DiRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. DRAYTON ST. LEON.ARD. 97

Brown George, carrier Hill Clement, shopkeeper BURCOTT. Cobb Mary (Mrs.), ironmonger& smith Holliday J oseph, farm bailiff to Sir Cobb Thos. George, Old Castle P.H John Willoughby bart Crawford & Balcarres, Margaret, Dow. Cobb Vincent, tailor Holliday Willia~ boot & shoe maker Countess of, Burcott house Cobb William, builder & asphalter. Hawse Vincent Jn. Fleur-de-Lys P.H Glyn Sir Gerva.s Powell hart. Burcott See advertisement Jemmett Wiiliam, cycle ma. & agent .clo~e Dmnis James Foster, saddler & bar- Jordan Mary Ann (Miss), wheelwright Higgms George Randell J.P. Croft ho ne ss maker J or·dan Thomas, George inn Baker William, farm bailiff to Thomas Exon Charles Herbert, baker & grocer Kirby John, builder & contractor Latham esq Fletcher William Kay, grocer & assis- Latham Thomas, farmer, Bishops et Bargus James, gardener to G. R. !ant overseer & collector of taxes Purves Charles William L.R.C.P. & S. Higgins esq Franklin Bertie James, White Hart Edin. physician & surgeon Institute & Reading Room (James hotel; head quarters of the C.T.C. Selwood Thomas, beer retailer Bargus, sec) Ga.rdner Frederick William, grocer Stowe Joseph, farmer, Field farm Ody Mary Maria (Mrs.),Chequers P.~ · &c. Post office Tame Harry, beer retailer OVERY. Goading Alfred Joseph, builder SS. Peter & Paul Missionary College Green George, plumber & glazier (Rev. William Corbett Roberts M.A. Bras Thomas, Overy manor Greenaway Herbert Edwd. coal mer principal; Rev. Colin William Scott J ones Henry, farm baili.fl' to Mrs. Hatt Richard, farmer, Queenford mill Moncrieff B..A. vice-principal) Shrubb of Shillingford Hawes Vincent, boot & shoe maker & Whichelo Emily Ra.chael (Miss), Crown Turner Fanny (Mrs.), miller (water) . laml measurer inn • Hawkins William, The Plough P.H Willsdon Thomas, wheelwright DRAYTON (nPar Banbury) is a parish and village, 2! John Greville, eldest son of the preceding (1441): beneath miles north-west from Banbury station on the Great a recessed arch, near the north door, is a stone sarcopha­ Western railway, and 25 north-west from Oxford, in the gus, with carved foliage on 1,he lid: the church was re­ Xorthern division of the county, hundred of Bloxbam, stored in 1877-8, at a cost of £x,3oo, and affords ISO sit­ union and county court district of Banbury, Banbury and tings. The register dates from the 25th July, 1577. The Bloxham petty sessional diviffion, rural deanery of Ded- living is a rectory, net yearly value £125, with residence dington and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The and 8o. acres of glebe, in the gift of the Oxford trustees, church of St. Peter, somewhat nmotely 8ituated in a I and held since 1905 by the Rev. William Spendlove. hollow, is a small edifice of stone of the 14th century, There are charities, amounting to upwards of £28, dis­ eonsisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, tributed annually. Coins of the later Roman Emperors and aisles, all of good Late Decorated work, south have been found here. The Earl De La Warr, who is lord porch and a low western tower of modern date, contain- of the manor, and Lord North are the principal landowners. ing 3 bells: the nave is separated from the aisles by The soil is red loam; subsoil, clay. The crops are arcades of three plain arches on either side: the font is general. The area is 925 acres; rateable value, £1,270; plain and round: the east window of the chancel and the the population in 1901 wa!i 172. east window of the north aisle are both stained: there is a piscina in the chancel and two sedilia and a piscina Sexton, Henry Morley. in the south aisle: in the church are various memorials Letters through Banbury arrive at 7 a.m. Wroxton is of the Grevilles, who once had a mansion here; these the nearest money order & telegraph office, about I mile include an altar tThame, 2 the church was restored in 185g, under the superin­ miles from its confluence with the Isis, 4' miles east tendence of the late G. E. Street esq. R . .A. when the from Culham station on the Reading and Oxford section chancel was almost entirely rebuilt, at the expeme of of the Great Western railway, 6 miles north from Wal- the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford: the lingford and 7 miles east from Abingdon, in the roof of the nave was also cleared to the timbers, the Southern division of the county, hundred of Dorchester, gallery taken away and the high pews replaced by opt?n petty sessional division of Bullingdon, .Abingdon union sittings: the church was re-opened 13 Feb. 186o: au and county court district, rural deanery of Cuddesdon account of the monuments and arms in this church, and archde1conry and diocese of Oxford. The church of chiefly of the Draytons. is found in Wood's MS. D q: St. Leonard, a small and plain building of stone in there are I IO sittings besides those in the chancel; 46 mixed styles, consists of chancel, nave, a chapel on the !l.re appropriated. The register dates from the year north side, south porch and a wooden belfry over the 1568. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £235. western gable, containing a fine peal of 6 bells, corn- with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of prising the 3 old bells, of which the tenor was simply Christ Church, Oxford, and held since r8gg by the ReY. inscribed "Sancta Katerina ora pro nobis," and two James Henry Francis Hope M.A., B.C.L. of Oxford others dated respectively 1603 and 1625, all which were l:niversity. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Charities:­ recast in I884 and 3 new bells added, the inscriptions Mary Spyer, by will in 1697, left a rent-charge of £5 and medallions on the old bells being carefully repro- yearly for apprenticing a boy or girl of this pari,;h, duced on the new; the treble bell was presented by Sir but the parishioners do not appear to have applied for J. C. Willoughby hart. of Baldon, the second bell by thi~ charity since I790; there is also a small estate, .Abraham Deane esq. and the third bell as a memorial by of the yearly value of £7, which is devoted to the the relatives of the late Henry Betteridge esq. : the repairs of the church, church fence and gates of thP tower was also at the same time strengthened, the walls churchyard. The rights of fishing in the Thame stream covered with oak shingles and a clock introduced: the in this parish are held by Sir John C. Willoughby hart. chancel is Decorated and has an east window of three : of Fulmer Hall, Bucks, George Pullen esq. and Trinity lights: in one of the north windows is a fragment of College, Oxford. Sir J. C. Willoughby hart. who i~ 1 xsth century glass, representing a bishop and said to be i lord of the manor. the President and Fellows of Trinfty intended for St. Leonard: the Early English north . College, Oxford, George Pullen esq. and the trustees of chapel opens to the nave by two unequal arches: in 1894 I the Hazeley charities are the principal landowners. The two stained windows were added, one of which is a ' 8oil is generally friable; subsoil, gravel. The chief ll'fmorial to Abrabam Deane eEq.: on the south side naps are wheat, barley, oats. beans and roots. The i~ a piscina, and opposite to it traces of a Decorated arPa is 1,287 acres of land and 14 of water; rateable aumbry, near which are two mutilated corbel heads: value, £1,512; the population in 1901 was 241. the chancel arch is quite plain: the nave and north and . south doorways are Norman, and there is one window ' Parish Clerk, William George Smallbone. OXO!'T. 7