27-467: Girton may refer to: Girton, Cambridgeshire , England Girton, Nottinghamshire , England Girton College, Cambridge , Cambridgeshire, England Girton High School , Mumbai, India Girton Grammar School , Bendigo, Victoria, Australia See also [ edit ] Gerton, North Carolina Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
54-653: A constituent college of the University of Cambridge , is situated within the village. Formed in 1869 under the name of the College for Women at Benslow House, it was originally based in Hitchin in Hertfordshire , before moving to its current site in 1873, at which time it took its current name. Until 1976 it admitted only women. The village also contains a primary school, Girton Glebe. Built in 1951, it replaced
81-540: A four-armed structure rested on four columns stabilised by connecting arches. This abbey building remained until a Norman abbot had a grander church built in the 12th century. In 1143 Geoffrey de Mandeville expelled the monks, used the abbey as a fortress and considerably damaged the buildings. The abbey suffered for three centuries from disputes with the bishops of Ely over the manors of Chatteris and Somersham . It paid 4,000 eels yearly to Peterborough Abbey for access to its quarries of limestone at Barnack . In
108-465: A low ebb. He wrote two surviving works for his students while he was there; the Passio S. Eadmundi and the questiones grammaticales . The important Ramsey Psalter or Psalter of Oswald ( British Library , Harley MS 2904) is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated psalter of the last quarter of the tenth century. Certain liturgical features have suggested that it was intended for use at Ramsey Abbey, or for
135-458: A new tower for Ramsey's own parish church of St Thomas à Becket was also taken from the Abbey. Around 1600 Sir Henry Williams (alias Cromwell) had a house built on the site of the abbey church. Six bays of the 13th-century Lady Chapel survive as the basement of the house. In 1737 Coulson Fellowes , later MP for Huntingdonshire , bought the house. It passed down through several generations of
162-418: A wooden chapel for three monks. The foundation was part of the mid-10th century English Benedictine reform , in which Ely and Peterborough were also refounded. Æthelwine gave the new foundation properties including an estate at nearby Bodsey and Houghton Mill . The Frankish scholar Abbo of Fleury came to Ramsey at Oswald's invitation during the period 985–7, when his fortunes at Fleury Abbey were at
189-649: Is a village and civil parish of about 1,600 households, and 4,500 people, in Cambridgeshire , England. It lies about 2 miles (3 km) to the northwest of Cambridge , and is the home of Girton College , a constituent college of the University of Cambridge . Listed as Grittune in around 1060 and Grittune in the Domesday Book , the village's name is derived from the Old English grēot + tūn meaning "farmstead or village on gravelly ground", as
216-426: Is derived from the family coat of arms of Anne-Maria Cotton, who endowed the first Girton village school, together with geese, kept at Washpit, that provided quills for use in the University of Cambridge . The flowers near the village's name are corn marigolds which were once common in the village, and at the base is the cross of Saint Andrew to whom the parish church is dedicated. Girton has three public houses:
243-515: The abbey gatehouse dismantled and re-erected at Hinchingbrooke House . Much stone was taken to Cambridge to build Gonville and Caius , King's and Trinity colleges. Stone was taken for the tower for the parish church of St Mary the Virgin in Godmanchester . This included a doorway from the abbey that was dismantled and re-erected as the west doorway of St Mary's. As late as 1672 stone for
270-477: The Abbey College. The Church of St Thomas à Becket, Ramsey was built in about 1180 or 1190 as either the hospitium or the infirmary of the abbey. It was originally an aisled hall with a chapel at the east end with a vestry on the north side and the warden's lodgings on the south, but both these have been demolished. The building was converted into a parish church in about 1222. When Whittlesey Mere
297-515: The Grade-I listed Bodsey House. The Abbey Gatehouse is a National Trust property. This is believed to be an inner gatehouse, the main outer gatehouse was removed by Sir Henry Williams (alias Cromwell), the son and heir of Sir Richard, to form the main gateway to Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdon, his newly built winter residence. Today what remains of the gatehouse also forms a part of
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#1732773027111324-598: The Old Crown opened in around 1840, The George (formerly the George and Dragon) which was opened by a blacksmith in the 1850s, and The Traveller's Rest a modern addition on Huntingdon Road on the outskirts of Cambridge. The village's first pub, the White Horse, was opened in around 1760 but closed in the late 20th century. The village hosts the black squirrel , a rare variant of the grey squirrel . Girton College ,
351-684: The abbey in Ramsey is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument . Most of the abbey's buildings were demolished after the dissolution but surviving structures are Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings. Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse is in the care of the National Trust and the Church of St Thomas à Becket, Ramsey was one of the buildings of the abbey. Ramsey Abbey was founded in 969 by Oswald , Bishop of Worcester on land donated by Æthelwine, Ealdorman of East Anglia (Earl Ailwyn), where he had already built
