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iffley church.
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cWchyard, very strangely cut through a very thick buttress : /, altar niche; g g,
tw° striall square recesses in the wall. This crypt is thirty-six feet in length, and
twenty-one feet in width.
Iffley Church, Oxfordshire.—In the Domesday Book Iffley appears to be
Noticed under the name Giveteslei, which at the time of the survey was held by
j*1"' Albericus. In different writings it occurs also under the appellations of
J(ek, Yeojfky, and Eiffley. The church, which is a very curious and well-
Preserved specimen of Anglo-Norman architecture, is said by Warton to have
een " erected by a Bishop of Lincoln, in the twelfth century ;'"32 but he has not
ltlentioned his authority for that statement, nor has the present writer been able to
trace it. it was certainly built previously to the decease of Henry the Second,
which occurred in 1189, since the charter of Henry de Clinton, granted to the
i lory of Austin Canons at Kenilworth, in Warwickshire, in the latter part of
enry's reign, states, that the church of Yftele and a virgate of land at Covele
owley, near Oxford) were given to the said priory by Juliana de Sancto
ernigjo. Kenilworth Priory was founded by Geoffrey de Clinton, Henry's grand-
ner, (Lord Chamberlain and Treasurer to Henry I.) and it presented to this
cWch, at ieaST> as eariy as 1217.33 The church at Stewkley (Stivecle) in
Buckinghamshire, as Warton has remarked, is exactly in the style of that at Iffley,
ut with some variations in the ornaments; and it is rather curious that the
Patrons of that edifice were also the monks of Kenilworth, to whom it had been
Wanted by the second Geoffrey de Clinton, in Henry the Second's reign, and
c°ftfirmed by William Pipard.34 The west door-way to the church at Kenilworth
^ also very analogous in style and ornaments to those of Iffley and Stewkley.
u account, with views and a plan of Steivkley Church, will be found in vol. ii.
t^e Architectural Antiquities.
Iffley Church is of small dimensions, but forms an interesting subject both
0r historical inquiry and graphic illustration, and it is to be regretted that so little
ls known of its precise origin ; although considerable pains have been taken in
Search, on the present occasion, not any thing more of its early history can
" History of Kiddington," p. 11, 3rd edit.
Henry's Charter is preserved in the Register of the Priory, now in the British Museum.
Dugdale's " Antiquities of Warwickshire," p. 157, a. edit. 1657.
173
cWchyard, very strangely cut through a very thick buttress : /, altar niche; g g,
tw° striall square recesses in the wall. This crypt is thirty-six feet in length, and
twenty-one feet in width.
Iffley Church, Oxfordshire.—In the Domesday Book Iffley appears to be
Noticed under the name Giveteslei, which at the time of the survey was held by
j*1"' Albericus. In different writings it occurs also under the appellations of
J(ek, Yeojfky, and Eiffley. The church, which is a very curious and well-
Preserved specimen of Anglo-Norman architecture, is said by Warton to have
een " erected by a Bishop of Lincoln, in the twelfth century ;'"32 but he has not
ltlentioned his authority for that statement, nor has the present writer been able to
trace it. it was certainly built previously to the decease of Henry the Second,
which occurred in 1189, since the charter of Henry de Clinton, granted to the
i lory of Austin Canons at Kenilworth, in Warwickshire, in the latter part of
enry's reign, states, that the church of Yftele and a virgate of land at Covele
owley, near Oxford) were given to the said priory by Juliana de Sancto
ernigjo. Kenilworth Priory was founded by Geoffrey de Clinton, Henry's grand-
ner, (Lord Chamberlain and Treasurer to Henry I.) and it presented to this
cWch, at ieaST> as eariy as 1217.33 The church at Stewkley (Stivecle) in
Buckinghamshire, as Warton has remarked, is exactly in the style of that at Iffley,
ut with some variations in the ornaments; and it is rather curious that the
Patrons of that edifice were also the monks of Kenilworth, to whom it had been
Wanted by the second Geoffrey de Clinton, in Henry the Second's reign, and
c°ftfirmed by William Pipard.34 The west door-way to the church at Kenilworth
^ also very analogous in style and ornaments to those of Iffley and Stewkley.
u account, with views and a plan of Steivkley Church, will be found in vol. ii.
t^e Architectural Antiquities.
Iffley Church is of small dimensions, but forms an interesting subject both
0r historical inquiry and graphic illustration, and it is to be regretted that so little
ls known of its precise origin ; although considerable pains have been taken in
Search, on the present occasion, not any thing more of its early history can
" History of Kiddington," p. 11, 3rd edit.
Henry's Charter is preserved in the Register of the Priory, now in the British Museum.
Dugdale's " Antiquities of Warwickshire," p. 157, a. edit. 1657.