Ettington Warwickshire
Holy Trinity / St Nicholas, Lower Ettington Warwickshire, in the grounds of Ettington Park Hotel www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kin... the ancestral home of the Shirley lords of the manor.
It was a 12c Norman building with later additions. After Henry Shirley had an altar to St Nicholas erected in early 13c , it was also dedicated to that saint. A north aisle with three-bay arcade was added in the 14c. The windows on the south side of the nave were replaced in the 17c
In 1794 a parish vestry meeting decided to replace the ancient church with a new one in Upper Ettington, which had become the centre of population even before Evelyn Shirley had the old village demolished. In 1795 Parliament passed an act authorising this and in 1798 the new church of St Thomas Becket of Canterbury was consecrated.
Holy Trinity was abandoned, but in 1823 its south transept was restored as a mortuary chapel for the Shirley lords of the manorand has monuments to them from 14c - 18c . flic.kr/p/2eBLKSY flic.kr/p/2eBLKVo flic.kr/p/2eBLKXY flic.kr/p/2fPMCjB
The rest of the original church, including its tower, survives as a roofless ruin .
Only the tower remains of its successor , the church of St Thomas Becket's , the remainder being demolished in 1913 after the building in Lower Ettington of the church of the Holy Trinity & St Thomas of Canterbury. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4B7g50
Pictures with thanks - copyright Richard Croft CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1230869 and britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101382588-former-church-of-h...
Ettington Warwickshire
Holy Trinity / St Nicholas, Lower Ettington Warwickshire, in the grounds of Ettington Park Hotel www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kin... the ancestral home of the Shirley lords of the manor.
It was a 12c Norman building with later additions. After Henry Shirley had an altar to St Nicholas erected in early 13c , it was also dedicated to that saint. A north aisle with three-bay arcade was added in the 14c. The windows on the south side of the nave were replaced in the 17c
In 1794 a parish vestry meeting decided to replace the ancient church with a new one in Upper Ettington, which had become the centre of population even before Evelyn Shirley had the old village demolished. In 1795 Parliament passed an act authorising this and in 1798 the new church of St Thomas Becket of Canterbury was consecrated.
Holy Trinity was abandoned, but in 1823 its south transept was restored as a mortuary chapel for the Shirley lords of the manorand has monuments to them from 14c - 18c . flic.kr/p/2eBLKSY flic.kr/p/2eBLKVo flic.kr/p/2eBLKXY flic.kr/p/2fPMCjB
The rest of the original church, including its tower, survives as a roofless ruin .
Only the tower remains of its successor , the church of St Thomas Becket's , the remainder being demolished in 1913 after the building in Lower Ettington of the church of the Holy Trinity & St Thomas of Canterbury. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4B7g50
Pictures with thanks - copyright Richard Croft CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1230869 and britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101382588-former-church-of-h...