Brightwell Baldwin
Brightwell Baldwin | |
240px St Bartholomew's parish church |
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Brightwell Baldwin shown within Oxfordshire
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Area | 6.52 km2 (2.52 sq mi) |
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Population | 208 (2011 Census) |
– density | 32/km2 (83/sq mi) |
OS grid reference | SU6595 |
District | South Oxfordshire |
Shire county | Oxfordshire |
Region | South East |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Watlington |
Postcode district | OX49 |
Dialling code | 01491 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Oxfordshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
EU Parliament | South East England |
UK Parliament | Henley |
Website | Brightwell Baldwin Parish Meeting |
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Brightwell Baldwin is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). northeast of Wallingford. It was historically in the Hundred of Ewelme[1] and is now in the District of South Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 208.[2]
Brightwell Park
The old country house of the Stone family burnt down in 1786, and was replaced by one built in 1790.[1] This too has been demolished, but its kitchen wing, stables and cruciform 17th-century dovecote[3] survive.[4]
Parish church
The earliest parts of the Church of England parish church of Saint Bartholomew are 13th century, including a stair turret and a number of lancet windows, notably in the chancel.[5][6] Early in the 14th century the nave was rebuilt in the Decorated Gothic style, with north and south aisles linked to it by arcades of four bays.[5] The west tower and the Perpendicular Gothic east window of the chancel were added in the 15th century.[5] The pulpit and tester are Jacobean[5] and therefore 17th century. The building was restored in 1895 and is a Grade I listed.[6]
Church monuments in St Bartholomew's include a number of brasses. In the north aisle is a brass commemorating John the Smith, who died in 1371.[6] It bears an epitaph written in Middle English, which may be the earliest example of an inscription in the English language.[7] The epitaph reflects upon human mortality:
man com & se how schal alle ded li: wen yolk comes bad & bare
moth have ben ve awaẏ fare: All ẏs wermēs yt ve for care:—
yis graue lẏs John ye smẏth god yif his soule hewn grit[7]
bot yt ve do for god ẏs luf ve haue nothyng yare:
In the chancel are two brasses commemorating John Cottesmore, who died in 1439.[6] Stone monuments include two 16th-century chest tombs of members of the Carleton family, and a substantial English Baroque monument to members of the Stone family on the east wall of the north chapel.[5] The latter was built in about 1670[5] or 1690,[6] replacing monuments to John Stone (died 1640) and his son Sir Richard Stone (died 1660) that were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.[8]
The bell tower has a ring of six bells. John Saunders of Reading, Berkshire cast the tenor bell in about 1559.[9] Ellis I Knight, also of Reading, cast the fifth bell in 1637.[9] Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast or recast the treble, second, third and fourth bells in 1911.[9] There is also a Sanctus bell that was cast in about 1550.[9]
The churchyard includes a late 18th-century chest tomb a number of 17th-century gravestones that are Grade II listed.[10][11][12][13] Another 17th-century monument commemorates one Stephen Rumbold, who died in 1687 aged 105.[14] On it a rhyming epigram bets with its readers:
He liv'd one hundred and five
Sanguine and Strong
You do not live so long[14]
An hundred to five
St Bartholomew's parish is now part of the benefice of Ewelme, Brightwell Baldwin, Cuxham and Easington.[15]
Amenities
The Lord Nelson public house dates from the 17th or 18th century.[16] It is now a gastropub.[17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lewis 1931, pp. 375–379.
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- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 485.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 484.
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- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Utechin 1990, p. 39.
- ↑ Utechin 1990, p. 4.
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- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Utechin 1990, p. 82.
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- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 486.
- ↑ Lord Nelson Inn
Sources
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