Bagendon is a village and
civil parish in the
Cotswold district of
Gloucestershire, England, about four miles north of
Cirencester.
According to the 2001 census it had a population of 265,decreasing to 239 at the
2011 census.
St Margaret's Church
The
Church of England parish church,
St Margaret's, a Grade I
listed building dedicated probably either to
St Margaret of Antioch
Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr ( grc-gre, Ἁγία Μαρίνα) in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in the Western Rite Orthodoxy, Roman Catholic Church and Anglicanism, o ...
or to
St Margaret of Scotland, is “an attractive and interesting little church, often subjected to flooding". The church building is partly
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
, but the
chancel, south door and porch, the windows in the
nave, and the diagonal buttresses of the tower date to between about 1460 and 1470.
[David Verey, ''Cotswold Churches'' (B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1976), at pages 71 to 72]
People
The novelist
Hilda Gregg was born here in 1868.
See also
George Edward Rees, ''History of Bagendon'' (T.Hailing Ltd, 1932)
References
External links
*
Bagendon Parish Council
Villages in Gloucestershire
Cotswold District
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