East Lockinge
| East Lockinge | ||
|---|---|---|
Shire county | ||
| Region | ||
| Country | England | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
| Post town | Wantage | |
| Postcode district | OX12 | |
| Dialling code | 01235 | |
| Police | Thames Valley | |
| Fire | Oxfordshire | |
| Ambulance | South Central | |
| UK Parliament | ||
| Website | Ardington and Lockinge Parish Council | |
East Lockinge is a village and former
Lockinge, in the Vale of White Horse district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 local authority boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Wantage, the village is included within the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). In 1931 the parish had a population of 227.[1] On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished to form "Lockinge".[2]
Manor
In 868 Queen
Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s the Abbey surrendered all its property to the Crown, which sold East Lockinge in 1546.[3]
Matthew Wymondsold (died 1757), a speculator in the
Deeping St. James, Lincolnshire, whom James II knighted in 1684.[4] Matthew Wymondsold had three sons by his wife Sara who outlived him: Francis, William and Charles, the latter who married and divorced Henrietta Knight, daughter of Robert Knight, 1st Earl of Catherlough, who married secondly Josiah Child, younger son of Richard Child, 1st Earl Tylney.[5] The Wymondsold family retained East Lockinge until 1853, when it was sold to Lord Overstone
.
In 1858 Overstone gave East Lockinge as a wedding present to his daughter
Colonel Loyd-Lindsay VC.[3] East Lockinge is now a village of estate cottages that Colonel Loyd-Lindsay had built in the 1860s.[6] Loyd-Lindsay was ennobled on 23 July 1885 taking the name, style and title of Baron Wantage of Lockinge in the County of Berks. He died at Lockinge House on 10 June 1901.[7] Lockinge House was demolished in 1947.[8] Its early Georgian orangery was still standing in the 1960s.[6]
Parish church
The
belltower that was added in 1564.[3][6] In 1886[6] the south aisle and chapel were demolished, the three-bay arcade between the south aisle and the nave was rebuilt and a new nave and chancel were built in place of the demolished aisle and chapel.[3]
This became the main body of the church, leaving the earlier nave and chancel as a north aisle and chapel.
The
Myra Bunce.[9] Lady Jane Lindsay, presumably a relative of the Colonel, designed the glass of the east window.[6] The tower has a ring of four bells.[10] The oldest is the treble, cast in 1578 by Joseph Carter[10] of Reading, Berkshire, who later became the master founder of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London.[11] The third bell was cast at Reading in about 1599.[10] Robert II Wells of Aldbourne,[11] Wiltshire cast the tenor bell in 1793 and he and James Wells cast the small Sanctus bell in about 1795.[10] William Taylor cast the second bell in 1852,[10] presumably at the foundry that the Taylor family then had in Oxford.[11] Currently for technical reasons the bells are unringable.[10]
References
- A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- ^ "Relationships and changes East Lockinge CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Page & Ditchfield 1924, pp. 307–311.
- ^ Lysons 1792, pp. 404–435.
- ^ Crisp 1905, p. 165.
- ^ a b c d e Pevsner 1966, p. 170.
- ^ Ford, David Nash (2008). "Col. Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, Baron Wantage of Lockinge (1832-1901)". Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
- ^ Ford, David Nash (2004). "Lockinge House". Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
- ^ a b c Pevsner 1966, p. 169.
- ^ a b c d e f Davies, Peter (26 November 2006). "Lockinge All Saints". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
- ^ a b c Dovemaster (25 June 2010). "Bellfounders". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
Sources
- Crisp, Samuel (1905). Hutton, Very Rev. William Holden (ed.). Burford Papers: Being Letters of Samuel Crisp to His Sister at Burford; And Other Studies of a Century (1745-1845). London: Archibald Constable & Co. p. 165.
- Lysons, Rev. Daniel (1792). The Environs of London: Being An Historical Account Of The Towns, Villages and Hamlets Within Twelve Miles of That Capital Interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes. Vol. the First, County of Surrey. London. pp. 404–435.
- Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds. (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 307–311.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 169–170.
External links
Media related to East Lockinge at Wikimedia Commons