A barn for holding the parson’s tithe-corn.
1546. Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees), 14. j teyth barne and a garth lyeng in Clyfton.
1643. [Angier], Lanc. Vall. Achor, 18. Four or five Priests … and other great Papists, whom they had at hand in a tythe-Barn.
1852. Miss Yonge, Cameos (1877), II. i. 7. The tenth [sheaf] was … lodged in the rector’s tithe-barn.
a. 1878. Sir. G. G. Scott, Lect. Archit. (1879), I. 21. The tithe barns of an English village are … as admirable and as appropriate as the minster at Rheims.
