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Village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England
Lapworth church
The armorial west window of the church
Lapworth
is a village and
civil parish
in
Warwickshire
, England, which had a population of 2,100 according to the
2001 census
; this had fallen to 1,828 at the
2011 Census
.
[1]
It lies seven miles (11 km) south of
Solihull
and ten miles (16 km) northwest of
Warwick
, and incorporates the
hamlet
of
Kingswood
. Lapworth boasts a historic church, the Church of
St Mary
the Virgin, a
chapel
. Two
National Trust
sites are nearby:
Baddesley Clinton
, a
medieval
moated
manor house
and garden located in the village of
Baddesley Clinton
; and
Packwood House
, a
Tudor
manor house and yew garden with over 100 trees in
Packwood
.
The church is a building largely of the 13th and 14th centuries. It includes several unusual features: the
steeple
is connected by a passage to the north
aisle
and is built sheer with a projecting stair; the
clerestory
has square-headed windows; and there is a two-storey annex at the west end.
[2]
In the church the Portland
memorial
to Florence Bradshaw was the work of
Eric Gill
and was installed in 1928. It is a
Virgin and Child
carved in low relief.
[3]
The village is a popular area for cuisine, with three
pubs
"
The Boot
", "
The Navigation
" and "
The Punch Bowl
".
At
Kingswood Junction
, the
Grand Union Canal
joins the
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
, which has a major flight of
locks
. Catesby Lane in Lapworth is named after
William Catesby
(the great grandfather of
Robert Catesby
of
Gunpowder Plot
fame), whose family had been settled at Bushwood Hall, in the neighbouring
parish
of
Bushwood
, since the 14th century. The
manor house
was probably at Lapworth Hall, today
Ireland
's Farm, and in the 17th and 18th centuries the house of the
Mander family
of
Wolverhampton
. The furniture designer and maker Hugh Birkett worked from the late 1940s until 1966 in the garage at his parents' home in Lapworth. Examples of his work can be seen at
Cheltenham Museum
.
Transport
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Lapworth railway station
is on the
Chiltern line
from
London Marylebone
to
Moor Street
. Originally called
Kingswood
, the station name was changed to Lapworth to avoid confusion with
Kingswood railway station
in
Surrey
. Junction 16 of the
M40 motorway
has only northbound entry and southbound exit to prevent traffic diverting through
Hockley Heath
as a shortcut to and from nearby junction 4 of the
M42
. The village is effectively a
commuter
village for professionals employed in
Birmingham
and
Coventry
, most of whom today drive to their places of work.
Notable persons
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References
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]
- ^
"Civil Parish population 2011"
. Retrieved
29 December
2015
.
- ^
Betjeman, John, ed. (1968)
Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the North
. London: Collins; p. 265
- ^
Goodall, John (2015).
Parish Church Treasures
. London: Bloomsbury; p. 280
External links
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]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Lapworth
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