Leighton Bromswold, Cambridgeshire - St. Mary's Church - postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  St. Mary's Church, Leighton Bromswold [Cambridgeshire] - the Altar
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Leighton Bromswold (also known as Leighton) is a small village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.^[1] Leighton lies approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of Huntingdon. Leighton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. The civil parish of which it is part is called Leighton and in 2001 had a population of 224,^[2][3] falling to 210 at the 2011 Census. The parish covers an area of 3,128 acres (1,266 ha).^[4]

Leighton Bromswold was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Lectone.^[5] In 1086 there was just one manor at Leighton Bromswold; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £23 and the rent was the same in 1086.^[6]

The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 39 households at Leighton Bromswold.^[6] There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3.5 to 5.0 people per household.^[7] Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Leighton Bromswold in 1086 is that it was within the range of 136 and 195 people.

The survey records that there were 19.5 ploughlands at Leighton Bromswold in 1086.^[6] In addition to the arable land, there was 30 acres (12 hectares) of meadows, 10 acres (4 hectares) of woodland and a water mill at Leighton Bromswold.^[6]

The tax assessment in the Domesday Book was known as geld or danegeld and was a type of land-tax based on the hide or ploughland. Following the Norman Conquest, the geld was used to raise money for the King and to pay for continental wars; by 1130, the geld was being collected annually. Having determined the value of a manor's land and other assets, a tax of so many shillings and pence per pound of value would be levied on the land holder. While this was typically two shillings in the pound the amount did vary; for example, in 1084 it was as high as six shillings in the pound. For the manor at Leighton Bromswold the total tax assessed was 15 geld.^[6]

No church is recorded in the Domesday Book at Leighton Bromswold.

The village has at various times been known as "Lecton" (11th century), "Leghton" and "Leghton upon Brouneswold" (14th century).^[4]

The Grade I listed church of St Mary, Leighton Bromswold, consists of a chancel (​46 ³⁄₄ by ​20 ¹⁄₄ feet), nave (​58 ¹⁄₄ by 24 feet), north transept (​18 ¹⁄₄ by ​20 ¹⁄₄ feet), south transept (​17 ¹⁄₂ by ​20 ¹⁄₄ feet), west tower (15 by 14 feet) and north and south porches. The walls are of coursed rubble with stone dressings, except the tower, which is faced with ashlar, and the roofs are covered with tiles and lead.

The church is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086). A chancel and an aisled nave were built about 1250, but this chancel was apparently rebuilt about 1310, and large transepts were added to the nave some forty years later. Probably the aisles were partly rebuilt and new windows inserted in them, and perhaps a clerestory added to the nave towards the end of the 15th century. At the beginning of the 17th century the church was in a ruinous condition, and apparently about 1606 a rebuilding was commenced; the south arcade and aisle were pulled down and the south wall of an aisleless nave and south porch built. The work, however, was stopped for lack of funds, and for twenty years the church was 'so decayed, so little, and so useless, that the parishioners could not meet to perform their duty to God in public prayer and praises.' The roofs had fallen in, and the tower was in ruins as were the upper courses of the walls and the nave was roofless.