Besford Worcestershire
Church of St Peter, Besford Worcestershire
c1400 Timber frame nave and south porch; The chancel of early 13c date, and the earliest portion of the building , was rebuilt in stone in 19c along with the belfry which has 2 bells, of c1300 , one inscribed in Lombardic characters, ' Campanum Sanct' Micaelis'; North porch The c1500 rood loft still survives. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/aSWg86
There are 2 memorials to the Harewell family lords of the manor, both heirs of different generations. A Triptych to John Harewell d1600 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Gy3929 and a monument with the effigy of his uncle Richard Harewell who died in 1576 aged 15. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9t56Bf
The Harewells had acquired the manor by marriage in early 15c and John's father (Richard's younger brother) Edmund the last male Harewell, beset by debts sold the manor in 1608 to William Sebright whose descendants have memorials here also. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/X916yE
By a charter said to have been given in 972, land formerly granted to Pershore Abbey by King Coenwulf at the request of the ealdorman Beornoth was restored to that abbey by King Edgar. Before the date of the 1086 Domesday Survey this had passed from Pershore to Westminster Abbey, being given with that manor by Edward the Confessor, and William the priest ministered here having 4 demesne hides of land. In 1218 John de Besford renounced all his right in the chapel and It was held of the Abbots of Westminster and of their successors the Dean and Chapter of Westminster until 1621. It was a dependent chapel of the mother church St. Andrew's, Pershore and remained so until June 1865 . when Besford was attached to Defford, and constituted a district chapelry known as Defford-cum-Besford. The living was declared a vicarage in 1866.
Previously Pershore Abbey had the right to have the bodies of all those holding land in Besford buried at Pershore, while those who had none were to be buried in the churchyard of Little Comberton. ( This was a cause of many disputes as that chapel was already 'pryvileadged with funeralls'
Thomas Woodward, who died in 1879, gave by his will £100, now represented by 102 16s. 6d. consols. The annual dividends, amounting to 2 11s. 4d., to be distributed among the poor in bedclothing.
Besford Worcestershire
Church of St Peter, Besford Worcestershire
c1400 Timber frame nave and south porch; The chancel of early 13c date, and the earliest portion of the building , was rebuilt in stone in 19c along with the belfry which has 2 bells, of c1300 , one inscribed in Lombardic characters, ' Campanum Sanct' Micaelis'; North porch The c1500 rood loft still survives. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/aSWg86
There are 2 memorials to the Harewell family lords of the manor, both heirs of different generations. A Triptych to John Harewell d1600 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Gy3929 and a monument with the effigy of his uncle Richard Harewell who died in 1576 aged 15. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9t56Bf
The Harewells had acquired the manor by marriage in early 15c and John's father (Richard's younger brother) Edmund the last male Harewell, beset by debts sold the manor in 1608 to William Sebright whose descendants have memorials here also. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/X916yE
By a charter said to have been given in 972, land formerly granted to Pershore Abbey by King Coenwulf at the request of the ealdorman Beornoth was restored to that abbey by King Edgar. Before the date of the 1086 Domesday Survey this had passed from Pershore to Westminster Abbey, being given with that manor by Edward the Confessor, and William the priest ministered here having 4 demesne hides of land. In 1218 John de Besford renounced all his right in the chapel and It was held of the Abbots of Westminster and of their successors the Dean and Chapter of Westminster until 1621. It was a dependent chapel of the mother church St. Andrew's, Pershore and remained so until June 1865 . when Besford was attached to Defford, and constituted a district chapelry known as Defford-cum-Besford. The living was declared a vicarage in 1866.
Previously Pershore Abbey had the right to have the bodies of all those holding land in Besford buried at Pershore, while those who had none were to be buried in the churchyard of Little Comberton. ( This was a cause of many disputes as that chapel was already 'pryvileadged with funeralls'
Thomas Woodward, who died in 1879, gave by his will £100, now represented by 102 16s. 6d. consols. The annual dividends, amounting to 2 11s. 4d., to be distributed among the poor in bedclothing.