llt1 GREAT HASELEY. OXFORDSHIRE. t KELLY'S
of the Reading and Recreation Club; the institute it~ place of the N orreys and Bertie families, but it is new lent by the rector to the members of the Reading disused and falling into decay ; it is a long tectangmar and RecrMtion Club, and managed by a committee, structure entirely in the Perpendicular style and eo•sis\• of which the rEctor is president. The Luke Tayler ing of chancel and nave and a western tower of three and Blackall charity provides a yearly sum of £280 stages; at the east end, instead of pinnacles, are the expended in old age pensions, donations to clubs. figures of two greyhounds : between the portion or and the like; a. certain portion being assigned to the chapel which served as a chancel and the nne the mainter.ance of the t~chool. There ara other are two large inclosed pews, one on either side; that charities yielding £3 a year for clothing. The cele 011 the north is spacious and has un upper storey; brated antiquary, John Le land, of Christ's College. the ornamental wood-work consists of arabt>sqnes and Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford, was rector of carvings and pierced lattice or trellis-work, with arcadet this parish £ram 1542 t{) 1552; be died 18 April, 1552. of woori running round and paintings in medallions, tht snd was buried in the church of St. Michael le Querne. wholP affording an excellent example of the decoratiTl London; and Ohristopher Wren B.D. of St. John's Col work of the Renaissance period: the !Iouth pew, whicll lege, Oxford, father of the famous architect of that name. is the earlier, is less handsome, but is generally in the held the living from 1639 to 1645; he died at Bletching ~ame style ; it has no upper storey, but is terminatd don, 29 May, 1658. On puning down the inside walls of Rbove by a cupola of the ogee form, with crockets run the old parsonage, which were six feet thick, lofty arched ning up the curve from each of the four angles, and it windows appee.red, and bahind a fireplace formed in one ~urmounted by a figure of the Virgin and Child; teing of them wa.s a number of encaustic tiles of various pat of earlier d1te than the larger pew, it may have been terns, probably of the 13th century. Matthew Ernest erected for, or at least used by, the Princrss Elizabeth, Boulton ~~q. of Great Tew, is lord of the manor and when detained a prisoner at Rycote during the reign principal landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, gravel of Queen Mary: there is a reredos of Ren~issanc& The chie"f crops are wheat, barley and beans, with a r.h
Cross Waiter H. baker 1 Stnrch Jame!l, farmer Wheatley) Georin!! Georg-e, carman · Village Institute (Herbert George Cbapman John, farmer, HPath honst 1 Ha~Plev C"icket Club (Archibald Pan- Boorrnan, se<') (letters should be addressed Tet~- cott, sec) West Wm. grocer & assistnt. overseer worth) HEADINGTON is a pari~h anri vfllage and tbP hf\tH1 porch, and an embattled tower at the west end of the of a nn~on. 1~ miles ea.st fl'Om Oxford. The part of the south aislP, with a large square battlemented tur~t aUhe civil plll'ish which wa!l aririen to the municipal anrl par- ~onth-west angle ann containing a clock and 6 hells: the liamPntary limit>~ of the city ann county horon!!"h of chanrPl is thP olnest portion of the chmch, and on the Oxford, a~ extenned hv. the "Citv. of Oxfol'd Orrler, rmtsine of its north wall are the remain~ of 11 Nonuan 18Rq.'' nnner the "I,of'Bl n.ove:rnmPnt Act, r88R.'' has noorwHv. and near it a >:emicircnlar arch of rnrlp dones; bern annPXPd to St. ClemPnt'!l pal'ish under the "T,ocal two PHpPnnir11lar winnows in thl' south W11ll rPtain fn~ GovPrnment Act, r8g4." Hearling"Wn is in thP Mirl clivi- menh of ~tRinPn glas~ of f'Bl'lier date; thf're is 1 stdilt. sion of thp county, hundred ann p!'tty se~~ional divi~ion fm·mPd bv the •ill of a window, and a pi•cina; the fint of "R111lin!!"rlon, conntv court ni~trir.t of Oxforrl. rnral Nonmm chanrel arch is rece~sed towarns the wP«t, and dPRllPl'V nf lsJip ann archrleaconry ann rliMPSl' of 0-xforrl. OT'TlRIDPntpfl with double zig-zag and bold round monJd TJJe o:rl Roman road pRs~ps towar•h HearlinMon Qnarrv ingos, risin!! from a ~hart on each side: thr nave and 110ul-k pit": the ro::~n from Oxforn to Re~rlin!.'ton is hl'oan h1;t <>isle lll'P Early Engoli~h. and ar~> divided by an areade rl. vprv •tf'PP ann on the north sirle l!' a lofty tf'rrl!r'e WR1k. thrPe arc}]es nn maosive round pillars with monlrlPd Cl'll borrlPreil with trees and con!