Bagendon is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in the
Cotswold district
Cotswold is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. It is named after the wider Cotswolds region. Its main town is Cirencester. Other notable towns include Tetbury, Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold and Chipping Campden. ...
of
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean.
The county town is the city of Gl ...
, England, about four miles north of
Cirencester
Cirencester (, ; see below for more variations) is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, west of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswolds. It is the home of ...
.
According to the 2001 census it had a population of 265,decreasing to 239 at the
2011 census.
St Margaret's Church
The
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...
parish church,
St Margaret's, a Grade I
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
dedicated probably either to
St Margaret of Antioch or to
St Margaret of Scotland
Saint Margaret of Scotland ( gd, Naomh Maighréad; sco, Saunt Marget, ), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". Born in the Kingdom of Hungary to th ...
, is “an attractive and interesting little church, often subjected to flooding". The church building is partly
Norman, but the
chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
Ov ...
, south door and porch, the windows in the
nave
The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
, and the diagonal buttresses of the tower date to between about 1460 and 1470.
[David Verey, ''Cotswold Churches'' (B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1976), at pages 71 to 72]
People
The novelist
Hilda Gregg
Hilda Caroline Gregg (20 June 186822 June 1933) was an English author who wrote novels and short stories under the name Sydney C. Grier. She had her fiction printed in ''The Bristol Times'' in 1886, then William Blackwood and Sons published her f ...
was born here in 1868.
See also
George Edward Rees, ''History of Bagendon'' (T.Hailing Ltd, 1932)
References
External links
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Bagendon Parish Council
Villages in Gloucestershire
Cotswold District
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