Stratfield Saye
Stratfield Saye is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane in the English county of Hampshire .
Within civil parish are the hamlets of West End Green , Fair Oak Green and Fair Cross .
Origin of name
The name means street field of the Saye family . This is the Roman road from London to Silchester , which forms the northern boundary of the municipality. Alternative spellings are used in some older sources, including Strathfieldsaye , Stratford Saye, and Stratford Sea.
history
According to the entry in the Domesday Book , the de Saye family who lived here in the 12th century included the Greenwich-born Geoffrey de Say , who was one of the barons who were supposed to watch over the king's compliance with the Magna Carta . Her manor had two mills in addition to a church. When Elizabeth de Saye married Nicholas d'Arbrichcort in 1364, the property passed to the Darbridgecourt family. In 1618, William Pitt was knighted and bought Stratfield Saye. There the Stratfield Saye House, a red brick building, was built in 1630 as the residence of the Pitt family; The construction was financed from the fortune of Thomas Pitt . His descendants lived in Stratfield Saye for around 200 years; they were closely related to the British Prime Minister William Pitt de Elder and William Pitt the Younger who was in office at the end of the 18th century . George Pitt, a Baron Rivers since 1776, had a "new" church built.
Stratfield Saye House has been the home of the Duke of Wellington since 1817 .
The adjacent parish church of the Church of England is an unusually shaped Georgian-style structure with a Greek cross plan . It contains church monuments of the Barons Rivers and most of the Dukes of Wellington, but not the first Duke , whose death shield is, however, present.
Web links
- The Duke of Wellington - obituary on telegraph.co.uk (obituary)
- Stratfield Saye, St Mary's Church on britainexpress.com
- Stratfield Saye on britainexpress.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Petit Serjeantry. In: bartleby.com. Retrieved February 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Stratfield Saye has a history wrapped up in the names of four great families that occupied the estate since the C12th to the present day. on hampshire-history.com
- ^ Stratfield Saye Park & Estate. (No longer available online.) Stratfield-saye.co.uk, archived from the original on February 23, 2001 ; accessed on February 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
