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B L E T C H IN G r O N .

OXFORDSHIRE.

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is a Primitive Methodist chapel. In 1620 Leonard Power . Thecrops arebarley, wheat, roots and a lar»e
bequeathed ¿200 towards the maintenance of four alms- I pasture.The area is 2,640 acres of lan~d and
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erection of the present almshouses ; the income arising j Parish Clerk, Arthur Henry Bartlett.
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Letters through i'VxOxford arrive at 7.30
a.m.
ance of the almshouses and the remainder for distribu­ p.m.; dispatched at 11.5 a.m. & 5.20 & 7.^0 p *■5
Sundays, arrive at 7.40 a.m.;dispatched at 4.3; D
tion in fuel. At GIBRALTAR, or EN8LOW, a mile and
a half west, is a wharf on the Oxford and Birmingham Pillar Letter Box.— Enslow Mill, cleared at 10.45 am
& 5.5 & 8.30 p.m.; sundays, 10 a.m
canal. Bletchington Park is the seat of Viscount
Valentia C.B., M.V.O., M.P. lord of the manor and Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1872, for 1chief landowner, and includes a noble stone mansion
children; Henry C. Witcombe, master; ’Mrs. E°
in the Italian style, standing on an eminence in the Hughes & Misses May & Kathleen Upstone, assistant
park, which is about 70 acres in extent, well wooded
and commanding extensive and agreeable views. The Bletchington Station, Wm. Henry Barley, station master
soil is clay, stone brash and gravel; subsoil, the same. ,Carrier to Oxford.— Aubrey Howe, wed. & sat
(Marked thus • letters through Wes- Barrett Oliver, butcher
Kirtland Jas. farmer, College farm
ton-on-the-Green, Bicester.)
Bartlett Arthur Hy.frmr. Home farm Lamb Geo. R.farmer,Stone House fm
Bateman Robert, baker
Lamprey & Son, quarry owners
P R I V A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Lewis George, Red Lion inn
Valentia Viscount C.B., M.V.O., M.P. Campin James, tailor
Bletchington park ; & Carlton & Colgrave Ernest, farmer, Heathfield Matthews Edmund, shoe maker
Crawford
Henry,
farmer,Diamond
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Alatthews Frank, coal merchant &
‘White’s clubs, London S W
Ball Rev. Charles Jas. M.A., D.Litt. Eeley Joseph, farmer, Greenhill farm sub-postmaster
Gardener Arthur, baker
PotterMarlin,land steward toViscount
(rector), Rectory
Hope Robert, head gardener to Vis­ Valentia C.B., M.V.O., AI.P
Stephen Airs. Heathfield
count Valentia C.B., M.V.O., ALP Pratt & Haynes, coal merchants
C O M M E R C IA L .
Horwood James S. & John, millers Enslow wharf
•Baker James,farmer,Staplehurst frm (water & steam), Enslow mill
Rogers Alexander William, farmer,
Baker Joseph, farmer
Howe Aubrey, carrier
Pinchgate & Alanor farms
•Baker Wm. farmer. Newbridge farm!Howe John, gamekeeper to Viscount Savin Henry, farmer, Grove farm
Barrett Benjamin, Black’s Head inn1 Valentia GB., M.V.O., M.P
Smith Arthur, Rock of Gibraltarinn
Barrett Frank, wheelwright
Kibble Thomas John, grocer
Taylor Alfred, shopkeeper
Kirtland Henry, blacksmith
Taylor Sidney Abel, shopkeeper
B L O X H A M is a parish and village situated on gently at the ends of the arms are the four evangelicalsymbols;
rising ground, and watered by a tributary of the river between the north aisle and north transept is a
Cherwell, which divides the village into two parts, and clustered column of the 14th century with a singularly
on the road from Banbury to Chipping Norton, with a sculptured capital, consisting of heads and half-length
station on the Banbury and Cheltenham section of the figures; the chancel and nave roofs are entirely new
Great Western railway, completed and opened April 6, and were constructed from Air. Street’s designs; the
1887, 3 miles south-west from Banbury and 21 north­ aisles and transept roofs are to a great extent repro­
west from Oxford, in the Northern division of the ductions of the roof previously existing; the old roodcounty, hundred of Bloxharn, Banbury and Bloxham screen remains, and has been thoroughly restored and
petty sessional division, union and county court dis­ repainted; a new screen separates the south aisle from
trict of Banbury, rural deanery of Deddington, arch­ the Milcombe chapel, which has been fitted up for
deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The parish is lighted week-day services and for a choir vestry, and the an­
with gas from Adderbury. The church of St. Mary, cient altar discovered here has been carefully restored
thoroughly restored in 1866 under the direction of the and a credence table added: the font is octagonal with
