Curry Rivel
| Curry Rivel | |
| Somerset | |
|---|---|
 Manor Farmhouse and Church of St Andrew, Curry Rivel | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST395255 |
| Location: | 51°1’32"N, 2°51’50"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,148 (2011, parish) |
| Post town: | Langport |
| Postcode: | TA10 |
| Dialling code: | 01458 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Somerset |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Somerton and Frome |
Curry Rivel is a village in Somerset, found six miles west of Somerton and ten miles east of Taunton. The wider parish (which includes the hamlet of Burton Pynsent) had a recorded population of 2,148 in 2011.
The village is within the Abdick and Bulstone Hundred of the county.[1][2]
History
The site of a Roman house has been discovered south of Fairview House. The site is on the Heritage at Risk register due to ploughing.[3][4]
The unusual name 'Curry Rivel', comes from the Celtic word crwy, meaning boundary and Rivel from its 12th century landlord Sir Richard Revel.
In 1237 the king granted Henry de l'Orti a licence to empark his woods in Curry Rivel separating it from the control of the foresters of Castle Neroche.[5]
Parish church
The parish, the Church of St Andrew dates from the 13th century and is designated as a Grade I listed building.[6]
About the village
Earnshill House was built in 1725 by John Strachan for Henry Combe, a prominent Bristol merchant.[7]
Burton Pynsent House was built around 1756 for William Pitt the Elder, after he inherited the estate from Sir William Pynsent.[8] It formed part of a wing on a larger earlier house, that was demolished around 1805. It has been designated a Grade II* listed building.[9] The grounds were laid out in the mid 18th century by Lancelot Brown and William Pitt, then Earl of Chatham, and include early 20th century formal gardens designed by Harold Peto.[10] The Chatham Vase is a stone sculpture commissioned as a memorial to William Pitt the Elder by his wife, Hester, Countess of Chatham. It was originally erected at their house in Burton Pynsent, in 1781, and moved to the grounds of Chevening House in 1934, where it currently resides.
The 140-foot high Pynsent Column (also known as the Curry Rivel Column, the Burton Pynsent Monument, the Pynsent Steeple or Cider Monument)[11] stands on Troy Hill, a spur of high ground about 750 yards north-east of the house. It was designed in the 18th century by Capability Brown for William Pitt.[12] It was restored in the 1990s by the John Paul Getty Trust and English Heritage.[11]
Midelney Place is a Victorian architecture country house, completed in 1866. GradeII listed and privately owned, it is set in 26 acres of landscaped grounds.[13]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Abdick and Bulstone Hundred Through Time - A Vision of Britain
- ↑ Abdick and Bulstone in Somerset - A Vision Britain
- ↑ Supposed Roman Villa, Fair View House, Hambridge - Somerset Historic Environment Record
- ↑ Roman house south of Fair View House, Curry Rivel – Register of Heritage at Risk (Historic England)
- ↑ Bond, James (1998). Somerset Parks and Gardens. Somerset Books. p. 25. ISBN 978-0861834655.
- ↑ National Heritage List 11182870: Church of St Andrew
- ↑ National Heritage List 1249217: Earnshill House
- ↑ "Burton Pynsent, Yeovil, England". Parks & Gardens UK. Parks and Gardens Data Services Limited (PGDS). http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/629. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
- ↑ National Heritage List 13111739: Burton Pynsent House
- ↑ Burton Pynsent - Somerset Historic Environment Record
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Holt, Jonathan: 'Somerset Follies' (Akeman Press, pages 76–77 ISBN 978-0-9546138-7-7
- ↑ National Heritage List 1039561: Burton Pynsent Monument@
- ↑ Midelney Place, walled forecourt and stables - British Listed Buildings