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St Weonards

Village in Herefordshire, England

Field	Value
official_name	St Weonards
static_image	St Weonards church - geograph.org.uk - 138435.jpg
static_image_width	240px
static_image_caption	St Weonard's Church
unitary_england	Herefordshire
region	West Midlands
country	England
population	383
population_ref	(2011)
constituency_westminster	Hereford and South Herefordshire
post_town	HEREFORD
postcode_area	HR
postcode_district	HR2
dial_code	01981
os_grid_reference	SO496243
coordinates

St Weonards () is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, located 10 mi south of Hereford, 7 mi west of Ross-on-Wye and 8 mi north of Monmouth, on the A466 road. Within the parish and also on the A466 is the hamlet of Sandyway. St Weonards lies within the area known to the Saxons (and later English) as Archenfield, previously the kingdom of Ergyng, adjoining the modern border with Wales. Ergyng was later reduced to a semi-autonomous cantref retaining Welsh language and customs until the early nineteenth century.

St Weonards Church

St Weonard's Church is dedicated to St Weonard, who may have been a local Celtic saint. Old stained glass in the church, now destroyed, described him as a hermit and showed him with a woodcutter's axe. His name is spelled in various ways, including Wannard and Gwennarth.

The church was first mentioned in a charter of 1155. The chancel arch, part of the south wall, and the inner doorway of the porch, date from the 13th and 14th centuries, as does a large wooden chest. Most of the current church building dates from the early 16th century, when it was enlarged by the building of the north aisle, south porch and tower. The internal oak screens date from the same period, as does the Mynors Chapel, built for the family who owned, and still own, Treago Castle. The pulpit dates from the 17th century. The chancel was enlarged in 1884, and the south vestry added. The churchyard contains the remains of a 15th-century cross base.

St Weonards Tump

Immediately south of the churchyard is a large mound or "tump", some 45 yd in diameter at the base and 14 ft high. This was traditionally the burial place of St Weonard, in a golden coffin. Excavations in 1855 revealed two cremation burials dating from the Bronze Age within the mound.

Treago Castle

Main article: Treago Castle

Treago Castle, some 0.3 mi west of the village, is a mediaeval fortified manor house and Grade I listed building. It is believed to have been built around 1480 by Sir Richard Mynors, who was Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1500, on land which had been owned by his family at least since the 14th century. The castle is set within parkland, and is still privately owned by the Mynors family.

References

"Civil Parish population 2011".
[http://www.stw.org.uk/stwthreefoldguide2011.pdf Guide to St Weonards Church]{{dead link. (May 2018)
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The tump seems to have been used by the [[Normans]] as a [[motte and bailey|motte]] for a small wooden castle, and in later centuries was used as the site of [[morris dancing]] and other village festivities.Michael Raven, ''A Guide to Herefordshire'', 1996, pp.175-177
[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=107720 National Monuments Record: St Weonards Tump]. Accessed 4 April 2012
[http://www.hha.org.uk/Property/440/Treago Historic Houses Association: Treago]. Accessed 4 April 2012

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