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Avon Dassett Local History Group

Avon Dassett Local History Group. Current and Future Projects. The Chronicle of Avon Dassett. Book Project to celebrate Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Community project Funded by grant from Stratford District Council Supported by related web resources. Parish Church of St John the Baptist

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Avon Dassett Local History Group

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  1. Avon Dassett Local History Group Current and Future Projects

  2. The Chronicle of Avon Dassett • Book Project to celebrate Queen’s Diamond Jubilee • Community project • Funded by grant from Stratford District Council • Supported by related web resources

  3. Parish Church of St John the Baptist • Revenue raised from the tithes and glebe lands placed Avon Dassett among the wealthier parishes in England • By the nineteenth century the value of the living had risen to £450 per annum, well above the national average of £244. • Rectors included Isaac Tonge, a radical anti-Catholic, who warned the king of a bogus plot against his life in 1678. Richard Lake who became rector in 1682 refused to swear the oath of allegiance to William and Mary.

  4. Church rebuilt in 1868 • Traced windows to Broghillin Wimbledon, family home of the Boyles, in 1884 (built Avon Carrow in 1897) and installed in the church in 1904

  5. St Joseph’s Catholic Church • Built by the horticulturalist, Joseph Knight, in 1854 • Designed by the architect Thomas Meyer in the Gothic revival style • Church has sixteen stained glass windows designed by John Hardman of Birmingham, a close associate of Augustus Pugin • Original fittings in the church were all supplied by Hardman working on designs from Pugin

  6. “The village sewage system was put in during the 1960s. If you did not have a septic tank the alternative was the weekly visit from ‘the bucket man’. They came every Monday morning and the aroma through the village was quite strong. All doors and windows were kept closed. There were many bottles of various disinfectants around on that day.” Thelma Watts

  7. The Curious and the Commonplace New project Preparing grant application Producing ‘real time’ weblog of a year in the life of a rural village Digital map of everyday life

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