

BANBURY.

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(Hack Charles, swing boat proprietor .Spurrett Joseph Henry, general dealer
COTE.
Clack R i c h m o n d , frmr.New House fr m & carrier
Hook Mrs. Mary Ann, Cote villa
Clarke James, f a r m e r
Spurrett Joseph Hy.jun.The Bull P.H
Clarke W. H. (Mrs.), school for train-;Townsend Albert Lindsay, farmer,
C O M M E R C IA L .
Baylis Walter, beer retailer
ing young girls for service
Duckend farm
Cook Edmund, mason
Woodbridge Henry Richard, farmer, Hook Frank William, farmer
Hook George John, farmer
Fitchett Henry, boot maker
Manor farm
Long Albert, hurdle & cage maker
Fox William, farmer
Long James, carpenter & wheelwright
Jones William E. grocer & draper
BRIGHTHAMPTON.
Long William, wheelwright
Kimber John, blacksmith
(Letters through Witney.)
Loxley Cyril Roland Sherwood,
Uunchbury Alfred, smith
|Eagle Thomas, farmer
farmer, Cote house
Long Ernest, wheelwright, Post office!Florey Mark, farmer
P
Luckett John, farmer
Townsend Edwin Lindsay, farmer, hillips Albert, carrier
Smith Harry, farmer
Selwood farm
SHIFFORD.
Smith Wm.baker,mealman & corn dir
Carter Frederick John, farmer, Old
Sparrowhawk Edwin, farmer
CHIMNEY.
Shifford
Sparrowhawlc Ernest, Red Lion P.H
Fox Ernest M. farmer, New Shifford
Bartlett Charles, farmer
Sparrowhawk Thomas, carrier
B A M P T O N LEW, see Lew.

