tithe-barn
A barn for holding the parson's tithe-corn.
| 1546 Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) 14, j teyth barne and a garth lyeng in Clyfton. 1643 [Angier] Lanc. Vall. Achor 18 Four or five Priests..and other great Papists, whom they had at hand in a tythe-Barn. 1852 C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) II. i. 7 The tenth [sheaf] was..lodged in the rector's tithe-barn. a 1878 Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 21 The tithe barns of an English village are..as admirable and as appropriate as the minster at Rheims. |