Broadwell

After the Romans left in AD 410 England reverted to paganism and the area from Burford to Lechlade became disputed territory between the Angles in Mercia, north of Burford, and the Saxons south of the Thames at Lechlade. The Saxons won the battle of Beorhford (a hill outside Burford) in AD 752 and the area became Saxon. Christianity was introduced from AD 600 by St Birinus, a bishop from Rome, who set up a minster in the previously Roman Christian centre at Dorchester on Thames.

A system of minsters, where a group of priests or monks lived and worshipped, and chapels-of ease, outlying small churches to which a priest or monk travelled to preach, then spread out from Dorchester. Bampton became a minster with Broadwell and Langford as, initially, the chapels-of ease. Then Broadwell and Langford became minsters with Holwell and Kelmscott becoming Broadwell’s chapels-of-ease.

All this preceded the Conquest in 1066.

For more on the history of the church, click here.

TREBLE (F):

4-3-3 c.w.t.

Eijsbouts

2019

2 (E):

4-2-16 c.w.t.

John Warner & Sons

1895

3 (D):

5-0-22 c.w.t.

John Warner & Sons

1895

4 (C):

5-3-22 c.w.t.

Edward Neale

1663

5 (B♭):

7-3-14 c.w.t

Eijsbouts

2019

6 (A):

9-3-12 c.w.t.

Edward Neale

1653

7 (G):

11-1-18 c.w.t.

Joseph Carter

1581

Tenor (F):

15-2-12 c.w.t. in the key of F

William Hasylwood

c1500