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Coordinates : 52°01′55″N 0°06′32″E / 52.032°N 0.109°E / 52.032; 0.109 Chrishall (pronounced Chris hall ) is a small village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex ...

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Chrishall (pronounced Chris hall) is a small village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village lies close to the borders with Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, 12 miles (20 km) south of Cambridge and equidistant [6 miles (10 km)] between the two medieval market towns of Saffron Walden and Royston. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 577.

The village was listed in the Domesday Book as Cristeshalla, or "nook of land dedicated to Christ". In 1422 (1 Henry VI), it appears in a record as "Cristeshale".[2]

The Icknield Way, a Neolithic track, passes through the parish.

Chrishall's location is key to its character; as the village sits at the highest point in Essex, at 147 metres (482 ft) above sea level, road construction has avoided this high ground and therefore Chrishall is off the beaten track. Despite its relative isolation the village retains facilities such as a pre-school as well as a primary school. The village also boasts a sports field, a new playground, a church, a village hall and many clubs and societies as well as the Red Cow public house.

Notable residents include the composer, John Rutter.

History

Following the Norman Conquest, the area around Chrishall was given to Eustace of Boulogne, who built and occupied a house on a hill to the south of the current church. He named the house "Flanders", and it was there that his daughter Matilda of Boulogne, later wife of King Stephen, was raised. A letter survives that the queen wrote to Hubert the Chamberlain, ordering that the residents of Chrishall be looked after. The house survived until the 15th century, and is believed to have stood on the site of Chiswick Hall, itself built in the 17th century by Sir John James (d.1676).[3][4]

The village has been home to a church for over a thousand years. Prior to the Norman invasion a small church dedicated to the Virgin Mary was situated on the site of the present church.[3]

La iglesia actual se comenzó a construir en el siglo XII. Consta de una nave y naves laterales, un presbiterio y una torre de piedra con seis campanas. En una época temprana, pasó a formar parte de la Abadía de Westminster . [ 4 ]

La iglesia contiene varias placas de bronce monumentales , incluyendo una notable en memoria de Sir John de la Pole y su esposa, que data de 1380. [ 5 ]

Chrishall Common

Chrishall Common
Chrishall is located in Essex
Chrishall Common
Chrishall Common
Chrishall Common en Essex

En el límite de la parroquia se encuentra Chrishall Common, una colina que con 147 metros (482 pies) es la cima del condado : el punto más alto de Essex y también de East Anglia . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] 

Edificios

El pueblo cuenta con un pub, una iglesia, una escuela primaria, un centro comunitario y un parque infantil de aventuras.

El granero anexo al pub The Red Cow es el edificio más antiguo de Chrishall, aparte de la iglesia, y se cree que data de 1500. Antiguamente había una tienda del pueblo frente al pub, pero ahora está cerrada.

La iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad , un edificio del siglo XII catalogado como de Grado I, [ 9 ] se encuentra en las afueras del pueblo principal. En el sitio web de la parroquia se puede encontrar una amplia colección de imágenes y la historia detallada de la Santísima Trinidad.

En el centro del pueblo se encuentran la escuela primaria Chrishall Holy Trinity and St. Nicholas C of E, el prado de Jigney y el parque infantil de aventuras.

El salón del pueblo ha sido trasladado recientemente a la capilla metodista de Crawley End.

Literatura

Chrishall es el lugar que aparece en el relato breve de fantasmas " La historia de una desaparición y una aparición " de M.R. James , publicado en A Thin Ghost and Others en 1919. Se trata de un relato epistolar , y la primera de sus cuatro cartas se envía desde "Great Chrishall".

Véase también

Referencias

  1. ↑ "Perfiles parroquiales del censo de 2021" . NOMIS . Oficina Nacional de Estadística . Consultado el 31 de marzo de 2025 .(Para obtener datos de parroquias individuales, utilice la función de consulta en la tabla PP002).
  2. ↑ Registros de alegatos del Tribunal de Causas Comunes; Archivos Nacionales; CP 40/647; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/bCP40no647dorses/IMG_0645.htm ; primera entrada junto al pulgar, con "cant" en el margen
  3. 1 2 "Historia local de Chrishall" . Historia de Uttlesford.
  4. 1 2 White (1848). Directorio de Essex .
  5. ↑"Brass Rubbing: John and Joan de la Pole". Spurlock Museum. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  6. ↑Muir, Jonny (2011). The UK's County Tops: Reaching the top of 91 historic counties. Cicerone. ISBN 978-1-84-965553-8.
  7. ↑Bathurst, David (2012). Walking the county high points of England. Chichester: Summersdale. pp. 32–38. ISBN 978-1-84-953239-6.
  8. ↑https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?qu=S&rf=5460, Hill bagging website (Chrishall Common, County Top)
  9. ↑Historic England. "Church of Holy Trinity (1112444)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  • Chrishall Village Archive website
  • Parish website
  • Chrishall School website