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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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n, when it was granted to the Throckmortons. They soldit to Sir Samuel Sandys, eldest son of Edwin, Archbishop of York. Sir Samuel Sandys married Mercy Culpepper, and died September 2nd,1626, leaving as his heir his son, Edwin Sandys, who survived him onlytwenty-one days. Edwin married Penelope, daughter of Sir RichardBuckley, Knight. Samuel, the eldest son of Edwin Sandys, married as his second wifeElizabeth, widow of Colonel Henry Washington, and his step-daughter,Penelope Washington, a second cousin, twice removed, of George WlCKHAMFORD. 39 Washington, President of the United States, was buried at Wickham-ford. The Sandys family are still lords of the manor. The advowson of the living at the Dissolution was granted to theDean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, the present patrons. At the church the visitors were received by the Rev. W. H. Price,who gave a deal of interesting information respecting the edifice. Thechurch, he said, like all the churches of the Vale of Evesham, was
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SANDYS MONUMENT, WlCKHAMFORD CHURCH. intimately connected with Evesham Abbey, and the abbey chroniclescontained many references fo the church and village of Wickhamford.As early as 703 Wickhamford was given to the Abbey of Evesham, andthe ecclesiastical history of the parish was therefore ancient. Wickham-ford played an humble part in connection with the abbey, for the land inthe parish was given to Evesham for the purpose of the duties andresponsibilities of the manciple, some of the land being used to supply 4° Transactions for the Year 1901. pots and pans and other utensils for the use of the monks. The churchhad been recently restored, and when the restoration was contemplatedthe distinguished architect, Sir Arthur Blomfield, was called in, and therestoration was carried out in a conservative manner, everything that wasworth preserving being preserved. The old gallery front, the three-decker, and the pews were brought from a London church in 1841, whenthe church was restored by L

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