Frampton, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Frampton or Frampton Mansell, a tithing in Sapperton parish, Gloucestershire, 6 miles NW of Cirencester. It has a chapel of ease to Sapperton parish church, built in 1843.

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 County	Gloucestershire
Civil parish	Sapperton
Hundred	Bisley
Poor Law union	Cirencester

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

Church Records

The register of St. Kenelm, Sapperton dates from the year 1661.

The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.

Churches

Church of England

St. Luke's chapel of ease

St. Luke's, a chapel of ease to St. Kenelm, Sapperton, built in 1843, by Earl Bathurst, is of stone, and consists of nave with apse and a turret containing one bell: there are several stained windows and an organ: the chapel affords 180 sittings.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Frampton from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Frampton)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.