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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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leeve Toot, astriking mass of limestone, were seen. The road then turned to the right,and passing through Claverham, near the ruins of Court de Wyck, reachedYatton Church, twelve miles from Bristol. Yatton appears in Domesday asan estate of twenty hides belonging to the Bishop of Wells. In the timeof the Confessor it had belonged to John the Dane, and there is nothing toshow in what way the Bishop had obtained it. It remained among theestates of the See till the reign of Queen Mary, when Bishop GilbertBourne was compelled to surrender it to the Crown as part of the price ofa number of estates which had been alienated by Bishop Barlow. In 1536the Bishops estate at Yatton was worth £62 2s. yd. There was also amanor of Cliveham, now Claverham, rated at two hides, belonging to theBishop of Coutances, which also lay in the parish. The Court House ofthis manor was known as Court de Wyck, after the name of a family whoheld it from the reign of Henry II. to that of Edward III.; it afterwards
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W. Moline, Photo. YATTON CHURCH FROM SOUTH EAST. 8 Transactions for the Year 1902. belonged to the families of Chedder and Newton, who have left their markon the church. The Church of Yatton, with one hide worth twentyshillings, was held of the Bishop in 1086 by Benthelm, and it was given in1136 by Bishop Robert as the endowment of a Prebend in the Church ofWells. It was rented from the Abbot and Convent of St. Augustines,Bristol, the lessees in 1236, for 45 marks, and it was in 1536 the mostvaluable of all the Wells Prebends, being worth no less than ^42. AVicarage was appointed by Bishop Drokensford in 1327. The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Yatton, is an excellentexample of a Somerset Cross Church, having both the strength and weak-ness of the type—its weakness in the lowness of the tower arches and therelative insignificance of the chancel, its strength in the dignity and beautyof the nave. Though there was a church in Yatton before the NormanConquest, nothing can now be

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