Sulgrave
Sulgrave is a town and civil parish in South Northamptonshire , England , about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Brackley .
Parish church
The Church of England parish Church of St. James the Less is part of the pastoral care unit of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney. The remains of a Norman castle were found during earthworks near the church.
Sulgrave Manor
Sulgrave Manor, near the village, is famous for being the home of the ancestors of George Washington . Washington Old Hall in Washington , City of Sunderland was the original seat of the Washington family prior to Sulgrave and was inhabited by the family from the 12th century until 1539. In Washington, near Washington Old Hall, there's a place called Sulgrave. A street was also named after Sulgrave Manor: Sulgrave Court, in a district of Milton Keynes called Great Holm .
The original building
After the Wharton family left Lancashire (now Cheshire ), where they had spread since the 14th century, Lawrence Washington bought St. Andrew's priory in Northampton from the Crown in 1539 after Henry VIII ordered the abolition of the monasteries and made Sulgrave Manor out of it.
The house was built of local limestone, with a large south facade, a kitchen and pantry, a knight's hall and above it a large room and two smaller private rooms. The building still exists today and can be visited. Finds, presumably from the Tudor period, discovered 15 meters west of the foundations of the current house, suggest that the original building was considerably larger than the current house. The great hall has a stone floor and its tudor fireplace contains a salt cabinet with the carved initials of Lawrence Washington.
The Washingtons inhabited Sulgrave Manor for over 100 years.
"ER" and "Stars and Stripes"
Lawrence added an entrance portal on the south front of the house in 1558. Above the door is the royal coat of arms of England in plaster and the letters "ER", in honor of "Elizabeth Regina", the daughter of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I , who was on the throne at the time. The arches of the entrance door are adorned with the Washington family crest: two bars and three five-pointed stars.
Later changes
A north wing was added at right angles to Lawrence Washington mansion circa 1700 by then owner John Hodges. In this is on the ground floor a large kitchen and the reception room, below two bedrooms, which are now known as the White Bedroom and the Chintz Bedroom . Another extension, the west wing, was added in 1929 when the house was being restored.
The village
Sulgrave has a 300 year old public house, the Star Inn, which is part of the Hook Norton Brewery.
Sulgrave Village Shop Association Limited (SVS) was founded in July 2004 by the residents of Sulgrave as an industrial and provident society with the aim of running a shop and a post office. The profit is not distributed among its members but must be reinvested in the company for the maintenance and further development of the service for the community. The business began trading in September 2004 under the direction of a board of directors, it employs a manager, supported by around 50 volunteers. As part of a newly established Rural Enterprise Network , SVS, locally grown and produced goods are purchased, with the aim of ensuring that other manufacturers and suppliers support locally based companies.
The Transatlantic Sulgrave Institution
At the beginning of the 20th century, a number of notables founded an association for the better cohesion of the English-speaking countries on both sides of the Atlantic and their people, with offices in New York and London. This association was named after the parent company of Washington's "Sulgrave Institution" or Sulgrave Movement. The organ of this US-American-British friendship movement was the "Sulgrave Review". One of the better known members was, in old age, Victoria Woodhull . She donated substantial funds and another mansion near Sulgrave Manor to this association
Web links
- The official Sulgrave Manor website
- Sulgrave Village website
- Sulgrave Village Shop .
- A virtual tour of Sulgrave Manor on the BBC website .
- Virtual tour of Sulgrave on the British Tours website .
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Church Near You: Benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Arthur Branscombe: Washington's Ancestral Farm: The Manor Farm, Granted To Laurence Washington By Henry VIII . In: The World's Work: A History of Our Time . XIII, April 1907, pp. 8722-8726. Retrieved July 10, 2009.
- ^ H. Clifford Smith, Sulgrave Manor and the Washingtons , London, 1933, p. 48
- ↑ a b Phillips, p. 104
- ↑ Phillips, p. 105
- ↑ Star Inn
- ↑ Hook Norton Brewery ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ To foster friendship and to prevent misunderstanding among English-Speaking Peoples, says the founding declaration
- ↑ cf. Bulletin of the Association, No. 3, not dated, approx. 1922 , at the same time a preface to a booklet of the "Sulgrave Review"; and obituary for Woodhull, New York Times June 11, 1927
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 1 ″ N , 1 ° 11 ′ 2 ″ W.