Hi Piers,
Thanks for the info. Before I posted the shots I 'Googled' Furtho to try for
a little more information to beef up the text but I either missed or didn't
get the British History site. The other sources that came up were very brief
and were more genealogical than historical. There is a plaque naming the
church as a British Heritage site so I thought they were responsible for the
church being very sound structurally. Thanks again for the information and
the link, I have bookmarked British History for future use. Thanks for
looking.
--Graham
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Re: Walks : Furtho Northamptonshire
>
> Thanks for a facinating diversion Graham. I didn't know of Furtho, so had
a
> look to see what I could find. You thank English Heritage for the repairs
> to the church - but it looks like the credit is due to others, with a
> fascinating bit of history attached.
>
> http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22783 provides a
detailed
> history of Furtho from 1086 onwards, and mentions that "the trustees
> appointed by Edmund Arnold's will took over the Furtho estate ... in
January
> 1692". The same Edmund Arnold's Charity evidently still owns Furtho more
> than 300 years later!
>
> Further "in 1972 the Friends of Friendless Churches, in collaboration with
> [Edmund Arnold's Charity], restored the church and improved public access
to
> the site. Restoration was completed in 1975 and the first public services
> for over forty years held in 1977. The setting of the church was improved
as
> part of a wider landscaping scheme involving the dovecote and farm
> buildings, carried out by the Arnold trustees in the late 1990s. "
>
> I didn't expect a fraction of what I found - and what I did find truly put
> 'history' in perspective.
>
> Thanks for the inspiration to look, Graham! Again.
>
> --
> Piers
>
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Furtho/index.htm
>
>
> Graham
> http://geebeephoto.com
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