Coldred
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| Coldred | |
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 St Pancras, Coldred's Grade I listed Saxon church | |
  Coldred Location within Kent | |
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| District | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Dover |
| Postcode district | CT15 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
Coldred is a village in the Shepherdswell with Coldred civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, England.
Name
There are various competing views of the origin of the name. Based on the Domesday Book entry, the Oxford Dictionary of Place Names gives "Clearing where coal is found, or where charcoal is made. OE col + *ryde".[1] This is also quoted by the village website which lists the variant names of "Coeldred", "Coelret" and "Colret".[2] Hastead thought that the name was from its "cold and bleak situation" though he mentioned that it might be named after Ceolred of Mercia[a] who may have visited the place in 715.[3]
History
Domesday Book
The Domesday book entry for Coldred (in Sankaran's translation) reads:
Ralph of Courbépine holds COLDRED from the Bishop.[b] Land for ... In lordship 1+1⁄2 ploughs. 6 villagers with 7 smallholdings have 2 ploughs. 2 slaves; meadow 4 acres. It answers for 2 sulungs. Value before 1066 £8; later 20s; now £6. Molleva held it from King Edward.[4]
The Latin gives the name as "COLRET".[4]
St Pancras' Church
Churches dedicated to St Pancras are uncommon in England, there only being six. There is one other St PAncras church in Kent, the very early Saxon church of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.[5]
The listing for the parish church accepts that it is a Saxon church. Evidence such as the form of the windows and their heads and the structure of the nave and chancel walls are cited.[5] In the 11th century alterations were made, possibly at that time the flint quoins were replaced by ashlar blocks.[5]
In the 14th century two windows were inserted into the nave walls. The south doorway was added at this time, and it is possible that the original door is still in place, though traces of earlier zig-zag moulding are above it. Also at this time the original west end bell cote was built. In the 15th century a two-light window was added the the south chancel wall.[5]
Further restoration occurred in 1866, 1890 (when the porch and vestry were added) and 1923 (when the bell-cote was rebuilt). The vestry has a reset medieval dedication cross. The 19th century changes included inserting the decorated style east window.[5]
The interior is mainly of 19th century origin, with the exception of the aumbery in the north chancel wall.[5]
Coldred Court farmhouse
The farmhouse is a grade II listed building southwest of the church. The listing notes that it is a 15 century timber framed building clad in 17 century red brick. It is within a moated manorial site.[6]
Ringwork and Bailey
Surrounding the church is an earthwork. The scheduling statement for it describes it as late Anglo-Saxon[7] but the listing statement for the church gives the date as "indeterminate, but possibly Roman".[5]
Notes
- ^ Called "Ceoldred" in Hasted's original
- ^ Odo of Bayeux
References
- ^ Mills 2011.
- ^ Coldred Village 2017.
- ^ Hasted 1800.
- ^ a b Morris 1975, chapter 5, section 191.
- ^ a b c d e f g Historic England & 1069988.
- ^ Historic England & 1049087.
- ^ Historic England & 1012260.
Citations
- Coldred Village (2017), Welcome to the Coldred Village Website, retrieved 29 October 2021
- Hasted, Edward (1800), "Parishes: Coldred", The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, vol. Volume 9, Canterbury: W Bristow, pp. 385–393, retrieved 29 October 2021
{{citation}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - Historic England (22 August 1962), "Church of St Pancras (Grade I) (1069988)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 29 October 2021
- Historic England (22 August 1962), "Coldred Court Farmhouse (Grade II) (1049087)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 29 October 2021
- Historic England (17 November 1960), "Ringwork and bailey at Coldred Court (1012260)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 29 October 2021
- Mills, A D (2011), A Dictionary of English Place Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199609086, retrieved 29 October 2021
- Morris, John, ed. (1975), Domesday book, History from the sources, vol. Volume 1: Kent, Chichester: Phillimore, ISBN 978-0-85033-154-7
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