Brightwell Baldwin
Brightwell Baldwin | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Watlington | |
Postcode district | OX49 | |
Dialling code | 01491 | |
Police | Thames Valley | |
Fire | Oxfordshire | |
Ambulance | South Central | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | Brightwell Baldwin Parish Meeting | |
Brightwell Baldwin is a village and
Toponym
"Brightwell" is derived from the Old English for "bright spring".[3] "Baldwin" is the name of a family that held the manor. The earliest known record of Brightwell Baldwin is a Saxon charter of 854 in the Cartularium Saxonicum that records the toponym as Beorhtawille or Brihtanwylle. Almost a century later a Saxon charter of 945 records it as Byrhtanwellan. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Bretewelle.[3]
Brightwell Park
The old country house of the Stone family burnt down in 1786, but a cruciform 17th-century dovecote[4] that was some distance from the house survives in the park.[5] In 1790 a replacement house was built.[1] It has since been demolished, but its kitchen wing, stables, ice house[6] and an 18th-century stone arch bridge[7] in the park survive.
Parish church
The earliest parts of the
In the chancel are two brasses commemorating
man com & se how schal alle dede li: wen þow comes bad & bare
noth hab ven ve awaẏ fare: All ẏs wermēs þt ve for care:—
bot þt ve do for godẏs luf ve haue nothyng yare:
hunyr þis graue lẏs John ye smẏth god yif his soule heuen grit[11][12]
The bell tower has a ring of six bells. John Saunders of Reading, Berkshire cast the tenor bell in about 1559.[13] Ellis I Knight, also of Reading, cast the fifth bell in 1637.[13] Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast or recast the treble, second, third and fourth bells in 1911.[13] There is also a Sanctus bell that was cast in about 1550.[13] St Bartholomew's parish is now part of the benefice of Ewelme, Brightwell Baldwin, Cuxham and Easington.[14] The churchyard includes a late 18th-century chest tomb a number of 17th-century gravestones that are Grade II listed. [15][16][17][18] Another 17th-century monument commemorates one Stephen Rumbold, who died in 1687 aged 105.[19] On it a rhyming epigram bets with its readers:
He liv'd one hundred and five
Sanguine and Strong
An hundred to five
You do not live so long[19]
Amenities
Brightwell Baldwin has a 17th-century
References
- ^ a b c Lewis 1931, pp. 375–379.
- Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ a b In fact a simple corruption of the words: Bride's Well. The name of the ancient British goddess (Bridget or Bride). This shows the antiquity of the place. Ekwall 1960, Brightwell
- ^ Historic England. "Brightwell Park, dovecote approximately 220 metres north east of Brightwell Park (Grade II) (1368825)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 485.
- ^ Historic England. "Brightwell Park, icehouse approximately 190 metres north north east of Brightwell Park (Grade II) (1059761)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Historic England. "Brightwell Park, bridge and flanking walls approximately 290 metres east of Brightwell Park (Grade II) (1059760)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 484.
- ^ a b c d e Historic England. "Church of St Bartholomew (Grade I) (1059763)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ^ Utechin 1990, p. 4.
- ^ a b Bertram 2003, p. 30.
- ^ a b Utechin 1990, p. 39.
- ^ a b c d Davies, Peter (11 May 2012). "Brightwell Baldwin S Bartholomew". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- A Church Near You. Church of England. Archived from the originalon 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Bartholomew, chest tomb approximately 1.7 metres east of south porch (Grade II) (1059764)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Bartholomew, headstone approximately 13 metres south of south porch (Grade II) (1059765)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Bartholomew, headstone approximately 3.5 metres south east of nave and 5 metres south of chancel (Grade II) (1181623)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ^ Historic England (3 April 1987). "Church of St Bartholomew, group of 4 headstones approximately 5 metres south south west of south porch (Grade II) (1181635)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ^ a b Utechin 1990, p. 82.
- ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 486.
- ^ Historic England. "The Lord Nelson Inn (Grade II) (1181675)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ The Nelson
- ^ "Brightwell Baldwin Pages 89-121 A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18. Originally published by Boydell & Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2016". British History Online.
Sources
- Bertram, Jerome (2003). "Medieval Inscriptions in Oxfordshire" (PDF). Oxoniensia. LXVVIII. ISSN 0308-5562.
- ISBN 0198691033.
- Lewis, Samuel, ed. (1931) [1848]. "Brightwell-Baldwin (St. Bartholomew)". A Topographical Dictionary of England (Seventh ed.). London: Samuel Lewis. pp. 375–379.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- Utechin, Patricia (1990) [1980]. Epitaphs from Oxfordshire (2nd ed.). Oxford: Robert Dugdale. pp. 4, 39, 82. ISBN 0-946976-04-X.