Siston

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Siston (pronounced "sizeton")

conservation area
and thus have statutory protection from overdevelopment.

History

Main article: Manor of Siston

At the time of the Roman conquest the area was woodland, but there is evidence of Roman remains. It has been known throughout time as Sistone, Siston, Systun, Syton, and Sytone. The name may derive from "Size-town" or may have been derived from the Saxon "Sige's Farmstead".[3] In 1273 the occupants used Marchling[clarification needed] as part of their agricultural practices; at that time marl was reportedly spread on two carucates of land.[4] The Domesday Book of 1086 records Siston as belonging to a Norman knight, Roger de Berkeley, who owned Berkeley Castle, and lands from Gloucester in the north to Bristol in the south.[5] The manor of Siston lay in the Hundred of Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, and adjoined the Royal Forest of Kingswood to the west, and claimed right of purlieu over a portion of it.[6] It was subsequently held by the families of Walerand, Plokenet, Corbet, Denys, Billingsley, Trotman and Rawlins.

Governance

Siston is an electoral ward, with some additional areas; the total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 4,809.[7]

Siston Court

Jan Kip (1653–1722) published 1712 in Sir Robert Atkyns
's The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire. Viewed from east
Further information: Denys family of Siston

Siston Court is a

Jan Kip (1653–1722) of the house showing it surrounded by extensive formal landscaped gardens. In the following century landscaping resulted in a park-like setting with a more natural garden. The architect Sanderson Miller, husband of Susannah Trotman, daughter of Samuel Trotman of Siston Court, may have influenced the creation of informal gardens.[8][16][nb 1]

Gate Lodges to Siston Court, grade II* listed buildings[18]

The 18th century "pepper-pot" lodges and 19th century "The Grange", once a home to the nurseryman, may have been influenced by Miller, whose style included the "ogee-shaped roofs and door heads and Gothic Revival windows alternating with cross-loops."[19][nb 2]

The pair of now empty niches on the internal facades of the wings are similar to the niches on the facade of Montacute House, Somerset,[21] which contain statues of the Nine Worthies, dressed as Roman soldiers, Italian Renaissance in inspiration.[22]

Houses were built locally for estate workers at Siston Court in the 18th and 19th century. During the 20th century the estate was subdivided, and farm land was converted to woodland by the Forestry Enterprise or for pony paddocks.

Addis-Ababa Palace.[23][nb 4] Siston Court still retains much of the character of the 16th-century manor house and its original Elizabethan façade.[12][nb 5] In the middle of the 20th century the manor was subdivided into flats.[9]

Queen Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I, stayed at Siston Court in June 1613 as guest of Sir Henry Billingsley.[26][27] She had been lavishly entertained by the Corporation of Bristol during the day, with massive military displays and mock sea battles between Turk and English mariners having been staged for her, immortalised in a versified account by Naile, an apprentice.[27] According to a Siston Court servant, she stayed in the "room upstairs called 'the Queen's Chamber'".[28]

The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, visited the Court as guest of the Rawlins family.[29]

Mounts Court, demolished in 1922, was another important local mansion house.[30]

Sir Maurice Denys's patron was thought to have been Admiral

Henry VIII in 1547, resided for eight weeks of her future short life in a house within the vicinity of Siston, known as Mount's Court, held by the Strange family.[31][32]

On 23 October 1989, the area was designated as the "Siston Conservation Area" to protect historical sites such as Siston Court and its buildings, and the hamlet of Siston, including St Anne's Church and historic farms, cottages and open fields.[3]

Church buildings

Norman doorway, St. Anne's Church, Siston. In the tympanum is depicted a tree of life.

St Anne's Church, located between Siston Court and the village of Siston, is at the edge of open fields and has scenic views of the countryside.

rectory. According to an 1839 tithe map, the church had a formal garden, now the site of the church hall.[33]

Leaden baptismal font, St Anne's Church, Siston. The Rawlins paintings can be seen on the chancel arch

The 12th-century

Twelve Apostles. There are twelve niches shown on the Siston font, but six are filled with acanthus scroll-work.[36]

In the 1900s, Mrs. Rawlins, wife of the owner of Siston Court, made a large wall-painting

Pre-Raphaelite-style of Edward Burne-Jones for church covering the chancel arch,[38][39] based upon a Renaissance fresco in the Palazzo Riccardi in Florence.[39][40] Daughters of Mrs. Rawlins were models for some of the angels in the painting.[38][39]

Although the manor historically was held from the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the parish church fell within the Diocese of Worcester. The advowson was held by the lords of the manor of Siston until 1937, when it was donated in perpetuity by J E Rawlins of Siston Court to the Bishop of Bristol.[41]

The Church of St Barnabas, a grade II listed building, was built by James Park Harrison in 1849. The decorated style building is made of rubble with a west tower and broach spire.[42]

The Methodist Ebeneezer Chapel was built in 1810 of rendered walling with stone coping.[43]

Siston Common

Siston Common, or "the Commons", is an area that runs across the width of the parish with bridleways and footpaths. Historically it was used by local farmers for the grazing of cattle, goats, horses, ducks and chickens.

