Spotted on my daily lock-down exercise walk April 2021
Newton Solney: St Mary the Virgin Church dates from the 14th century. Monument to Sir Henry Every, 3rd Baronet of Egginton, who died 1st September 1709, represented in Roman toga and sandals.
The Every family, lords of the manor, could trace their ancestry right back to the de Solney. Ownership of the manor was not tantamount to full control of the village, because there were several freehold estates there. Gradually, the Every family bought out most of these, with a corresponding increase in their dominance over the village. The Everys did not live in the village; their house and park lay across the river at Egginton. Their construction at Newton Solney of a substantial but whimsical, folly-like tower on the river-bank, called Rock Tower, is the only indication of their use of the Newton Solney estate for leisure in the 18th century. The tower, which survives embedded in the river frontage of the present Rock House, was built by 1758 on the site of the former manor house, and would have been used by the Every family to arrive in Newton Solney by boat.
Spotted on my daily lock-down exercise walk April 2021
Newton Solney: St Mary the Virgin Church dates from the 14th century. Monument to Sir Henry Every, 3rd Baronet of Egginton, who died 1st September 1709, represented in Roman toga and sandals.
The Every family, lords of the manor, could trace their ancestry right back to the de Solney. Ownership of the manor was not tantamount to full control of the village, because there were several freehold estates there. Gradually, the Every family bought out most of these, with a corresponding increase in their dominance over the village. The Everys did not live in the village; their house and park lay across the river at Egginton. Their construction at Newton Solney of a substantial but whimsical, folly-like tower on the river-bank, called Rock Tower, is the only indication of their use of the Newton Solney estate for leisure in the 18th century. The tower, which survives embedded in the river frontage of the present Rock House, was built by 1758 on the site of the former manor house, and would have been used by the Every family to arrive in Newton Solney by boat.