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Explore Atworth
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Atworth is a village to the northeast of Bradford on Avon and formerly a part of the large parish of Bradford. It consists of a small ancient nucleated area centred on its church and a later and larger development along the course of the Melksham to Box turnpike road.
Atworth- the old village centre, with St Michael’s Church on the left. Base map © OpenStreetMap Contributors
Atworth Manor Farm House lies on the eastern edge of the old village centre, on the lane to Bradford. It is of five bays and two storeys, faced in ashlar in an early 18th century style with segment-headed windows. At the rear is a barn dated 1740 and both buildings bear the initials AEK, referring to Anthony and Elizabeth Kingston.
Only the tower remains of the medieval church of St Michael and All Angels, which was originally a chapel of Bradford’s Holy Trinity parish church. The hall-like building alongside dates from 1832 and was designed by Henry Goodridge, the architect of so many late Georgian villas in Bath.
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Along the road from the church towards the main road is Poplar Farmhouse, named after the line of trees outside, an ashlar-faced early 18th century house with a later Tuscan-style pedimented doorway, under a stone-tiled mansard roof. This is an addition that was built on to the front of an older house that still exists behind. Barns and other farmyard buildings are at the rear.
Cottles House is a mansion in the Georgian “gothick” style, built in the 1770s to designs by Thomas Jelly and John Palmer of Bath. There is a large Elizabethan fireplace inside that may have come from a previous house on the site. The house is now at the centre of Stonar School, a private school that moved here from Stonar, near Sandwich in Kent in 1939, at the outbreak of World War 2.