Hempton, Oxfordshire
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 St John the Evangelist parish church |
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  Hempton |
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| OS grid reference | SP4431 |
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| Civil parish | Deddington |
| District | Cherwell |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Banbury |
| Postcode district | OX15 |
| Dialling code | 01869 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Banbury |
| Website | Deddington Online |
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Coordinates: 51°58′59″N 1°21′18″W / 51.983°N 01.355°W
Hempton is a village in Deddington civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) south of Banbury in Oxfordshire.
Hempton is on the B4031 main road between Deddington and Chipping Norton, which was a turnpike from 1770 until 1871.[1]
Chapel and church
Hempton has a former nonconformist chapel that is said to have been opened in 1840.[1] It ceased to be used for worship in the 1950s and is now a private house.
The Church of England parish church of St. John the Evangelist was completed in 1850[2] or 1851.[1][3] Rev. William Wilson of Over Worton designed the Gothic Revival building[2][3] and funded its construction.[1] The building has Early English style lancet windows and a two-bay north arcade that led to a schoolroom.[2] The church's font is a Norman one from Holy Trinity parish church, Over Worton.[1][2][3]
In its early decades St. John's was a licensed but unconsecrated chapel and independent of the Benefice of Deddington,[1] but is now part of the benefice.
Economic and social history
Hempton has a number of cottages that were built late in the 17th or early in the 18th century. Turret Cottage and Middle Corner Cottage are early 18th century,[4] and plaque between them records that they were restored in 1976 with the help of the CPRE Oxfordshire Buildings Preservation Trust Ltd.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Crossley 1983, pp. 143–159
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Chapel of Ease of St John the Evangelist". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 635
- ↑ "Middle Corner Cottage Turret Thatch". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
Sources and further reading
- Allbrook, Michael; Forsyth, Robert (2011). A Parish at War; A military record of three Oxfordshire villages; Deddington — Clifton — Hempton. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-870677-04-2.
- Allbrook, Michael; Forsyth, Robert (2012). A Parish at War; A military record of three Oxfordshire villages; Deddington — Clifton — Hempton; The Supplement. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Ltd.
- 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. 81–120.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 635. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
