32 Bradford-upon-Avon. 
at Bradford, in Kingston House in 1851, during the progress of 
some extensive repairs, and an account of them was given in our 
Archeological Journal for November 1854. These deeds are nearly 
100 in number, and throw much light on matters of interest con- 
nected with our town. The names of the chief landowners ;—of the 
principal inhabitants :—of the old streets ;—of the various churches; 
—of the Chantry-Priests;—the customs of the manor,—these are 
a few of the points on which this series of deeds gives much in- 
formation. 
We have spoken of this era, commencing with the time of Hd- 
ward I., as one of increasing prosperity for Bradford. There are 
many indications of this in the large buildings which were now 
erected. That remarkable barn, called Barton Barn (see pl. ii.), well 
known to architects for its Early English roof, so framed from the 
ground as to be independent of the walls,! was certainly built in the 
earlier part of this period. By whom the barn was built is matter 
of doubt. Very little can be made out of Aubrey’s observation that 
he saw in 1670, at the point of one of the gables, the hand and 
battle-axe, the well known crest of Hall. It is quite possible, 
moreover, that Aubrey’s eyes may have rather deceived him, for 
certainly among the present ornaments of the gables there is not 
one that looks at all like the remnant of the hand or battle-axe. 
To a little later date also in this period we owe the lengthening 
of our chancel, and the insertion of the large east window (the 
tracery of which has been lately restored);— also those two 
recessed tombs, one on the north and the other on the south side, 
the former containing the figure of a female, the latter of a cross- 
legged knight. Till lately one of these was completely walled up, 
all the label and pediment, with its ornamental crocketting, having 
been completely cut away to admit of the wall being flat enough to 
receive some large monuments; the other was sadly mutilated :—the 
last-named one has been restored (see plate iii.), and it is hoped 
that some day we may be able to restore the other. 
Whose tombs they are is not at all known. The only two 
1 There are barns of similar character and about the same date at Peter- 
borough and Ely. See Parker’s ‘Glossary of Architecture,’ under (Roor.) 
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