Morton Bagot

Coordinates: 52°16′52″N 1°50′11″W / 52.28118°N 1.83652°W / 52.28118; -1.83652
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Morton Bagot
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townStudley
Postcode districtB80
Dialling code01527
PoliceWarwickshire
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Warwickshire
52°16′52″N 1°50′11″W / 52.28118°N 1.83652°W / 52.28118; -1.83652

Morton Bagot is a small village in the

Ryknild Street, 6.5 miles (10 km) north of Alcester, 9.5 miles (15 km) from Stratford-upon-Avon and 12 miles from Warwick, across the valley of a small brook, flowing south-east to join the River Arrow
.

A road from

2001 Census
the whole parish had a population of 153.

Etymology

The name "Morton Bagot" means the settlement of the

lords of the manor who added their name when they came into possession during the reign of Henry II.[3]

History

Holy Trinity Church
The East Window
The Chancel
The Font

Morton Bagot is recorded in the

Wooton Wawen whose lands there were also given to de Stafford. Robert de Stafford was descended from the de Tonei family and had fought stoutly with William the Conqueror against Harold Godwinson as a result he had this and other lands bestowed on him. He made Stafford his principal seat, where he had a strong castle and assumed his surname from thence.[5]

There were two principal

Statute of Labourers
some twenty years later.

In 1365 William Conyngesby son of John Conyngesby of Morton Bagot occurs in connexion with lands in Ullenhall. William had no legitimate male hier and the manor passed through his sister to her granddaughter, Alice, the wife of Richard Archer, who in 1436 made a settlement of the manor and advowson on herself and her heirs. Alice died in 1461 without issue, and her cousin, Thomas Conyngesby, claimed the manor as heir. A dispute then arose with claims that Thomas was no cousin of Alice, since his great-grandfather Thomas was the bastard son of William, and that William had no such brother John, now claimed to be great-grandfather of Alice. Thomas evidently established his claim and so it continued in this family.

In 1536 the manor was conveyed from Humphrey Conyngesby to Richard Conyngesby for life, and then to Richard's eldest son, Humphrey, for life, with reversion to the sons of the elder Humphrey. The latter's son John died in 1567, and his son Humphrey, in 1593, conveyed the manor to Nicholas Conyngesby. The last member of the family to hold the manor seems to have been Thomas Coningsby, who in 1629 sold it to Richard Butler and William Gibbons. The subsequent descent is obscure. It seems to have passed from William Hichinson and Lettice his wife to John Tumbrell in 1676. Andrew Archer, (possibly a relation of the aforementioned Richard & Alice) occurs as lord of the manor in 1719 and 1721. Probably the estate subsequently became merged in the second manor.[6] In 1805 The Times noted with some amusement that the local priest had dislocated his jaw when attempting a particularly loud Amen.[7]

Governance

Morton Bagot is part of the

MP following the 2010 general election is Nadhim Zahawi of the Conservative Party. Prior to Brexit in 2020, it was part of the West Midlands electoral region of the European Parliament
.

Notable buildings

The

fleurs-de-lis, and king's heads as stops between them; it came from the Worcester foundry, probably by Nicholas Grene (died 1547).[9]

In spite of

Lord of the Manor
of Morton Bagot, who died in 1887.

There are a number of memorials in the church. The Nave contains an oak memorial to Lance Corporal, John Thomas Ross, 4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment who died of wounds in France on 28 March 1918, aged 21. He is buried in Namps-Au-Val British cemetery, in the Department of the Somme, France. He was the son of Mrs. A. Ross, of Chuter Green, Morton Bagot.[11][1] John Burman noted that the church was lit by candles[3] and this is still true today giving Winter services a very individual spiritual feeling. Details and times of services can be found on the arden marches churches website [2]. Behind the church there are earthworks which are believed to be the site of a castle or fortified manor house.

Traces of a

Scheduled Monument[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred (1945)
  2. ISBN 978-0460043809
    .
  3. ^ a b c d Warwickshire People and Places, John Burman 1936
  4. ISBN 0-85033-141-2
  5. ^ William Dugdale, The Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656
  6. ^ "Parishes: Morton Bagot | British History Online".
  7. ^ The Times, 30 October 1805, A bet was made some time since between...
  8. ^ "Your Councillors". 6 August 2021.
  9. ^ Tilley and Walters, Church Bells of Warwickshire, 192
  10. ^ Old Warwickshire Churches, W. Hobart Bird 1936
  11. ^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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