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{{Short description|Village in Oxfordshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name = Mollington
| static_image_name = Mollington AllSaints NE.jpg
| static_image_caption = All Saints' parish church
| coordinates = {{coord|52.124|-1.361|display=inline,title}}
| os_grid_reference = SP4447
| label_position = left
| area_total_km2 = 5.89
| population = 479
| population_ref = ([[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]])
| civil_parish = Mollington
| shire_district = [[Cherwell (district)|Cherwell]]
| shire_county = [[Oxfordshire]]
| region = South East England
| country = England
| post_town = [[Banbury]]
| postcode_district = OX17
| postcode_area = OX
| dial_code = 01295
| constituency_westminster = [[Banbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Banbury]]
| website =
}}

'''Mollington''' is a village and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] about {{convert|4|mi}} north of [[Banbury]] in [[Oxfordshire]], England. The [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]] recorded the parish's population as 479.<ref>{{NOMIS2011 |id= E04008067 |title=Mollington Parish |access-date=15 June 2019}}</ref>

==Toponym==
An Anglo-Saxon will from AD 1015 records the [[Toponymy|toponym]] as ''Mollintun'' and the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 records it as ''Molitone'' and ''Mollitone''. An entry for 1220 in the [[Book of Fees]] records it as ''Mulinton'' and a [[Pipe rolls|pipe roll]] from 1230 records it in its modern form of ''Mollington''. It is derived from [[Old English]], meaning the ''tūn'' of ''Moll''{{'}}s people.{{sfn|Ekwall|1960|loc=Mollington}}

==Manor and governance==
[[Æthelstan Ætheling]], the eldest son of [[Æthelred the Unready]], willed an estate at Mollington to his father in 1014 or 1015.{{sfn|Crossley|1972|p=197–206}} The [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 records that by 1086 the [[Manorialism|manor]] was held by William d'[[Évreux]], a kinsman of [[William I of England|William the Conqueror]].{{sfn|Crossley|1972|p=197–206}}

In 1086 Mollington was partly in three counties: Oxfordshire, [[Warwickshire]] and [[Northamptonshire]]. Later the village was only in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, and in 1895 the Warwickshire part was transferred to Oxfordshire by the [[Local Government Act 1894]].{{sfn|Crossley|1972|p=197–206}}

==Church and chapel==
===Church of England===
The earliest parts of the [[Church of England parish church]] of [[All Saints' Day|All Saints]] date from the 14th century, but the [[Baptismal font|font]] is 13th century so there may have been an earlier church building on the site.{{sfn|Crossley|1972|p=197–206}}<ref>{{cite web |author=Archbishops' Council |author-link=Archbishops' Council |title=Mollington: All Saints |work=[[A Church Near You]] |publisher=[[Church of England]] |url= https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/5948/ |access-date=15 June 2019}}</ref> All Saints' has a north [[aisle]] which is linked to the [[nave]] by an [[Arcade (architecture)|arcade]] of four [[Bay (architecture)|bays]]. The tower was built in the 16th century. There was a chapel on the north side of the [[chancel]], but it was demolished in 1786. A blocked arch and doorway survive in the north wall of the chancel and a [[piscina]] can be seen from the outside.{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=711}}

[[File:Mollington AllSaints NorthChapel piscina.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Piscina]] of the former north chapel of All Saints' parish church]]
The building was restored in 1856 under the direction of the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival architect]] [[William White (architect)|William White]].{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=710}} All Saints' is a [[Listed building#Categories of listed building|Grade II* listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE |num=1228026 |desc=Church of All Saints |access-date=20 January 2012}}</ref>

The tower has a [[Change ringing|ring]] of six bells. Henry I Bagley of [[Chacombe#Social and economic history|Chacombe]],<ref name=DoveFounders>{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/founders.php |title=Founders |work=[[Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers]] |publisher=[[Central Council of Church Bell Ringers]] |author=Dovemaster |date=25 June 2010 |access-date=20 January 2012}}</ref> Northamptonshire cast the fifth bell in 1631<ref name=DoveDetails>{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Mollington&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=MOLLINGTON |title=Mollington All Saints |work=[[Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers]] |publisher=[[Central Council of Church Bell Ringers]] |last=Davies |first=Peter |date=9 January 2009 |access-date=20 January 2012}}</ref> and John Briant of [[Hertford]]<ref name=DoveFounders/> cast the fourth bell in 1789.<ref name=DoveDetails/> Mears and Stainbank of the [[Whitechapel Bell Foundry]] cast the third and tenor bells in 1875.<ref name=DoveDetails/> The Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble and second bells in 1981,<ref name=DoveDetails/> completing the present ring. All Saints has also a [[Church bell#Sanctus bells|Sanctus bell]], cast by John Conyers of [[Yorkshire]] in about 1630.<ref name=DoveDetails/> Conyers had two [[Bellfounding|bell-foundries]]: one in [[Kingston upon Hull]] and the other in [[Malton, North Yorkshire|New Malton]].<ref name=DoveFounders/>

