Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Duntisborne-Abbotts, a village and parish in Gloucestershire, near Ermine Street, 6 miles NNW of Cirencester. The parish contains the tithing of Duntisborne-Leer, and has a post office under Cirencester; money order and telegraph office, Stratton. Acreage, 2332; population, 285. The manor belonged to Gloucester Abbey. Duntisborne House is the chief residence. Several barrows exist in the neighbourhood, a memorial of a conflict with the Danes. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £152 with residence. The church is Early English, and has been restored. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Duntsbourn Abbots St. Peter | |
Hundred | Crowthorne and Minety | |
Poor Law union | Cirencester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Duntisbourne Abbots 1607-1837, Gloucestershire is available to browse online.
The parish register dates from 1550.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter (parish church)
The church of St. Peter is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch, organ chamber and a western tower containing 3 bells: there is an ancient Norman font, a piscina, and some tablets to the Mesman family: the church was thoroughly renovated and reseated in 1873, all the windows filled with stained glass, the chancel arch enlarged and rebuilt, and a stone pulpit erected: the east window was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson, and the rest were presented by W. H. Baillie esq. who also contributed the principal portion of the restoration fund: an ancient stone coffin, found built up in the wall of the churchyard, now lies in the nave: there are 230 sittings.
Brethren
Brethren meeting house
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Duntisbourne Abbots from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Duntsbourn, Abbots (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Duntisbourne Abbots 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 newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:
- Gloucester Citizen
- Gloucester Journal
- Gloucestershire Chronicle
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Cheltenham Chronicle
- Cheltenham Looker-On
Villages, Hamlets, &c
Duntisborne LeerVisitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.