St Peter's Church, Welford-on-Avon

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St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Welford-on-Avon, in Warwickshire, England. It is in the benefice of Quinton, Welford, Weston and Marston Sicca, and is in the Diocese of Gloucester; the church, near the border with Gloucestershire, was until 1931 in that county. The building, of which the earliest parts date from the 12th century, is Grade I listed.

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Welford-on-Avon

Welford-on-Avon est un village et une paroisse civile du Warwickshire, en Angleterre. Administrativement, il dépend du district de Stratford-on-Avon.

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Weston-on-Avon

Weston-on-Avon est un village et une paroisse civile du Warwickshire, en Angleterre. Administrativement, il dépend du district de Stratford-on-Avon.

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Luddington

Luddington est un village et une paroisse civile du Warwickshire, en Angleterre.

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Binton

Binton est un village et une paroisse civile dans le district de Stratford-on-Avon de Warwickshire en Angleterre. Le nom Binton dérive probablement de Bina's Ton, Bina étant un ancien propriétaire anglo-saxon du village. Binton est particulier dans la mesure où il comporte quatre entrées dans le Domesday Book de 1086. Il y avait quatre principaux propriétaires fonciers nommés William, Gerin, Urso et Hugh. La valeur totale de toutes leurs propriétés était de 8 et 10 £, une somme considérable à l'époque. En additionnant les chiffres donnés, on obtient une superficie de 1 538 acres, alors que la paroisse moderne ne fait que 1 300 acres. En effet, une partie du territoire d'origine se trouve maintenant dans la paroisse de Temple Grafton. Selon le Domesday Book, en 1086, Binton comptait 29 familles et 150 personnes travaillant sept charrues et trois moulins.

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Dorsington

Dorsington est un village et une paroisse civile du Warwickshire, en Angleterre.

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History and description

A small church was originally built on this site in 1059, by monks from Deerhurst Priory in Gloucestershire. It is thought that the bowl of the font survives from this church. There is a nave with north and south aisles, a chancel, west tower and south porch. The nave and narrow aisles, with two-bay arcades, and the semicircular outer order around the south doorway, are of the 12th century. The lowest part of the tower is of this period; the second stage is 13th-century. It was heightened in the 15th century, and is tall in relation to the rest of the church. The chancel was rebuilt in 1330–40, and two windows in the south wall of the nave and one window in the north wall were enlarged at this time. There was restoration in 1866–67 by George Gilbert Scott. The tower was damaged by a fire in 1884, and was repaired the following year. The chancel was refurbished in the 1920s, and the rood screen, replacing an earlier screen, was installed. It was made by Joseph Northcott of Beaworthy in Devon, and is a copy of a Benedictine screen. The east window of the chancel, by Geoffrey Webb, was installed in 1924.

Monuments

In the nave is a slab commemorating Walter Williams, a 15th-century priest, and a slab to Anne and William Jakeman, died 1723 and 1735.

Bells

According to tradition, the bells of Welford rang out at the victory of the Battle of Crécy in 1346. A later ring of six bells, by Richard Sanders of Bromsgrove, were installed in 1721. They were destroyed by a fire at the church in 1884, and were replaced the following year by six bells by Barwell. The present ring of eight bells are by John Taylor & Co. Six of these, dated 1960, are recasts of the bells by Barwell; the others are dated 1980.