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DC/OD/41

Reference code

DC/OD/41

Level of description

Item

Title

Consent to demolish and rebuild Froxfield Vicarage, 1734

Original Title

Froxfield Vicarage 1734

Date

13 Jul 1734

Quantity & Format

1 sheet

Description

Consent of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, as patrons of the living, granted to Mr Serle, Vicar of Froxfield, for him to take down and rebuild the Vicarage there because "by Reason of its Antiquity" it "is become very Ruinous and decayed". Licence is also given "to remove the said house to an Eminence . . . Thirty yards distant", "Its present situation being . . . very low and Inconvenient". The dimensions of the new house are specified: "The front to be thirty ffour ffeet and Three inches in length Two Roomes on a ffloore thirteen ffeet Square and Eight ffeet high with two Garretts in the Roofe" with "a Brewhouse and Cellar with a Small Chamber and Study over them".

Language

English

Physical Characteristics

Material: paper, wax.