A late medieval inn at the White Hart Hotel, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

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Title:

Issue:

Oxoniensia 70

Series:

Oxoniensia

Volume:

Page Start/End:

309 - 323

Biblio Note

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Publication Type:

Journal

Abstract:

Report on an archaeological and historical investigation of the White Hart Hotel, Chipping Norton, prior to and during its conversion to residential and retail use. This building, fronting onto the High Street in the middle of Chipping Norton, retained its eighteenth-century stone frontage, behind which lay the remains of earlier timber-framed structures. During building work a number of previously unknown elements were exposed. These included the c. fifteenth-century main timber frame of the building and an almost intact late medieval timber gallery at the rear. During the building work much was revealed about the historic development of the building a well as its decoration, fixtures and fittings. The archaeological investigations showed that medieval pits and quarries dating to the eleventh--twelfth centuries were present in the western and central parts of the site, nearest to the hotel building. A buried soil deposit apparently dating to the thirteenth century occurred further to the east. The medieval deposits were truncated by ranges of eighteenth--nineteenth-century limestone outbuildings, constructed along the northern and southern sides of the property. Includes reports on

Author:

Edmund Simons
J Phimester
Leo Webley
Alexander T Smith

Year of Publication:

2006

Subjects / Periods:

Timber Frame (Auto Detected Subject)
	PIT (Monument Type England)
Medieval (Auto Detected Temporal)
Timber Gallery (Auto Detected Subject)
Quarries (Auto Detected Subject)
Thirteenth Century (Auto Detected Temporal)

Note:

[OS SP 3144 2712]

Source:

BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

Created Date:

26 Jan 2007

Simons, E., Phimester, J., Webley, L. and Smith, A. T. (2006). A late medieval inn at the White Hart Hotel, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Oxoniensia 70. Vol 70, pp. 309-323.

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