YELDEN
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"YELDEN, a parish in the hundred of Stodden, county Beds, 5 miles east of
Higham-Ferrers, and 12 north of Bedford. It is situated in a valley, and is
mentioned in Domesday survey as Ewelden. The women and children are
employed in lace making. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely,
value £300. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains some old stone
stalls and two brasses from 1433. The Wesleyans have a chapel. The
charities produce about £4 per annum. There is a National school. In the
parish is the moated site of an old baronial castle. J. Sambrook Crawley,
Esq., is lord of the manor."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
- St. Mary's Church, Yeldon.
- Church of England
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The church of St. Mary, an almost perfect example of a Decorated church, is a building of stone, consisting of
chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch and a western tower with enriched cornice and low
octagonal spire, containing a clock and 4 bells, restored in 1886 by Messrs. Taylor, of Loughborough: the chancel retains
piscina and sedilia, and on the north side is a late Perpendicular vestry, between which and the chancel is a curious
small recess in the wall: in the aisle is a large canopied recess with crocketed pinnacles and rich finials, and near
a piscina and a bracket; on the north side of the church is a flat arched recess, with hood moulding and finial, inclosing
an altar tomb with a recumbent figure supposed to represent the founder: the front of the tomb displays five quatrefoils
inclosing shields; there are also three brasses, one of which has the effigy of a man in trunk hose, cloak and ruff, and
is inscribed to Christopher Stickland, gent. 1628, a benefactor to the parish; mother, of a priest richly vested, has an
inscription in Latin to John Heyne, rector, 1433; the third is a kneeling effigy, with ruff, representing Thomas Barker,
rector, 1617: on the south side of the chancel is a stained window to John Fernie M.A. rector, ob. 1870: there are 220
sittings, 60 of which are free. The register dates from the year 1653.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
- Non-conformist
- The BFHS Project in conjunction with Roll of Honour contains the
Yelden War Memorial transcription for WW1 and WW2 with details of the men found on it
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