Plates

A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18. Originally published by Boydell & Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2016.

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'Plates', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, ed. Simon Townley (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2016), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol18/plates [accessed 14 March 2025].

Plates

The local landscape

Figure 1:
Looking south from Swyncombe Downs across the undulating Chiltern foothills.

Figure 2:
Looking west towards the clay vale and the Thames, down the wooded Chiltern scarp near Nuffield.

Early estate maps

Figure 3:
Newington in 1595 (north to left), showing rectory house, church, and manor house ('Mr Oglethorps'), and houses at Newington green.

Figure 4:
Warborough green in 1606, showing church and vicarage and (west of the road) the parsonage barns.

Early estate maps

Figure 5:
Huntercombe (in Nuffield) in 1665, showing the manor house north of the Henley road (labelled the 'way from Gloucester').

Figure 6:
Great Haseley church and manor house in 1729, showing adjoining open fields and the surviving medieval barn north of the church.

Early estate maps

Figure 7:
The shared fields of Benson, Ewelme, and Berrick Salome in 1788; blue-coloured strips owed tithe to Benson, yellow to Ewelme, and pink to Berrick.

Vernacular buildings

Figure 8:
No. 59 High Street, Chalgrove (predominantly 17th-century): timber framing and thatch.

Figure 9:
Fords Farm in Ewelme (17th- to 18th-century): coursed clunch rubble, brick dressings, and tiled roof.

Former coaching inns

Figure 10:
The former Bull Inn at Nettlebed, with its 18th-century pedimented front.

Figure 11:
The former Red Lion at Benson, remodelled piecemeal c.1680–1752.

Ewelme Almshouses (God's House), built c.1437–50s

Figure 12:
The grammar (now primary) school from the south-east.

Figure 13:
The almshouse cloister entrance from the south-west, with its decorative brickwork.

Church interiors

Figure 14:
Chalgrove: early 14th-century wall paintings in the chancel, including scenes from the life of the Virgin.

Figure 15:
St John's chapel in Ewelme church, showing Alice de la Pole's tomb and Ninian Comper's altarpiece of 1904.

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