Poyntington
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Poyntington shares a grouped parish council, Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of Castleton, Goathill and Oborne.[2] Until 1896 the village was in Somerset,[3] part of the hundred of Horethorne.[4]
All Saints' Church has grown from an Anglo-Saxon two-room design and contains original Norman work. Murals on pillars were discovered in 1848[5] but were destroyed by their exposure. Two stained-glass windows date from the fourteenth century. An unusual addition is a carving of an angel's wing which was blown off Amiens Cathedral in World War I and then donated to the church.[6]
Notable residents
- Sir Thomas Malet, Judge
- William Launcelot Scott Fleming
- Sir Ralph Cheyne (d.1400)
References
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