15-754: Viscount Harcourt , of Stanton Harcourt in the County of Oxford, was a title created twice for members of the Harcourt family , once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It was first created in the Peerage of Great Britain for Lord Chancellor Simon Harcourt , who was created Baron Harcourt in 1711, Viscount Harcourt in 1721, and Earl Harcourt and Viscount Nuneham in 1749. For more information on these titles, which all became extinct in 1830, see Earl Harcourt . The viscountcy
30-618: A starting point for a bomber raid on the German battleship Scharnhorst . The runways are now gone, but some of the original buildings remain incorporated into a housing development. Stanton Harcourt has a 17th-century pub , The Harcourt Arms,. It had another pub, the Fox, but it is now a private home. The parish council owns Fox Field behind it and has renamed it the Jubilee Field, with installed play equipment. Trees and hedging have been provided by
45-486: Is a separate building from the house and is Grade I listed . The service range attached to the south of the Great Kitchen is also 15th-century. It has been converted into a house, Manor Farmhouse, and is Grade I listed. Pope's Tower in the grounds of Harcourt House was built about 1470–71, probably by the master mason William Orchard . It is a Grade I listed building. The tower acquired its name centuries later, after
60-557: The Church of England parish church of Saint Michael dates from 1135, and the Norman nave and lower parts of the bell tower are certainly 12th century. In the 13th century the chancel , chancel arch and tower arches were rebuilt and the transepts and stair turret were added. In the 15th century the upper part of the belltower was completed, the Perpendicular Gothic west window of
75-650: The Woodland Trust and planted by volunteers. The village has a primary school. Stanton Harcourt has a history of Morris dancing since the 19th century. Following a lapse, the traditional dances have been revived by the Icknield Morris and Trigg Morris, and continue today. First & Last Mile buses provide a daytime bus service 418 giving a two-hourly service to Standlake , Eynsham , Freeland , and Long Hanborough . William Orchard (architect) William Orchard ( fl. 1468 – died 1504)
90-501: The hamlet of Sutton, 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 m) north of the village. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 960. Within the parish of Stanton Harcourt is a series of palaeochannel deposits buried beneath the second (Summertown-Radley) gravel terrace of the River Thames . The deposits have been attributed to Marine isotope stages and have been the subject of archaeological and palaeontological research. Evidence
105-516: The manor was held by Odo , Bishop of Bayeux . It became Stanton Harcourt after Robert de Harcourt of Bosworth , Leicestershire inherited lands of his father-in-law at Stanton in 1191. Harcourt House was built for the Harcourt family in the 15th and mid-16th centuries, and its gatehouse was added about 1540. Harcourt House is a Grade II* listed building . Its Great Kitchen was built in 1485, possibly incorporating an earlier building. The kitchen
120-479: The death of the first viscount in 1922, the second viscount succeeded his father while still a student at Eton College . He married twice but left no sons; the title became extinct upon his own death in 1979. Stanton Harcourt Stanton Harcourt is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Witney and about 6 miles (10 km) west of Oxford . The parish includes
135-519: The medieval tombs of Sir Thomas Harcourt and his wife, Lady Maud, daughter of Lord Grey of Rotherfield. St Michael's parish is part of the Benefice of Lower Windrush, along with the parishes of Northmoor , Standlake and Yelford . In the Second World War there was a Royal Air Force airfield at Stanton Harcourt. It is notable for having been a transit point for Winston Churchill and for being
150-499: The nave and north and south windows of the transepts were inserted and the pitch of the roof was lowered. St Michael's is a Grade I listed building. The central tower has a ring of six bells. Michael Darbie, an itinerant bellfounder , cast the second, third, fourth and fifth bells in 1656, which was during the Commonwealth of England . Richard Keene of Woodstock cast the tenor bell in 1686. Abraham II Rudhall of Gloucester cast
165-428: The poet Alexander Pope stayed here in 1717–18 and used its upper room to translate the fifth volume of Homer 's Iliad . In the summer of 1718 he also wrote the epitaph to a young couple, John Hewett and Sarah Drew, who were struck by lightning and killed in the parish. The poem is carved on a stone monument on the outside of the south wall of the nave or St Michael's parish church. The earliest known record of
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#1733084944362180-526: The treble bell in 1722. In the chancel is the Decorated Gothic late 13th- or early 14th-century shrine of St Edburg of Bicester . It was at the Augustinian priory at Bicester until 1536, when the priory was dissolved . Sir James Harcourt had the shrine salvaged and moved to St Michael's. The Harcourt chapel was added on the south side of the chancel, possibly by William Orchard. It includes
195-511: Was an English gothic architect, responsible for the elaborate pendant vaults of the Divinity School, Oxford and the chancel of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford . He worked on the cloister and designed the Great Tower of Magdalen College, Oxford also known as Magdalen Tower. He also designed the parish church of Waterstock . He lived at Barton, a hamlet of Headington, where he owned
210-547: Was found for the co-existence of species of elephant and mammoth during interglacial conditions, disproving the widely held view that mammoths were an exclusively cold-adapted species. Stanton is derived from the Old English for "farmstead by the stones", probably after the prehistoric stone circle known as the Devil's Quoits , southwest of the village. The site is a scheduled monument . The Domesday Book of 1086 records that
225-614: Was revived in 1917 in favour of Lewis Vernon Harcourt , also created Baron Nuneham , of Nuneham Courtenay in the County of Oxford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Harcourt was the son of Sir William Vernon Harcourt , son of William Vernon Harcourt , son of the Honourable and Right Reverend Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt , son of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon , by his third wife, Martha Harcourt, daughter of Simon Harcourt , son of Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt. After
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