Marsh Baldon
Marsh Baldon | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Oxford | |
Postcode district | OX44 | |
Dialling code | 01865 | |
Police | Thames Valley | |
Fire | Oxfordshire | |
Ambulance | South Central | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | Baldons Parish Council | |
Marsh Baldon is a village and
Archaeology
The course of the
Manor
In the 11th century a Saxon called Azur held a manor of 10
Parish church
The
In the north aisle is a painting of the Annunciation by the Italian master Pompeo Batoni (1708–87) after Guido Reni.[6] It hung in the chapel of Corpus Christi College, Oxford until 1794, when Sir Christopher Willoughby had St Peter's Church remodelled and donated the painting.[6] Marsh Baldon is not the only Oxfordshire parish church to have a painting by Batoni. The parish church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Weston-on-the-Green, 12 miles (19 km) north of Marsh Baldon, has a Batoni altarpiece of the Ten Commandments.[10]
The future Archbishop of Canterbury, Archibald Campbell Tait, as a young man, renowned for his Devotional dedication, added the arduous and financially unrewarding curacy of Baldon, to his tutorial responsibilities as soon as he was ordained.[11]
Economic and social history
Most of Marsh Baldon's houses and cottages are arranged around the village green, which is an irregular square shape with an area of around 23 acres (9.3 ha).[12] The green is common land that was used for grazing. Until the 20th century the road through Marsh Baldon was gated at both ends of the village to prevent livestock from straying.[13] It may be that the earliest settlement was clustered around St. Peter's church.[14][13] The large green north-east of this original settlement would subsequently have been reclaimed from marshland early in the Middle Ages and then surrounded by houses.[14][13]
School
The parish has a Church of England primary school.[15] It was founded at Toot Baldon in 1771, when Elizabeth Lane left the house and four acres of land at Herbert's Farm for the purpose.[2] The farmhouse accommodated the schoolmaster, the four acres were for a site for the school and an orchard as its endowment.[2] Elizabeth Lane's bequest funded free education for six boys and six girls; other families paid fees for the school to educate their children. By 1866 the school had 56 pupils.[2] The present building at Marsh Baldon was erected in 1873 and a second classroom was added in 1897.[2] In 1929 the school was reorganised for junior pupils only, with children over 11 years old going to the Church of England school at Dorchester on Thames from then onwards.[2] The number of pupils enrolled in the reorganised school rose from 40 in 1929 to 52 in 1952.[2]
Amenities
Marsh Baldon has a
Gallery
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Late 17th or early 18th century vernacular cottages at 37–39 The Green
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Vernacular thatched cottage overlooking The Green
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Gateways, a late 17th or early 18th century vernacular cottage in Baldon Lane
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The Seven Stars public house
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15th-century Perpendicular Gothic east window of St Peter's church
References
- Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Lobel 1957, pp. 30–47.
- ^ a b Historic England. "Site of Roman kilns (1006337)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 699.
- ^ a b Historic England. "Baldon House Baldon House East Wing Baldon House West Wing (Grade II*) (1048058)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 698.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Peter (Grade II*) (1048056)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Davies, Peter (12 October 2007). "Place: Marsh Baldon S Peter". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d Dovemaster (25 June 2010). "Bell Founders". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 833.
- ^ The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. https://www-oxforddnb-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-26917?rskey=UPxBWT&result=2
- ^ Baldons Parish Plan communityfirstoxon.org
- ^ a b c Rowley 1978, p. 35.
- ^ a b Rowley 1978, p. 33.
- ^ Marsh Baldon CE Primary School Archived 2 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "sevenstarsonthegreen.co.uk". www.sevenstarsonthegreen.co.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
- ^ "The Baldons Cricket Club". Archived from the original on 16 October 2008. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
Sources
- Lobel, Mary D, ed. (1957). A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5: Bullingdon Hundred. Victoria County History. pp. 30–47.
- Rowley, Trevor (1978). Villages in the Landscape. Archaeology in the Field Series. London: ISBN 0-460-04166-5.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; ISBN 0-14-071045-0.