Olveston

Coordinates: 51°34′55″N 2°34′37″W / 51.5820°N 2.5769°W / 51.5820; -2.5769
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This article is about the English village and parish. For other uses, see Olveston (disambiguation).

The Mediaeval Gateway of Olveston Court by Samuel Loxton, c. 1890
The gateway and moat may be compared to that at Markenfield Hall
(Bristol Reference Library)

Olveston is a small village and larger parish in

sea wall was constructed at the same time to prevent flooding from the nearby estuary of the River Severn
.

The civil parish forms part of the Severn electoral ward. The parish stretches northwards to Hill. The Severn ward population at the 2011 census was 3,628.[2]

Church of St. Mary the Virgin

The

Maurice Denys
(d.1466), esquire, both lords of the manor, seated at Olveston Court.

The Denys family of Olveston Court

Denys monumental brass, 1505, Olveston Church, east wall of south transept
Maurice Denys
(d.1466) to L. Sir Walter Denys(d.1506), his son, to R. The Denys paternal armorials are blazoned at top left: 3 leopard's faces jessant-de-lis overall a bend engrailled

The remains of the mediaeval fortified manor of Olveston Court stand on the western outskirts of the village. It was for a while the seat of the Denys family of nearby

Sir Gilbert Denys
, taken at Chipping Sodbury on 25 June 1422, is given here:

Gilbert Denys held of the King in chief in his demesne as of fee by knight service the manors of Alveston and Earthcott and the Hundred of Langley, total annual value £19 5s. There are in the manor of Alveston 40s assize rents and £6 rents of tenants at will at Michaelmas, Christmas, Easter and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist in equal portions, 300 acres pasture worth yearly 5d an acre, and a 20 acre meadow worth yearly 12d an acre. There are in the manor of Earthcott 40s rents of tenants at will. The Hundred of Langley is worth 40s yearly.
By a charter dated at Olveston on 20th Jan. 1420, shown to the jurors, he held jointly in tail male with his wife Margaret (2nd. wife Margaret Russell), who survives, the manor and advowson of Olveston, reversion to Gilbert's kinsman Nicholas Denys for life, remainder to the right heirs of Gilbert, by feoffment of Robert Stanshawe, John Broune, Robert Coderyngton and John Vaghorn, vicar of St. Nicholas, Bristol. The manor is held of the Bishop of Bath & Wells of the King, service unknown, annual value £20.[4]

Olveston Court, view of remnant of moat and crenellated wall, situated immediately to the left of the gatehouse as depicted above by Loxton

It is likely the

Alice FitzAlan
, da. of 11th. Earl of Arundel. Beaufort became a member of the regency government on the accession of his infant nephew as Henry VI in 1422. Stradling, probably through the influence of Beaufort, had obtained the licence to marry off his young nephew John Kemeys of Began, Monmouth, to Sir Gilbert Denys's widow, Margaret Russell. It was this latter marriage which forced the Denys family from Siston to reside at Olveston Court until Kemeys's death in 1477. The will of Sir Gilbert Denys[7] appointed Henry Beaufort as an overseer, perhaps suggesting a connection from Gilbert's early military service under John of Gaunt. In his will Denys had requested his widow to take a vow of chastity, which clearly was made impossible by Sir Edward Stradling who had married her off to John Kemeys within 7 months of Gilbert's death.

Non-conformist chapels

St. Mary's church parish register also includes details of births and burials of

Methodist
chapels were built in Olveston (1820), Tockington (1840), Awkley (1856) and Old Down (1933).

Colonial settlements named after Olveston

Montserrat, West Indies

Montserrat to demonstrate that slavery was unnecessary, and named it Olveston,[8]
now a village on the island.

New Zealand

An historic, early 20th century, house in the inner suburbs of Dunedin, New Zealand is named Olveston, after the place owner David Theomin had enjoyed his childhood holidays.[9][10]

Population and industry

The census of 1851 shows about 50 farms, and that the parish was mainly agricultural up to the time of the

lime burners, there being good quality limestone in the parish. After the mechanisation of farming, and the growth of the aircraft industry at nearby Patchway and Filton, the parish gradually became a home for commuters. The area contains an ancient woodland, Wildacre, owned and operated by the Woodland Trust
.

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Severn ward 2011". Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  3. ^ Margaret Corbet had inherited on the death of her brother William, on 25 August 1378. His Inquisition post mortem, taken at Alveston 4/10/1378, lists all these possessions. (cal.inq.p.m. Richard II, vol xv, nos.26–30, 26:Glos.)Gilbert Denys was similarly possessed per his inq.p.m. taken at Chipping Sodbury 25 June 1422, cal inq.p.m.Henry V no.933.
  4. ^ Cal. Inq.p.m. 6–10 Henry V, no.933, p.333
  5. ^ Chantler, P. History of the Ancient Family of Dennis of Gloucestershire, South Molton, 2010.
  6. ^ For the career of Hugh Denys see: Starkey, David, The Virtuous Prince, 2008. Esp. chapter 16 which explains how Denys was vital in facilitating Henry VII's "reign of fiscal terror".
  7. ^ National Archives PROB 11/2B Image ref:413/285
  8. ^ Olveston and Aust website Archived 14 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Olveston (Dunedin, N.Z.)". natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  10. ^ Irvine, Susan (6 December 2011). "Olveston | Heritage New Zealand". www.heritage.org.nz. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  11. ISBN 9780500519134. Retrieved 21 September 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  12. ^ Irvine, Susan (6 December 2011). "Olveston | Heritage New Zealand". www.heritage.org.nz. Retrieved 3 November 2022.

External links

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