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Location: Hampton Gay And Poyle, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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1. Hampton Gay Manor Ruins – Thrupp Community Forest loop from Kidlington

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2. Hampton Gay Manor Ruins – The Boat Inn loop from Kidlington

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3. Hampton Gay Manor Ruins – Thrupp Community Forest loop from Thrupp

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October 19, 2021

Church. Medieval; rebuilt 1767-72 for Reverend Thomas Hinds; restored 1860 by Reverend F.C. Hingeston. Squared and coursed limestone with ashlar quoins; coursed limestone rubble with north wall and west tower. Gabled stone slate roof. Nave, chancel and west tower. East window of graduated C13-style lancets. Two-bay side walls have classical moulded cornice and pointed lancets; hood mould over mid C19 pointed arched chamfered doorway with plank door. Medieval 2-storey west tower; mid C19 Norman-style west doorway with nailhead decoration; C18 semi-circular arched belfry windows with key and impost blocks; crenellated parapet; pyramidal-roof has large ball finial and wrought-iron weathervane. Interior: mid C18 panelled pulpit; mid C19 pews; mid C18 gallery with panelled font set on slender octagonal shaft. Mid C18 plaster ceiling, with moulded cornice and square panels and central roundel. Monuments: south wall has white marble architectural monument with shield set in broken pediment and fluted Ionic pilasters to Thomas Hindes, d.1718, and wife Elizabeth, d.1761; two C20 wall tablets set in architectural frame. North side: architectural wall monument to Reverend Thomas Hindes, d.1768, with shield set in broken pediment and fluted pilasters; large fine architectural coloured monument to Vincent Barry, d.1615, his wife and daughter Lady Katherine, d.1663. 3 shields surmount inscription flanked by putti; Corinthian columns flank figures kneeling at prayer desks, with children below, set in segmental-arched recess with rosettes. Church stands in isolated position in fields, with deserted medieval village to south. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p630; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, pp158-9; National Monuments Record)

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Location: Hampton Gay And Poyle, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom

Church of St Giles, Hampton Gay

1. Hampton Gay Manor Ruins – Thrupp Community Forest loop from Kidlington

2. Hampton Gay Manor Ruins – The Boat Inn loop from Kidlington

3. Hampton Gay Manor Ruins – Thrupp Community Forest loop from Thrupp

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