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Oxfordshire. Little Rollright DIRECTOHY.J OXFORDSHIRE. LITTLE ROLLRIGHT. 309 il 920 aeres; rateable valuB, [,r,2rg; the population money order office k Cho.rlbury, 3! miles, telegraph in 1901 was 352. office Sexton, John Wright. Rc..msden School (mixed), built in r863, for 100 children; Post Office.-William Newman, sub-postmaster. Letters average attendance, 68; Herbert Chapman, master arrive through Charlbury, Oxon, at 7.15 a.m. & 2.15 Carriers.-Robert William Porter, from Nort•h Leigh, p.m.; dispatched ro.5o a.m. & 6.25 p.m. on week passes through to Oxford, sat. ; Witney, man. & thurs. ~ days only. Finstock, 1~ miles distant, is the nearest Charlbury car.riers pass through on thurs. to Witney .Baker Mrs. Ramsden house ! Do re Brothers, plasterers Hodgkins George, shopkeeper Hall Rev. Hy. Robt. M.A. Vicarage Dare Charles, hurdle maker Holifield Alfred, rag merchant Whitmore Miss, Lower farm Dare Laura (Miss), shopkeeper Hawse Frank, smith Wynter Capt. Philip Henry Mascie Edwards Hubert, farmer,The Grange Newman John, carpenter J.P. The Havs• Edwards Wm. farmer & landowner I Newman William, farmer, Post office COMMERCIAl,, Fathers George, watch repairPr & Phipps Alfred, showman Banting William, baker cycle agent Reading Room (Herbt. Chapman, sec) lloorman Arthur, Royal Oak inn Greenway Henry James, beer retailer· Townsend Mary Ann (Mrs.), dress lluckingham Elizh. Jane (Mrs.),farmr Hodgkins Frederick & Son, plasterers maker, Woodbine cottage Dav Charles, assistant overseer Hodgkins Alice Mary (Miss), stocking Willoughby John, farme<r • 1 Di:r Ernest, farmer, Upper farm knitter : GREAT ROLLRIGHT is a. parish and village on the to James Battersby, a former rector, who died in 1522, carders of Warwickshire, 2! miles south-west from Hook with effigy holding chalice and wafer: there are 260 ~orton station on the Banbury and Cheltenham section sittings. The register dates from the year r56o. The -of the Great Western railway, and 3 north from Chipping living is a rectory, net yearly value £2ro, derived from ~orton, in the Northern division of the county, hundred 420 aeres uf glebe, with residence, in the gift of Erase­ lltld petty sessional division of Chadlington, Chipping nose College, Oxford. and held since rgo8 by the Rev. !\orton union and county court district, rural deanery Sidney Williams Briscoe Holbrooke B.D. of Wadham of Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and diocese of College, Oxford. There are two Baptist chapels. Some <l:tford. The church of St. Andrew is a small but remaiLS still exist of the old village cross which stood ancient edifice of stone in the Early English, Decorated on the green, which spot is still called "The Cross.'' and Pt>rpendicular styles, with some Norman remains, There is a poor's estate of Bra. 2r. 26p. with cot­ :and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, tages, yielding about £93 yearly, a portion of which south aisle, south porch and an embattled western is applied to the Elementary school and the remainder tower of Perpendicular date, with crocketed pinnacles distributed to the poor in clothing and fueL The Major and containing 5 bells dated 'r6c;6, a sixth bell added Charles Hall Memorial charity, amounting to £6o x6s. in r8Q8, and a clock added in 1907, in memory of the yearly, derived from the interest of [2,ooo, is distri­ 'Bev. Henry Rendall M . .A. vicar IB55·93, by his nine buted to the poor also by the charity trustees. A. C. .s~ns: in the belfry is a screen partly carved by the Hall esq. M . .A.., J.P. Messrs. J. W. Hughes, S. C . Rev. W. S. Guest-Williams l\I.A. vicar r897-1908 in Matthews and W. A. Fawrlry, the charity trustees; memory of his mother, but he died before completing · the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford, it: the chancel is Perpendicular, and retains a very and the Rector are the principal landowners. The soil good rood-loft and screen, the former fixed to the roof, is oolite; subsoil, the same. The chief crops -are wheat, and the latter highly coloured : all t.he chancel windows barley and roots. The area is 2,413 acres; rateable a.re stained: the south aisle is Late Decorate-d and has ~ value, {.1,897; the popuJation in 1901 was 318 and in. a rich cornice and stained windows; at its eastern end 1 911 • 349· is a piscina: the lych gate in the churchyard was Sexton, Henry Tidmarsh. erected in 1907, by her nine sons, to the memory of Post, T . .