Little Tew

Coordinates: 51°57′22″N 1°26′31″W / 51.956°N 1.442°W / 51.956; -1.442
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Little Tew
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townChipping Norton
Postcode districtOX7
Dialling code01608
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteLittle Tew
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England
Oxfordshire
51°57′22″N 1°26′31″W / 51.956°N 1.442°W / 51.956; -1.442

Little Tew is an English village and

2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 253.[2]

Manor

Before the

Benedictine Abbey of Fécamp at Cogges and gave the priory an endowment including the Wadard manor at Little Tew. In 1441 Henry VI seized the priory and its estates and gave them to Eton College, which sold most of its land at Little Tew in 1921.[1]

In 1206

Alice de Lacy died in 1348. By 1356 the manor was attached to the barony of Clifford Castle in Herefordshire.[1]

Church and chapel

There is a tradition that Little Tew had a medieval chapel before the

Anabaptist
meeting place in 1778.

In 1829 a Baptist missionary from Chipping Norton applied for a licence to convert a building in Little Tew into a chapel, and Baptist services in Little Tew attracted about 100 people from the surrounding area. Exeter College offered to build and endow an Anglican church for Little Tew "to prevent alienation of the inhabitants from the Established Church".[1] The Vicar of Great Tew did not support the idea but his successors held Anglican services in Little Tew, at first in a barn and later in the new village school that was built in 1836.[1]

In 1845 the Baptists finally built a small chapel

Saint John the Evangelist, designed by the Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street in an early-14th-century style.[4] It has a tower with a gabled roof[5] and a chime of eight bells.[6] St. John's was a chapel of ease of the parish of Great Tew until 1857, when Little Tew was made a separate ecclesiastical parish.[1] Today St. John's is once again part of a single benefice with the parish of Great Tew.[6]

Street also designed the vicarage, completed in the same year as St. John's chapel.

stepped gable and Perpendicular Gothic style windows.[4] A schoolroom was added in 1925 but both it and the chapel were sold in 1968.[1] The building is now in private use.[5]

Economic and social history

In the 13th century Little Tew had a

Act of Parliament enabled its lands to be enclosed in 1794.[1]

A day school was founded in Little Tew in 1823. Exeter College supported it from 1830 and Eton College supported it from 1834. Exeter College also gave land on which a schoolhouse and master's house were built in 1836.

public house but is now a private house.[1]
For forty years, until 2009, the Grange became home for an amateur theatre of high repute.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Crossley 1983, pp. 247–258
  2. Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  3. ^ Crossley 1983, pp. 75–81.
  4. ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 690.
  5. ^ a b Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels: Little Tew Archived 1 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b Archbishops' Council. "Little Tew: St John the Evangelist, Little Tew". A Church Near You. Church of England.
  7. ^ a b c d e Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 691.

Sources and further reading

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