Wigginton, Oxfordshire
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 Wigginton
Wigginton shown within Oxfordshire |
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| Area | 4.80 km2 (1.85 sq mi) |
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| Population | 194 (2011 census)[1] |
| – density | 40/km2 (100/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SP3833 |
| Civil parish | Wigginton |
| District | Cherwell |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Banbury |
| Postcode district | OX15 |
| Dialling code | 01608 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Banbury |
| Website | Parish of Wigginton Oxfordshire |
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Wigginton is a village and civil parish about 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Banbury in Oxfordshire.[2] The village is beside the River Swere, which forms the southern boundary of the parish.
Archaeology
About 300 metres (330 yd) northeast of the parish church is the site of a Iron Age enclosure, on which a large Roman villa[3] was added in about the 2nd century AD.[4] The occupied part of the villa seems to have been reduced in size in the 4th century AD.[4] The site is a scheduled monument.[4]
Parish church
The nave and north and south aisles of the Church of England parish church of Saint Giles were built late in the 13th century.[5] The chancel is early Decorated Gothic, built in about 1300.[6] Each aisle is linked with the nave by an arcade of three bays.[5] The Perpendicular Gothic porch and west tower were added in the 15th or late 14th century.[5] The nave clerestory is also a Perpendicular addition.[5] The tower and the clerestory are crenellated.[5] Monuments in St Giles include some eary 14th century effigies in the chancel: of a recumbent knight on the north side, and of a civilian with two wives or daughters on the south.[7]
In the late 19th century the church was restored under the direction of two Gothic Revival architects: the chancel and south aisle in 1870 under William White and the nave and north aisle in 1886 under John Loughborough Pearson.[5] The stained glass of the east window was added in 1908.[5] St Giles is a Grade I listed building.[5]
The tower has a ring of six bells.[8] Until 1998 there were only three: the treble cast by Matthew III Bagley of Chacombe, Northamptonshire in 1753,[9] the second cast by George Mears of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1859 and the tenor by Henry Bond of Burford in 1896.[8] In 1998 the Whitechapel Bell Foundry converted this into a ring of six by retuning the treble as a tenor, recasting the 1859 and 1896 bells as new second, third, fourth and fifth bells and adding a new treble.[8] The bells were then rehung in a new frame by White's of Appleton.[8] St Giles' has also a Sanctus bell that was cast in about 1599.[9]
St Giles' has an early clock. Its date is unknown but its characteristics suggest it was made early in the 17th century.[10] The churchwardens' accounts record payments to a Samuel Bloxham for its repair from 1717 onwards, including a bill for £5 3s 0d for work in 1733–34 when Bloxham and a clockmaker called Thomas Gilks from Chipping Norton seem to have rebuilt it.[11]
St Giles' parish is now part of the Benefice of Hook Norton with Great Rollright, Swerford and Wigginton.[12]
Amenities
Wigginton has a public house, The White Swan, that is controlled by Hook Norton Brewery.[13]
There is a Swerford and Wigginton Women's Institute.[14]
References
- ↑ Parish: Key Statistics: Population. (2011 census Retrieved 2016-05-04.
- ↑ Parish of Wigginton Oxfordshire
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- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 841.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 842.
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- ↑ Beeson & Simcock 1989, p. 21.
- ↑ Beeson & Simcock 1989, p. 173.
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- ↑ Swerford & Wigginton Women's Institute
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