The antiquities of England and Wales . Plan ,L-Puw ofl/wilfi/fye lhjtfe,/i07n an ^IncietUD/vmwty; fornwlv Mviiginy /V Gz?wa7^4rmj(rpng;.>r< </ to JDnwn almt£ rite Jtritpi of Queen BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 21 STIVECLE, or STUKELY CHURCH. THE folidity of this building, as well as its circular archesand zig-zag ornaments, evidently mark its great antiquity. Theparticular time of its erecldon is not known j it is however men-tioned as early as the reign of Henry II. when it was given byGeffery de Clinton, chamberlain to that king, to the priory ofKenelworth in Warwickshire, of which h
The antiquities of England and Wales . Plan ,L-Puw ofl/wilfi/fye lhjtfe,/i07n an ^IncietUD/vmwty; fornwlv Mviiginy /V Gz?wa7^4rmj(rpng;.>r< </ to JDnwn almt£ rite Jtritpi of Queen BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 21 STIVECLE, or STUKELY CHURCH. THE folidity of this building, as well as its circular archesand zig-zag ornaments, evidently mark its great antiquity. Theparticular time of its erecldon is not known j it is however men-tioned as early as the reign of Henry II. when it was given byGeffery de Clinton, chamberlain to that king, to the priory ofKenelworth in Warwickshire, of which his father was is there called the church of Stivecle or Stiff Clay, in all like-lihood from the kind of foil whereon it flood. The prefentchurch muft. be from its ftile at leaft as old as that period. It is a vicarage in the diocefe of Lincoln and deanry of Mure-fley ; the church is dedicated to St. Mary ; the bifhop of Oxford> is both proprietor and patron j the certified value 681. 19s. rated in the kings books at 9I. 9s. yd. the yearly tenths,18s. uf. This plate is engraved from a drawing made at the expenceof the late Dr. Littleton, bifhop of Carlifle, and communicated
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