Brightwalton
| Brightwalton | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 Brightwalton Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU4279 |
| Location: | 51°30’40"N, 1°23’2"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 322 (2001) |
| Post town: | Newbury |
| Postcode: | RG20 |
| Dialling code: | 01488 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Berkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Newbury |
Brightwalton is a village in Berkshire, amongst the Berkshire Downs and about 8 miles north of Newbury.
The Domesday Book of 1086 records the parish church, All Saints. A new church may have been built in the later Middle Ages, as was common. The church though was demolished in 1863 and replaced by a Gothic Revival church designed by George Edmund Street,[1] who was architect to the Diocese of Oxford. Street retained and re-used some 13th century Early English Gothic features from the original building.
The parish has a Church of England primary school, also was designed by Street and built in 1863.[2]
Notable Residents
in c. 1715, the Savo(u)ry family settled in the village, having moved from nearby South Moreton. The Savorys were wheelwrights, but William Savory (1768-1824) from a third generation of the family, was apprenticed to David Jones, an apothecary in Newbury. Aged 20, Savory "walked the wards" of St Thomas' Hospital and Guy's Hospital in London. He learned surgery, physic (medicine) and mifwifery from the leading practitioners of their day, including the surgeon, Henry Cline, and the physician, William Saunders. Some of his student notes and his commonplace book survive.[3] Savory became a member of the Company of Surgeons and initially practiced in Newbury. Following bankruptcy in 1795, he re-settled in Brightwalton, where he remained for the rest of his life, passing the mantle to his son, William Savory (1793-1856) who studied at the London Hospital in Whitechapel.[4]
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References
- ↑ Pevsner, 1966, page 101
- ↑ Pevsner, 1966, page 102
- ↑ Online catalogue describing Savory's student notes.
- ↑ See Stuart Eagles "The life of William Savory, surgeon of Brightwalton" and "William Savory: Rise and Fall" in Berkshire Family Historian vol. 17, no. 4 (June 1994) and vol. 21, no. 1 (September 1997), and George C. Peachey, The life of William Savory, surgeon of Brightwalton (J. J. Keliher, 1903).
- Page, William; Ditchfield, P.H., eds (1924). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. pp. 48–51.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). The Buildings of England: Berkshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 101–102.
