Elkstone, Gloucestershire Genealogy

England   Gloucestershire

Parish History
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Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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GAZETTEERS

ELKSTONE,a parish in the hundred of Rapsgate, county of Gloucester, 7 1/2 miles (N.N.W.) from Cirencester, containing 296 inhabitants. The living is a rectory in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at (pound) 12.9.2., and in the patronage of the Hon. B. Craven. The church, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, is an ancient, though small edifice, affording a fine specimen of Norman architecture in the ornamented south porch, the east window, and the interior of the chancel; it has at the west end a square embattled tower in the later English style, erected in the reign of Richard II. The old Ermin-street traces the western boundary of the parish. A kind of stone is obtained here, which is easily cut when raised from the quarry, but becomes exceedingly hard by exposure to the air." Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831 Vol II., p. 122 (LDS Family History Library # 942, E5L, 1831)

ELKSTONE, pa. and vil., Mid. Glouces. 7 1/2 N.N.W. of Cirencester, near the road to Gloucester; ac. 2,116; soil clay and light, overlying rock. The church of St. John the Evangelist is chiefly Norm. and Perp.: the chancel, which is only 12 ft. high, has good Norm. groining and elaborately-ornamented arches, and above it is a chamber, to which a staircase ascends; the east window is, both externally and with a beautiful specimen of rich Norm. work; on the outside carved heads adorn the cornice of the nave;; there is a good Norm. south door and Perp. font and pulpit." Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain And Ireland being Complete Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, (Cassell And Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne 1895) p. 349, (LDS Family History Library # British Ref area, 942 ESca V. 2)

ELKSTONE, a parish in Cirencester district, Gloucester; near Ermine-street, 7 1/2 miles NNW of Cirencester r. station. Post-town Brimpsfield, under Stroud. Acres, 2,085. Real property, (pound) 2,261. Pop., 320. Houses, 70. The property is divided among a few. Stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, (pound) 360. Patron, the Hon. R. K. Craven. The church is very ancient, but good; is partly early English; and has a fine Norman door." John Marious Wilson, The Imperial Gazetteer of England And Wales (A. Fullarton & Col, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin, and New York) Vol. II, p. 645 (LDS Family History Library # British Ref Area E5, 942 E5i V.2)

ELKSTONE, is a parish and village of the Cotswold district, about 1 mile from the high road between Cheltenham and Cirencester, 4 1/2 miles from Charlton Kings station on the Great Western railway, about 6 east from Chedworth station on the Cirencester and Cheltenham section of the Midland and South Western Junction railway, 8 north-west from Cirencester and 7 south from Cheltenham, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Rapsgate, union, petty sessional division and country court district of Cirencester, Cheltenhman rural deanery and Gloucester archdeaconry and diocese. The river Churn forms the north-east boundary of this parish. The Church of St. John the Evangelist is an edifice of stone in the Norman and Perpendicular style, consisting of double chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: the chancel is very curious and exhibits Norman groining of a fine character, and has enriched arches and a staircase leading to a chamber over it:  the nave walls and the south door are also Norman, and there are traces of a Norman doorway now  locked on the north side:  the exterior cornice of the nave is relieved with carved heads:  the east window is, on both sides, a remarkable fine example of highly wrought Norman work; the tower is a handsome structure of Perpendicular date, and there is a font of the same period, and the steps and base of a stone pulpit:  there are 130 sittings. the register dates from the year 1592. The living is a rectory, net yearly value (pound) 230, including 77 3/4 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. Reginald Hampson Myddleton Bouth M.A. and held since 199 by the Rev. Thomas Silvester Tonkinson B.A. of London University. The Rev. Reginald Hampson Myddleton Bouth M.A. of Battledown Court, Cheltenham, who is the lord of the manor, and C. F. Greathead esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is clay and light soil; subsoil, rock. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area is 2,116 acres; rateable value, (pound) 1,198; the population is 1911 was 219." Kelly's Directory Of The County of Gloucester, 1914 (Kelly's Directories Ltd., 182, 183 & 184, High Holborn, London, W. C.) p. 163-164 (LDS Family History Library # 942.41 E4Ke)

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