All Saints' parish is now part of the [[Benefice#Church of England|Benefice]] of Shires' Edge along with the parishes of [[Claydon, Oxfordshire|Claydon]], [[Cropredy]], [[Great Bourton]] and [[Wardington]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=27/139CW |title=Benefice of Shires' Edge |author=Archbishops' Council |work=A Church Near You |publisher=Church of England |access-date=5 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121005101829/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=27%2F139CW |archive-date=5 October 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

===Primitive Methodist and Brethren===
In 1817 a private house in Mollington was registered for [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|non-conformist]] worship. Houses were registered for [[Methodism|Methodist]] worship in 1821 and 1828. A [[Primitive Methodism|Primitive Methodist]] minister preached in Mollington in 1835, and a red brick chapel of that denomination was built in the village in 1845. It thrived the 1850s, 60s and 70s but declined in the first half of the 20th century, and was closed in 1947.

The chapel was bought in 1950 for [[Plymouth Brethren|Brethren]] worship, but closed again by 1969.{{sfn|Crossley|1972|p=197–206}} It is now a private house.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.oxfordshirechurches.info/MollingtonPrimitiveMethodist.htm |title=Mollington |work=Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels |publisher=Brian Curtis |access-date=15 June 2019}}</ref>

==Social and economic history==
[[File:Green Man Inn, Mollington - geograph.org.uk - 131142.jpg|thumb|The Green Man public house]]
In 1872 a [[National school (England and Wales)|National School]] was built in the village. It was a [[Voluntary controlled school|Church of England school]] and was still open in 1996,<ref>{{cite web |title=Mollington CofE School |publisher=[[Department for Children, Schools and Families]] |date=30 June 1997 |url= http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/archives/shschoolp_96?School=9313006 |archive-url= http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100203222652/http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi%2Dbin/performancetables/archives/shschoolp_96?School%3D9313006 |url-status= dead |archive-date= 3 February 2010 |access-date=18 October 2007}}</ref> but has since been closed.

Mollington used to have a post office.{{sfn|Crossley|1972|p=197–206}}

A [[Point to point (steeplechase)|Point to point racing]] ground opened at Mollington in 1972. A number of hunt groups were based at the ground until its closure in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Russell |title=POINT TO POINT: Mollington set to close |work=[[Oxford Mail]] |publisher=[[Newsquest]] |date=19 July 2007 |url= http://www.oxfordmail.net/search/display.var.1556106.0.point_to_point_mollington_set_to_close.php |access-date=18 October 2007}}</ref> It has since reopened with its first event on 7 May 2012.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

==Amenities==
Mollington has a [[public house]], The Green Man, that was probably built in the middle of the 18th century.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1216574 |desc=The Green Man Public House |grade=II |access-date=20 January 2012}}</ref> It also has a [[village hall]]<ref>[http://www.mollingtonvillagehall.co.uk/ Mollington Village Hall Oxfordshire]</ref> and two children's playgrounds.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
*{{cite book |last1=Crossley |first1=Alan (ed.) |last2=Colvin |first2=Christina |last3=Cooper |first3=Janet |last4=Cooper |first4=N.H. |last5=Harvey |first5=P.D.A. |last6=Hollings |first6=Marjory |last7=Hook |first7=Judith |last8=Jessup |first8=Mary |last9=Lobel |first9=Mary D. |author9-link=Mary Lobel |last10=Mason |first10=J.F.A. |last11=Trinder |first11=B.S. |last12=Turner |first12=Hilary |year=1972 |title=A History of the County of Oxford |volume=10: Banbury Hundred |series=[[Victoria County History]] |place=London |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] for the [[Institute of Historical Research]] |isbn=978-0-19722-728-2 |pages=197–206 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol10/pp197-206 |ref={{harvid|Crossley|1972}}}}
*{{cite book |last=Ekwall |first=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |orig-year=1936 |year=1960 |title=Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names |edition=4th |place=Oxford |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=0198691033 |at=Mollington }}
*{{Cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=The Buildings of England |title=Oxfordshire |year=1974 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071045-0 |pages=710–711 }}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*[http://www.mollingtonvillagehall.co.uk/ Mollington Village Hall Oxfordshire]

{{Cherwell}}

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[[Category:Civil parishes in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Villages in Oxfordshire]]

Mollington, Oxfordshire - Revision history

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