Sunningwell

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Sunningwell
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Sunningwell Road with the tower of St Leonard's parish church
Sunningwell is located in Oxfordshire
Sunningwell
Sunningwell
 Sunningwell shown within Oxfordshire
Population 1,554 (2001 census)[1]
OS grid reference SP4900
Civil parish Sunningwell
District Vale of White Horse
Shire county Oxfordshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Abingdon
Postcode district OX13
Dialling code 01865
Police Thames Valley
Fire Oxfordshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Oxford West and Abingdon
Website Sunningwell Parish Council
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire

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Sunningwell is a village and civil parish about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Oxford, England. The parish includes the village of Bayworth and the eastern part of Boars Hill. The parish was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

Sunningwell is notable for the successful campaign run by parishioners against the plans to develop Metropolitan Green Belt land surrounding the village and elsewhere in Oxfordshire.[citation needed]

Toponym

Sunningwell's toponym has evolved from Suniggawelle in the 10th century through Soningewell in the 11th century before reaching its current form.[2]

Manor

The Domesday Book records that Abingdon Abbey held the manors of Sunningwell and Bayworth by 1086, and it assessed Sunningwell manor at five hides.[2] The manor retained both manors until 1538, when it surrendered all its properties to the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[2]

In 1545 the manors of Sunningwell and Bayworth were granted to Robert Browne (a goldsmith), Christopher Edmondes and William Wenlowe.[2] They seem to have been speculators who bought them for a quick profit, as they alienated the manors in 1546.[2] The buyer was John Williams, later Baron Williams of Thame.[2] Baron Williams died in 1559 without a male heir, and the manors passed to his elder daughter Margery and her husband Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys.[2] In 1583 Margery sold Sunningwell and Bayworth to her younger sister Isabel and her second husband Richard Huddleston.[2] By 1589 Richard and Isabel were dead and had left the two manors mortgaged to a Richard Martin.[2]

In 1597 Martin sold the manors to the Elizabethan general Sir Thomas Baskerville, but he died on campaign in Picardy that year so he probably never lived there.[2] The two manors passed to Sir Thomas's son Hannibal Baskerville (1597–1668), grandson Thomas Baskerville and great-grandson Matthew Baskerville, all of whom lived at Bayworth. Matthew Baskerville died in 1720–21 with no legitimate heir, but during his lifetime he had sold Sunningwell and Bayworth in return for an annuity of £80 to Sir John Stonhouse, lord of the manor of Radley.[2] Sunningwell and Bayworth remained with the Stonehouse family and their successors the Bowyers until about 1884, when an Edgar John Disney of Ingatestone in Essex foreclosed a mortgage on the manor.[2] He retained the manor for the rest of his life, but his son Edgar Norton Disney sold most of it in 1912.[2]

Parish church

The oldest known record of the Church of England parish church of St Leonard is from 1246.[2] The nave and parts of the chancel date from this time, and there is one blocked 13th-century window in the south wall of the nave.[2] The east end of the chancel was rebuilt late in the 13th or early in the 14th century[2] with a Decorated Gothic east window. Late in the 15th century the Perpendicular Gothic south transept and north tower were built and the nave was given Perpendicular Gothic windows and an embattled parapet.[2] The Elizabethan polygonal west porch with Ionic columns is said to have been given by John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, who had been rector of Sunningwell St Leonard's in about 1551.[2][3]

Samuel Fell was rector of St Leonard's from 1625 to 1649.[2]

In 1877 St. Leonard's was restored under the direction of J.P. Seddon, a friend of William Morris, who designed the stained glass in the east window.[3] The church is a Grade II* listed building.[4]

Amenities

In the 19th century a cottage opposite St Leonard's parish church was made the home for a schoolteacher, and a schoolroom was built next to it. In the 20th century it became Sunningwell Church of England Primary School and moved to new premises in Dark Lane at the west end of the village.[5] The 19th century school building is now Sunningwell School of Art.[6]

Sunningwell has a public house, the Flowing Well.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 Page & Ditchfield 1924, pp. 423–427
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pevsner 1966, p. 234
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Sunningwell Church of England Primary School
  6. ↑ Sunningwell School of Art
  7. ↑ The Flowing Well

Sources and further reading

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External links

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