378-489: The family. In 1804–06 William Henry Fellowes had the abbey house enlarged to designs by Sir John Soane . In 1889 his son Edward Fellowes was created 1st Baron de Ramsey . In 1931 at the coming of age of John Ailwyn Fellowes, 4th Baron de Ramsey the family moved its seat to Abbots Ripton Hall. In 1937 the Fellowes leased the building for 99 years to Ramsey Abbey School. In 1952 Major The Hon. Henry Rogers Broughton gave
405-531: The gatehouse to the National Trust in memory of his late wife The Hon. Diana Broughton ( née Fellowes ). Ramsey Abbey House, the Gatehouse, and the parish church of St Thomas à Becket all survive, along with part of the abbey's medieval precinct wall. Ramsey Abbey House, the former 17th century home of Sir Henry Cromwell and latterly the seat of the Fellowes family, is currently part of Abbey College, Ramsey . The Bodsey monastic grange survives as
432-614: The kingdom: the abbot was mitred, and sat in the house of lords as baron of Broughton; the abbey had 387 hides of land, 200 of which were in Huntingdonshire: the monks were not famed for their liberality, if we believe the following ancient lines: In 1540 the Crown sold the abbey lands to Sir Richard Williams (alias Cromwell) . He used most of the abbey buildings as a source of stone for walls and cottages at hand, and to provide good Barnack stone for new buildings. He had part of
459-462: The north of the village in 1975. A selection of Anglo-Saxon items are stored in the collection of Girton College. Before the 20th century most of the village was devoted to arable farming, following Enclosure in 1808. In 1934 the parish acquired 58 acres (23 hectares) of land from neighbouring Histon and the Cotton manorial estate. Further land was gained from Histon and Impington in 1953, and
486-707: The order of precedence for abbots in Parliament, Ramsey was third after Glastonbury and St Alban's . The abbey was an international centre of Hebrew scholarship in the late Middle Ages. It prospered until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537. At the time of the Dissolution there were 34 monks. In 1787 Mark Noble noted: The abbey of Ramsey, i.e. the Ram's isle, was one of the richest foundations in
513-516: The personal use of Ramsey's founder Oswald of Worcester. This is not to be confused with another Ramsey Psalter in the Pierpont Morgan Library , New York (MS M. 302), made between 1286 and 1316. Æthelwine at the suggestion of Oswald of Worcester founded a small hermitage for three hermits with a wooden chapel at a location indicated by the actions of a bull, on the island of Ramsey with impassible fen on three sides. Impressed by
540-539: The settlement was formed on a gravel ridge. Girton has a long history, and has been home to a poor settlement for more than 2000 years. The parish lies on the Via Devana , the Roman road, and a cemetery with at least 225 burials between the 2nd century AD and the early Anglo Saxon period was found near Girton College in 1880. In addition, traces of agriculture from the late Bronze Age and Roman period were found to
567-403: The story Oswald sent a prior, Germanus and twelve monks from Westbury-on-Trym to form the Abbey. Starting in 969, a large stone-built church was built over the next five years. Two towers stood up at the topmost points of the roofs, the smaller one at the front of the church towards the west, 'offered a beautiful sight from afar' to people coming to the island. The larger one, in the middle of
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621-472: The village subsumed the small hamlet of Howes into its parish. The parish boundary was further adjusted in 1985 to align with the recently completed M11 motorway , with Girton relinquishing over 100 acres (40 hectares) to Madingley parish. The completion of the motorway created an interchange with the A428 , A14 and A1307 . The parish church has been dedicated to Saint Andrew since at least 1240. Part of
648-453: The village's original school, built in 1845, as well as Gretton School, a special school for pupils with autism spectrum disorders. Girton Parish Council was established in 1894, and consists of 15 members as of 2022. Girton is part of the Girton ward, along with Dry Drayton and Madingley, and returns two councillors to South Cambridgeshire District Council . Between 1894 and 1974 it
675-537: The west tower contains stones that were probably part of an earlier 11th-century church on the site, and there are parts of 13th century construction still in evidence, but the present building was largely rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries. The church was owned by Ramsey Abbey from the 12th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries . People buried in the churchyard of St Andrews include botanist Agnes Arber , academic Ellen Wordsworth Darwin , and Elisabeth Hertz, wife of Heinrich Hertz . A Baptist church
702-406: Was built in the village in 1860. The current village sign , situated on the corner of Redgate Road and Cambridge Road, was erected in 1985 after a fund-raising campaign. Designed by Denis Cheason and made by Barry Sharman, the silhouette design is formed from a number of separate images. The top part of design is based on a Roman belt discovered in a burial ground near Girton College . The centre
729-640: Was part of Chesterton rural district . It is part of the Bar Hill ward, along with Bar Hill, Dry Drayton, and Lolworth , of Cambridgeshire County Council . For Westminster representation, Girton is part of the South Cambridgeshire constituency. Ramsey Abbey Ramsey Abbey was a Benedictine abbey in Ramsey , Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire ), England. It was founded about AD 969 and dissolved in 1539. The site of
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