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unusual facts about St Michael and All Angels Church, Aston Clinton



Aston Clinton

On 22 September 1934 a Handley Page W.10 a twin-engined biplane airline named Youth of New Zealand of Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Displays, crashed into a field near the canal at Aston Clinton.

Australian Formula One driver Mark Webber lists Aston Clinton as his home in England where he lives with his partner Ann Neal.

Aston Clinton Hillclimb

Aston Hill Climb (not "Aston Clinton Hillclimb") was a speed hill climb on public roads up Aston Hill near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire which was active from 1904 until 1925.

Aston Martin Bulldog

The car was officially launched on 27 March 1980 at the Bell Hotel at Aston Clinton.

Christopher Luxmoore

He was then Rector of Sangre Grande, Trinidad and after that Vicar of Headingley, Leeds.

Duke of Beaufort

The principal burial place of the Dukes and Duchesses of Beaufort is St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton.

Institute for Fiscal Studies

In 1967 a brainstorming weekend took place at The Bell, Aston Clinton.

Matthew Bloxam

Bloxam died on 24 April 1888, and was buried in the grounds of the chapel at Brownsover.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Aston Clinton

St Michael and All Angels Church, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover

The east window contains 20th-century stained glass commemorating Lawrence Sheriff, the founder of Rugby School.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover, is a redundant Anglican church in the former village of Brownsover, which is now a suburb of the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Great Houghton

The church is dedicated to St Michael, and was originally a private chapel and was built by Sir Edward Rodes, the High Sheriff of Yorkshire, who was a conspicuous Parliamentarian.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden

When the church extension work was carried out, the floor was covered with ceramic tiles designed by Edward William Godwin and the walls decorated with 1881 wall paintings in the Aesthetic Movement style by Heaton, Butler and Bayne that depict the Nativity, the Four Evangelists and the Prophets.

According to early records, a church existed on this site in the 12th century, built by Geoffrey de Clinton between 1100 and 1135.

The memorials in the church include three recumbent effigies of knights, one lying cross-legged; although apparently in the style of the 13th century, the effigies have been ascertained to date from the 16th century and are thought to have been sculpted as fabricated evidence of the pedigree of the Wellesbourne family as descendants of Simon de Montfort.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Marden

The three chancel windows contain stained glass by Patrick Reyntiens installed in 1962.

Thomas Willement

In 1846-1847, Willement made eight stained glass windows with heraldic designs for St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton.


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