Much Dewchurch
| Much Dewchurch | |
| Herefordshire | |
|---|---|
 St David, Much Dewchurch | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO480311 |
| Location: | 51°58’34"N, 2°45’18"W |
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| Local Government | |
| Council: | Herefordshire |
Much Dewchurch is a village in Herefordshire, about six miles south of Hereford. The parish includes the hamlet of Kivernoll.
The Old Vicarage has stood since the 17th century and includes a plaque of the number of vicars that served the parish in the fateful year 1665. Amongst other buildings of note is the pub, which still has civil war musket damage on the wooden walls inside.
Parish church
The parish church, St David's, dated from the 12th century, and is a typical Norman confection with square tower, typified by the shape of its arches. It is a Grade I listed building.[1]
The church's Victorian extension to the North transept was built in the high neo-gothic revival period. Inside is a memorial bas-relief to the Biddulph family, lords of the manor.[1]
About the village
The Steiner Academy Hereford is in the heart of the village, close to and south of the church.
Large estates in the area include Bryngwyn Manor (SO484301) and The Mynde (SO470297), both to the south of the village.
Bryngwyn Manor is a Victorian Gothic manor house constructed in 1862 for Sir James Rankin, later MP for Leominster. [2] The Mynde, a Grade I-listed building, was an ancestral home of the Pye family. Walter Pye was Attorney General in the reign of Charles I. The house was acquired by the Duke of Chandos, who sold the estate to the Symons family in 1729. In 2015, the estate was sold privately for the sum of £15 million.[3]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1348822: Church of St David, Much Dewchurch
- ↑ "Apartment 6, Bryngwyn Manor, Wormelow, Hereford, Herefordshire HR2". https://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/49127125#qpJqHBOfVsCZVQvE.99.
- ↑ Cooper, Rob (5 June 2013). "Property fit for a Queen: Grade I listed manor house which hosted a picnic for the monarch goes on sale for £15million". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336184/Property-fit-Queen-Grade-I-listed-manor-house-hosted-picnic-monarch-goes-sale-15million.html.