Cold Overton
| Cold Overton | |
| Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 St John the Baptist Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK809100 |
| Location: | 52°40’56"N, -0°48’12"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Oakham |
| Postcode: | LE15 |
| Dialling code: | 01664 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Melton |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Rutland and Melton |
Cold Overton is a village in Leicestershire, close to the border with Rutland, and approximately three miles west from the latter's county town, Oakham, and a mile and a half south-west of the A606 road.
History
Cold Overton is listed in the Domesday Book as in the county's Framland Hundred, with 12 ploughlands, 17 households, 4 freemen, 8 villeins, 4 smallholders, and a priest. The settlement contained a meadow and woodland, both of 30 acres. Lordship in 1066 was held by Ulf Fenman, transferred to Fulco in 1086, with Drogo of la Beuvrière as Tenant-in-chief.[1]
In 1826 was founded an “Asylum for Female Orphans” which maintained and educated 20 girls. This orphanage had been discontinued by 1877, and in its place was established a free school for local boys and girls. Occupations in 1877 included eight graziers, four of whom were farmers, a further farmer and a market gardener. Also listed was a schoolmistress, the parish rector, and Frewen family occupants of Cold Overton Hall.[2]
In 1870, the area of the parish was 1,657 acres, in which were 19 houses and a population of 97.[3]
Parish church
The village church is dedicated to John the Baptist. Originating in the 13th century, there were additions during the following two centuries and a restoration in 1889.[4] The church is a Grade I listed building.[5]
Inside the Church the north and south arcades have notable Early English carved capitals, showing people, animals and motifs from nature.[6] There are mediæval paintings on the south and east walls; the images include St Catherine holding a wheel, the Assumption of the Virgin, the Nativity, the Funeral of the Virgin, complete with pall-bearers, and St John the Baptist.[7]
Cold Overton Hall
- Main article: Cold Overton Hall
At the centre of the village is Cold Overton Hall, a country house of c. 1664 with early 19th-century additions, and a Grade I listed building.[8]
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References
- ↑ opendomesday|SK8110|Cold Overton}}
- ↑ White, William (1877); History Gazetteer and Directory of the counties of Leicester and Rutland, pp. 191, 192
- ↑ Wilson, John Marius: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (A. Fullerton & Co., 1870)
- ↑ St John the Baptist, Cold Overton
- ↑ National Heritage List 1075150: Church of St John the Baptist (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Cantor, Leonard (2000). The Historic Parish Churches of Leicestershire and Rutland. Kairos Press. p. 16. ISBN 9781871344257.
- ↑ Rosewell, Roger (2008). Mediæval Wall Paintings. The Boydell Press. p. 264. ISBN 9781843833680.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1075147: Cold Overton Hall and Adjoining Garden Walls, Main Street (Grade I listing)