Hempton, Oxfordshire
| Hempton | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 St John the Evangelist parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP443318 |
| Location: | 51°58’59"N, 1°21’18"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Banbury |
| Postcode: | OX15 |
| Dialling code: | 01869 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cherwell |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Banbury |
| Website: | Deddington Online |
Hempton is a village in the north of Oxfordshire, five miles south of Banbury. The village stands on the B4031 road between Deddington and Chipping Norton, which was a turnpike from 1770 until 1871.[1]
Chapel and church
Hempton has a former nonconformist chapel that is said to have been opened in 1840.[1] It ceased to be used for worship in the 1950s and is now a private house.
The Church of England parish church of St John the Evangelist was completed in 1850[2] or 1851.[1][3] Rev. William Wilson of Over Worton designed the Gothic Revival building[2][3] and funded its construction.[1] The building has Early Gothic style lancet windows and a two-bay north arcade that led to a schoolroom.[2] The church's font is a Norman one from Holy Trinity parish church, Over Worton.[1][2][3] In its early decades St. John's was a licensed but unconsecrated chapel and independent of the Benefice of Deddington,[1] but is now part of the benefice.
Economic and social history
Hempton has a number of cottages that were built late in the 17th or early in the 18th century. Turret Cottage and Middle Corner Cottage are early 18th century,[4] and plaque between them records that they were restored in 1976 with the help of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England's Oxfordshire Buildings Preservation Trust Ltd.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Crossley 1983, pp. 143–159
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 National Heritage List 1046341: Chapel of Ease of St John the Evangelist (Grade II listing)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 635
- ↑ National Heritage List 1365856: Middle Corner Cottage Turret Thatch (Grade II listing)
- Allbrook, Michael; Forsyth, Robert (2011). A Parish at War; A military record of three Oxfordshire villages; Deddington — Clifton — Hempton. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-870677-04-2.
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 11 pp 81-120: Parishes: Deddington (Victoria County History)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09639-2page 635
