Weedon Lois
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| Weedon Lois | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
 St Mary and St Peter, Weedon Lois | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP601470 |
| Location: | 52°7’5"N, 1°7’26"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Northampton |
| Postcode: | NN12 |
| Dialling code: | 01327 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Northamptonshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Northamptonshire |
| Website: | Weston and Weedon Parish Council |
Weedon Lois (or Lois Weedon) is a village in Northamptonshire, about five and a half miles west of Towcester.
The village's name is in two parts: 'Weedon' means 'Heathen temple hill'. There is a well in the parish, named after St Loys or Lewis, whose waters apparently cured the blind and Leprous, hence the suffix.[1]
Church
The oldest parts of the parish church, St Mary and St Peter, date from about 1100. It is a Grade II* listed building.[2] The authors Edith Sitwell and her brother Sacheverell Sitwell are buried in the churchyard, as are Michael Aris and American author James Purdy.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Weedon Lois) |
References
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Weedon%20Lois.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1371888: Church of St Mary (Grade II* listing)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1961; 1973 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3
- Weedon Lois: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Northamptonshire, Volume 4, pages 163-167