Avon Ring Road
has been built on the western edge of the common/

Siston Parish Council

The members of Siston Parish Council serve voluntarily and are unpaid. They serve a term of four years. They meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month in the Warmley Community Centre to manage affairs related to Siston, such as bus shelters, local planning, and rural footpaths.[45]

Notable residents

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Dickins and Stanton claimed that Susanna's father was Samuel.[17]
  2. ^ Miller drafted plans on the back of a letter for a "Poor's House" inscribed "Siston, Nov.21 1759". Hester Miller, his daughter, married Siston Court resident, Fiennes Trotman.[16][20]
  3. ^ The style also reflected the landscaping styles of William Kent and Capability Brown.[8]
  4. ^ John Harris, in his book Moving Rooms, states that the hall chimney was removed by Charles Angell in 1936.[24]
  5. ^ An image of an interior from 1930 can be seen in W.J. Robinson's "Siston Court" showing Oliver Cromwell's cavalry jack boots, left behind by him.[25]
  6. ^ Only about 38 leaden fonts survive in England, nine of which are in Gloucestershire, the greatest number in any county.[36] Other similar fonts exist in the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral (given to the cathedral in 1940, originally from St. James's Church, Lancaut, Glos., now ruined); at Frampton-on-Severn; Rendcomb-St-Peter and at Dorchester Abbey.[36]

References

  1. ^ "parish population 2011". Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  2. ^ Anciently Syston, Sistone, Syton, Sytone and Systun etc.
  3. ^ a b Siston Conservation Area. South Glouchestershire Council. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  4. ISBN 978-0-521-20073-8
    .
  5. ^ Siston Domesday Online. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Cecil Papers: May 1609 Vol 24. 6/5/1609". Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  8. ^ a b c d e Siston Conservation Document – Supplementary Planning Document. South Glouchester Council. pp. 2, 4, 5, 7.
  9. ^ a b Siston Court. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  10. ^ Bindoff, S.T. (1982). The House of Commons 1509–1558. London. 2. pp. 31–33
  11. ^ Cecil Papers: Miscellaneous 1607, Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House, 16–30, Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House. 19: (1965) [1607], pp. 433 (124.72) Retrieved 8 July 2013. Name spelled Sir Morris Dennis.
  12. ^ a b Siston Conservation Document – Supplementary Planning Document. South Glouchester Council. p. 10.
  13. ^ Cecil Papers. vol 19, p.433. (124.72)
  14. ^ Cecil Papers at Hatfield House, CP19/433, CP124/72
  15. ^ Weeks offered the sale of the manor to the Earl of Salisbury, who was reported to not have received the offer letters Cecil Papers: December 1607, 1–15, Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House. 19: (1965) [1607], p.374 (123.113) Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  16. ^ a b John Burke (1836). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. Henry Colburn. p. 699. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  17. ^ Lilian Dickins; Mary Stanton (1910). An eighteenth-century correspondence: being the letters of Deane Swift—Pitt—The Lytteltons and the Granvilles—Lord Dacre—Robert Nugent—Charles Jenkinson—the Earls of Guilford, Coventry, & Hardwicke—Sir Edward Turner—Mr. Talbot of Lacock, and others to Sanderson Miller, esq., of Radway. Duffield. p. 123. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  18. ^ Historic England. "Lodges to Siston Court (Grade II*) (1231513)". National Heritage List for England.
  19. ^ Siston Conservation Document – Supplementary Planning Document. South Glouchester Council. p. 9-10.
  20. ^ Hawkes, H.W. Dissertation on the Architectural Work of Sanderson Miller of Radway. 1964. p. 75.
  21. ISBN 0-297-77411-5
  22. ISBN 0-586-05604-1
  23. ^ Brooke, Gerry. (11 November 2003). A Manor with Many Owners. Bristol Evening Post.
  24. ISBN 978-0-300-12420-0
    . Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  25. ^ Robinson, William James. (1930). "Siston Court". West Country Manors. Bristol: St. Stephen's Press. p. 168.
  26. ISBN 978-0-8020-4221-7
    . Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  27. ^ a b Asams, William (1625). Chronicle of Bristol.
  28. ISBN 978-0-203-99149-7
    . Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  29. ^ Rourke, Elana. (2010). Siston Court Remembered Pucklechurch.
  30. ^ "Warmley & Siston - One Hundred years of history - Part 2 of 7 - 1914 - 1930". Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  31. ISBN 978-1152300392
    .
  32. ^ Robinson, W.J. (1930). "Siston Court". West Country Manors. Bristol. p.169.
  33. ^ a b c d Siston Conservation Document – Supplementary Planning Document. South Glouchester Council. pp. 5, 12.
  34. ^ a b c d "Parish Church of St. Anne, Siston". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  35. ^ Webb, Mary & Gardner, Pamela, The History of St Anne's Church Syston, August 2008
  36. ^ a b c d Webb, Mary; Gardner, Pamela (2008). The History of St Anne's Church Syston. p. 6.
  37. ^ Actually on paper affixed to the chancel arch
  38. ^ a b St Anne, Syston. Church of England. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  39. ^ a b c Bryant, Alan. Life in Siston and Warmley 1894–1994 Siston Parish Council. Retrieved. 8 July 2013.
  40. ^ Arthur Mee (1938). Gloucestershire: the glory of the Cotswolds. Hodder and Stoughton, limited. p. 356. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  41. ^ "No. 34373". The London Gazette. 19 February 1937. p. 1170.
  42. ^ Church of St Barnabas. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  43. ^ Ebeneezer Chapel. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  44. ^ News – The Commons. Siston Parish Council. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  45. ^ The Role of Your Parish Council. Siston Parish Council. Retrieved 9 July 2013.

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