Identifier: transactionsofbr35bris (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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they had been there for 160 years. The walls of the room above are hung with canvas, painted • torepresent tapestry. This is said to illustrate the life of Joseph : if so,it is very quaint to find some of the Biblical characters attired in longsquare-cut coats, breeches, stockings, and buckled shoes. The archi-tecture, the fruit trees, and the hills in the background afford ampleopportunities of antiquarian discussion. Above the hall is shown the guest-chamber where Margaret,Queen of Henry VI, is said to have slept on the eve of the Battle ofTewkesbury. Even the bed and the chair which she used are stillthere ! No doubt this tradition has arisen from the discovery of aletter, dated April 13th, 1471, and addressed by Prince Edward, herson, to John Daunt. In the kitchen, still used by the custodian and his wife, is the ancientfireplace with a bracket from which the cooking vessels were suspended,and many polished steel spits. There is also a charcoal stove, such asis now rarely seen.
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Dursley Meeting. 149 The front garden, with its closely-cut yews, its dwarf wall andwooden railings, and also the walled garden in the rear with its steps-leading up to the churchyard, were delightful, as belonging to a pastage. It has been stated that the dedication of the church is that ofSt. Cross. Owlpen was a chapelry of Newington Bagpath until about1870, when it was united ecclesiastically to Uley. It is a separate civilparish levying its own rates. The church, which was rebuilt, it would seem, in the seventeenthcentury, was restored in 1874, principally at the expense of the lateMr. T. A. Stoughton, the lord of the manor, who with Mrs. TrentStoughton so hospitably received our Society in 1880. The tower at the west end is now being rebuilt. There are many memorials of the Daunts on the walls of the church.An ancient font, long misused as a trough, has lately been restored tothe church. Not much has been recorded of the de Olepennes that is of specialinterest. Their names appear

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