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Beating the Bounds ceremony, St Michaels Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1914. Artist: Henry Taunt

Beating the Bounds ceremony, St Michaels Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1914. Artist: Henry Taunt

1-232-636 - Reproduced by permission of Historic England/Heritage Images

Beating the Bounds ceremony, St Michaels Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1914. A group of children and other parish people holding willow sticks taking part in the Beating the Bounds ceremony that takes place on Ascension Day, derived from the earlier ceremony of Rogationtide, having just dropped over the wall.

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  1. Henry Taunt, attributed to: British: Photographer
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  1. Photograph
Picture Type
  1. Portrait
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World Europe United Kingdom England Oxfordshire Oxford

  1. 51 45 00 N , 001 15 00 W
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4948x3802
File Size : 55,115kb

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  1. CC73/00656   
  1. 0250002411
  1. 1-232-636
  1. 1232636
  1. 2411
  1. A3
  1. CC73/00656   

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