late G. E. Street esq. R.A. architect, at a cost of traceried panels, buttresses and pinnacles, and dates
about ¿6,000, is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting from 1530: the reredos, of alabaster, marble and stone,
of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts, south includes in the midst a sculpture of the Crucifixion:
chapel, north and south porches, and a tower of the the piscina and sedilia have been restored from traces
14th century, with tall pinnacles and octagonal spire of the old work: there are vestiges of wall paintings
reaching a height of 198 feet, and containing a clock depicting Hell, St. Christopher, and Our Lord before
and 8 bells: the spire was restored and a weather vane Pilate; and there also exist a few fragments of old
added in 1898 at a cost of ¿250; the 2 extra bells were painted glass in the head of one of the windows inthe
added and all the bells rehung and the inside of the north aisle: the stall work of the chancel and thenave
spire repaired in 190374: the church seems to have been and aisle benches are of English oak, and the modern
founded in the 12th century, as fragments of that date pulpit is of Caen stone, beautifully carved: numerous
are found re-used in it; in the 13th century the nave fragments of ancient tiles were found, the patterns of
and aisles, with arcades of four arches, were built and which were recovered and have been reproduced inthe
a north transept added, the chancel being at the same new flooring: the organ, formerly in the western gallery,
time rebuilt and the old work introduced into it: there was originally erected in 1850 by public subscription,at
is a richly Decorated west doorway and above it a a cost of ¿300; it has been greatly enlarged at an
carving of the Last Judgment: in the 15th century the additional cost of ¿300 and is now placed in a chamber
clerestory was added and the elaborate Milcombe chapel built on the north of the chancel: there are 70c
with four large Perpendicular windows and an open sittings. The Bloxham registers date from the year
timber roof built on the south side to the east of the 1630, but that of Milcombe, included therein, from 1562porch, and divided from the south aisle by an arcade of The living is a vicarage, net yearly value ¿187, with
two bays : it contains a panelled Teredos, with restored residence and 180 acres of glebe, let for ¿219, in thegift
statuettes: the windows of the chancel, dating from of Eton College, and held since 1908 by the Rev. Cecil
the 14th century, are unique for the singular way in Henry Verey M.A. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The
which carved ornament peculiar to the 12th century vicarage house was rebuilt in 1858 from designs bythe
has been worked up in the mouldings and other details, late G. E. Street esq. R.A. The Wesleyan chapel will
as is also the case in the doorway of the Early English seat 150 persons; the Baptist chapel, built in 1859'
south porch ; this has a groined roof, above which are affords 200 sittings. The charities of Bloxham arevery
two rooms, the former dwelling of the parish priest: extensive, and include an estate of 131 acres, vestedin
the north porch is of singular beauty and has a very 16 feoffees, and producing a gross annual income ot
handsome and curious roof, which, though entirely about ¿180; after deducting the necessary outlay on
new, is an exact copy of the original roof, a portion of the estate and the costs of management, the remainder
which was discovered during the restoration ; the west is divided, by a decree of the Court of Chancery- in
door is adorned with a sculptured representation of the 1604, into three shares, one of which is distributed
Last Judgment, wrought on the wall above and on each the poor, a second allotted to the repairs of the pans
side of the door arch ; in the centre is Our Lord, on church and bridge leading thereto, and the third ^
either side the Apostles, and beyond them, on the right the common Town Charges Fund, for the necessarTfU^
of Our Lord, the Resurrection, and on His left the pains and improvements of the village; the shares var?,.fL
of Hell, while on either side are angels holding instru­ ¿50 to ¿70 each, according to the annual expendJ ,
ments of the Passion : the west window ofthe north aisle required on the estate. A recreation ground °*a]ate'
has a large cross introduced in its tracery, and on the 5 acres was given to the parish in 1910 by the
centre of this is sculptured the head of Our Lord, whilst George Allen esq. solicitor, London, and is veste