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St Peter's Church, Everleigh
St Peter's Church, in Everleigh, Wiltshire, Everleigh, Wiltshire, England was built in 1813 by John Morlidge for F.D. Astley. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* Listed building#England and Wales, listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Everleigh had a parish church by 1228, when it was granted to the Order of Saint Benedict, Benedictine Wherwell Abbey in Hampshire. The advowson was held by the abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries after which is passed to Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley and his descendants. The mediaeval parish church was demolished in 1814 and the present Church of England parish church of Saint Peter was consecrated on a site about north-west of it. The present church was designed by the architect John Morlidge in a Georgian architecture, Georgian Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival style for Sir Francis Dugdale Astley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everleigh, Wiltshire
Everleigh, pronounced and also sometimes spelled Everley, is a village and civil parish in east Wiltshire, England, about southeast of the town of Pewsey, towards the northeast of Salisbury Plain. The village is also known as East Everleigh, to distinguish it from the hamlet of Lower Everleigh which lies about further west on the A342 road that connects Andover and Devizes. The village is surrounded by land known as Everleigh Drop Zone, owned by the Ministry of Defence that is used for military training as part of the Salisbury Plain Training Area. History The partly-forested area was known for recreational hunting. By the 13th century there was a deer park and a rabbit warren, and later activities included hare coursing, falconry and racehorse training. East Everleigh developed at a crossroads where the old Marlborough-Salisbury road (now only a track in the south of the parish) met the Devizes-Andover road (now the A342). In the 18th and 19th centuries, several inns provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, 2nd Baronet (1805–1873)
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men who are knights and belong to certain orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the ''suo jure'' female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms, or Miss. Etymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
