Newspaper report about refurbishment of the Old Grammar School. Community groups in Bampton had spent years fundraising to upgrade the Building, used as the Cottage Hospital in the hit TV series Downton Abbey. The 17th Century building already housed the village library and archive, plus a small shop, renovation work was to start December 2020. and it was scheduled to open in Spring 2021. West Oxfordshire District Council’s approved a £48,750 grant for Bampton Community Archive (BCA), owned by the Bampton Exhibition Foundation, who themselves made a ‘substantial contribution’ to the project. But the BCA has raised more than £50,000 plus grants, including almost £38,000 in £1 donations through the Bampton Mile appeal. This aim to collect one mile of £1 coins, which laid flat around the Downton Abbey Location Tour would raise £71,527.
Photographs taken by Henry Taint of Bampton Church between 1890 and 1915
18587 Bampton Church Southby Chapel 6306 Bampton Church from south 6308 Bampton Church from South West 6309 Bampton Church from West 6312 Bampton Church Chancel Arch 6313 Bampton Church the old Reredos 14th Century 12 Apostles 6314 Bampton Church OHC 1885 Bampton South Door 6315 Bampton Church West Porch 6316 Bampton Church South Porch OHC 1885 6809 Bampton Church from West 8414 Bampton Church Interior 10032 The Horde Chapel, Bampton Church 10037 The Horde Chapel, Bampton Church 11705 In the Horde Chapel, Bampton Church Thomas Horde Plaque 1890 11706 In the Horde Chapel, Bampton Church , Barbara Horde, Jane Horde 11707 In the Horde Chapel Marble Plaque 1900 18574 Bampton Church, East Window 18575 Bampton Church from the East 1915 18576 St Mary's Church Bampton 1915 18579 From the South Transept West Bampton Church 18580 Tomb of Lord Talbot Bampton Church Southby Chapel 18581 Bampton Church Southby Chapel 18582 Bampton Church From North west 18583 Inside the South Porch Bampton Castle 18585 North Transept Door Bampton Church 18648 Bampton Church 18649 Bampton Church 18650 Bampton Church, Lady Chapel 57124 Plaque Charles Horde, Horde Chapel Bampton Church 51123 Plaque Susanna Horde, Horde Chapel Bampton Church
On her 103rd Birthday, 26th Feb 2025, Joyce Anderson donated this small red book to the Bampton Community Archive. The book is entitled "Oxfordshire" written by F.G. Brabant, M.A. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. First published May 1906. This is the third edition – published 1919. These pdfs are excerpts about Bampton in the book, and the book itself is available in our locked cupboard at the Archive should anyone want to view for reference.
Photos of the Shirt Race in 2024, Copy of programme and 34 photographs showing the amazing fancy dress and the crowds enjoying the event, which happens every year on Whit Saturday and is organised by the SPAJERS.
Photograph taken in 2002 at the Morris Dancing, shows Mary Gerring, Pat Preston, Ruth Shergold, Hilda Kent in the crown watching. Seated on the grass are a group of Cubs.
