Ogbourne St Andrew is a pretty village in the valley of the River Og, just north of Marlborough. The village name comes from the dedication of its parish church and helps distinguish it from the 'other' Ogbournes, Ogbourne St George and Ogbourne Maizey, to the south.
HISTORY
St Andrew's Church was built around 1140 AD, around the time that the Ogbourne estates were given to the Abbey of Bec in Normandy by the wealthy English noblewoman Maud of Wallingford. The chancel was built in the early 13th century and the west tower added around 1440. The church interior was comprehensively restored in 1847-9 by William Butterfield.
The church stands on a Neolithic earthwork running roughly east to west. In the churchyard is a Bronze Age bell barrow, a rare form of ancient burial site (though you will also see this monument referred to as a round barrow or bowl barrow. The earthwork came first, and the barrow was erected later, between 2400-1500 BC.
When the barrow was excavated in 1885 a Bronze Age cremation was found at the base of the mound. Above this was a Saxon coffin burial, while near the top of the mound were about 20 medieval skeletons that likely formed part of the medieval burial ground surrounding the church.
An archaeological survey in 2013 revealed that a ring ditch encompassed the Bronze Age barrow. The eastern wall of the chancel stands very close to the edge of this ditch, suggesting that it was built to its current size to avoid overlapping the ditch.
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