Brockhampton-by-Ross
Brockhampton is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England.
According to the 2001 census it had a population of 241. The village is near the River Wye and lies between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye, and close to Ledbury. The Wye Valley Walk passes through Brockhampton.
The village forms part of the Old Gore ward of Herefordshire Council (and prior to 2003 was in the Backbury ward). Prior to 1998 it had been part of the district of South Herefordshire in Hereford and Worcester.[1]
The thatched church of All Saints was designed by W.R. Lethaby in the Arts and Crafts style in 1902. In The Buildings of England - Herefordshire, Pevsner describes the church as perhaps the most thrilling church in any country of the years between historicism and the Modern Movement.[2] A three-quarter scale model of the church is now open in Osaka’s English-themed Monterey Grasmere hotel in Japan, as a wedding venue on the 21st & 22nd floors of a tower block.[3][4][5]
[edit] References
- ^ OPSI
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. pp. 55. ISBN 978-0300096095.
- ^ Church Times article
- ^ Village website
- ^ HOW A CHURCH WAS FAITHFULLY RECREATED – IN A SKYSCRAPER Daily Express Saturday 24 October 2009
[edit] External links
Media related to Brockhampton-by-Ross at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 51°58′55″N 2°35′13″W / 51.982°N 2.587°W
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