Holton cum Beckering
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Holton cum Beckering is a small village and civil parish in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated Script error: No such module "convert". south from Market Rasen at the junction of the B1202 and B1399 roads. At the 2001 census it had a population of 140.[1]
History
Around the village is evidence of Medieval settlement, defined by cropmarks and ridge and furrow earthworks indicating crofts and enclosures. Near Holton Hall are possible remains of a moat.[2]
In 1885 Kelly's noted that the parish was of Script error: No such module "convert". with chief agricultural production being of wheat, oats, barley and seeds, and an 1881 population of 165.[3]
Landmarks
All Saints' Church is a Grade I listed Anglican church.[4] Kelly's mentions that it comprises a chancel, nave, aisles and south porch, and a square tower containing three bells, with the chancel incorporating richly painted frescoes and a carved oak screen separating the chancel from the nave. Benches were carved by a Mr Swaby of Marsh Chapel when the chancel was rebuilt in 1851 by a Mr Nicholson of Lincoln.[3] The church was restored in 1859-60 and 1870-74 by George Gilbert Scott, who rebuilt the north arcade and added, according to Pevsner, a "glittering mosaic reredos... made, according to Canon Binnal, by a Catholic Italian who insisted on smoking his pipe while doing it". Also noted was a chalice and paten cover dated 1569[5] Scott also repaired both aisles, and rebuilt a mortuary chapel and the whole roof.[3]
Other listed buildings are early 18th-century Holton Hall[6] and late 17th-century Abbey Farm House.[7]
Culture
The amateur dramatic society was originally known as the Holton Players. Following a move to Wickenby, in 1970, they were renamed the Lindsey Rural Players.[8]
Academy Award-winning actor Jim Broadbent was born in the village in 1949; his parents, Roy and Dee Broadbent, were founder members of the Holton Players.[9][10]
BBC documentaries
The village was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary Conchies of Holton-Cum-Beckering on 7 May 2007. Presented by Billy Bragg, it interviewed the surviving members of a group of Second World War conscientious objectors who formed themselves into farming communities and an amateur dramatic society.[11]
A documentary on BBC Radio 4 Extra The Holton Players was broadcast on 1 September 2014 (and repeated on 21 June 2017). It was presented by Jim Broadbent.[12]
References
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- ↑ a b c Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 482
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- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 274; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. Template:ISBN
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- ↑ "Our History", Lindsey Rural Players at The Broadbent Theatre, Wickenby. Retrieved 29 October 2011
- ↑ "It's a Golden Globe for Jim Broadbent", Louth Leader, 14 January 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2011
- ↑ "Roy Broadbent (1915-1972)", Broadbent.org. Retrieved 29 October 2011
- ↑ "Conchies of Holton-Cum-Beckering", BBC Radio 4, 7 May 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2011
- ↑ "The Holton Players", BBC Radio 4 Extra, 1 September 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2017
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External links
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- "Holton Beckering", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2011
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