Sarsden

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Sarsden
Oxfordshire

Thatched cottages at Sarsden
Location
Grid reference: SP288231
Location: 51°54’21"N, 1°34’53"W
Data
Population: 83  (2001)
Post town: Chipping Norton
Postcode: OX7
Local Government
Council: West Oxfordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Witney
Website: Churchill and Sarsden

Sarsden is a village about three miles south of Chipping Norton. The 2001 Census recorded the parish population as 83.

Sarsden House is a country house, rebuilt in 1689 after it was damaged by fire. In 1795 Humphry Repton landscaped the park, adding a serpentine lake and a Doric temple. In about 1825 Repton's son, the architect George Stanley Repton, remodelled the house for James Langston.[1] The house is a Grade II* listed building.[2]

The Church of England parish church, St James was rebuilt in 1760. GS Repton added a cruciform extension to the east in 1823. In 1896 the architect Walter Mills of Banbury remodelled the north transept and added the bellcote.[3]

Sarsgrove House, or the Dower House, is a mile and a half north-east of Sarsden. G.S. Repton remodelled it as a large cottage orné in 1825.[4]

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References

  1. Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 752–753.
  2. National Heritage List 1367832: Sarsden House (Grade II* listing)
  3. Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 752.
  4. Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 753.
  • Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. ISBN 0198691033