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Title: Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ly built the rectory, for one ofthe windows of the hall has his rebus, a tun with the graft of treeissuing from it: this fine room retains its original proportions,but at the manor house, behind the church, the hall has beendivided up by modern partitions. On the south side of thechurch in the churchyard is a pre-Reformation altar tomb withquatrefoils on the sides—a rarity outside a church. The eastwindow has three compartments of painted glass, a centuryolder than the stonework, and perhaps the gift of WilliamGrafton: the subjects of the glass are the sacraments ofconfirmation, marriage, and extreme unction. The panellingof the walls is early seventeenth century work, as appears bythe following inscription: Thomas Izzard and James Sowthernof the)r own cherg have given this wainscot and benchin tochurch in the yere of our Lord 1615. At Buckland, e\idcntlythe yeomen had not by that time ceased lo lake a pride intheir parish church, or to be able and willing to spend theirmoney on it.
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Broadway, tite Grange. 226 STANTON en. ix Stanton and Stanway each have their great house, butStanton Court conforms to the ordinary type of Cotswoldmanor-house; Stanway House, as we shall see, has distinctivefeatures of its own. Another fine old house in Stanton isWarren House, built by one Thomas Warren in 1577 ; one ofits principal rooms has an elaborate plaster ceiling adorned withthe Warren arms, Tudor roses and fleurs-de-lys. The presentowner of this house assured me that King Charles slept in itafter his escape from ^Vorcester field, and added that he himselfoccupied the bedroom used by his Majesty. I am afraid,however, that this story will hardly fit in with known facts, for,as readers of the Boscobel tracts are aware, the King ac-complished the journey from Mr. Tombss at Long Marston tothe rectory at Coberley in a single day. Moreover he tookthe ordinary road through Campden across the hills, and wouldhave left Stanton some miles on his right. Nor is there anyevidence that hi

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