Heythrop
Coordinates: 51°57′00″N 1°29′28″W / 51.950°N 1.491°W
Heythrop is a village and civil parish just over 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Dunthrop.
Heythrop had a Norman parish church of Saint Nicholas, but the nave has been demolished and only the chancel has been preserved as a mortuary chapel.[2] The chapel's west doorway was the south doorway of the former nave.[2]
In 1657 an attempt to merge the Benefices of Enstone and Heythrop was abandoned in the face of local opposition.[3] In 1923 the incumbent of Heythrop ceased to live in the parish and in 1964 it and Enstone were finally merged.[3] In 2001 the Benefice of Enstone and Heythrop merged with that of Ascott-under-Wychwood, Chadlington, and Spelsbury to form the Chase Benefice.[4]
Heythrop House in Heythrop Park was built from 1706 onwards by the architect Thomas Archer for Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury.[5] It was gutted by fire in 1831 and restored by the architect Alfred Waterhouse in 1871 for Albert Brassey.[5] It was a Jesuit college from 1922 until 1969[6] and a training college for the National Westminster Bank from 1969 until 1999.
Brassey rebuilt Heythrop as a model village in the 1870s and 1880s.[7] He encouraged the growth of the church congregation such that it outgrew its Norman building.[3] In 1880 he had a new Church of England parish church of St. Nicholas built by the Gothic Revival architect Sir Arthur Blomfield.[2] The south doorway incorporates 13th century mouldings from the demolished nave of the old church.[2] Albert Brassey had the rectory built at about the same time.[3] It remained in the Brasseys' ownership, and when the incumbent ceased to reside in the parish in 1923 it was renamed the Dower House and let as a private house.[3]
References
- ↑ "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 646
- 1 2 3 4 5 Crossley, 1983, pages 131-143
- ↑ A Church Near You: Heythrop: St Nicholas, Heythrop
- 1 2 Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 647
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 649
- ↑ Rowley, 1978, page 137
Sources
- Crossley, Alan (ed.); Baggs, A.P.; Colvin, Christina; Colvin, H.M.; Cooper, Janet; Day, C.J.; Selwyn, Nesta; Tomkinson, A. (1983). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 11: Wootton Hundred (northern part). Victoria County History. pp. 131–143.
- Rowley, Trevor (1978). Villages in the Landscape. Archaeology in the Field Series. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. p. 137. ISBN 0-460-04166-5.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 646–649. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
External links
Media related to Heythrop at Wikimedia Commons
