Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Chipping-Warden, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Cherwell, at the verge of the county, 3 miles S by W from Byfield station on the L. & N.W.R., 4¼ NE of Cropredy station on the G.W.R., and 6¼ NNE of Banbury. It has a post office under Banbury; money order and telegraph office, Wardington. It was once a market-town. The parish includes the village, and is in Banbury union. Acreage, 2390; population, 357. A Danish camp is at Arbury bank; a rampart, called the Wallow bank, is near the Black Grounds; and Roman coins and other Roman relics have been found there. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £100 with residence. The church is a large building of stone in the Decorated style, with six fine bells, twelve lofty bays, clerestory, &c. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Chipping Warden St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Chipping-Warden | |
Poor Law union | Banbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register of baptisms dates from the year 1599; marriages, 1580; burials, 1579.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Churches
Church of England
SS. Peter and Paul (parish church)
The church of SS. Peter and Paul is a large edifice of stone in the Decorated style of the 14th century, consisting of chancel with chapel on the north side, clerestoried nave of six bays, supported by graceful and lofty arcades, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 heavy and fine-toned bells: in the chancel is buried Ralph Bathurst D.C.L., F.R.S. president of Trinity College, Oxford, an eminent poet, physician and divine, d. 14 June, 1704, and several fellows of Queen's College, all of whom were rectors of Chipping Warden at successive periods: at the base of the clerestory windows, on each side, are many heads of warriors, beautifully carved in stone: there are several ancient brasses of priests, including one to William Smarte, rector, ob. 1468: near the font, which is of marble and adorned with fleurs-de-lis and other embellishments wrought in marble and painted, is another brass with effigies to Richard Makepeace, yeoman, ob. 1584, Dorothy, his wife, and 15 children: the church was partially restored in 1901-2: there are 400 sittings.
Methodist
Wesleyan chapel
There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 Chipping Warden from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Warden, Chipping (St. Peter and St. Paul))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Chipping Warden are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: