![]() The house is now the international study centre of the Oxford Royale Academy. In 2014 OCHJS decided to move closer to Oxford city centre. In about 1960 Between 19 it was the headquarters of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies as well as the JDC International Centre for Community Development. More recently the house has been in institutional use. In the 1930s the property belonged to George Alfred Kolkhorst, Reader in Spanish at Oxford University. In 1897 the new owner, HR Franklin, engaged the Gothic revival architect Thomas Garner who restored the remaining part of the house. The north and south wings were demolished, possibly in about 1756 by Sir Robert's successor Sir James Dashwood. ![]() In 1718 Yarnton manor house was reported to be in a "ruinated condition". In 1695, a decade after his death, most of the manor's land was sold to Sir Robert Dashwood, who removed most of the stone of the house to build his own home at Kirtlington Park. ![]() In about 1670 Sir Thomas Spencer, 3rd Baronet had the interior of the house remodelled. During the Civil War the house seems to have served as a Royalist military hospital: in 1643–45 about 40 Royalist soldiers were buried in St Bartholomew's churchyard. Sir Thomas Spencer had the present manor house, a large Jacobean country mansion, built in 1611. Yarnton Manor dates from the Norman Conquest and was held by the Spencer family from 1580 to 1712. Yarnton Manor, built in 1611 for Sir Thomas Spencer, now the Oxford Royale Academy In the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 Rewley Abbey was dissolved and King Henry VIII sold Yarnton to his physician, George Owen. In 1226 King Henry III gave it to Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and in 1281 Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall gave it to Rewley Abbey. Most of the land at Yarnton was granted to Eynsham Abbey in 1005 but Remigius de Fécamp, a supporter of William the Conqueror, took it during the Norman conquest in 1066. Erdington may have originally meant either "dwelling place" or "Earda's farm". ![]() The toponym has evolved from Erdington in Old English to Eyrynten in 1495–96, Yardington in the 16th century but also Yarnton from 1517. These suggest human activity in the area somewhere between 27 BC.Ī series of irregular late Iron Age to early Roman enclosures in the parish are known from cropmarks. Early Bronze Age decorated beakers have been found in the parish. ![]()
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