Cottesbrooke
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| Cottesbrooke | ||
|---|---|---|
Shire county | ||
| Region | ||
| Country | England | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
| Post town | Northampton | |
| Postcode district | NN6 | |
| Dialling code | 01604 | |
| Police | Northamptonshire | |
| Fire | Northamptonshire | |
| Ambulance | East Midlands | |
| UK Parliament | ||
Cottesbrooke is a village and
The villages name means 'Cott's/Codd's brook'.[3]
Location
The village is around 1 mile north of Creaton village off the A5199 road which runs between Northampton and Leicester. Cottesbrooke can be reached by taking the road signposted to the east towards Cottesbrooke Hall in Creaton.
Cottesbroke Estate
The manor of Codesbroc is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was held in-chief from the king by Dodin, who held seven other manors as a mesne tenant, all in Northamptonshire. It consisted of 1 villager, 1 slave, 1 ploughland and the annual value to lord was 2 shillings in 1086.[4] It was afterwards held, in whole or in part, by the family of de Buttivillar / Butvilleyne / Butvillain / Butwillam / Bontvillain.[5] Part of the manor of Cottesbrooke, namely an estate called "Kalender" or "Kayland", was given to Sulby Abbey by William de Buttivillar, soon after the foundation of that abbey in 1155. It became the site of a monastic grange or cell, situated in the N.W. corner of the parish of Cottesbrooke, of Premonstratensian Canons, founded soon after 1155 and probably abandoned by 1291.[6] Juliana Butvilleyne, the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Butvilleyne of Cottesbrooke, married Robert Duke of Brompton in Suffolk, whose eventual heir was the Kempe family of Gissing in Norfolk (Kempe baronets),[7] who quartered the arms of Butvilleyne (Argent, three crescents gules)[8]
The estate with Cottesbrooke Hall, built 1702, was bought by the Langham baronets, a family of London turkey merchants, in 1637, previously belonging to the Saunders family. The estate was sold in 1911 to R. B. Brassey.[9] In 1937 Cottesbrooke Hall was bought by its current owners, the MacDonald-Buchanan family, who in 1937-8 employed Lord Gerald Wellesley (later the 7th Duke of Wellington) to make alterations to the Hall, including changing the entrance front to the other side of the house.
All Saints Church
The tower has two-light Y-traced bell-openings supported by circular mullions, well preserved shafting on the interior windows with capitals, both carved and plain, and also a number of small exterior head-stops. It contains a ring of eight bells, comprising six bells cast by Henry Bagley II of Chacombe in 1702, with the heaviest bell (tenor) weighing 1,600 pounds (730 kg) and two lighter bells cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1995.
The two east windows, glazed with coloured panes, are believed to be Georgian in origin, being referred to as 'recent' additions in documents dating from 1849. The nave roof has a ceiling, the painted imitation-plasterwork in the covings being of interest, believed to be 18th century work. During the last restoration, the plaster ceilings in the chancel and the remaining south transept were removed, exposing roof timbers from the 15th century.
There is a
A number of large monuments include John Rede, d.1604 in the south chapel is of
Other Langham family monuments are: Mrs. Mary Langham, d.1773, in the chancel with a classical urn by Moore; Sir James, d.1795, with a long inscription and standing female figure beside an urn; Lady Langham, d.1807, with a figure of Faith standing by Bacon Junior; Marianne, d.1809, the memorial made in 1810, a simple a draped urn, by Bacon Junior; Lady Langham, d.1810, with number of columns and a depiction of the rock of
References
- ^ Office for National Statistics: Cottesbrooke CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 8 November 2009
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. -Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "Key to English Place-names".
- ^ "Cottesbrooke | Domesday Book".
- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.156
- ^ 'Cottesbrooke', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 3, Archaeological Sites in North-West Northamptonshire (London, 1981), pp. 54-58. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol3/pp54-58
- ^ Rye, W., ed. (1891). The Visitacion of Norffolk, made and taken by William Harvey, Clarencieux King of Arms, Anno 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cooke, with many other descents; as also the Visitation made by John Raven, Richmond, Anno 1613. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 32. London.,, p.175[1]
- ^ See monument to John Kempe (c.1534-1610) in Antingham Church, NorfolkFile:-2020-11-27 Memorial John Kemp Esq, Saint Mary's, Antingham.JPG; Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.156
- ^ Parks and Gardens - Cottesbrooke Hall's History Archived 26 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.
Other sources
- Northamptonshire Villages, the NCFWI
External links
Media related to Cottesbrooke at Wikimedia Commons
