Ayot St Lawrence
Ayot St Lawrence | |
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![]() The new St. Lawrence church | |
Location within Hertfordshire | |
OS grid reference | TL195165 |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | WELWYN |
Postcode district | AL6 |
Dialling code | 01438 |
Police | Hertfordshire |
Fire | Hertfordshire |
Ambulance | East of England |
UK Parliament | |
Ayot St Lawrence is a small village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, between Harpenden and Welwyn. There are several other Ayots in the area, including Ayot Green and Ayot St Peter, where the census population of Ayot St Lawrence was included in 2011.
Heritage
George Bernard Shaw lived in the village, at Shaw's Corner, from 1906 until his death in 1950; his ashes are scattered there.[1][2] The house is open to the public as a National Trust property.[3]
During the 1950s Zoe Dyke moved to Ayot House where she continues to work with British-farmed silk.[4]
Other residents of the village included Shaw's friend, neighbour and bibliographer Stephen Winsten (1893–1991) and his wife, the artist Clare Winsten (1894–1989), and the novelist and biographer Carola Oman, Lady Lenanton (1897–1978).
Amenities
The village has one public house, The Brocket Arms, [1], which is reputed to be haunted. It also offers meals and accommodation.[5] The pub was established in the 14th century. [2].
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The village has two churches:
- Old St Lawrence Church, in the centre of the village, was partially demolished in 1775, because it was obstructing the view from Sir Lionel Lyde's new home.[6]
Field Marshal Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, a British Army officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is buried in the churchyard.
- New St Lawrence Church was designed in a neo-classical style by Nicholas Revett[7] and features a Palladian-style frontage with Doric columns.
References
- ^ "Shaw's Corner". Archived from the original on 8 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
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- ^ John Martin, "Dyke, (Millicent) Zoë, Lady Dyke (1896–1975)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 accessed 12 July 2017
- ^ "The Brocket Arms, Ayot St Lawrence". Mysterious Britain. Archived from the original on 2009-09-24. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
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- ^ "Parishes - Ayot St. Lawrence or Great Ayot". British History Online. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
Gallery
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Shaw's Corner
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Ruins of the old Church
External links
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- Ayot [St Lawrence] in the Domesday Book