Adlestrop Gloucestershire
Church of St Mary Magdalen, Adlestrop Gloucestershire
Of the earlier church mentioned in the 12c when it was endowed with half a hide and 29 sheaves a year., only the 13c chancel arch , 14c west arch to the three stage 15c tower & 15c font survive. The lower stage of the tower serves as the entrance porch.
The church was always a chapelry of Broadwell until 1937, when it became part of the parish of Oddington. The rectors of Broadwell appointed chaplains to Adlestrop, and in 1535 the chaplain received £5 6s. 8d. a year from the rector.
The inhabitants are said to have been buried at Broadwell, until one of the Leigh family donated more land for the present churchyard in 1590, but there is evidence that burials took place from 1516 onwards, and there is a register of burials, with baptisms and marriages, from 1538.
The nave, chancel and transepts were completely rebuilt c1700 but the workmanship was so bad that all had to be built again in 1765, funded almost entirely at the expense of the lord of the manor
The chancel was restored in 1824 followed by the whole building in 1860 when all the windows appear to have been renewed in late 13c style..
The tower has 5 bells , four of 1711 by Abraham Rudhall and one of 1838 by T. Mears. (there were 2 or more bells in 1516)
The tower clock commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria has only 2 faces on the north and east wall , as these are the only sides visible from the village. The entrance gates celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Some of the Leigh family lie buried in a vault below the south transept. Novelist Jane Austen whose mother Cassandra was a Leigh, visited her uncle Rev Thomas Leigh at the rectory across the road from the church on at least 3 occasions - in 1794, 1799, and 1806, and whilst there would have worshipped in this church. It has been suggested that in Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), improvements suggested for Thornton Lacey were based on what was done at Adlestrop House.
www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol6/pp8-16
www.english-church-architecture.net/gloucestershire/adles...
Adlestrop Gloucestershire
Church of St Mary Magdalen, Adlestrop Gloucestershire
Of the earlier church mentioned in the 12c when it was endowed with half a hide and 29 sheaves a year., only the 13c chancel arch , 14c west arch to the three stage 15c tower & 15c font survive. The lower stage of the tower serves as the entrance porch.
The church was always a chapelry of Broadwell until 1937, when it became part of the parish of Oddington. The rectors of Broadwell appointed chaplains to Adlestrop, and in 1535 the chaplain received £5 6s. 8d. a year from the rector.
The inhabitants are said to have been buried at Broadwell, until one of the Leigh family donated more land for the present churchyard in 1590, but there is evidence that burials took place from 1516 onwards, and there is a register of burials, with baptisms and marriages, from 1538.
The nave, chancel and transepts were completely rebuilt c1700 but the workmanship was so bad that all had to be built again in 1765, funded almost entirely at the expense of the lord of the manor
The chancel was restored in 1824 followed by the whole building in 1860 when all the windows appear to have been renewed in late 13c style..
The tower has 5 bells , four of 1711 by Abraham Rudhall and one of 1838 by T. Mears. (there were 2 or more bells in 1516)
The tower clock commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria has only 2 faces on the north and east wall , as these are the only sides visible from the village. The entrance gates celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Some of the Leigh family lie buried in a vault below the south transept. Novelist Jane Austen whose mother Cassandra was a Leigh, visited her uncle Rev Thomas Leigh at the rectory across the road from the church on at least 3 occasions - in 1794, 1799, and 1806, and whilst there would have worshipped in this church. It has been suggested that in Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), improvements suggested for Thornton Lacey were based on what was done at Adlestrop House.
www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol6/pp8-16
www.english-church-architecture.net/gloucestershire/adles...