BAN B U R Y
The church of St. Mary, anciently collegiate, is a
BANBURY (A. S. Baranbyrig) is a municipal borough,
market and union town, head of a petty sessional divi­ modern edifice of stone in a Classical style, the erection
o
f
which was begun under the authority of an Act of
sionand county court district, in a deep valley near the
northern part of Oxfordshire, on the river Cherwell Parliament in 1793, and was sufficiently completed for use
i
n
1797; but the work was not entirely finished until
which here divides this county from Northamptonshire,
68 miles by rail from London, 23 north from Oxford, 1822: the old church, a fine cruciform edifice of the
17 north-west from Buckingham, 23 from Northampton, Perpendicular period, with a central embattled tower
15 north from Bicester, 21 from Stratford-on-Avon, 98 terminating in eight crocketed pinnacles, and containing
from Bristol, 43 from Birmingham and 136 from Liver­ 8 bells, was taken down in 1792 ;and the massive fabric,
pool, in the Northern division of the county, hundred after much trouble, had eventually to be destroyed by
and union of its own name, rural deanery of Dedding- means of gunpowder. The present church consists of
ton,archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The town con­ a square of 90 feet, with twelve composite columns
sists of several good streets; it is abundantly supplied cutting off an aisle on every side and supporting a
with good water obtained from the river Cherwell fil­ shallow-domed circular ceiling in the centre; each
tered at the works of the company at Grimsbury: the aisle consists of five bays, separated, from the body of
town is lighted with gas by the Banbury Gas Company, the church by columns of red Warwickshire sandstone
with capitals of terra-cotta; the aisles are vaulted in
formed in 1833, whose works are at Grimsbury.
Banbury is on the Great Western Railway Company’s plaster and a gallery surrounds the interior on three
main line from London to Birmingham; it is also sides: the interior of the chancel, originally forming a
the terminus of the Buckinghamshire branch of the square of about 28 feet, has been remodelled and is
London and North Western line, which joins the now apsidal, the former chancel arch being removed and
Oxford branch at Verney Junction, 2i| miles from Ban­ a new roof, connected with that of the nave, constructed:
bury, and is thereby connected with the main line at the choir has been brought out into the nave and
Bletchley, 10 miles farther on. The Northampton and separated by a low stone and marble wall, according
Banbury Junction railway also runs in here from Blis- to the Basilican arrangement; the choir stalls are of
worth, joining the London and North Western line from oak, handsomely carved: the wall of the apse is divided
Bletchley at Cockley Brake Junction, 5 miles from Ban­ into three spaces by fluted pilasters of the Composite
bury. The construction of the Banbury and Cheltenham OTder; these inclose life-size figures of the Twelve
District Direct line of the Great Western railway was Apostles, with examples of scripture trees— the palm,
completed and opened in April, 1887. The Great the olive, the apple and the fig— rising behind them,
Central Railway has a branch line from Woodford Junc­ the whole being exquisitely painted in colour on a gold
tion, on their main line, to the Great Western station ground; while the frankincense, roses, and oak of
at Banbury, which gives it connection with Oxford, Mamre (Abraham’s oak) are introduced in the panels;
Winchester and Southampton. The Oxford and Bir­ over all runs a broad frieze of grapes and vine foliage
mingham canal also passes through the town, connecting with texts; the ceiling of the apse is coloured a tur­
it with the Thames : there are several wharves and a quoise blue powdered with gold stars, representing the
firmament; the remaining spaces of the side walls and
dock for building and repairing barges.
Banbury returned one member to Parliament from (he lunette windows are occupied by figures of the four
the reign of Queen Mary, until the passing of the Archangels bearing scrolls; the semidome is occupied
‘'Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885” (48 and 49 Yict. by a large figure of Our Lord in majesty, while fourc- 23). when the representation of the borough was and-twenty elders appear at his feet with the signs of
the four' Evangelists, and the seven lamps; the
merged into that of the county.
The municipal borough was incorporated by a charter whole composition is intended to illustrate Rev. chap.
ofQueen Mary, dated 26th Jan. 1554, and appointing the iv. and was executed under the direction of the late
election of a bailiff and 12 aldermen; this charter was Sir A. W. Blomfield A.R.A. : all the windows of the
confirmed and the privileges of the corporation increased church are stained, most of them memorials: there
by James I. 28th June, 1608, who granted the right of is a monument of granite and marble in the north aisle
electing a mayor: these charters, however, were sur­ to Anne, wife of Bernard Brocas esq. 1824, with a sit­
rendered to the Crown in 1863, and another charter ting figure of marble of a female bearing a cross, and
granted by Charles II. enlarging the jurisdiction of the arms of Brocas and Pigott; in the south aisle is a
the borough, but the surrender not having been en­ monument of similar character to the Pigott family
rolled, the corporation resumed them under a procla­ 1790-1820: the former altar-piece, a large painting of a
mation of .Tames II. 25 October, 1688; in 1717, the dead Christ, with a Virgin and other attendants, is now
charter of James I. was forfeited in consequence of on the south of the choir facing west: the pulpit, de­
political disturbances, but on a petition of the inhabi- signed by the late Sir A. W. Blomfield, was presented by
’TGeor£e
granted them a new charter, dated A. B. Field esq. in memory of his father: in 1894 a brass
1 th July, 1718, which remained in force until the was placed on the base of a pillar in the church to
PajS1r^T°^
“Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 ” (5 Emily, wife of the late vicar, who died 3 Feb. 1894.
and in memory of whom an altar cross and silver alms
Mrf S W m IV. c. 76).
no corporation now consists of the mayor, 6 alder- dish have been given to the church by the parishioners:
i
- and ^ Councihors. The borough has a commission n the sanctuary are two candelabra, presented as a
_ .? Pea<m and a separate court of quarter sessions, memorial to the Rev. Henry Back, vicar i860-1881:
L!I 1 °Ver ^ a Recorder. The present municipal the font is a square basin of white marble, panelled with
h a m * nc*u.
c*es the township of Neithrop and the coloured marbles and supported on variegated shafts:
Warlr ?u Gripsbury and Nethercote, in the parish of there is a carved oak eagle lectern, and a fine organ with
and •W-°ron the eastern side of the Cherwell, 38 stops, opened in 1859: the exterior of the building
Oxford*!)1 ^
^ortbamPton9hire, but transferred to is rusticated and has at the west end a spacious semi­
circular portico supported by columns of the Tuscan