24-463: Shilton may refer to: Places [ edit ] Shilton, Oxfordshire , England Shilton, Warwickshire , England Shilton railway station , a former station Other [ edit ] Shilton (surname) Earl Shilton , a town in Leicestershire, England Chilton (disambiguation) Shelton (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
48-530: A 17th-century public house , the Rose and Crown. John Coghlan , drummer of the rock band Status Quo , lives in Shilton. Great Coxwell Barn Great Coxwell Barn is a Medieval tithe barn at Great Coxwell , Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire ), England. It is on the northern edge of the village of Great Coxwell, which is about 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Swindon in neighbouring Wiltshire . The barn
72-409: A large west porch and much smaller east porch. An internal wall partly separates the west porch from the main body of the barn. As originally built, each porch had a door large enough for wagons,; the west porch had also a small south door and the main barn had small doors in its north and south walls. In the centre of the barn is a threshing floor on which grain was threshed by hand with flails , with
96-406: A small barn. Traditional houses and cottages in Shilton are built of local Cotswold stone. Shilton House was built in 1678 and is a Grade II* listed building. Elm Farm dates from 1683. Shilton Bridge across Shill Brook is a small stone hump-back bridge that was probably built in the 18th century. By the 1930s its stonework had become decayed, it was too narrow for modern traffic and its hump
120-507: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Shilton, Oxfordshire Shilton is a village and civil parish about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Carterton, Oxfordshire . The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 626. Shilton village is on Shill Brook: a stream that rises southwest of Burford , flows through Shilton and Alvescot to Black Bourton , where it becomes Black Bourton Brook, which joins
144-665: The River Thames downstream from Radcot . Shilton was historically part of the manor of Great Faringdon , and most of Shilton parish was an exclave of Berkshire until the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 transferred it to Oxfordshire. When the Cistercian Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire was founded in 1203–04, it was endowed with a group of manors that were headed by Great Faringdon and included Shilton. Beaulieu retained
168-719: The National Trust, which thus has owned the barn since 1956. Most of the modern farm buildings around the barn were demolished. In 1961 the Trust treated the timbers against deathwatch beetle and extensively restored the roof. The barn is open to the public daily from dawn to dusk. Just outside the farmyard is a lay-by large enough for a small number of visitors' cars to be parked. Great Coxwell can be reached by Stagecoach West Gold bus route 66 from Swindon, Oxford and Faringdon . Buses run generally every 20 minutes from Mondays to Saturdays and every 30 minutes on Sundays. The nearest stop
192-477: The barn are six pairs of posts, meaning that it has east and west aisles and seven bays . The west porch has one pair of timber posts and is of two bays. The architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner considered the interior to be the finest of any barn in England. The barn is 152 feet (46 m) long, 43 feet (13 m) wide and its roof ridge is 48 feet (15 m) high. It is aligned almost north–south, with
216-420: The barn at Shilton. However, in 1971 an historian, PL Heyworth, reported that the stone walls of the barn and a few of its timbers still survived. Heyworth found a farm in the village had a stone-walled barn that had a modern arched corrugated steel roof, but had some stone corbels that would formerly have carried principal rafters of a former gabled roof. Heyworth found that the lintels of two large doorways in
240-547: The barn is very likely to be the remains of a Cistercian barn. The dovecote is cylindrical and has a conical roof. It is early 16th century and is a Grade II* listed building . The earliest parts of the Church of England parish church of the Holy Rood are the Norman nave , south aisle and arcade , all of which were built in about 1150. The present Early English Gothic chancel
264-465: The barn were re-used timbers that had been principal posts. Each had the mortices that would have held a tie beam and a strut, both of which would have been parts of a timber roof. The barn is near a house called the Old Manor, a medieval dovecote, a possible former medieval fishpond and a field called Conyger ( i.e. it had been a place for rearing "coneys" – rabbits). Heyworth therefore concluded that
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#1732847819565288-415: The large east and west doors open for a through draught to separate the grain from the chaff. The barn was part of a monastic grange . It stored most, if not all, of the crop of the grange and received tithes from peasant tenants who were obliged to render a tenth of their crop to the abbey. These tithes were recorded by a clerk called a granger, whose office was in the west porch. In 1538 Beaulieu Abbey
