Sawtry Cambridgeshire
Church of All Saints, Sawtry Huntingdonshire / Cambridgeshire
The area has been inhabited since the Romans and there were at one time 3 churches All Saints, St Andrews and St Marys (demolished in 1573)
Old St Andrew's church stood on the east side of the old Great North Road. This and the original All Saints church were both demolished in 1879 and the present All Saints Church was built on its namesake's site to the same design , using the best material from the original buildings. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Pq1g78
The village is first mentioned in an Anglo Saxon Charter of 1055-1066 as Saltretha, when land was left to Ramsey Abbey by Thurgunt wife of Turkil the Dane. .A manor of Sawtry Moyne (at one time called Sawtry Bellers) was one of its earliest endowments . In the 1086 Domesday Book it is called Saltrede = old english meaning "saltern’s stream" - an area used for salt making. It had a church and priest.
Judith, niece to William the Conqueror, wife of the saxon Earl Waltheof of Huntingdon and Northampton, lived at Sawtry. Local names in the area - St Judith’s Lane and St Judith’s Field remember her good works
In 1147 Simon De Senlis began to build a Cistercian Abbey here, however it took 98 years to build and was never very rich . A William of Sawtry, one of the monks who began preaching his own brand of religion was taken to London and executed in 1359
In 1536 the body of Queen Catherine of Aragon, divorced wife of Henry VIII, was laid overnight in the abbey on her way to her burial at Peterborough Cathedral. By 1540 during the reformation it was a ruin. Its stones are believed to have been used in the 19c to build the local Greystones pub and parts of the present church.
The bellcote has 1 bell cast in London c1320, one of two from the old church of All Saints, the other now ringing in a school in Peterborough. The single bell of old St Peters went to Ludlow.
Now on the south wall are brass effigies of lord of the manor Sir William Moyne 1404 and wife Mary who once lay on an altar tomb in the chancel of the old church. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/TwQA95 Mary born in Hainault, served Queen Phillippa wife of Edward lll until her death.
www.robschurches.moonfruit.com/sawtry-all-saints/4523744579
Sawtry Cambridgeshire
Church of All Saints, Sawtry Huntingdonshire / Cambridgeshire
The area has been inhabited since the Romans and there were at one time 3 churches All Saints, St Andrews and St Marys (demolished in 1573)
Old St Andrew's church stood on the east side of the old Great North Road. This and the original All Saints church were both demolished in 1879 and the present All Saints Church was built on its namesake's site to the same design , using the best material from the original buildings. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Pq1g78
The village is first mentioned in an Anglo Saxon Charter of 1055-1066 as Saltretha, when land was left to Ramsey Abbey by Thurgunt wife of Turkil the Dane. .A manor of Sawtry Moyne (at one time called Sawtry Bellers) was one of its earliest endowments . In the 1086 Domesday Book it is called Saltrede = old english meaning "saltern’s stream" - an area used for salt making. It had a church and priest.
Judith, niece to William the Conqueror, wife of the saxon Earl Waltheof of Huntingdon and Northampton, lived at Sawtry. Local names in the area - St Judith’s Lane and St Judith’s Field remember her good works
In 1147 Simon De Senlis began to build a Cistercian Abbey here, however it took 98 years to build and was never very rich . A William of Sawtry, one of the monks who began preaching his own brand of religion was taken to London and executed in 1359
In 1536 the body of Queen Catherine of Aragon, divorced wife of Henry VIII, was laid overnight in the abbey on her way to her burial at Peterborough Cathedral. By 1540 during the reformation it was a ruin. Its stones are believed to have been used in the 19c to build the local Greystones pub and parts of the present church.
The bellcote has 1 bell cast in London c1320, one of two from the old church of All Saints, the other now ringing in a school in Peterborough. The single bell of old St Peters went to Ludlow.
Now on the south wall are brass effigies of lord of the manor Sir William Moyne 1404 and wife Mary who once lay on an altar tomb in the chancel of the old church. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/TwQA95 Mary born in Hainault, served Queen Phillippa wife of Edward lll until her death.
www.robschurches.moonfruit.com/sawtry-all-saints/4523744579