Wigginton, Oxfordshire
| Wigginton | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 St Giles' parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP388333 |
| Location: | 51°59’49"N, 1°26’6"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 194 (2011) |
| Post town: | Banbury |
| Postcode: | OX15 |
| Dialling code: | 01608 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cherwell |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Banbury |
| Website: | wigginton-oxon.org |
Wigginton is a village in Oxfordshire about six miles south-west of Banbury in Oxfordshire.[1] The village is beside the River Swere, which forms the southern boundary of the parish.
Archaeology
About 350 yards north-east of the parish church is the site of an Iron Age enclosure, on which a large Roman villa[2] was added in about the 2nd century AD.[3] The occupied part of the villa seems to have been reduced in size in the 4th century AD.[3] The site is a scheduled monument.[3]
Parish church
The nave and north and south aisles of the parish church, St Giles, were built late in the 13th century.[4] The chancel is early Decorated Gothic, built in about 1300.[5] Each aisle is linked with the nave by an arcade of three bays.[4] The Perpendicular Gothic porch and west tower were added in the 15th or late 14th century.[4] The nave clerestory is also a Perpendicular addition.[4]
In the late 19th century, the church was restored under the direction of two Gothic Revival architects: the chancel and south aisle in 1870 under William White and the nave and north aisle in 1886 under John Loughborough Pearson.[4] The stained glass of the east window was added in 1908.[4] St Giles is a Grade I listed building.[4]
St Giles' has an early clock. Its date is unknown but its characteristics suggest it was made early in the 17th century.[6]
About the village
Wigginton has a public house, The White Swan
There is a Swerford and Wigginton Women's Institute.[7]
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References
- ↑ Parish of Wigginton Oxfordshire
- ↑ "Wigginton Roman Villa". Online Archaeology. http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/UKArchaeologyMap/UKArchaeologyMapViewItem/tabid/201/Default.aspx?IID=517.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 National Heritage List 1021460: Wigginton Roman villa and Iron Age enclosure, north-east of the Church of St Giles (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 National Heritage List 1052175: Church of Saint Giles, Main Street (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 841.
- ↑ Beeson 1989, p. 21.
- ↑ Swerford & Wigginton Women's Institute
- Beeson, C.F.C. (1989). Simcock, A.V.. ed. Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400–1850 (3rd ed.). Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. pp. 21, 73, 173. ISBN 0-903364-06-9.
- Booth, Paul; Cameron, Esther; Crerar, Belinda (2011). "A Roman Lead 'Tank' from Wigginton, North Oxfordshire". Oxoniensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) LXXVI: 266–272. SSN 0308-5562.
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 9 pp 159-170: Parishes: Wigginton (Victoria County History)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09639-2page 842