St Giles' Church, Ickenham

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St Giles' Church
Parish Church of St Giles
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St Giles' Church, viewed from the entrance of the churchyard
St Giles' Church, Ickenham
LocationSt Giles' Church, Swakeleys Road, Ickenham
CountryUnited Kingdom
Denomination Church of England
Website St Giles' Church, Ickenham
History
Dedication Saint Giles
Consecrated 1335
Architecture
Years built1335
Administration
Diocese London
Clergy
Rector Vacant
Laity
Churchwarden(s) Linda Varley
Geoffrey Edwards
Flower guildGill Roker
Jean Wilson
Parish administratorStephanie White

St. Giles' Church is the parish church in Ickenham, within the London Borough of Hillingdon in England.

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The church is located in the centre of Ickenham, at the intersection of Swakeleys Road and Long Lane. [1]

The oldest parts of the church, the nave and chancel, date back to 1335. [2] Other extensions have been added over the years. Inside the church, several memorials exist to the prominent families of Ickenham.

History

Interior of the East End St Giles, Ickenham - East end - geograph.org.uk - 1094208.jpg
Interior of the East End

Ickenham appears in the Domesday Book under the name "Ticheham", although there is no mention of a church. One did exist in the nearby parish of Harefield and it is believed that residents of Ickenham travelled there for church services. [3]

The original nave and chancel of St Giles' church have been dated to 1335 while the nave was extended west in 1959. [2] The bell turret was built in the 15th century and a north aisle added in 1575. [3]

William Say contributed the cost of the bricks for the north aisle, though he expected to be repaid eventually. Pews were incorporated into the aisle for Say's family, when it was common for worshippers to stand or kneel in church. William Say made his will in March 1582, shortly before his death, in which he indicated his wish to be buried within the aisle. He also suggested that the debt the parishioners held could be reduced by 3s and 4d for each burial of a member of his household. [4]

William Say is remembered in the church by a brass memorial showing himself, his wife Isabel and their two children. His son Robert died in 1584 and has a brass memorial, of him alone. [5]

A memorial to Robert Clayton, the baby son of Sir Robert and Dame Martha Clayton, is on a windowsill within the church, in the shape of a sleeping baby. He was buried within the chapel for the manor of Swakeleys in the north aisle. The boy had died a few hours after his birth in August 1665 at Swakeleys House, where his parents were staying as guests of Lady Harrington. Sir Robert was an alderman of London but the couple were staying in Ickenham to escape the Great Plague; he later became Lord Mayor of London in 1679. [6]

Memorial to Robert Clayton, the baby son of Sir Robert and Dame Martha Clayton St Giles, Ickenham - Monument - geograph.org.uk - 1094204.jpg
Memorial to Robert Clayton, the baby son of Sir Robert and Dame Martha Clayton

The nephew of Sir Robert Vyner, Thomas Vyner, was buried in the Swakeleys chapel in 1907, despite his having died in Rome. By 1914, the chapel for Swakeleys had become full, and the church authorities decided to clear it by burying the coffins in the graveyard. The memorial to Robert Clayton was moved from his coffin to the windowsill at this point. A doorway leading from the old chapel into the main church was built in 1918. [7]

Within the church is a plaque honouring the men of the village who died in the First World War, which is listed by the Church of England as a Grade II. [8] The altar rail is dedicated to those of the church's youth fellowship who died during the Second World War. Their names are remembered on a nearby plaque. [9] A further memorial to members of the fellowship killed in the war is the Book of Remembrance. [10] The Middlesex Regiment and Home Guard is commemorated by two stained glass windows in the south aisle of the church. [11]

The church celebrated its 650th anniversary in the 1980s by forming a covenant with the United Reformed Church, also in Ickenham on Swakeleys Road. [12]

List of Rectors

John Payne (1335)
John Bradely (1399-1401)
John De Thorp (1401)
Robert Wakefield (1433)
William Cornish (1433-1441)
John More (1441-1444)
John Spygurnell (1444/5-1452)
Thomas Vesey (1452-1454)
Robert Haysand (1454-1455)
John Goffe (1456-1457/8)
George Bastwick (1457/8-1459)
Thomas Peny (alias Chandler) (1459-1462)
Richard Child (1462-1463)
James Derwent (1463-1464/5)
John Sawier (1464/5-1482)
Miles Beckwith (1482-1486)
George Percy (alias Gard) (1486)
Richard Roston (1486-1488/9)
Thomas Goodwyn (1488/9-1501)
William Wright (1502-1531)
John Dyer (1531-1568)
Henry Kendall (1568-1624)
Robert Say (1624)
Lancelot Harrison (1625-1635)
Andrew Cleere (or Dr. Clare) (1635-1650)
Nathanial Nicholls (1650)
William Beere (or Bird) (1660-1685)
John Glover (1686-1714)
John Shordich (1714-1725)
Samuel Oilman (1725)
Henry Jodrell (1725-1746/7)
Thomas Clark (1747-1796)
Henry Dearman (1796-1800)
Rev. Thomas Bracken (1800-1815)
Rev. John Addison (1815-1859)
Rev. Beauchamp Henry St. John Pell (1859-1907)
Canon W. Bury (1908-1919)
Hugh B. Langton (1920-1923)
D. W. W. Carmichael (1923-1933)
James B. King (1933-1949)
Frederick J. Evans (1949-1959)
Percy D. Kingston (1959-1964)
Archie C. Markby (1964-1968)
Rev. Victor Barry Wynburne (1968-1977)
Rev. Paul Kelly (1978-1994)
Rev. Philip Robinson (Priest in Charge)
Rev. Adrian Guthrie
Rev. Felicity Davies (2014-2023) (50th Rector)

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Citations
  1. ↑ "Map of Ickenham, Greater London". Streetmap. 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
  2. 1 2 "History". St Giles' Church, Ickenham. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
  3. 1 2 Bowlt 1996, p.34
  4. ↑ Bowlt 2007, pp.96–97
  5. ↑ Bowlt 2007, p.97
  6. ↑ Bowlt 2007, p.103
  7. ↑ Bowlt 2007, p.104
  8. ↑ "St Giles' Church, Ickenham – Plaque" (PDF). London Borough of Hillingdon. 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  9. ↑ "St Giles' Church, Ickenham – Plaque + Altar Rail" (PDF). London Borough of Hillingdon. 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  10. ↑ "St Giles' Church, Ickenham – Book of Remembrance" (PDF). London Borough of Hillingdon. 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  11. ↑ "St Giles' Church, Ickenham – Middlesex Regt + Home Guard Window" (PDF). London Borough of Hillingdon. 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  12. ↑ "1980s". Ickenham Online. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
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