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Shipton Moyne is a village and
civil parish
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in the
Cotswold district
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of
Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
, England, approximately 105 miles west of London. Its nearest towns are
Tetbury
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(3 miles north), also in Gloucestershire, and
Malmesbury
Malmesbury () is a town and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately west of Swindon, northeast of Bristol, and north of Chippenham. The older part of the town is on a hilltop which is almost surrounded by the up ...
(3 miles southeast) in
Wiltshire
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. The population taken at the
2011 census was 265.
History
The name Shipton, recorded in 1086, indicates the early importance of sheep-farming in the parish economy; the affix Moyne, recorded from 1287, was acquired when the manor was owned by the Moyne family.
The
Victoria County History
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provides a detailed account of the history of the parish from the eleventh to the twentieth century.
The
Fosse Way
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forms part of the parish boundary and also the county boundary with
Wiltshire
Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...
. Shipton Moyne was one of several parishes which were transferred from Wiltshire to Gloucestershire in 1930.
Sites of interest
The Cat and Custard Pot (Public House)
In 1661 two parishioners were keeping unlicensed alehouses and in 1755 two victualers were licensed. A beerhouse on the west side of the village street was recorded in the early 19th century and was presumably occupied by the beer-retailers listed in the parish later. Apparently still unnamed in 1891, it was called the Estcourt Arms in 1927 but by 1931 the name had been changed to the Cat and Custard Pot.
The village pub's unusual name is said to originate from the book ''Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks's Hunt'' by
Robert Smith Surtees
Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 180516 March 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is rem ...
.
![The Kill on The Cat and Custard Pot Day](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/The_Kill_on_The_Cat_and_Custard_Pot_Day.jpg)
:"when they reached the meet—the sign of the “Cat and Custard-pot,” on the Muswell Road, they found an immense assemblage"
St. John the Baptist's Church
History
The present building, erected in 1864, replaced a church with a record going back to Norman times. Part of the north aisle and the porch were preserved, together with the Eastcourt Chapel on the south side and part of the nave, the central tower being demolished and the nave extended to form an enlarged chancel. A south aisle was constructed with a new tower at the south-west corner providing a belfry and entrance.
The list of rectors goes back to 1297; in the 19th century the church was served by curates. The former church is recorded in engravings and photographs.
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Lord Gowrie and his wife are buried in the churchyard. Lord Gowrie was the 20th
Governor of South Australia
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from 15/05/1928 to 26/04/1934. From 15/01/1935 to 23/01/1936 he was the 27th
Governor of New South Wales
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and from 23/01/1936 to 30/01/1945 he was
Governor-General of Australia
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(1807–1880) was a cousin of the architects James and Jeffrey Wyatt (and brother of Matthew Digby Wyatt). He was an eminent architect and had a large practice that included work on many Wiltshire churches owing to his patronage by the Beauforts. His design of St. John the Baptist's Church is a good example of a High Victorian design, if bearing little relation to its predecessor.
Bells
Five bells were recorded in 1680 and a further bell was added in 1865: a treble weighing five hundredweight. One tenor bell was cast in the mid-fifteenth century in London. Weighing fourteen hundredweight it was dedicated to The Virgin Mary. Two were cast in Bristol by Roger Purden in 1620, one weighing 6cwt. and the other 7cwt. Two were cast in Gloucester by
Abraham Rudhall in 1704, one weighing 8cwt. and the other 10cwt.
In 1962, at the expense of Col. St. George of Hillcourt, two bells were re-cast by John Taylor of Loughborough; the 1620 bell weighing 7cwt. and the 1704 bell weighing 5cwt. All were rehung on a strengthened frame and re-dedicated. The total weight of the bells being some two and a half tons.
Organ
Built by Bevington and Sons of Soho, London and restored by Osmond & Co. of Taunton in 1995, the organ has one manual electrically operated blower. The original handle operated manual blower is still present in the vestry.
Clock
Facing west in the tower, the clock was made by
John Smith & Sons of Derby in 1887. It strikes on the hour and half hour. The face was restored in memory of Lt. Cmdr. J.T.B. Birch D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., a past churchwarden who for several years gave his time to maintaining the church.
Decorations, monuments and tombs
![Shipton Moyne, by Kip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Shipton_Moyne%2C_by_Kip.jpg)
* In the Chancel there is a stained glass window in memory of Walter Hodges and his wife Mary and another of Thomas Gildart Golightly and his wife Gertrude. The latter made and designed by Bryams in 1905.
* In the north aisle there is a stained glass window in memory of William Frederic Hamilton Gratman made and designed by Ward Hughes in 1862. In the west, another in memory of
Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt by Taylor (late O'Connor) 1877. There is also a small stained glass window in the porch to Major General B.B. Estcourt.
* A large decorated tomb with Thomas Estcourt (1599) and his wife and family and a later tomb of Sir Thomas Estcourt (1624) and his wife. The latter tomb was transferred from Lasborough church in 1825 with two kneeling marble figures lost in the process.
* There are recumbent figures of two knights and a lady believed to be of the Le Moyne family (originally Le Moigne) and dating from the fourteenth century.
* The font is in memory of Edward Dugdale Bucknall Estcourt. There is no trace left of the original Norman octagonal font recorded in 1843.
* On the outside of the South Chapel there is built into the wall a stone carved plaque with the initials of Edmund Estcourt dated 1749.
* A Caen stone and marble reredos presented by Canon Golightly may be found in the chancel.
* The pulpit was carved by Barbetti of Florence; it depicts scenes from the life of John the Baptist.
The Fosse Way
The
Fosse Way
The Fosse Way was a Roman road built in Britain during the first and second centuries AD that linked Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter) in the southwest and Lindum Colonia (Lincoln) to the northeast, via Lindinis (Ilchester), Aquae Sulis ( Bath), Corini ...
, the only
Roman road
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in Britain to retain its original Latin name – most others having been renamed by the
Saxons
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– passes through Shipton Moyne. Its route takes it from
Exeter
Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol.
In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...
(
Isca Dumnoniorum
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The town grew up around this ...
) in southwest England, to
Lincoln
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(Lindum) in the East Midlands, via
Bath
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* Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities
Plac ...
(Aquae Sulis),
Cirencester
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Corinium
Corinium Dobunnorum was the Romano-British settlement at Cirencester in the present-day English county of Gloucestershire. Its 2nd-century walls enclosed the second-largest area of a city in Roman Britain. It was the tribal capital of the Dobun ...
) and
Leicester
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The city l ...
(Ratae Coritanorum).
Local persons
![Harry Taylor](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Harry_Taylor.jpg)
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HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, lives at
Highgrove, near Shipton Moyne
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John Oldham (1653–1683), poet, was born in Shipton Moyne.
*Lieutenant Harry Taylor (1889–1918), a
First World War
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pilot with both the
Australian Flying Corps
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and the
Royal Flying Corps
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, died in an aerial collision during a training exercise over Shipton Moyne.
References
External links
* Village website: https://www.shiptonmoynevillage.co.uk/
* Parish charity: https://www.friendsofshiptonmoyne.org.uk/
* Parish Council: https://shiptonmoynepc.org.uk/
* Shipton Moyne Opera: http://www.smopera.org/
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Villages in Gloucestershire
Cotswold District
Civil parishes in Gloucestershire
Places formerly in Wiltshire