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See also:GRANGE (through the A.-Fr. graunge, from the Med. See also:Lat. granea, a See also:place for storing See also:grain, granum)
, properly a granary or See also:barn
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In the See also:middle ages a " See also:grange " was a detached portion of a See also:manor with See also:farm-houses and barns belonging to a See also:lord or to a religious See also:house; in it the crops could be conveniently stored for the purpose of See also:collecting See also:rent or tithe
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Thus, such barns are often known as " tithe-barns." In many cases a See also:chapel was included among the buildings or stood apart as a See also:separate edifice
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The word is still used as a name for a See also:superior See also:kind of farm-house, or for a See also:country-house which has farm-buildings and agricultural See also:land attached to it
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Architecturally considered, the " grange " was usually a See also:long See also:building with high wooden roof, sometimes divided by posts or columns into a sort of See also:nave and aisles, and with walls strongly buttressed
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Sometimes these granges were of very See also:great extent; one at St Leonards, See also:Hampshire, was originally 225 ft. long by 75 ft. wide, and a still larger one (303 ft. long) existed at See also:Chertsey
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See also:Ancient granges, or tithe-barns, still exist at See also:Glastonbury, See also:Bradford-on-See also:Avon, St See also:Mary's See also:Abbey, See also:York, and at Coxwold
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A See also:fine example at See also:Peterborough was pulled down at the end of the 19th See also:century
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In See also:France there are many examples in See also: Attached to the abbey of Longchamps, near See also:Paris, is one of the best-preserved granges in France, with walls in stone and internally divided into three aisles in See also:oak See also:timber of extremely fine construction . In the social economic See also:movement in the See also:United States of See also:America, which began in 1867 and was known as the " Farmers' Movement," " grange " was adopted as the name for a See also:local See also:chapter of the See also:Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, and the movement is thus often known as the " Grangers' Movement "(see FARMERS' MOVEMENT) . There are a See also:National Grange at See also:Washington, supervising the local divisions, and See also:state granges in most states . |
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