Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1912) (14765562562)

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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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re than an attributeof its great city neighbour, which, octopus-like, has shot forthon every side its feelers and engulfed all they could lay holdof. Time was when the view to be obtained hence wasdifficult to surpass ; at the present day the most notableobjects to be seen from the village heights are the workhouse,railway viaduct, and gasworks. In the reign of Edward IV, and for many a long yearbefore, a considerable estate in this parish was owned byone of the smaller religious houses of Bristol, the Hospitalof St. Bartholomew, which had been founded in the thirteenthcentury by the then Baron de la Warre, head of the houseof West. The Hospital building stood hard by ChristmasSteps ; its beautiful early English gateway still remains,a familiar object to generations of our citizens ; its precinctswere bounded on the east by land of the Franciscan friars ; 1 A paper read to the Bristol members of the Bristol and Gloucester-shire Archaeological Society on Wednesday, February 14th, 1912.
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An Account of the Heath House Estate. 19 on the north by that of the nunnery of St. Mary Magdalen,now represented by the King David Hotel, at the bottom ofSt. Michaels Hill; on the west by Knifesmith Street, nowcalled Christmas Steps ; and on the south by Priors slipand shipbuilding yards. Of the Hospital estate in Stapleton I have been able tofind no account beyond that contained in a few documentspreserved at Ashton Court. Towards the western extremity of the ridge in Stapletoncalled Purdown, bounded on the north by the Horfield valley,in which may be seen the so-called Boiling Well, on the southby the valley of the Frome and the village of Stapleton, stoodthe capital messuage or mansion house of the Bartholomewbrethren, called Little Horfield, or the Heath House. The earliest deed concerning the estate extant, dated23rd June, 1425, is a Latin copy of the original, which is notforthcoming. It gives us an interesting list of Stapletonfield names. 1425. John Arundel, master etc., greetransactionsofbr35bris