Stanton, Gloucestershire
Stanton is a small village 3½ miles south of Broadway, and north of Cheltenham. It is completely constructed out of Cotswold stone, with a high street, and a pub, The Mount, at the end. Pevsner calls it 'architecturally, the most distinguished of the smaller villages in the North Cotswolds'.
It is on the edge of the Cotswold Escarpment. It is within just a few minutes drive from Stanway, and five or ten minutes drive from Broadway. The Cotswold Way runs through the village. There are, however, no shops or post office.[citation needed]
Historic buildings include: St Michael's Church (Late Norman), Stanton Court (Jacobean) and The Manor, or Warren House (1577).
History
Kenulf, king of Mercia gave the tithes and patronage of Stanton were to Winchcombe's Benedictine Abbey in 811.
Charles Wesley and John Wesley were frequent visitors to Stanton when the Kirkhams (Lionel and Robert) were rectors of St Michaels (1700-1765).
The Church of St Michael and All Angels
Possibly standing on the site of a Saxon church, the earliest features are three Norman pillars from around 1200 which form the northern arcade. The central tower at the crossing has gone, possibly due to a collapse which demolished the South arcade. The South arcade was rebuilt in with pointed arches in the Early English style, a bay longer than the previous arcade, together with a new tower of cut stone at the West end.
Still visible on the south wall is evidence of stone benching for the old and infirm from the days when the majority of the congregation would stand during the parts of the service that didn't require kneeling.
The original pulpit and lectern dating from around 1375, and restored in 1982 is present, together with a modern pulpit added in 1684. Fragments of mediaeval stained glass are present in the east window, the south transept and the west window, which also shows the White Rose of York.
The font, porch and parvise are fifteenth century.
The reredos (1915), the rood screen and the east windows of the chancel and transepts are by Sir Ninian Comper and Squire Stott.
In the north transept can be seen frescos of the Annunciation and Purification, fragments of the medieval screen
Hagioscopes or squints are present both in the north and south transepts, an aumbry is in the north and two more in the south transept and aisle. Also medieval encaustic tiles are extant at the east end. Fragments of ancient painted decoration are also visible.
There is a wooden roundel of Mauritius Wrabury.
Medieval benching is at the back of the nave "their poppy heads ringed with the chains of shepherds dogs".[1]
Notable residents
- Sir Philip Sidney Stott, 1st Baronet (20 February 1858–31 March 1937), the English architect, civil engineer, surveyor and politician.
References
- ↑ Church leaflet, c. 1990s
- Gloucestershire: the Cotswolds, David Verey, Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England, Penguin, 1970, ISBN 0-14-071040-X. pp. 412–414.
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Coordinates: 52°00′23″N 1°53′48″W / 52.0064°N 1.8968°W