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A Sunday Jaunt to Broughton Castle…

CherryPie — Mon, 21 May 2018 22:59:17 +0000

…with my Mother and Father in Law.

First stop was Little Amsterdam Cafe for lunch.

After lunch we made our way to Broughton Castle where we enjoyed the landscape views and a visit to the Parish Church of St Mary Broughton with North Newington before the castle was open for visiting.

During our visit we enjoyed a pleasant conversation with the eldest son of the current Baron of Saye and Sele (owner of Broughton Castle) and also a brief encounter with the Baron himself.

We arrived home to find a couple of unexpected visitors!

Links to my previous posts about Broughton Castle and Banbury:

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 20 May 2018 22:14:46 +0000

For what is the worth of life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by records of history.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 06 May 2018 22:32:42 +0000

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:14:36 +0000

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

John 15:4-5 (KJV)

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:39:23 +0000

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:11:34 +0000

Then, I am still and wait here in the silence, Until you come and sit awhile with me.

Brendan Graham

The Chapel – Broughton Castle

CherryPie — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 19:43:51 +0000

A licence was granted in 1331 to John de Broughton ‘for Divine service in his oratory at Broughton’. It is a rare example of a 14th century private chapel. The fixed stone altar slab supported on three solid brackets and the encaustic tiles on the floor are all of the original date.*

The chapel can be viewed through a squint in the corner of Queen Anne’s Room.

*From the Broughton Castle guidebook

Broughton Castle – Interior

CherryPie — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:00:10 +0000

Broughton Castle

CherryPie — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:48:33 +0000

John de Broughton built the house and surrounded it by a moat in around 1300. William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England, bought the house in 1377 and it has been in continuous ownership by the same family ever since. The licence to crenellate was granted in 1406 allowing the house to be called a castle.

The unusual compound title of Saye & Sele dates from the original creation of the Barony in 1447. It is partly personal, from the connection with the family’s French ancestors in Normandy, the Lords Say, and partly territorial,, through ownership of land at Seal (now on the outskirts of Sevenoaks) in Kent. The family name Fiennes (pronounced Fines) is from a village in Artois in northern France. Giles Fiennes had emigrated to England in the 13th century, following in the train of his cousin Queen Eleanor of Castile when she came to England to marry the future Edward I.*

The 16th Lord Saye & Sele changed the family surname in 1849 to Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes. The present-day, 21st Lord Saye & Sele reversed the process in the mid 1960, so the current family name is simply Fiennes.

*From the Broughton Castle hand book

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 19:59:15 +0000

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord’s name.

Sri Sarada Devi