St Ecqwin's Church (Honeybourne)
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South Littleton /
Honeybourne
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Grade I Listed (UK), anglican church
The church is dedicated to St Ecgwin. It is likely that he was a member of the Mercian royal family. He was Bishop of Worcester in 693 AD, and known to be morally upstanding. He was responsible for the founding of Evesham Abbey, at the beginning of the eighth century. Ecgwin resigned his Bishopric in 711 AD to become the first Abbot of Evesham. He died in this office on 30th December 717 AD, and this is his feast day.
Honeybourne was originally two parishes, Cow Honeybourne which was owned by Winchcombe Abbey, and Church Honeybourne, where the present church stands, owned by Evesham Abbey. The church is a Grade One listed building standing in a closed churchyard, on the edge of the village. Honeybourne is in Worcestershire today, but is one of northernmost parishes in the diocese of Gloucester.
Church Honeybourne was given to the Abbey of Evesham by Kenred and Offa in 709 AD. It seems likely there has been a church here for a long time – the Domesday Book records a priest living here in 1086. A church was dedicated here in 1295 by the Bishop of St Asaph, in honour of St. Ecgwin.
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Honeybourne was originally two parishes, Cow Honeybourne which was owned by Winchcombe Abbey, and Church Honeybourne, where the present church stands, owned by Evesham Abbey. The church is a Grade One listed building standing in a closed churchyard, on the edge of the village. Honeybourne is in Worcestershire today, but is one of northernmost parishes in the diocese of Gloucester.
Church Honeybourne was given to the Abbey of Evesham by Kenred and Offa in 709 AD. It seems likely there has been a church here for a long time – the Domesday Book records a priest living here in 1086. A church was dedicated here in 1295 by the Bishop of St Asaph, in honour of St. Ecgwin.
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcots/ChurchHoneybournePho...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 52°5'40"N 1°49'34"W
- Collegiate Church of St Mary 26 km
- Tewkesbury Abbey 26 km
- St Mark's Church 29 km
- Church of St. Michael and All Angels 41 km
- St Agatha's Church 41 km
- All Saints Church Small Heath 42 km
- St Mary's Church, Witney 42 km
- Church of St. John the Baptist 43 km
- St Martin in the Bull Ring Church 43 km
- Leominster Priory Church 64 km
- Honeybourne Junction 0.7 km
- Former military camp 2.8 km
- Broad Marston 3 km
- The Orchard 6.9 km
- Abbots Salford Caravan Park 7.2 km
- Solar Farm 7.3 km
- Bengeworth 7.5 km
- Bidford Grange Golf Course 8 km
- Abbots Salford 8 km
- Warwickshire 30 km