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Stanton, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Stanton, a parish, with a village, in Gloucestershire, 5 miles NE of Winchcomb, and 6 E of Beckford station on the M.R. It has a post and money order office under Broadway; telegraph office, Stanway. Acreage, 1818; population of the civil parish, 314; of the ecclesiastical with Snowshill, 505. There is a parish council of five members and a chairman. Stanton Court is a chief residence. The manor formerly belonged to the abbey of Winchcomb, was given at the dissolution of the monasteries to Queen Catherine, and was granted about 1690 to the Irod family, from whom it descended in female line through marriage to the Wynniatts. Wormington Grange, formerly in Didbrook parish, is a large mansion with extensive grounds, and containing a valuable collection of pictures. The living is a rectory, united with Snowshill, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £227 with residence. The church is chiefly Norman and Early English; the chancel was rebuilt in 1874. There is a Baptist chapel.

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 CountyGloucestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishStanton St. Bartholomew 
HundredKiftsgate 
Poor Law unionWinchcomb 

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


Church Records

The Phillimore & co. transcript of the Marriages at Stanton 1572-1812 is available to browse online.

The register dates from the year 1572.

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


Churches

Church of England

St. Michael (parish church)

The church of St. Michael is an ancient building of stone, in the Norman and later styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of two bays, south aisle, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles and spire, containing a clock and 6 bells: the chancel was rebuilt in the year 1874 at a cost of £400, and the church restored in 1898 at a cost of £1,200, when two memorial windows were erected to Miss Mills and Mr. and Mrs. Grizzell, both formerly of the Manor House, Stanton: there are 120 sittings.

Baptist

Baptist Chapel

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Stanton from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Stanton are available from a number of sites:


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.

DistrictTewkesbury
CountyGloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtWR12

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