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Cliffe Pypard, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Cliffe-Pypard, a parish in Wiltshire, 2¼ miles WNW of Broad-Hinton, and 4 S by E of Wootton-Bassett station on the G.W.R. Its post town is Wootton-Bassett; money order and telegraph office, Wootton-Bassett. Acreage, 3272; population, 427. The manor, with Cliffe-Pypard House, belongs to the Goddard family. A whirlwind in September, 1856, destroyed several hundred trees on the manor-house grounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £446. The church is an edifice of the 15th century with a tower, and contains a brass of 1380.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyWiltshire 
Ecclesiastical parishCliffe-Pypard St. Peter 
HundredKingsbridge 
Poor Law unionCricklade and Wootton-Bassett 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Clyffe Pypard 1576-1837, Wiltshire is available to browse online.

The register dates from the year 1576.


Churches

Church of England

St. Peter (parish church)

The church of St. Peter is a building of stone of the Perpendicular period, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a fine embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells: each aisle is divided from the nave by an arcade of four columns; the chancel was rebuilt in 1861 by the impropriator and patron, Horatio Nelson Goddard esq. and a memorial east window placed to the Rev. Edward Goddard, a former vicar; there are other windows to members of the family of Goddard, to one of whom there is also an interesting monument of oak, dated 1585; there is also a window to the Rev. C. W. Bradford (vicar 1863-83) and his wife. A screen of fine oak, painted in the original colours, separates the chancel from the nave, and two parclose screens cut off the eastern extremities of the aisles: in the north aisle, under a canopy, is a tomb with a recumbent figure, supposed to represent one of the Cobhams, who formerly possessed the manor; the pulpit (1629) preserves its original iron cushion rest: the font, of Bath stone, a copy of that of Over, in Cambridgeshire, was carved by the Rev. F. Goddard, in 1840: in the north chapel is a brass c. 1380, supposed to belong to the Quintin family: in the south aisle, is a marble monument of Thomas Spackman, a native of Cliffe Pypard, and, a benefactor to this parish: the church was restored in 1874, at a cost of £1,400, exclusive of the chancel, rebuilt at a cost of £1,000, by H. N. Goddard esq.: then are 190 sittings.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Cliffe Pypard from the following:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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