Ettington is a civilian village and parish about 5.5 miles (9 km) southeast of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. The 2011 census records the parish population as 1,171.
The village is on the A422 main road linking Stratford and Banbury. The A429 main road connecting Warwick and Cirencester is used to pass through the village, and now uses a shortcut to its west. The Fosse Way Roman Road (road B4455) crosses A422 0.6 miles (1 km) east of the village.
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Topon
Toponim "Ettington" comes from the Old English word ea for water and don to climb to the ground or grassland. His name has evolved through several forms including Eatenden and Eatington . The latter is still used occasionally by locals and by Microsoft AutoRoute.
There used to be Ettington Down and Up. Lower Ettington is beside the Stour River but destroyed in the 18th century. This village is what was once called Upper Ettington, and is on higher ground around mile (2 km) to the northeast.
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Manors
The Domesday Book of 1086 mencatat dua manor.
Lower Ettington is a treasure of 17 skins that Norman's master is Henry de Ferrers. Tenants Ferrers is one of Saswalo, whose grandson Sewallis moved to Shirley, Derbyshire and took "Shirley" as his family name. The Shirley family has been the main landowner at Ettington ever since. The present manor house, now known as Ettington Park Hotel, was probably built in the 17th century and extended in the 18th century. In 1824 it was renovated for design by architects Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson. In 1858-1962, the building was overhauled into Gothic Revival design by John Prichard and JP Seddon. This is a class I listed building and is now a hotel operated by Hand Picked Hotels. MGM uses it as a location in the 1963 horror film The Haunting .
Upper Ettington is a three-leather plantation, held by one of the Turchil of Warwick. The House of Upper Ettington nobility is now in the village and the 17th century.
In the parish 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Upper Ettington is the manor and the village of Thornton. Its parent house was built in the 16th century, changed in 1658 and is a Grade II * registered building. The village is now empty and its location is a scheduled monument.
The Parliament passed the Closing Act for Ettington in 1795 and its verdict was made in July 1797. Evelyn Shirley had uprooted the Lower Ettington village and the medieval dispensary cross was removed to clean his garden of the rusanya for landscaping. The water plant was destroyed in 1798.
Church
English Church
Ettington has had three successive parish churches in different places: the first in Lower Ettington and the second and third in Upper Ettington. In the Middle Ages there was also a chantry chapel in Upper Ettington.
The original parish church of the Holy Trinity was in Lower Ettington. This is a 12th-century Norman building with additional extras. At the beginning of the 13th century, Henry Shirley had an altar to St. Nicholas who was founded in the church. As a result, the church is also known as St. Nicholas. A northern alley with a three-bay arcade was added in the 14th century. The windows on the south side of the nave were replaced in the 17th century.
In the Dissolution of 16th Century Monasteries, chantry in Upper Ettington was dissolved. The chapel was converted into three almshouses, still in use in 1730. The building is now a thatched cottage, Rose Cottage.
In 1794, a parish wedding meeting decided to replace the ancient church at Lower Ettington with a new church in Upper Ettington, which had become a population center even before Evelyn Shirley destroyed the old village. In 1795, the Parliament passed an act which authorized this and in 1798 the new church of St. Thomas of Canterbury ordained. The church of the twelfth century was abandoned, but in 1823 the southern transept was restored as the mortuary chapel for Shirley. The rest of the original church, including the sprawling and distinctive tower, survives as a ruin without a roof. This is a scheduled monument and a registered class I building.
The parish church of St. Thomas is known as the ugliest in Warwickshire. A new Gothic Awakening church to replace it began in 1902 and was completed in 1903. The church of the 18th century was destroyed in 1913, except for the tower and the west wall of the central part of the church, which survives as a chapel of the morgue.
The Holy Trinity parish church tower now has a ring of four bells. Edward Newcombe, who owned a foundry factory in Leicester and Bedford, threw a treble and second bell for the original parish church in 1595. Richard I Purdue, who owns bellfoundries in Somerset in Glastonbury and Stoford, threw the third bell in 1624. John Briant from Hertford gave the tenor bell in 1803, five years after the church of St. Thomas was built.
Holy Trinity parish is part of Stourdene Benefice, which also includes the Alderminster parishes, Butlers Marston, Halford, Newbold on Stour, and Pillerton Hersey.
Society of Friends
The Society of Friends had a member in Ettington in 1664 and its founder George Fox preached at the parish farm of Lambcote in 1678. The Land of Friends grave was founded in 1681. The meeting house was completed in 1684 and is a Grade II * registered building.
Chapel
A Congregation chapel was built in 1804 and enlarged in 1846. It is now a private home. The Methodist Chapel was built in 1836 and is still used for worship in 1949.
Composer and organist Dr. William Croft (1678-1727) was born in Ettington and was baptized in a parish church of the 13th century.
The East and West Railway from Fenny Compton to Stratford-upon-Avon was built through the area and opened on 1 July 1873. Ettington rail station is located in Thornton, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village. Under the British Railway Restructuring station was closed in 1963 followed by a line in 1965.
Facilities
Ettington has two pubs: White Crate and Horse. The parish has a Church of England high school. There is a village shop and a post office. Ettington Rovers is an amateur football club playing in Leamington and District Sunday League.
References
Source
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Wedgwood, Alexandra (1966). Warwickshire . British buildings. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp.Ã, 289-291.
- Salzman, L.F, ed. (1949). County Warwick History . Regional History of Victoria. 5: Kington Hundred. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research. pp.Ã, 77-84.
External links
- Ettington Parish Community Website
- The Stourdene Benefice
- Photos of Ettington and surrounding area in Geographic
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