Tredington, Gloucestershire
Tredington is a small village near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England. The village has a church and a school but no pubs or shops.[citation needed] Neighbouring villages include Stoke Orchard and Gotherington.[citation needed]
The little church of St John the Baptist in Tredington is known for its wooden tower, a twelfth-century architectural plan, medieval stone benches, and the fossil of an ichthyosaurus displayed upon the floor of its porch.[citation needed] The steps, base and shaft of the churchyard cross are fourteenth century; the cross is modern.[1]
[edit] History
The village was a member of the Confraternity of Burton Lazars, a mediaeval order devoted to the care of lepers, near Melton Mowbray.[2] The father of the musician Thomas Tomkins was incumbent of the church from 1594 to 1609.[3]
[edit] Education
The village school opened in 1880, [4] and is located half way between Tredington and Stoke Orchard in order to serve both communities. Tredington Community Primary School, as it is now known, is a tiny school serving (at least) the villages of Tredington, Stoke Orchard, Elmstone-Hardwicke and Uckington. In 2005 it had 61 students aged 4-11. [5] Most children leaving this school move on to Cleeve School in Bishop's Cleeve, an establishment with a larger population (over 1000 pupils) than the villages served by Tredington School.
[edit] References
- ^ Mark Child, "Discovering Churches and Churchyards", Shire Discovering Series 298, Osprey Publishing, 2008, ISBN 0747806594, p.233
- ^ David Marcombe, "The confraternity seals of Burton Lazars Hospital and a newly discovered matrix from Robertsbridge, Sussex", Leic. Arch. Sept 2002
- ^ Anthony Boden, "Thomas Tomkins: the last Elizabethan", Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005, ISBN 0754651185, p.44
- ^ Parishes: Tredington'. A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 8 (1968), pp. 228-236. Date accessed: 18 February 2012
- ^ Tredington Community Primary School. OFSTED Inspection Report. 1st October 2008.
Coordinates: 51°58′N 2°08′W / 51.967°N 2.133°W
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