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South Weston is a village in Lewknor civil parish, about 4.5 miles (7 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire. There are about 19 households in the parish.

South Weston
St. Lawrence' parish church
South Weston Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SU700983
Civil parish	Lewknor
District	South Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Thame
Postcode district	OX9
Dialling code	01844
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Henley
Website	Lewknor Village
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51.679°N 0.989°W / 51.679; -0.989

Manor

South Weston is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and the Hundred Rolls of 1279.[1] Both then and later in the Middle Ages, the parish's farming interests overlapped with those of neighbouring Wheatfield.[1]

Parish church

The current Church of England parish church of Saint Lawrence was designed by the Gothic Revival architect R.C. Hussey and built in 1860.[2] It is in a Decorated Gothic style[2] and incorporates some elements of the previous Norman church. The font is 13th century,[2] and there is a 14th-century tomb recess in the north wall of the chancel.[2] Over the east window, on the outside is a statue of Saint Lawrence.[2]

The armchairs in the church were given by the Reynardson family of Adwell.^{[citation needed]} The church was renovated in 1988 to make it more suitable for holding services.^{[citation needed]} Until the mid 19th century the church had strong links with The Queen's College, Oxford.

Salisbury Lodge

In South Weston a non-conformist chapel and a public house were built in about 1600.^{[citation needed]} The pub was called The Salisbury Arms. After the chapel became unused, the chapel was converted into a barn for the use of the pub owners. The pub was converted into a house in 1982 and is now called Salisbury Lodge.

References

Sources and further reading

• Fanshawe, Rev. H.L.; Henderson, Canon W.H. Church of Saint Lawrence South Weston.^{[clarification needed]}
• Lobel, Mary D, ed. (1969). A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. Victoria County History. pp. 253–262.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 774. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

External links

Media related to South Weston at Wikimedia Commons

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