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Great Coxwell Barn, the Glossary

Great Coxwell Barn is a Medieval tithe barn at Great Coxwell, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), England.^[1]

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52 relations: A420 road, Archibald Constable, Ashlar, Barn, Bay (architecture), Beaulieu Abbey, Berkshire, Buttress, Cistercians, Coleshill, Oxfordshire, Deathwatch beetle, Dendrochronology, Dissolution of the monasteries, Domesday Book, England in the Middle Ages, English Gothic architecture, Ernest Cook, Faringdon, Flail, Great Coxwell, Hampshire, Hide (unit), Hodder & Stoughton, John Murray (publishing house), John, King of England, Kelmscott Manor, Manorialism, Mick Aston, Monastic grange, National Trust, Nikolaus Pevsner, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society, Penguin Books, Rubble masonry, Scheduled monument, Stagecoach Gold, Stagecoach Group, Stagecoach West, Swindon, Taynton Limestone Formation, The Crown, The History Press, Threshing, Tithe barns in Europe, University of California Press, Victoria County History, William Morris, ... Expand index (2 more) »
13th-century architecture in the United Kingdom
Grade I listed barns in England
Grade I listed buildings in Oxfordshire
National Trust properties in Oxfordshire
Scheduled monuments in Oxfordshire
Tithe barns in Europe
Tourist attractions in Oxfordshire

A420 road

The A420 is a road between Bristol and Oxford in England.

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Archibald Constable

Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 – 21 July 1827) was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer.

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Ashlar

Ashlar is a cut and dressed stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape.

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Barn

A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes.

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Bay (architecture)

In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment.

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Beaulieu Abbey

Beaulieu Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Hampshire, England.

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Berkshire

The Royal County of Berkshire, commonly known as simply Berkshire (abbreviated Berks.), is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Buttress

A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.

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The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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Coleshill, Oxfordshire

Coleshill is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.

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Deathwatch beetle

The deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum) is a species of woodboring beetle that sometimes infests the structural timbers of old buildings.

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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England in the Middle Ages

England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485.

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English Gothic architecture

English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century.

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Ernest Cook

Ernest Edward Cook (4 September 1865 – 14 March 1955) was an English philanthropist and businessman.

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Faringdon

Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, south-west of Oxford, north-west of Wantage and east-north-east of Swindon.

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Flail

A flail is an agricultural tool used for threshing, the process of separating grains from their husks.

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Great Coxwell

Great Coxwell is a village and civil parish southwest of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse, England.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Hide (unit)

The hide was an English unit of land measurement originally intended to represent the amount of land sufficient to support a household.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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John Murray (publishing house)

John Murray is a Scottish publisher, known for the authors it has published in its long history including Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin.

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John, King of England

John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.

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Kelmscott Manor

Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England. Great Coxwell Barn and Kelmscott Manor are Tourist attractions in Oxfordshire.

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Manorialism

Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages.

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Mick Aston

Michael Antony Aston (1 July 1946 – 24 June 2013) was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology.

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Monastic grange

Monastic granges were outlying landholdings held by monasteries independent of the manorial system.

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National Trust

The National Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol; Iontaobhas Náisiúnta) is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society

The Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society (OAHS) has existed in one form or another since at least 1839, although with its current name only since 1972.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Rubble masonry

Rubble masonry or rubble stone is rough, uneven building stone not laid in regular courses.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Stagecoach Gold

Stagecoach Gold is a luxury bus sub-brand used by various Stagecoach bus subsidiaries in the United Kingdom.

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Stagecoach Group

Stagecoach Group is a transport group based in Perth, Scotland.

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Stagecoach West

Stagecoach West is a bus operator providing services in Gloucestershire, Bristol, Swindon, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, North Somerset and Herefordshire, in the West of England.

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Swindon

Swindon is a town in Wiltshire, England.

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Taynton Limestone Formation

The Taynton LimestoneWeishampel, David B; et al.

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The Crown

The Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states).

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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Threshing

Threshing or thrashing is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the straw to which it is attached.

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Tithe barns in Europe

A tithe barn was a type of barn used in much of northern Europe in the Middle Ages for storing rents and tithes.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England, and was dedicated to Queen Victoria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Coxwell_Barn

Also known as Coxwell Grange, Great Coxwell Barn (visitor guide), Great Coxwell Tithe Barn.

, Wiltshire, Wood drying.

Great Coxwell Barn, the Glossary

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See also

13th-century architecture in the United Kingdom

Grade I listed barns in England

Grade I listed buildings in Oxfordshire

National Trust properties in Oxfordshire

Scheduled monuments in Oxfordshire

Tithe barns in Europe

Tourist attractions in Oxfordshire

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