Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire

Description
Frampton Cotterell, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands on the river Frome, 2 1/4 miles WSW of Yate station on the M.R., and 4 W by S of Chipping Sodbnry, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Fishponds (R.S.O.) The ecclesiastical parish includes the tithing of Wick-Wick. Acreage of the civil parish, 1927; population, 1945; of the ecclesiastical, 1008. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £518 with residence. The church is ancient, and most of it was rebuilt in 1858; it contains some ancient brasses and one of the few chained copies of Bishop Jewel's "Apology for the Church of England," dated 1568. A portion of the civil parish is in the ecclesiastical parish of Coalpit Heath. There are in the Coalpit Heath portion Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and in the ecclesiastical parish a house for orphans and a private lunatic asylum. The parish church contains toany painted windows, and various vestments, copes, and hanging lamps, some of them ancient, and several pictures and frescoes.