Broadwell Gloucestershire
Church of St Paul, Broadwell, Gloucestershire Throughout the middle ages, the manor estates of Broadwell belonged to the Benedictine monks of Evesham Abbey, who were responsible for appointing the rector.
There seems to have been a church here before the 1066 Norman Conquest, one of the stones preserved in the porch has saxon decoration. The 1086 Domesday Survey recorded there were 48 inhabitants of whom one was a priest. It later had a chapel of ease at Adlestrop .
Nothing is known about this saxon church or where exactly it was built. It was replaced c1150 with a building consisting of a chancel and nave built from stone from the local limestone quarry.
The original walls of the chancel survive up to the stringcourse when it was rebuilt in 13c when the nave was enlarged with an arcade of round pillars which allowed the south aisle to be added. After the Reformation it became a private chapel for the Hodges family who are buried in it and lived in the manor house and had a low wall separating it from the nave . Their house and this chapel were inherited by marriage by the Leighs. The wall was removed in 19c.
The building of the south aisle meant that a new door had to be provided - the porch that shelters it is however 17c.
The 3 stage tower centred on the axis of the nave, was built in 15c with diagonal buttresses at the corners which are characteristic of Cotswold towers of that date.
The monument to Robert Hunckes 1585 has had his original epitaph defaced, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/RJ6602 the guide says this was because he was the great uncle of the officer who presided over the execution of Charles l, - I would welcome suggestions who that might have been .
Herbert Weston 1635 kneels with his wife and young son at the west end of the south aisle. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/qcj2y3
The church was restored during the 52 years incumbency of Rev Henry Pitt Cholmondeley d1905 , www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/02iy8d third son of Thomas Baron Delamere of Vale Royal, when the nave north wall was rebuilt with new windows and door.
In the churchyard below the east end of the chancel is a group of 10 'woolpack' bale altar-tombs of the early 17c. Nearly all bear the arms (a fess dancetty) of the prosperous landowning Chadwell family (One has 4 kneeling figures on either side) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9mvf89
Broadwell Gloucestershire
Church of St Paul, Broadwell, Gloucestershire Throughout the middle ages, the manor estates of Broadwell belonged to the Benedictine monks of Evesham Abbey, who were responsible for appointing the rector.
There seems to have been a church here before the 1066 Norman Conquest, one of the stones preserved in the porch has saxon decoration. The 1086 Domesday Survey recorded there were 48 inhabitants of whom one was a priest. It later had a chapel of ease at Adlestrop .
Nothing is known about this saxon church or where exactly it was built. It was replaced c1150 with a building consisting of a chancel and nave built from stone from the local limestone quarry.
The original walls of the chancel survive up to the stringcourse when it was rebuilt in 13c when the nave was enlarged with an arcade of round pillars which allowed the south aisle to be added. After the Reformation it became a private chapel for the Hodges family who are buried in it and lived in the manor house and had a low wall separating it from the nave . Their house and this chapel were inherited by marriage by the Leighs. The wall was removed in 19c.
The building of the south aisle meant that a new door had to be provided - the porch that shelters it is however 17c.
The 3 stage tower centred on the axis of the nave, was built in 15c with diagonal buttresses at the corners which are characteristic of Cotswold towers of that date.
The monument to Robert Hunckes 1585 has had his original epitaph defaced, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/RJ6602 the guide says this was because he was the great uncle of the officer who presided over the execution of Charles l, - I would welcome suggestions who that might have been .
Herbert Weston 1635 kneels with his wife and young son at the west end of the south aisle. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/qcj2y3
The church was restored during the 52 years incumbency of Rev Henry Pitt Cholmondeley d1905 , www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/02iy8d third son of Thomas Baron Delamere of Vale Royal, when the nave north wall was rebuilt with new windows and door.
In the churchyard below the east end of the chancel is a group of 10 'woolpack' bale altar-tombs of the early 17c. Nearly all bear the arms (a fess dancetty) of the prosperous landowning Chadwell family (One has 4 kneeling figures on either side) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9mvf89