Shelswell / Saldeywell / Scaldeswelle / Scildeswelle
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Outside the church lay two semi-recumbant stone figures in the dress of the late 16th. century. They are thought to be memorials of Robert Heath and his wife, who lived at Shelswell during that time. For many years, they lay in a coppice near the site of the old church and were later moved to the front of Home Farm House, then to the grounds of Shelswell House and finally to their resting place where you see them today."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Shelwell Parishes, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in the Shelwell Parishes web site [www.shelswellparishes.info/newtonpurcell/newton.html] [accessed 14 December 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: this is a view of the church at Newton Purcell. The church at Shelwell was demolished in the late-18thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Smith, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2006 by Andrew Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/135015] [accessed 14 December 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20805SHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ebbe [demolished in 1796]
Church Patron Saints: St. Ebbe [aka Æbbe of Coldingham, Æbbe of Oxford, Æbbe the Elder]
Church Location: the disappeared church was located near Shelswell Park Estate, near Fringford, Bicester OX27 8EH, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared church is located near Shelswell Park Estate, near Fringford, just NE of Hethe, NNE of Bicester
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Oxford]
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtlington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ploughley
Century and Period: 11th century, Norman
There is an entry for Shelswell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6030/shelswell/] [accessed 14 December 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "The original church building at Shelswell has gone and the earliest documentary evidence for the existence of a church comes from the collation of a chaplain, Robert Basset, by the bishop in c. 1215. (fn. 117) There can be little doubt, however, that there was a church here at an early date. Between 1093 and 1095 Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, was lord, and the church was dedicated to the Northumbrian saint St. Ebbe. [...] The church of ST. EBBE has completely disappeared [...] It was standing in 1618 but was probably no longer used, as there were no 'mounds' round the churchyard. [...] In the early 18th century the church was described as a dilapidated chapel, [...] and in 1740 it was reported that no services had been held in it in 'the memory of man'. [...] The reports continue in much the same strain—in 1757 the chapel was described as decayed and gone to ruin [...] —until 1795; but in 1796 the chapel had been taken down.
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REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-12-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.