312-515: The manor at Great Coxwell , 9 miles (14 km) south of Shilton. Great Coxwell Barn , which was built for the Abbey around 1292, survives intact and is open to the public. It is somewhat larger and structurally more complex than the barn that Waller found at Shilton, but it gives an idea of the scale, style and quality of building that the Cistercians commissioned. Tradition had it that a fire destroyed
336-615: The manor to Beaulieu Abbey. When the Cistercian Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire was founded in 1204–05, King John endowed it with a group of manors that were headed by Great Faringdon and included Great Coxwell. Beaulieu retained the manors until 1538, when it surrendered all its properties to the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries . The Abbey seems to have had the barn built about 1292. Dendrochronology has established that some of
360-460: The manors until 1538, when it surrendered all its properties to the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries . In about 1848 the architect and antiquarian Frederick S. Waller drew a plan and sections of an aisled barn at Shilton. It had six bays and an internal timber frame built on two rows of five large timber posts, This seems likely to have been a medieval barn, built when Beaulieu Abbey held Shilton Manor. Beaulieu Abbey also held
384-436: The north and south gable walls were replaced with ones large enough for wagons. Other buildings were added to the surrounding farmyard. From 1871 William Morris (1834–96) rented Kelmscott Manor , 6 miles (10 km) north of Great Coxwell. He called the barn "as noble as a cathedral" and brought many of his guests to see it. Ernest Cook (1865–1955) acquired numerous estates including Coleshill. Cook left his estates to
408-502: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shilton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shilton&oldid=1042160056 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
432-404: The timbers in the roof of the barn were felled in the winter of 1291–92, and building with unseasoned timber was then common practice. Other timbers were felled earlier, from 1253 onwards. The barn is built of Cotswold stone , with rubblestone walls and ashlar buttresses . The roof has a timber frame, borne on pairs of timber posts and surfaced with Stonesfield slate . In the main part of
456-547: The time also had a bell-foundry in Oxford . Currently for technical reasons they are unringable. Holy Rood also has a Sanctus bell that Henry III Bagley cast in 1730. Bagley was from Chacombe , Northamptonshire but also had a foundry at Witney . Holy Rood parish is now part of the Benefice of Shill Valley and Broadshire. Shilton has a Baptist chapel that was built in the early or mid 19th century. It may have been converted from
480-444: Was dissolved and its estates were seized by the Crown. In 1540 the Crown sold the manor of Great Coxwell to a local landowner, William Morys (or Morris). The Morris family held the estate until 1638 when it was sold to George Pratt, who already held the neighbouring estate of Coleshill . The Pratt family held both Great Coxwell and Coleshill estates until 1700, when they were sold to George Pratt Richmond, also known as Webb. The estate
504-578: Was built about 1292 for the Cistercian Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire , which had held the manor of Great Coxwell since 1205. Since 1956 it has been in the care of the National Trust . The barn has been a Grade I listed building since 1966 and is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument . Great Coxwell was a large manor, which the Domesday Book of 1086 recorded as 20 hides . In 1205 King John granted
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#1732847819565528-445: Was built in about 1250. The bell tower was added in the 15th century. The present side windows of the nave and aisle are also late Medieval Perpendicular Gothic additions. The Gothic Revival architect C.C. Rolfe restored the building in 1884–88, adding the present rood screen. The church is a Grade II* listed building. Holy Rood church tower has three bells, all cast in 1854 by W. & J. Taylor of Loughborough , who at
552-469: Was still in the Webb family early in the 19th century. In the 18th century the large west doorway was bricked up and the west porch was converted into a stable. South of the barn a brick-built cart shed with a first-floor hay-loft or granary was added to the farmyard. In the 19th century mechanical threshing superseded manual threshing, so the barn's threshing floor lost its original purpose. The small doorways in
576-401: Was too acute for some vehicles. In 1938 Oxfordshire County Council rebuilt the bridge, making the road across it wider and reducing the hump. The sides of the bridge were rebuilt using the original stones in their original relative positions as far as possible, while the widening of the bridge was achieved by inserting a concrete section in the middle of the road hidden from view. Shilton has
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