Plates

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

Citation:

'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 31 January 2025].

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*.