Newbottle is a
civil parish and largely
deserted village in
West Northamptonshire, about west of the
market town of
Brackley. It is close to the
Oxfordshire
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county boundary and about south-east of the town of
Banbury.
The village's name means 'new building'.
A stream that is a tributary of the
River Cherwell forms the parish boundary to the north-west. The remainder of the parish boundary mostly follows field boundaries.
The parish includes the larger village of
Charlton
Charlton may refer to:
People
* Charlton (surname)
* Charlton (given name)
Places Australia
* Charlton, Queensland
* Charlton, Victoria
* Division of Charlton, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wale ...
, about south-east of Newbottle. The
2001 census recorded a parish population of 438, most of whom live in Charlton.
[ increasing to a joint population of 528 at the 2011 census,
]
Archaeology
Rainsborough Camp
Rainsborough Camp is an Iron Age hillfort in West Northamptonshire, England, between the villages of Croughton, Aynho, and Charlton.
Location and description
There are extensive views to the north-west towards the Cherwell valley; the land is f ...
is an early Iron Age hill fort in the southernmost part of the parish. Excavations in 1961–65 found that it had been inhabited and developed in phases between the 4th century BC and about 4 AD.[Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 312]
Manor
Newbottle manor house is 16th century, built probably in the reign of Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...
[ possibly by Peter Dormer, a member of the famous Buckinghamshire family, who held "Nubottel" at about that time when his daughter Elizabeth married the owner of Salford Hall, Salford Abbots. The west wing was added in the 17th century and the library has panelling dating from about 1730.][ The house has also an octagonal dovecote.][
]
Parish church
The Church of England parish church
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes ca ...
of Saint James Saint James or St. James may refer to:
People Saints
*James, brother of Jesus (died 62 or 69), also known as James the Just
*James the Great (died 44), Apostle, also known as James, son of Zebedee, or Saint James the Greater
**Saint James Matamoro ...
has a tower built in about 1290-1210 and a Norman font
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In mod ...
. The present chancel is 13th century.[Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 311] Between the nave and north aisle is a four-bay
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Decorated Gothic arcade.[ The south aisle is a ]Perpendicular Gothic
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arcade addition.[ The ]Gothic Revival
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east window in the chancel was inserted in 1865[ and its ]stained glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...
is by C.E. Kempe.[
In the Middle Ages St. James' belonged to the Augustinian ]Dunstable Priory
The Priory Church of St Peter with its monastery (Dunstable Priory) was founded in 1132 by Henry I for Augustinian Canons in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. St Peter's today is only the nave of what remains of an originally much larger Augu ...
.['' Victoria County History'', 1904, pages 371–377] The Priory's annals for 1291, record it as receiving tithes from Newbottle.[ It still possessed St. James' in 1535 when the Crown's bailiff valued the Priory's property and estates in preparation for the Dissolution of the Monasteries.][
St. James' now forms a single ]benefice
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with SS Peter and Paul, King's Sutton.
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Villages in Northamptonshire
Civil parishes in Northamptonshire
West Northamptonshire District