Salperton
| Salperton | |
| Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP076204 |
| Location: | 51°52’56"N, 1°53’25"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Cheltenham |
| Postcode: | GL54 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cotswold |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
The Cotswolds |
Salperton is a village in the Cotswolds about eight miles east of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. It is also known as Cold Salperton, owing to its exposed position.[1]
History
The Church of England parish church of All Saints is Norman, with some Early English Gothic windows and a Perpendicular Gothic porch.[2]
Tudor House is a Cotswold stone house built in the 16th or 17th century.[2] The Old Bell Inn is Georgian, with a date-stone of 1752.[2]
Salperton Park is a country estate. Its country house was designed by Richard Pace and built in 1817.[2]
The war memorial is different from most, consisting of a stone base, but topped by a wooden crucifix, also known as a “hooded calvary". The memorial honours those twenty men of the village who lost their lives in the Great War and two more who fell in the Second. The front panel has a rare specific memorial:
"In proud and glorious memory of 2nd. Lieut. James Collier Foster Harter, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, elder son of George Loyd Foster and Frances Geraldine Harter nee Coke of Salperton Park, who died of wounds about November 28 1917, 13 miles from Jerusalem essaying to deliver the Holy Land from the Infidels (for which an ancestor of his had also fought 1247 - 1260) and is buried at Suffa in Palestine aged 28.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ A History of the County of Gloucester - Volume 9 pp 155-166: Parishes: Salperton (Victoria County History)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Nikolaus Pevsner: Pevsner Architectural Guides
- A History of the County of Gloucester - Volume 9 pp 155–166: {{{2}}} (Victoria County History)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: Pevsner Architectural Guides
