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tithe barn
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tithe barn
a large barn where, formerly, the agricultural tithe of a parish was stored

tithe barn
A barn once used by farmers to hold their contributions to the church in the amount of one-tenth of their harvested crops.


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Tithe barns for the receipt and storage of such payments were lesser in size only to churches in villages and towns.
Every year on four days in September, buildings of every age, style and function throw open their doors, ranging from castles to factories, town halls to tithe barns, parish churches to Buddhist temples.
Among images of hill forts, tithe barns, medieval statuary and Tudor staircases, one of a church interior at Didmarton, Gloucestershire, is quintessential.
 
 
 
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