Bagendon

Bagendon

St Margaret's
Bagendon
Bagendon shown within Gloucestershire
Population 239 
OS grid reference SP0106
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Cirencester
Postcode district GL
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Bagendon is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about four miles north of Cirencester.[1][2] According to the 2001 census it had a population of 265,decreasing to 239 at the 2011 census.[3]

St Margaret's Church

The Church of England parish church, St Margaret’s, a Grade I listed building[4] dedicated probably either to St Margaret of Antioch or to St Margaret of Scotland, is “an attractive and interesting little church, often subjected to flooding". The church building is partly Norman, but the chancel, south door and porch, the windows in the nave, and the diagonal buttresses of the tower date to between about 1460 and 1470.[5]

See also

George Edward Rees, History of Bagendon (T.Hailing Ltd, 1932)

References

  1. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 163 Cheltenham & Cirencester (Stow-on-the-Wold) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319229125.
  2. ↑ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  4. ↑ British Listed Buildings web-site, accessed on 22 March 2018
  5. ↑ David Verey, Cotswold Churches (B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1976), at pages 71 to 72

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