tithe barn

British  

noun

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

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tithe barn

Hard by is a fine tithe barn with finials on the gables, and a 15th-cent. house with a most picturesque porch and panelled octagonal chimney.

From Somerset by Wade, G. W.

He’s got his tithe barn stuffed with children from Water Lane, as if he wanted to spread it. 

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The docked sheaves were conveyed to the tithe barn either before or after the carrying of the others.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

I used to look with wonder when I was a boy at the endless length of wall and the enormous roof of a great tithe barn.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

A number of women are sitting working together in a big room not unlike an old English tithe barn in its timbered construction, but with windows high up next the roof.

From The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Shaw, Bernard