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BOTTISHAM, anciently "Bodekysham" an "Bottlesham,"
is a large village and parish on the road from Newmarket to Cambridge,
3 miles north-west from Six Mile Bottom station on the London
and North Eastern railway and 2 miles south from Bottisham and
Lode station on the Cambridge and Fordham section of the same
line, 6 west from Newmarket and 7 east from Cambridge; it is the
head of a petty sessions division and in the hundred of Staine,
Newmarket union and county court district, rural deanery of Quy
and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely.
A
cemetery of one acre has been formed at a cost of £243;
it is under the control of the Parish Council.
The
church of the Holy Trinity is a beautiful edifice of stone, chiefly
in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel clerestoried
nave of five bays, aisles, north and south porches and western
Galilee porch, and an embattle western tower with pinnacles and
containing 5 bells: the chancel retains an Early English piscina
an sedilia, and there is also an Early Decorated chancel arch,
with a Perpendicular stone screen: on the south wall of the chancel
is a marble tablet to the Rev William Pugh, vicar from 1812, dated
1825: the stained east window and the reredos are memorials to
Col. Jenyns, one of the "Six Hundred" at Balaclava (October
25th, 1854), who died in 1873: at the east end of the north aisle
is an oak screen, apparently of the Decorated period, which encloses
two monuments one to Margaret, daughter of William Coningesbye
of King's Lynn, and another, with effigies in marble and cherubs
supporting a canopy, to Leonettus and Dorothea, children of William
and Elizabeth Allington, ob. 1638: there is also an altar tomb
of Purbeck marble, with the matrix of a brass effigy and canopy
and panelled sides relieved by shields; the inscription on the
margin, now lost, commemorated Elyas de Beckingham, appointed
a justiciar of the Common Pleas, 15 Edward I. (1285); he retired
from the bench, or died, in 1305; in 1289, when all the judges
were apprehended by the king on charges of bribery and corruption,
Beckingham and Metingham alone were honourably acquitted: in the
same aisle is a marble tablet to Hester Paulina Lushington, d.
1795: the south aisle has an arcading along its whole length,
inclosing a series of stone coffin slabs a screen similar to that
on the north side incloses a large tomb of white marble to Sir
Roger Jenyns, d. 1740, and Dame Elizabeth, his wife, d. 1728,
with their effigies in bed attire; and near this tomb, against
the south wall, is a plain marble tabblet to Soame Jenyns esq.
M.P. and controversialist, and son of Sir Roger Jenyns, who died
18th Dec. 1787: on the south side is a beautiful piscina and a
sedile: there are also slabs inscribed to Francis Hessel, d. 1659,
and John Lack, d. 1742: the church was restored and warming apparatus
fixed during the period 1875-91, and repairs to the fabric were
made in 1928 at a cost of £500; there are about 350 sittings.
The register of baptisms dates from the year 1561; marriages,
1563 ; burials, 1659.
There
is a Congregational chapel, founded in 1800, and having sittings
for 230 persons.
In
1712 a destructive fire consumed 20 houses in the village, besides
causing other damage, and an incendiary fire which occured on
February 13th, 1846, destroyed the produce of two large farms,
as well as fifteen cottages depriving twenty-four poor families
of their homes. About £200 yearly, derived from several
charities, is distributed in money and kind and for educational
purposes: in 1878 the so-called "Poor's Fen", of nearly
200 acres, was for the first time brought under a trust and scheme
formed by the Charity Commissioners produces a profit of nearly
£130 yearly for the benefit of the poor, which is applied
chiefly in the distribution of fuel. The Charity School has been
converted into a reading room. The kennels of the Cambridgeshire
Harriers are in this parish; Basil Briscoe esq. and Harry Leader
esq.: are joint masters : the pack comprises fifteen couples of
18 to 20-inch terriers; hunting days, Wednesdays and Saturdays;
Cambridge and Newmarket are convenient centres; Bottisham is the
nearest station to the kennels. Bottisham Park contains about
200 acres and is well wooded: the mansion, a structure of brick,
erected in 1797 when the old hall was pulled down, is the property
and residence of Roger William Bulwer Jenyns esq. J.P. who is
lord of the manor. Trinity, St. Peter's and Downing Colleges,
Cambridge, and R. W. B. Jenyns esq. J.P. are the principal landowners."
The
soil is loamy subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley
and oats. The area of the parish is 2,854; acres the population
in 1921 was 624.
LODE,
formerly Bottisham Lode (which includes Long-meadow and Fen),
was separated from Bottisham by an Order of the Local Government
Board, in November, 1894, and formed into a civil parish. It is
a village on the Cambridge and Newmarket road, with a station
called Bottisham and Lode, on the Cambridge and Mildenhall line
of the London and North Eastern railway, and is 6 miles east from
Cambridge, 8 west from Newmarket and 63 from London, in the hundred
of Staine, Bottisham petty sessional division, Newmarket union
and county court district, rural deanery of Quy and archdeaconry
and diocese of Ely.
A
cemetery of one acre has been formed at a cost of £243;
it is under the control of the Parish Council.
The
ecclesiastical parish of St. James was formed May 1, 1863; the
church, erected and consecrated in 1853, is a building of stone
in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch
and a western turret containing a clock and 2 bells: during the
period 1873-90 it was restored, redecorated and refitted, including
in 1886-7 a new roof, provided at a cost of £200, the remaining
work; including the erection of a reredos and several stained
windows, the total expense amounting to over £600: there
are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1863.
There
is a Baptist chapel, built in 1832 and seating 400 persons. In
the centre of the village is a cross of Cornish granite, erected
in 1923 as a memorial to the men of this parish who fell in the
Great War, 1914-18.
Here
are the remains of the Priory of Anglesey,
founded by Henry I or Richard de Clare for canons of the Augustinian
order, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and St. Nicolas: at
the dissolution there were 11 canons, and the revenues were estimated
at £124: the remains consist of a vaulted room and graduated
corbel table connected with a staircase; both are Early English.
Anglesey Abbey is the property and residence of Lord Fairhaven.
Roger W.B. Jenyns esq. J.P. is lord of the manor of Anglesey and
Vauxes; Lord Fairhaven, Messrs. Thomas Webb and Samuel C. and
Jonathan C. Fison are the principal landowners, and there are
several smaller owners.
The
soil is clay; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops arc wheat, barley
and oats. The area of the parish (including Bottisham, Lode and
Long Meadow) is 3,133 acres of land and inland water; the population
in 1921 was 569.
[Extracts
from Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Note:
The church at Bottisham has 6 bells. The original 5 bells were
augmented to six in about 1974. At the same time the original
treble was recast due to cracks. Supposedly the new bell came
from Kirtling where it had been removed due to an unsafe tower.
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