Great Coxwell Barn, Medieval tithe barn in Great Coxwell, England
Great Coxwell Barn is a large stone building with a slate roof in a village west of Oxford. The walls are made of rubble stone with buttresses of cut blocks, and the roof rests on thick timber posts.
Monks from Beaulieu Abbey built the barn in the late 13th century after the king granted them land in the area. The building served to store tithes from the surrounding farms.
The barn takes its name from the village where monks once gathered and stored harvest from the surrounding fields. Today people visit the building for its simple, clear lines and the quiet under its high roof.
The building sits in a small village and is easy to reach on foot from the center. A box at the entrance works on trust, you drop the admission into it yourself.
Unlike most medieval storage buildings of this size, the barn has just one door on the side. This arrangement probably made it easier to control the stored goods.
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