& Telephone Call (for a limited distance) Ellen Harriett, wife of the Rev. Henry Rendall M.A. : Office.-Mrs. Clara Smith, sub-postmistress. Letters the south doorway is an interesting example of ancient through Chipping Norton, arrive at 7 a.m. & 1.55 Norman work, the arch being enriched with zig-zag i p.m.; dispatched 10-40 a.m. & 7.20 p.m.; no sunday moulding and beak heads and the tympanum filled delivery of letters. Chipping Norton, 3 miles distant, with a lozenge pattern and other curious designs; the is the nearest money order office south porch, of the Decorated period, bad formerly Wall Letter Box, near the Rectory, cleared at 10.35 a.m. a room over it, but the intervening flooring is gone; & 7·15 p.m a few yards south of this porch are the remains of the Elementary School (boys, girls & infants), erected in <1ld churchyard cross; there is another Norman door­ 1852, for 99 children; average attendance, 67; Frank way on the side of the nave: in the church is a brass Dormer, master PRIV..l.TE RESIDENTS. Dormer Frank, schoolmaster, & clerk Matthews Stephen Clark, farmer Hall Alex. Cross M.A., J.P.Manur ho to the Charity trustees Mobley Henry, travelling draper Holbrooke Rev. Sidney Williams Bris­ Farbrother Ernest, carrier Pearson Abram, Unicorn P.H coe B.D. (rector), Rectory Farbrother Je-hu, boot maker Reading Room (Frank Dormer, sec) Hughes Mrs. The Firs Hall Alex. Cross J.P. farmr.Manor ha Salmon Benjamin, farmer Penson-Harris George Alfred Harvey Waiter, pheasant breeder, Shepherd J ames, blacksmith Heath Pheasant farm Tompkins Ann (Mn. ), shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Hughes Joseph William, farmer Wyton George, farmer Eerry Richard, farmer, Church end Matthews Charles, carpenter LITTLE ROLLRIGHT is a parish and village on marriages, 1754; burials, 1785. The living is a. rectory, lte bordere of Warwickshire and on the road from net value £ xor, including 6 acres of glebe, with re si­ Chipping Norton to Shipston-on-Stour, 3 miles north- dence, in the gift of Mrs. Williams, and held since trest.-by-north from Chipping Norton station, on the 1908 by the Rev. Thomas Jame!l Miller M.A. of Downing Banbury &nd. Cheltenham section of the Great Western College, Cambridge, wb~ is also rector of Salford, where !'&ilway, in the Northern division of the county, hundred he resides. In this parish are the famous Rollrich or and petty sessional division of Chadlington, union and Rollar.driht stones, locally known as the "King's Stones," ~unty court district of Chipping Norton, rura•l deanery and forming part of a. Druidical remain, of a date of Chipping Nortou and archdeaconry and diocese of anterior, it is supposed, tb Stonehenge: they are 6o in Oxford. The church of St. Philip is a plain and very number, are disposed in a circle, and on the other side muill building of stone of the. Perpendicular period, con- of the hedge (83 yards north), in the county of War­ ~sting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled wick, is one standing by itself, called the "King;" ~-covered western tower, built by William Blower esq. this is 8! feet high and 5 feet 3 inches in breadth: lll 1617 and containing one bell: in the church are two ! about 390 yards eastward is a group uf five stones, canopied altar tombs, one of which has a recumbent c.1lled the "Whispering Knights," two of which havl!l .,ffigy of a knight in plate armour, with emblazoned partially fallen : these taper towards the top and at thidds of anns of the Dixon family, formerly lords of one time all five leaned together; they probably can­ thi! manor, snd is inscribed, but undated; the other stitute the remains of an altar or cromlech. A fence bat knePling effigieJJ oi. a knight in armour of a later /Was placed round the circle, the "Whispering Knights" period, with hro ladies, and is dated 1647: there are' and the "King," m r891, by the CommissioneN of hro handsome niches, with crockett>d canopies, in the Ancient Monuments. About 100 yards from the resi­ iunh of the east window: the nave, which is very I dence ef Mrs. Williams there still remains part. oi a plain, contains an ancient font: there are 40 sittings. 1 stone wall and a window of a presumed Danish build­ The register of baptisms dates from the year r776; ! ing. Mrs. Charles Williams is lady of the manor and .
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