Broad Hinton
| Broad Hinton | |
| Wiltshire | |
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU105765 |
| Location: | 51°29’13"N, 1°51’0"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 650 (2011) |
| Post town: | Swindon |
| Postcode: | SN4 |
| Dialling code: | 01793 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Wiltshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Devizes |
Broad Hinton is a village in Wiltshire about five miles south-west of Swindon. The parish includes the hamlets of Uffcott and The Weir.
History
Archaeology
There are several barrows in the parish, notably on Hackpen Hill.[1] East of The Weir is a Romano-British burial site and possibly the remains of a house of that period.[1]
Bincknoll Castle is an earthwork on a promontory on a chalk escarpment in the northernmost part of the parish.[1] It is the remains of a fortified enclosure, possibly Romano-British in origin, that was re-used in the Middle Ages.[1]
Later history and the manor
The Domesday Book of 1086 records that a man called Ranulph held the manor of Broad Hinton.[1]
The manor passed to the Wase family and became known as Hinton Wase.[1] In 1365 Nicholas Wase sold the manor to William Wroughton (died 1392), whose family then held Broad Hinton until 1628 when Sir Giles Wroughton sold it to Sir John Glanville, MP and later Speaker of the House of Commons.[1] He was a cousin of John Evelyn's wife and the diarist visited him at Broad Hinton in 1654, noting that he was living in the manor's gatehouse because he had burnt down his home to prevent the Roundheads setting up a garrison there during the Civil War.
In 1709 a later John Glanville sold the manor to Thomas Bennet, from whom it descended by way of the female line through the Legh, Keck and Calley families.[1] In 1839 James Calley sold Broad Hinton to the Duke of Wellington.[1] In 1867 his son the 2nd Duke of Wellington sold Broad Hinton to N. Story-Maskelyne, who in 1869 sold it on to the former MP Sir Henry Meux, 2nd Baronet.[1] Sir Henry died in 1900 and his widow Lady Meux had the manor broken up and auctioned in several lots in 1906.[1]
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of St Peter ad Vincula ("St Peter in Chains") is one of only 15 churches in England with this specific dedication, which is echoes that of the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.
The earliest parts of the church building date from late in the 12th century.[1] They include an Early English Gothic priest's doorway,[2] which was later moved from the chancel to the organ chamber.[1] In the 13th century the chancel was rebuilt, the nave was altered and the church was dedicated to St Mary.[1] The Perpendicular Gothic tower[2] was built in the 15th or early in the 16th century.[1] A rood stair was inserted early in the 16th century. The nave was re-roofed in 1634 and the east end of the chancel was altered or rebuilt in the 18th century.[1]
In the 19th century the church was called St Peter's. The building was restored in 1879 to plans by the Gothic Revival architect C E Ponting of Marlborough.[1] He had a new, wider chancel arch built and re-used the old one to link the chancel with the organ chamber.[1]
The church today is designated a Grade I listed building.[3]
Monuments
The church contains several imposing monuments, notably to members of the Wroughton and Glanville families.[4]
There are indents of two lost brasses in the chancel, both knights in armour. The earlier was probably to William Wroughton (died 1392) and the later was certainly to his grandson, John Wroughton (died 1429).
The monument to John's great-great-grandson, Sir William Wroughton (died 1559), is early Elizabethan, canopied, and shows influence of the previous Perpendicular Gothic style.[4] Despite an inscription in praise of Queen Elizabeth, it includes subtle references to his Roman Catholic sympathies. The monument to his son, Sir Thomas Wroughton (died 1597) and his wife, is a large standing monument, with figures of Sir Thomas and Lady Wroughton kneeling in prayer and facing east.[4] An old legend tells how Sir Thomas is shown with no hands because they withered away after he threw his wife's Bible in the fire. He had returned home from hunting to find her reading it rather than making his supper and was not best pleased.
Colonel Francis Glanville, a younger son of Speaker Glanville, was a Royalist soldier in the Civil War.[1] He was killed in 1645 when Parliamentarian force besieged the Royalist-held town of Bridgwater in Somerset.[4] His monument at Broad Hinton is a standing alabaster statue, wearing armour and holding the metal staff of a standard.[4] His real armour is displayed above the monument.[4]
About the vilage
Broad Hinton has two public houses, The Barbury Inn,[5] and The Crown Inn.[6]
The village has a village shop and post office and a village hall.
Sports clubs in the village include a cricket club and a badminton club.
Societies including a Women's Institute and Broad Hinton Amateur Dramatic Society.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Broad Hinton) |
- Broad Hinton Village Hall
- Broad Hinton: Wiltshire Community History
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 Crowley et al., 1983, pages 105–109
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1963; 1975 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09659-0page 146
- ↑ National Heritage List 1365589: Church of St Peter ad Vincula
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 147
- ↑ "The Barbury Inn – Freehouse – Broad Hinton". http://www.thebarburyinn.co.uk/. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ↑ "The Crown, Broad Hinton". http://www.thecrownatbroadhinton.co.uk/. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- A History of the County of Wiltshire - Volume 12 pp 105–109: Ramsbury and Selkey hundreds; the Borough of Marlborough (Victoria County History): (on British History Online)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1963; 1975 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09659-0page 146–147