Adderbury
Adderbury is a village and civil parish in northern Oxfordshire, England, with around 2500 inhabitants. Adderbury is part of the Cherwell District; It is located about 5 km south of Banbury. The place is divided by the river Sor Brook; each of the two districts of West Adderbury and East Adderbury has its own village green ( village square ) and its own manor house ( manor house ).
In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was under the Old English name Eadburg stated.
Buildings and churches
In East Adderbury is the parish church of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Saint Mary the Virgin ). Its origins date back to the 13th century. In the 14th century the building was enlarged; in the early 15th century it was remodeled in the late gothic Perpendicular style. In the 18th century St. Mary's fell into disrepair. Renovations were carried out from 1831 to 1834 by the architect John Chessell Buckler and from 1866 to 1870 by the architect George Gilbert Scott, whose son John Oldrid Scott 1886 also undertook a renovation. The bell tower has an eight -part chime for change ringing.
The Methodist Church in the High Street was built in 1839. In 1956, the Roman Catholic St. George 's Chapel was built in the Round Close Road in West Adderbury.
Near the church of St. Mary's is a tithe barn, which probably comes mainly from the 14th century.
History
In East Adderbury Adderbury is the House, a country house dating from the 17th century. Its owner was Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, who fought in the English Civil War on the side of the royalists. Wilmot was a cavalry commander under Prince Rupert of the Palatinate, and both housed troops in Adderbury House. The villa was rebuilt several times: in 1661 for Anne Wilmot, Countess of Rochester, in 1722 for John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, in 1731 by the architect Roger Morris and 1768 by the architect William Chambers for Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch. 1808, the buildings were badly damaged.
The manor of East Adderbury dates from the 16th century.
1881 the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, part of the Great Western Railway, completed. The station was located in East Adderbury. In 1951 the station was closed in 1964 shut down this route for freight traffic.
Others
In the tradition of Adderbury Moriskentanzes (English morris dance ) is known, which was first documented by Janet Blunt, which began in 1916 with interviews for this.
The Christopher Rawlins Primary School in Adderbury is a church school of the Church of England.