Weedon Lois
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Weedon Lois | |
Northamptonshire | |
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St Mary and St Peter, Weedon Lois | |
Location | |
Grid reference: | SP601470 |
Location: | 52°7’5"N, 1°7’26"W |
Data | |
Post town: | Northampton |
Postcode: | NN12 |
Dialling code: | 01327 |
Local Government | |
Council: | West Northamptonshire |
Parliamentary constituency: |
South Northamptonshire |
Website: | Weston and Weedon Parish Council |
Weedon Lois (or Lois Weedon) is a village in Northamptonshire, about five and a half miles west of Towcester.
The village's name is in two parts: 'Weedon' means 'Heathen temple hill'. There is a well in the parish, named after St Loys or Lewis, whose waters apparently cured the blind and Leprous, hence the suffix.[1]
Church
The oldest parts of the parish church, St Mary and St Peter, date from about 1100. It is a Grade II* listed building.[2] The authors Edith Sitwell and her brother Sacheverell Sitwell are buried in the churchyard, as are Michael Aris and American author James Purdy.
Outside links
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Weedon Lois) |
References
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Weedon%20Lois.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1371888: Church of St Mary (Grade II* listing)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1961; 1973 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3
- Weedon Lois: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Northamptonshire, Volume 4, pages 163-167