Charlton is a village and
civil parish in North
Wiltshire, England, about northeast of
Malmesbury and northwest of the village of
Brinkworth. The parish includes the hamlet of Perry Green and the
Charlton Park estate. The
2011 Census recorded the parish population as 425.
Manor
Two
Anglo Saxon charter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the ...
s and the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...
of 1086 record land in the parish.
Malmesbury Abbey held the
manor.
Parish church
The oldest parts of the
Church of England parish church of St
John the Baptist
John the Baptist ( – ) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist ...
include the north
arcade, which is late 12th-century. The west tower and north chapel were added in the 13th century. Several new windows were inserted in the 15th century. The
Jacobean pulpit was made in 1630, and the tower screen may be of a similar date. Inside the church is a canopied
monument
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to Sir Henry Knyvett, who died in 1598. The church is a
Grade II* listed building
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. The parish is now part of the
Benefice of Garsdon,
Lea and Cleverton, and Charlton, although the church is served by the Braydon Brook team ministry.
The tower has a
ring of six bells. Abraham I
Rudhall of Gloucester cast the third, fourth and tenor bells in 1712. John Rudhall cast the fifth bell in 1805.
John Taylor & Co of
Loughborough cast the treble and second in 1999.
References
Bibliography
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External links
Charlton Parish Council*
Civil parishes in Wiltshire
Villages in Wiltshire
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