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Ampney St Peter

Village in Gloucestershire, England

Ampney St Peter

Village in Gloucestershire, England

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official_nameAmpney St Peter
static_image_nameAmpney St Peter church.jpg
static_image_captionThe church of St Peter
map_altAmpney St Peter shown within Gloucestershire and England
coordinates
civil_parishAmpney St Peter
population75
countryEngland
shire_districtCotswold
shire_countyGloucestershire
regionSouth West England
constituency_westminsterSouth Cotswolds{{cite webtitle=Location of South Cotswoldsurl=https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4297/location
websiteparliament.ukaccess-date=2 January 2024}}
postcode_districtGL7 5SH
postcode_areaGL
os_grid_referenceSP080014

Ampney St Peter is a small village and civil parish in the Cotswolds and part of the Cotswold local government district in Gloucestershire, England. According to the 2014 mid year estimate, the parish had a population of 75. Locally, the town was known as Easington.

The Ampney Brook flows near the village, which is near to Ampney Crucis and Ampney St Mary, and is about four miles east of Cirencester.

History

The gold-painted post box to celebrate Laura Bechtolsheimer's equestrian team dressage gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Ranbury Ring to the south east of the village is the remains of an Iron Age enclosed settlement or bivallate hillfort covering 4.6 ha, and surrounded by a ditch and rampart. It has been scheduled as an ancient monument. Nearby is a Neolithic burial pit.

The Red Lion is an 18th-century Grade II listed public house. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

Religious buildings

The Anglican Church of St. Peter has late Saxon origins. It is Grade II* listed. The fabric of the current building dates from the late 12th or early 13th century and underwent Victorian restoration, and was largely rebuilt by George Gilbert Scott in 1878. It consists of a four-bay nave and chancel with a three-stage west tower supported by diagonal buttresses.

Inside the church is a Sheela na gig. The font is from the 15th century. The Romanesque archways were moved from their original positions during the Victorian restoration.

In the churchyard is a 14th century cross which is both a listed building and has been scheduled as an ancient monument. There is also a chest tomb and gravestones to the local Taylor family.

Notable residents

The village is the hometown of Dressage Olympian Laura Bechtolsheimer, a long term member of the British Dressage team. In August 2012, the village's postbox was painted gold by Royal Mail to signify the gold medal earned by Bechtolsheimer in the 2012 Olympic team dressage.

References

References

  1. "Local Insight profile for ‘Ampney St. Peter CP’ area". Gloucestershire County Council.
  2. "Ampney St Peter Gloucestershire". University of Portsmouth.
  3. "Ampney St Peter". Tinstaafl Transcripts.
  4. "Ranbury Ring". Historic England.
  5. "Ranbury Ring". The Megalithic Portal.
  6. "Ranbury Ring". Historic England.
  7. (2012). "A Neolithic burial and pit alignment near Ranbury Ring, Ampney St Peter: Excavations in 2008/9". Trans. Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 130 (2012), 129–141.
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  9. (2013). "Britain's best real heritage pubs". CAMRA.
  10. "Church of St. Peter". Historic England.
  11. "Ampney St Peter". The Sheela Na Gig Project.
  12. "St Peter, Ampney St Peter, Gloucestershire". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland.
  13. "Cross in churchyard of Church of St. Peter". Historic England.
  14. "Churchyard cross at Ampney St Peter". Historic England.
  15. "Group of six Taylor Monuments about 6m south of blocked south door in churchyard of Church of St. Peter". Historic England.
  16. "Ampney St Peter gold post box". Royal Mail.
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